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Issue Details: First known date: 1972... 1972 The Rape of Lennie Walker
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      1972 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 146p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The script is labelled 'Episode RY/SB' on the cover page, because it is officially listed as two episodes.
      • The file includes consultant's comments: three pages of handwritten notes and two copies of a typed copy of the notes (each two pages). The comments consist of a series of queries on specifics of the episode, and then a general comment. The consultant is anonymous. The notation at the top of the notes makes it clear that these comments are for 'Episode RV', which is presumably 'RY' (or the first part of this ninety-minute episode).
      • The consultant's comments cover a range of aspects of the episodes, including alterations to dialogue and corrections to errors in procedure: the second note, for example, reads, 'Homicide rarely, if ever, see their exhibits leave the scene by ambulance. They are removed to the Mortuary by the Government Undertaker'.
      • The consultant's general comment on the episode is scathing:
        'While passing lightly over the errors of the police in charging an innocent man, and the compounding of those errors by the Coroner's Court and the Attorney General in presenting him for trial, it is straining one's credulity to accept the conduct of the Homicide Detectives who do not appear to be suitably equipped in the art of self defense. Particularly in the case of Barnes who is burned by a timid youth, rolled in the rubbish by another harmless person, and with Delaney is put to shame by a man whose physical prowess to that point is confined to strangling young girls, and kicking helpless old women.'

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC HOM : 363
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