VAN SICKLE, District Judge.
This is a diversity action, premised on a "false light" invasion of privacy. The pertinent facts are:
On March 24, 1967, an Indian University student, Thomas White Hawk, killed a white jeweler, James Yeado, in the Yeado home in Vermillion, South Dakota. The killing was particularly brutal and, upon his plea of guilty, White Hawk was sentenced to death, which sentence was later commuted. The case received much local and national...
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