Friday, 6.12.15 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net NEWSROOM: [email protected] ress akotan the world P &D PAGE 5A Famed Images Of Vietnam War In Exhibit Prison Break HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — They were the images that com- municated the horrors of war in ways words could not. They were so much more than just photographs, Vietnam’s president said Thursday, recalling black-and-white images he said he will never forget from the war that ended 40 years Investigators: Employee ago: A Buddhist monk consumed by flames in a fiery suicide. A screaming Vietnamese child running down a road naked, as her skin burns from a napalm attack. “They gave the whole world a full picture of what was going on in Vietnam,” President Truong Tan Sang told The Was In On Escape Plot Associated Press ahead of an exhibit of the AP’s wartime pho- tographs in Hanoi. “I believe these photos made an enormous BY MICHAEL HILL AND MICHAEL VIRTANEN the manhunt was focused so close to the But he added: “Look, they could contribution to bringing the war in Vietnam to an end.” Associated Press prison. The person was not authorized either be four miles from the prison or “Vietnam: The Real War,” a collection of 58 photographs to discuss the investigation and spoke they could be in Mexico. Right? So you taken by the AP, opens to the public Friday, marking a home- DANNEMORA, N.Y. — Investigators on condition of anonymity. just don’t know.” coming that officials say is historic and an emblem of changing Mitchell has not been charged. Her State Police said they bolstered the times. Forty years after the war ended, it is the first time that believe a female prison employee had the collection is being exhibited in Vietnam, where the conflict agreed to be the getaway driver in last son Tobey Mitchell told NBC on Wednes- force looking for the fugitives to 500 of- is called the “American War.” weekend’s escape by two killers but day that she checked herself into a ficers from 450 a day earlier. AP’s Saigon bureau won six Pulitzer Prizes for its Vietnam never showed up, a person close to hospital with chest pains Saturday. He Law enforcement officers walking an coverage, including four for photography. All four are on the case told The Associated Press on said she would not have helped the arm’s length apart were conducting a display among prize-winning works by more than 20 photog- Thursday. inmates escape. grid search through a cordoned-off area raphers, whose images are part of the news cooperative’s The manhunt, meanwhile, dragged A longtime neighbor also was consisting of mud, woods, thick under- archive with tens of thousands of wartime photographs. into a sixth day with a renewed burst of stunned by the suspicions swirling brush and several houses, Sheriff David activity by searchers in the woods close around Mitchell. Favro said. He said there had been no to the prison after bloodhounds were “I just can’t believe she’d do reports of stolen or abandoned vehicles, Louisiana Seeks Conviction Of Panther said to have picked up the convicts’ something so stupid,” neighbor Sharon break-ins or abductions. scent. And Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Currier said. She said Mitchell is always Jennifer Hilchey-Reyell, who lives on NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s attorney general is in- investigators are also “talking to several happy to help people, but she’s “not the edge of the search area, heard low- sisting on a third trial for the last of the “Angola Three,” calling people who may have facilitated the somebody who’s off the wall.” flying helicopters all night and watched the prison activist who spent decades in solitary confinement escape.” She said Mitchell is a former town state police SUVs race by all day. She after the killing of a guard in 1972 “the most dangerous person David Sweat, 34, and Richard Matt, tax collector in Dickinson, a community said she now carries a .22-caliber gun on the planet.” 48, used power tools to cut through near Dannemora. Quick with a laugh and and relies also on her pit bull, Layla. A federal judge ruled this week that Albert Woodfox must skilled at sewing, she has worked for five “My dog will slow them down, and be freed immediately, saying the state has never proved — steel and bricks and crawled through an underground steam pipe, emerging or more years at the prison, where her that’s all I need,” she said. and never will — that he was responsible for the stabbing also husband works, Currier said. Authorities suspect the inmates also death of Brent Miller 43 years ago. from a manhole outside the 40-foot walls So what exactly does the state have on this armed robber of the maximum-security Clinton Cor- Hundreds of police using dogs and had help from the inside in obtaining who organized a Black Panther Party chapter to challenge rectional Facility in Dannemora, about helicopters blocked off a main road and the power tools. Guards and other staff the brutal conditions inside the sprawling Louisiana State 20 miles south of the Canadian border, concentrated their search on a swampy members have been questioned, but no Penitentiary? authorities said. area just a couple of miles from the pris- one has been disciplined or