(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)
June 13
1966
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court rules that a suspect must be read his rights by police before interrogation.
1967
Thurgood Marshall was nominated for justice of the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson. Marshall was the Solicitor General of the United States and had been the lead attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended legal segregation. He would be the first African American on the Court.
1971
The New York Times began publishing the “Pentagon Papers,” a series of excerpts from the government’s classified history of the Vietnam War, giving details of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II to 1968. Publication was interrupted after the Nixon administration went to court to block it, asserting its power to exercise prior restraint. The Washington Post then began publishing the papers. On June 30 the Supreme Court, 6-3, allowed publication to resume.
“But out of the gobbledygook, comes a very clear thing: [unclear] you can’t trust the government; you can’t believe what they say; and you can’t rely on their judgment; and the – the implicit infallibility of presidents, which has been an accepted thing in America, is badly hurt by this, because it shows that people do things the President wants to do even though it’s wrong, and the President can be wrong.”
— H.R. Haldeman to President Nixon, Monday, 14 June 1971, 3:09 p.m.
1979
The Sioux Nation is granted an award of $17.5 million for land taken from them by the United States Government in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1877.
1985
1,765 arrested in 150 cities protesting US aid to Nicaraguan Contras
1991
Jeffrey Collins was awarded a $5.3 million settlement from Shell Oil which had fired him for being gay. Collins had offered to settle out of court for $50,000, but Shell refused.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 