Word: assassin
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...Sherry] turned Manuel into the cops, she knew the story would die. Her story would die. She could say good-bye forever to the huge front-page package featuring one very quotable 16 year-old cocaine assassin played prominently beneath her byline in 18-point type. She could forget the awards, the dinner with...the publisher, the thoughtful interviews on TV about crime reporting and journalistic ethics...
...another incident last September, Antonio Batista de Macedo, who has been organizing Indians and rural workers into cooperatives and trade unions in western Acre, escaped death only when an assassin's gun failed to fire. Last December, Joao Bosco dos Santos Freire, who had been mobilizing rubber tappers in Tarauaca, Acre, was ambushed and killed, allegedly by the son of a landowner, who has not been charged. In January the president of the Tarauaca rural workers union was almost killed when two gunmen invaded his home...
...latest addition to the shelf is JFK: Conspiracy of Silence (Signet; 205 pages; $4.99 paper) by Charles A. Crenshaw. It is the first account written by a doctor who was part of the Parkland Memorial Hospital trauma team that tried to save Kennedy and, two days later, his assassin (sorry, alleged assassin), Lee Harvey Oswald...
Crenshaw says that until now, he and his colleagues refused to "rock the boat" by publicly disputing the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald was the lone assassin. But he is adamant that the head wound suffered by the President came from the front of the motorcade, thus making it impossible for Oswald to have murdered Kennedy from a sixth-floor rear perch. The physician says it is clear that "someone had tampered with the body" during its extralegal transfer from Texas to the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, presumably to support a single-gunman scenario...
...Parkland, Crenshaw noted the presence of a heavyset armed man in the operating room. Moments later came a telephone call from Washington. On the other end of the line, according to Crenshaw, was Lyndon Johnson, who demanded that the medical team obtain "a deathbed confession from the accused assassin," to be recorded by the mysterious agent. When Oswald died minutes later, the man disappeared...