‘Twilight Zone’ Trial Jury Selected

A 12-member jury--made up mainly of blue-collar workers, hospital employees and homemakers--was selected Thursday to decide the fate of film director John Landis and four associates in the “Twilight Zone” manslaughter case.

The panel of seven men and five women, will return to court Wednesday for opening statements.

“I’m very happy,” said the prosecutor Deputy Dist. Atty. Lea D’Agostino, who noted that she had sought “12 honest, dependable people who will not be influenced by Hollywood or the glamour the defendants represent.”

Landis’ defense counsel, James F. Neal, said the jury was “a fair, impartial, intelligent group of people.”

The defendants are charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two child actors on the set of “Twilight Zone: The Movie” in 1982.