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The Birth of the Peace CorpsUMBC's Shriver Center and the Maryland Returned Volunteers hosted Scott Stossel, biographer of Sargent Shriver, who spoke on the Birth of the Peace Corps. This is the second annual Peace Corps History series - last year's speaker was Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn.

Charges possible in 1976 PCV slayingCongressman Norm Dicks has asked the U.S. attorney in Seattle to consider pursuing charges against Dennis Priven, the man accused of killing Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner on the South Pacific island of Tonga 28 years ago. Background on this story here and here.

Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of thethe time, was covering up his friend’s suicide because he feared he would get blamed for McQueen’s death.

Friends and family of McQueen, who grew up in Florida, have testified that he was not depressed and was looking forward to beginning life as a civilian after three tours in Afghanistan. In his opening arguments, Andrew Jezic, Smith’s attorney, questioned the state’s lack of motive and noted that the gun, a .38-caliber revolver, fires more easily when the safety is off.

In the hours following McQueen’s death, attorneys said, Smith told police several differing stories, at first claiming that he came home to find his roommate dead. He then said that he had put the loaded gun, which had its safety off, next to McQueen and heard it fire while exiting