California Condor Eben MacMillan 31 July 1964 bring in focus the need of preservation movements if condor are to be saved. He tried to get me to state that this was my motive. Following the cross-examination Binkley's attorney reminded the Judge that I was no doubt an honest and conscientious man, but had been [illegible] associated with condors while studying them, that my instincts overdeveloped regarding the protection of these birds and that I would be prone to see things in a light that would condemn anyone who might even act as though he would molest them. Howard Binkley was put on the witness stand. By this time, the hour was near 12:00 noon. The assistant district attorney had to be at three other cases in Mojave at 1:30 p.m. Both lawyers went outside for a brief consultation with the consent of the court and a statement from the court that he would continue the case on past 12:00 noon provided it did not drag on more than a few moments. Of course the assist. D.A. consented to this. The defense attorney must have felt guilty at having dismissed so much his own way. When the attorneys returned Binkley was asked to give his version of the shooting incident. He told how he and his wife's brother, Burney Harris had seen these two buzzards sitting in the tree, had hiked across the canyon and sat on some rocks waited until the buzzards came directly over them he shot towards the buzzard that only doubled its speed as far as he could say. Binkley at no time denied he shot at a bird. His defense testimony rested on the fact -