Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national wire services ran a distorted account of events surrounding this unsolved murder case...
...tell us that if the call were placed at the proper time, a more enlightening message might be given. There are several times mentioned on the album: Wednesday 5am, Friday 9 am, Saturday 5:50pm, etc. (Transatlantic time and day changes would have to be taken into account...
Dead Rabbits. This well-researched book provides the fullest account ever given of the bloody five days of rioting that broke out in New York City in July 1863. The troubles are usually described as "draft riots." But Author McCague, a novelist and historian (Fiddle Hill, Moguls and Iron Men), makes it clear that the causes ran far deeper than rebellion against the Conscription Act. As with the riots more than a century later in Washington, Detroit and Watts, there was no single cause that provoked the poor and dispossessed. One essential difference was that the angry and resentful people...
...work of reportage, foregoing his opportunity, as perhaps the best-informed observer of the affair, to propose answers to moot questions and to make judgements on the players and the action of the drama. One wishes he had written the novel, or at least darned the holes in his account with novelistic thread...
...attempt to render the account as believable as possible, Hersey chose to construct the book from court testimony, police records, newspaper accounts, sometimes inaccurate, of the shootings, and a series of interviews Hersey held with survivors, policemen, and the families of the slain men. This technique succeeds, more or less, in achieving the believability for which Hersey strives, but Hersey's refusal to allow himself any room for speculation forces him to leave unanswered some of the most important questions about the events of that Wednesday night...