In the letter McCall argued further, with a parting shot at Thurgood Marshall and his New York lawyers, that commutation of Irvin’s sentence to life “would only be a victory for NAACP who has set out to destroy the authority of our courts, as it is an undisputable fact that they are the ones behind this movement. Should they accomplish this goal, it would mean one thing. That all a Negro criminal would need to do would be to pick out some innocent helpless white woman as a target to satisfy his ravishing sexual desires, keep his mouth shut, proclaim his innocence and let NAACP furnish the
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