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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...
...general and three Jordanian ministers of the Arab Union. They ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets. In front of the ministry gates the truck was trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of it, and the mob attacked...
...like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Portugal, the church was convinced that the people of Lisbon had been punished for not being good Roman Catholics; in Protestant England, the pulpits had it that Lisbon had been leveled because of the vices of Portuguese popery (although Preacher Thomas Alcock asked: "If popish superstition and cruelty made Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely expected that London too would be shaken for its sins. Coachloads of gentry left for the country. Others, in the spirit of Mrs. Miniver, carried on. and ladies stitched "earthquake gowns" (a preview...