Original sentence: "  Now Lembke appears to acknowledge that there likely were some incidents of actual spitting.A December 27, 1971, television report on CBS Evening News, for example, told of a returning veteran named Delmar Pickett who said he was spat on in Seattle.After a review of contemporary news sources, Northwestern Law School professor James Lindgren documented dozens of news accounts that discussed spitting and particular spitting incidents, including an anti-war activist caught by FBI surveillance spitting on a midshipman.However, some news accounts that mention spitting do exist, although there has been no visual evidence to support those accounts.Yet the recently uncovered evidence of contemporaneous accounts of spitting have forced Lembke to retreat from his more extreme prior claims, such as: "The truth is that nobody spat on Vietnam veterans