You don't have to be Roy Black or Gerry Spence, you just have to care: Barney for the defense, your Honor

Barney for the defense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNMTQBhatM



Rafe Hollister (Jack Prince) sings Lonesome Road, Andy Griffith on guitar (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDzUATl63vE

A Mayberry State of Mind/AMSOM is the online chapter of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club
http://www.youtube.com/user/AMSOMmp
http://amayberrystateofmind.com/default.aspx

http://www.mayberry.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/AlexMOFUKA

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341431/videogallery
http://www.tvland.com/shows/andy-griffith-show

Not surprisingly, The Andy Griffith Show was my favorite TV show as a small kid growing-up in mid-1960's Memphis, which was far, far away from a Mayberry existence before we left in 1968 for South Florida, three months after the MLK assassination there, and the subsequent riots and curfews, which I still remember.

The Tennessee National Guard drove their Army tanks right past our apt. complex at night on their way downtown as everyone in our neighborhood, young and old, watched quietly from the sidewalk, utterly transfixed, almost breathless, unsure of what the next day would bring.

Dr. King Is Slain By Sniper headline in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 6, 1968.

Because I was a very precocious kid and early reader, and was easily bored with kids books, just as Andy Griffith's hugely-popular TV show helped instill in me a certain moral compass about the right way you treat people, The Memphis Commercial Appeal was the newspaper that helped me learn to read and make sense of the wider world beyond the Mississippi River's banks.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/

Miami Herald snoozes; Boedeker blog: Autopsy suggests Caylee Anthony 'suffered tremendously'

June 20th, 2009

1 a.m.

I predicted to close friends and family months ago,

the day Caylee Anthony's body was found, in fact,

that the Casey Anthony murder trial would be moved

to South Florida, and this news today only serves

to confirm it.

Well, that, and the Miami Herald's non-coverage.

As of 12:15 a.m., many, many hours after the judge

made his ruling on making the autopsy report public,

there is absolutely nothing about this story on the

main page of the Miami Herald's website.

Stories about lots of things, not even particularly

interesting things, but NOT the biggest news story

in this state over the past 24 hours.

As always, that certainly explains a lot.

If I were unfortunate enough to be associated with

Casey Anthony's defense team, I'd be sure to

include screenshots of the Herald's website and

be sure to show it to the judge when we make our

formal request for a change of venue, since the

Herald's consistent indifference toward this case,

or at least their editors, really helps make the

defense team's case.

And helps make CNN happy, because now they

can have local legal eagles Kendall Coffey and

Roy Black on the scene from Miami during the

trial, offering their expert color commentary.

Well, I guess somebody's finally happy with the

Herald's coverage after all.

'Tis pity she's a whore.

Aye, there's the rub!

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Orlando Sentinel blog

Hal Boedeker: The TV Guy and More

by Hal Boedeker

June 19, 2009, 5:40 p.m.

Caylee Anthony: Autopsy suggests she 'suffered tremendously'

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/06/caylee-anthony-autopsy-suggests-she-suffered-tremendously.html#more