charged. Woodfox’s long-simmering story has been the subject of The person close to the investiga- on. Schools were closed, and residents Cuomo warned that the law will documentaries, Peabody Award-winning journalism, United tion said authorities believe Joyce received automated calls warning them come down hard on those in the prison Nations human rights reviews and even a theatrical play. It’s Mitchell — an instructor at the prison to lock their doors, close their windows system who cross the line. a staggering tale of inconsistencies, witness recants, rigged tailor shop, where the two convicts and leave outside lights on. “If you do it, you will be convicted, jury pools, out-of-control prison violence, racial prejudice and worked — had befriended the men and The governor said that investiga- and then you’ll be on the other side of political intrigue. was supposed to pick them up Saturday tors had received tips that the convicts the prison that you’ve been policing, And none of it has brought justice to Miller’s widow, Teenie morning, but didn’t. were in the area, and tracking dogs had and that is not a pleasant place to be,” Rogers, who did her own investigating and says there’s no The person said that was one reason picked up the scent Thursday morning. he said. evidence that Woodfox is guilty. Colorado Shooter Asked To See Therapist CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Months before James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater, his ex-girlfriend said she urged him talk to his therapist after he mentioned having Prolific British Actor Christopher Lee Dies thoughts about killing people, but his thoughts “seemed very BY JILL LAWLESS oed master criminal Fu Manchu in a philosophical” and not a concrete threat. Associated Press series of low-budget thrillers. His last Gargi Datta also testified Thursday that during their rela- film for Hammer was “To the Devil a tionship, Holmes showed no interest in guns, including when LONDON — Christopher Lee, an ac- Daughter” in 1976. they visited an outdoor store that sold weapons, and that she tor who brought dramatic gravitas and Starting in the 1970s, Lee tried to did not know about his meticulous plans for the July 20, 2012, aristocratic bearing to screen villains shake off the Hammer mantle. He played attack or the arsenal he assembled. from Dracula to the wicked wizard Saru- the villain in “The Man With the Golden Datta and Holmes were graduate students at the University man in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Gun” and appeared in non-Hammer of Colorado when they began dating during their first semes- has died at age 93. horror films. The most distinguished ter in the fall of 2011. By February 2012, she did not want any- Lee appeared in more than 250 mov- was 1973’s “The Wicker Man,” a cult thing more than a casual relationship, and the two remained ies, taking on memorable roles such as classic in which Lee played the lord of a “friends with benefits” until Holmes told her in early April he Scottish pagan community troubled by could not continue the relationship as friends after telling her the James Bond enemy Scaramanga and that he loved her. After that, Datta said, she did not communi- the evil Count Dooku in two “Star Wars” the appearance of an inquisitive police cate with Holmes and only saw him in the classroom. prequels. officer. District Attorney George Brauchler has said Holmes’ But for many, he will forever be Lee appeared in so many movies that breakup with Datta was a catalyst to the shooting at a sub- known as the vampire Count Dracula he acknowledged he couldn’t remember urban Denver movie theater. He said Datta was Holmes’ first in a slew of gory, gothic British “Ham- them all. romantic relationship. mer Horror” thrillers churned out in the “And certainly some of them you Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1950s and 1960s that became hugely want to forget,” he said in 2002. attack that killed 12 people and injured 70. Prosecutors con- popular around the world. An energetic man who listed his hob- tend Holmes was sane, and they are seeking the death penalty. He railed against the typecasting, bies in “Who’s Who” as “travel, opera, however, and ultimately the sheer golf, cricket,” Lee never retired. His number and range of his roles — includ- career flourished late in life, with roles in Hackers Have Personnel Data ing Sherlock Holmes and the founder some of the best-loved of film franchises. of Pakistan — secured his place in film He also branched out into music, and WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers stole personnel data and history. released a heavy metal album to mark Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a govern- “I didn’t have dreams of being a Christopher Lee attends the world pre- his 92nd birthday just last year. ment worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft romantic leading man,” Lee told The As- Eva Juel Hammerich, a producer in of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the miere of Skyfall at Royal Albert Hall in sociated Press in 2002. “But I dreamed of London on Oct. 23, 2012. Copenhagen, Denmark, who was expect- Obama administration has acknowledged. being a character actor, which I am.” ing to film