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​​In Memory of Susan Denise Atkins-Whitehouse

More From Susan's Father

Susan's father was interviewed again in 1971.
We join that interview in progress-

Susan's father: "Our courts are too lenient, and the result of that leniency is
                   what her situation is right now, and those other girls, and Charlie.
                   I don't know Charlie. At times I have felt if I ever got 
                   my hands on him I'd kill'm, but that's not an answer either.
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                   I don't know what to say except: let's take law enforcement
                   and let it do it's job, do it properly, and let the courts back them
                   up because if we bring them in on charges where they have broken
                   the law and then turn them loose, they finally end up as Susan did.

                   You can stop the traffic in marijuana, you can stop the traffic
                   in LSD, you can stop anything if you put a mind to it. 
                   If we can send a man to the moon we can stop drugs"

       Reporter: "Do you have any doubts about Susan's.......guilt?

Susan's father: "No, none whatsoever.  She was there.  She was involved.
                    I am not protecting her from what she has done.
                    I would like to see her made well again.
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                    She may never be made well, but I'd like
                   society to try to make her well again and I would like society,
                   our government, the people in it, to get out, talk about it, 
                   move towards it, stop this drug thing because it's destroying
                   a whole segment of our society"
                    
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