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Road to Immortality. Political assassination, said Dr. G. Wilse Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., did not change from the time of Cain to that of the Medici, but in the modern era there has been a change in the character of the assassin. Today's hired killer wants no part of any attempt on the life of a prominent political figure. Such work is too dangerous. That leaves two types of assassinations: the conspiracy, as in the death of Lincoln, and the person-to-person attack. But the conspiracy against Lincoln was conceived and directed by John Wilkes Booth...
...Indian buffer state in the Himalayas, who with his brother-in-law, King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, brought Bhutan boldly into the 20th century by abolishing slavery and polyandry, joining the Colombo Plan, building hospitals and the first road to the outside world; by an unknown assassin's bullet, as he sat in a resthouse at the Indian border post of Phunchholing...
...sense of justice that demands the death penalty for the slayer of an assassin is strange and bewildering. It must appear to the world that we had little regard for our late President when we demand the supreme penalty from the man who desired to avenge him, however mad and ill-advised...
...events flowing from the assassination of John F. Kennedy have been so bizarre that they could be criticized as bad fiction. Not the least of these was the assassination of the assassin in full view of several million televiewers...
...outset of the investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren made clear that the panel was not to be a prosecuting agency. The seven members of the commission have matchless reputations for integrity; no one doubted that their examination of the evidence and interviewing of witnesses would be completely fair. Nevertheless it was true, as the Warren Commission conceded in a statement last week, that Oswald never consulted a lawyer before he was shot. Said the commission: "That there was reasonable cause to believe he was the assassin is unquestioned...