Playboy After Hours

September, 1982

PatriotismThis year, when the Freedom Foundation presented its annual awards for deeds or words that best expressed the American way of life, 44-year-old Hayward Lawson wasn't there to accept his. Lawson is serving 25 to 40 years in prison for shooting two policemen. And when that term is up, he begins doing life for murder. Yet Lawson was honored for a letter he wrote (from jail) to The Denver Post during the Iranian-hostage crisis. In part, his award winner read: ''When the United States was c...