Word: alcock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Garrison investigation with a story that he got a phone call from one "Clay Bertrand" the day after Kennedy was shot, asking him to defend Oswald. Andrews had already switched his story so often that he had been convicted of lying to a grand jury. When Assistant D.A. James Alcock tried to pick apart points that helped the defense, Andrews retracted the rest of the tale, swallowing it all like so much spun sugar. He did not know Clay Shaw; Clay Bertrand was a "cover name" he had remembered from a "fag wedding" in the early 1950s. He had received...
...prosecution hoped the film would convincingly demonstrate that at least one of the bullets that struck the President came from the front. Assistant District Attorney James Alcock argued: "If the state can prove that the President was shot from more than one direction, the state in effect has proved a conspiracy." One sequence-which was shown in slow motion and frame by frame-clearly shows the President falling backward in his seat, an unlikely occurrence if he were being struck by bullets from the rear. However, the Warren Commission Report has already met this objection by noting that Kennedy fell...
Financed by a group of New Orleans businessmen, he set to work. One assistant, Jim Alcock, concentrated on the legalities of the case; a second, Andy ("Moo") Sciambra, handled the field work. After months of investigation, Garrison finally announced that he had "solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza...
...Britons in a Vickers Vimy bomber [July 12]. It was made by six Americans in a Navy NC4 flying boat under Lieut. Commander Albert Gushing Read, U.S.N. This "forgotten" first crossing was made in May, 1919 (Newfoundland-Azores-Lisbon), a month earlier than that by Alcock and Brown in their bomber (Newfoundland-Ireland). The Britons collected the ?10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for a nonstop flight-still offering prizes, I see-while the pioneering Americans languished in comparative obscurity. I had occasion to research this episode thoroughly, for it occurred during the tenure of Josephus Daniels...
...Alcock and Brown, who flew the Atlantic nonstop eight years before Lindbergh's flight, I am baffled by what goes into the fabrication of American folklore. Would you resent the observation that Lindbergh was at least the 64th person to cross the Atlantic...