Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shea quickly recalled that Moore had a gun. She had gratuitously offered to help "set up" the man who had sold it to her, Mark Fernwood, 29, leader of the John Birch Society chapter in nearby Danville, Calif., for a possible arrest on illegal gun sales. San Francisco police had also informed the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) of Moore's allegations about her gun purchase. O'Shea told Moore she could indeed be arrested if she carried a concealed weapon...
After Ford's first stop at the Hyatt Hotel on Union Square, he was wisked by limousine to the St. Francis Hotel, even though it was an easy one-block walk. The ride took 24 seconds. He sped past one sign: FREE PATTY HEARST, ARREST GERALD FORD! Six agents jogged beside the bulletproof car. Police with binoculars and rifles looked out over the Union Square park from atop high-rise buildings. Two crouched under a lofty FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF UNITED sign...
...after her arrest, Moore summoned Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Ellen Hume, one of the few people who had listened sympathetically to her earlier stories. To the reporter she tried to explain what drove her to an act that she says she really wanted to be prevented from committing. Dressed in a red sweater over a white nightgown, Moore talked for two hours by telephone in the glass-partitioned visiting room at the San Francisco county jail. "I knew I was rapidly reaching a point that all avenues of taking action were being closed off, one at a time...
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...woods, told to lie down and then shot dead. Police learned that earlier in the evening a group of black men and women had been arguing with the attendants about using a whites-only restroom. Pitts and Lee, who were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still on death row at the state prison in Raiford, a lie detector expert working on a different case got a taped confession to the Port...