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CROUCH 2:05 -1-
SOF SOF
SOF COING: Five weeks ago, Caswell Smith was taken to a Fort Worth
hospital complaining of severe pain; his body splotched
arrested in connection
with bruises. Smith, r jN C with a
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theft- claimed M alright before being jailed,
o police brutality filled headlines. arrant
County District Attorney Doug Crouch immediately
suspended two of his investigators after learning they
were in on arrest and interrogation. The
suspended investigators, Jim Greener and Harry Beeson,
(b say Smith offered resistance when arrested, and they
had to use force to subdue him. District Attorney
Crouch began an investigation into the matter following
Greener and Beeson's suspension. Today, the District
had cleared
Attorney announced that his investigation
his men of any improper conduct.
SOF HERE UNTIL END (1:10)ENDS WITH "...PRIOR TO THEIR DISMISSAL OR SUSPENSIONS."
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Crouch], item, October 31, 1963; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc954518/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.