In the Matter of Paul Pappas

Pappas was employed by a New Bedford television station as a newsman-photographer. In late July, 1970, he was sent to New Bedford to photograph and report on “fires and other turmoil” related to civil disorder then in progress. He wished “to cover ... a Black Panther news conference” at a boarded up store, which he could not approach because of a barricade. He (about 3 p.m. on July 30) did photograph and record in a street within the barricaded area the reading of a “prepared statement” by one Bob Heard, who “had come outside from . . . Black Panther headquarters.” Pappas was told that “he…