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...governor were hit by separate projectiles, they could not have come from the same gun. The entire assassination, most eyewitnesses agree, took place in 5.8 seconds. According to the Commission, it took 2.3 seconds to operate the rifle's bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded, from behind...
...person who's certainly glad that Gregg traded Crimson for Carolina blue is UNC soccer coach Anson Dorrance. Because Carolina finally decided to spend some money on the women's soccer team, Dorrance had five full scholarships to give away this year. Rather than dangle the scholarship apple in front of only five players, however, the Tar Heel coach split the money up into 14 separate scholarships and as a result plucked six (all starters) of the nation's finest freshmen from last year's high school crop...
...England's Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in London. Born Anne Bowes-Lyon, she married Prince George, the Danish military attaché in London and a distant cousin of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, in 1950, after the dissolution of her marriage to Lord Anson. She and Anson had a daughter and a son, Photographer Patrick Lichfield...
DIED. Jay Anson, 58, scriptwriter whose allegedly factual 1977 thriller, The Amityville Horror, about a family's experiences in a haunted house on New York's Long Island, sold millions of copies before being made into a film last year; after heart surgery; in Palo Alto, Calif...
This is a highly melodramatized version of Novelist Jay Anson's allegedly factual bestseller about a nice normal family who moved into a haunted house on Long Island and then found themselves psychologically terrorized by things that go bump in the night. It has become one of the summer's top grossing movies despite the fact that the people who made it seem to have been of two minds about their story. On the one hand, they are tediously documentary about every odd manifestation of the unseen world at work, and the accretion of these minor incidents...