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...Apparently your writer has surpassed Harvard's adulating Bogartophiles by crediting him with that classic line, "I don't have to show you no stinking badge." It was actually spoken by Alfonso Bedoya, Bogart's assassin in Treasure of Sierra Madre...
...mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch Protestants, the monarchy's most fiercely loyal subjects, the royal family's motto...
...version of the recent assassination attempt on Nkrumah leaked out of Accra last week. When the assassin opened fire, the police scattered, and Nkrumah raced back into his official residence and sought refuge in the kitchen. According to one report, the pursuing killer was felled not by Nkrumah - as the official story had it - but by the kitchen's swinging door...
...American public, through the nation's press, television, and radio, has been persuaded that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy. A presumption of guilt, rather than of innocence, has dominated the news media; the day after Ruby shot Oswald, the New York Times headlined its front page, "President's Assassin Shot to Death." In the 55 days since Kennedy's murder, only a few publications, notably the New Republic, the Reporter, and the National Guardian, have pointed out the weakness of the evidence which has been presented to the public...
...belief in Oswald's guilt to show that they are correct in opposing "communists." The John Birch Society has declared. "We believe that the president of the United States has been murdered by a Communist within the United States." Senator Goldwater, in a campaign speech, said that Kennedy's assassin had "a mind fed by communism." Abroad, the summary dispatch with which the Oswald case was closed, the fabrication of evidence by the Dallas police, and the killing of Oswald, have led many to suspect an elaborate rightist plot in the United States...