Word: assassinates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate was a flawed murder drama that explored the mind of a brainwashed assassin with psychological depth and technical brilliance...
Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...
...details are not all that new; the conclusions are Thompson states that "there were four shots from three guns in six seconds." What led him to this belief was a close examination of the film of the assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After...
Though she hardly thought so during the years she was married to him, Marina Oswald now figures that everything Assassin Lee Oswald ever touched has turned to gold. Oswald's Russian-born widow, 25, now married to Texas Saloonkeeper Kenneth Porter, is suing the U.S. Government for $500,000 in payment for Lee's confiscated personal effects-a treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded...
...city council in a northern Luzon town was shot to death in an ambush. In Batangas, 60 miles south of Manila, the brother and a bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into him before being chased away...