with Lee later this year, said Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, said on the Senate she was shocked at the loss. floor that the December hack into Office of Personnel Manage- The Royal Borough of Kensington and brought a sensuality to the role that fit ment data was carried out by “the Chinese” without specifying Chelsea in London on Thursday issued a with the newly permissive times. While “Honestly we don’t know what to do,” whether he meant the Chinese government or individuals. statement confirming that Lee died June Bela Lugosi, the definitive 1930s Dracula, she said. “You can find another person Reid is one of eight lawmakers briefed on the most secret in- 7. Lee’s agent said his family declined to “postures and glides, Lee is rough and to interpret a role but it will be done in a telligence information. U.S. officials have declined to publicly comment or provide more details. muscular,” Sweet wrote in 2007. different way.” blame China, which has denied involvement. Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was “Lee’s performance convinced a The actor became Sir Christopher J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Gov- born in London on May 27, 1922. His fa- generation of scholars that Dracula was Lee when he was knighted in October ernment Employees, said in a letter to OPM director Katherine ther was a British army officer who had a book about sex, and not about vam- 2009, receiving the honor from Prince Archuleta that based on the incomplete information the union served in the Boer War and his mother pires,” Sweet said. Charles at Buckingham Palace. received from OPM, “We believe that the Central Personnel was Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini di Lee went on to play the Transyl- Lee said at that time that “although Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers Sarzano. His parents separated when he vanian vampire in sequels including I’ve played a lot of bad guys, there’s are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal was young, and his mother later remar- “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” “Dracula more scope than being the man in the employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former ried Harcourt Rose, the uncle of James Has Risen From the Grave,” “Taste the white hat.” federal employees.” Bond creator Ian Fleming. Blood of Dracula,” “Scars of Dracula” Lee also appeared in several films by The OPM data file contains the records of non-military, Lee attended Wellington College, and “Dracula A.D. 1972” — an ill-advised Tim Burton, including “Sleepy Hollow” non-intelligence executive branch employees, which covers an elite boarding school, and joined attempt to update the series to 1970s and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” most federal civilian employees but not, for example, mem- the Royal Air Force during World War London. and was proud of his turn as Pakistan’s bers of Congress and their staffs. II. Poor eyesight prevented him from Lee was wary of being typecast, and founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in The union believes the hackers stole military records and becoming a pilot, and he served as an later said the studio practically black- “Jinnah.” veterans’ status information, address, birth date, job and pay intelligence officer in North Africa and mailed him into continuing to appear. Lee felt his gift for comedy was history, health insurance, life insurance and pension informa- Italy. He held out for eight years after the under-appreciated. He was proud to tion; and age, gender and race data, he said. After the war, the 6-foot-4 (1.93-me- first Dracula film before appearing in have hosted the popular U.S. sketch ter) Lee was signed to a contract with “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” in which show “Saturday Night Live” in 1978 and Britain’s Rank studio, and spent the next he stars but has no lines. told the BBC that his greatest regret Man Killed Fighting Kurds Against IS decade playing minor roles in a series In 2006, Lee told the BBC that his was turning down the part that went to BEIRUT (AP) — The body of an American who died fighting of formulaic pictures. He also appeared reaction to reading the script for the film Leslie Nielsen in the slapstick comedy with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria briefly in Laurence Olivier’s “Hamlet” in was, “I’m not saying any of these lines. “Airplane.” was handed over on Thursday to his family at a Turkish bor- 1948 along with his future Hammer co- It’s impossible. They’re ridiculous.” “A lot of people, including the casting der crossing, a Kurdish official said. star, Peter Cushing. “That’s why I don’t speak in the film,” directors, have no idea that when I lived Hundreds of people turned up in the Kurdish town of He launched his horror career in he said. in America half of the films I did were Kobani to bid farewell to Keith Broomfield before his body 1957, starring as the monster in Ham- During this period, Lee played non- comedies,” he said in 2006. “They have was handed over to family at the Mursitpinar gate, said Idriss mer’s “The Curse of Frankenstein.” In vampiric roles in Hammer’s “The Devil no idea that I hosted ‘Saturday Night Naasan. 