August 7, 2008 edition


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Cover story:

Remembering Officer Christie

Jerry Christie remembers getting home early from school on Nov. 27, 1961, the Monday after Thanksgiving that year.
Then a 14-year-old freshman at Father Judge High School, he was able to see his dad James before he went to work a 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift as a 15th Police District officer.
Later that night, while studying in his room, the teenager heard a knock at the door at the family home on Elmore Road in the Far Northeast. It was William Bridgeford, a lieutenant in the 15th district.
"Son, I have some bad news," Bridgeford said. . . .

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Editorial:

Never again

The legendary Hubert Horatio Humphrey once said, "A man who doesn’t have any tears doesn’t have any heart."
The former vice president and U.S. senator from Minnesota could very well have been talking about Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who on Monday showed his human side — it’s a side of politicians few people ever see — when he became extremely emotional while discussing sanctions against workers in the Department of Human Services in the wake of the death of a 14-year-old disabled girl from West Philadelphia two years ago.

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