1958, Lee made his first appearance as Rides Out,” “The Mummy,” “Rasputin, Live.’ They don’t seem to be interested.” Broomfield, from Massachusetts, died on June 3 in battle the famous vampire in “Dracula,” oppo- the Mad Monk” and “The Hound of the Lee married Birgit Kroencke in 1961. in a Syrian village near Kobani, making him likely the first U.S. site Cushing’s Van Helsing. Baskervilles,” and starred as mustachi- Their daughter, Christina, was born in citizen to die fighting alongside Kurds against the Islamic State Film critic Matthew Sweet said Lee 1963. group. He had joined the People’s Protection Units known as the YPG on Feb. 24 under the nom de guerre Gelhat Rumet. The YPG are the main Kurdish guerrilla battling the Islamic State Boston Mayor Creates Gender-Neutral Bathrooms group in Syria. The U.S. Department of State confirmed Broomfield’s death BY STEVE LEBLANC of a different gender and parents with her office are also barred from asking for Wednesday but declined to provide any details about the Associated Press children of a different gender who might “documentation or other information to circumstances. experience misunderstanding when us- establish or verify an individual’s gender BOSTON — Boston Mayor Martin ing gender-specific bathrooms, he said. identity.” Walsh has signed an executive order “Today marks a historic moment in Former Gov. Deval Patrick signed a Evidence To Charge Cleveland Police creating gender-neutral restrooms inside Boston,” Walsh said in a written state- bill in 2011 protecting transgender peo- CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge said Thursday that enough City Hall. ment. “Boston thrives on diversity, and ple from discrimination in the workplace evidence exists to charge two white policemen in the fatal The two single-stall restrooms are is an inclusive city.” and housing by adding “gender identity shooting of a 12-year-old black boy who was holding a pellet located on the fifth floor of the building Also Thursday, Attorney General and expression” to the state’s civil rights gun, a largely symbolic ruling because he can’t compel pros- outside the mayor’s office and city coun- Maura Healey announced a new policy laws. ecutors to charge them. cil chamber, and traditional restrooms she said will protect transgender and Healey said her new policy is an at- Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine ruled there’s prob- continue to be available in the building. gender non-conforming people working tempt to address the fact that law signed able cause to charge officer Timothy Loehmann with murder, A sign posted outside the gender- for or interacting with her office. by Patrick did not extend the state’s involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide or dereliction of neutral restroom, appearing in a The policy allows any member of existing public accommodations protec- duty in the shooting death of Tamir Rice. And he ruled there’s Boston Globe photo Thursday, says: the public visiting her office to use the tions to transgender people — some- evidence to charge Loehmann’s partner, Frank Garmback, with “This restroom may be used by any bathroom that corresponds with their thing Healey supports. reckless homicide or dereliction of duty. person regardless of gender identity or gender identity, regardless of their as- “This policy will make those obliga- The judge made his ruling after activists submitted affida- expression.” signed birth sex. The policy also bars tions clear. I hope businesses across vits asking the court to rule there’s enough evidence to charge Boston is among the first cities in any employee of the Attorney General’s the state will follow suit, and my office the officers in Tamir’s death, which has spurred protests and New England to institute gender-neutral Office from discriminating against or is willing to be a resource for them,” Hea- complaints about treatment of blacks. restrooms in their city halls, the mayor treating anyone differently on the basis ley said in a statement. “This is about “This court reaches its conclusions consistent with the said. He said a range of people aren’t of his or her gender identity. creating a culture in our office where facts in evidence and the standard of proof that applies at this comfortable using gender-specific Healey said she’s also requiring that everyone is treated equally.” time,” the judge wrote. bathrooms and the change will create anyone working, volunteering or visiting An aide to Republican Gov. Charlie The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department recently a welcoming environment for city hall her office “shall be referred to by the Baker has said he backs the law signed completed its investigation and gave its file to the county workers and visitors. name, gender designation, and pronoun by Patrick but doesn’t support changes prosecutor, whose staff is reviewing the case while prepar- The bathrooms with “private, non- preferred by the individual, regardless of to the state’s public accommodations ing to take it to a grand jury to determine if criminal charges gendered” stalls can also help disabled the individual’s assigned birth sex.” law. should be filed. residents who have personal attendants She said under the rules workers at