Word: assassinates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rifle fitted with a fourpower telescopic sight. One flight above, near a sixth-floor window only 75 yds. from the point where Kennedy and Connally were shot, they discovered remnants of a chicken dinner in a bag, an empty pop bottle, and three spent cartridge cases. The assassin was gone...
...assassination of John F. Kennedy was, in the highest sense, a crime against the nation. But the murder of his accused assassin yesterday was a senseless violation of the very principles of law and justice to which the late President dedicated his life...
When the President's assassin took gun in hand, he rejected a political system designed to allow opposition without treason, dissent without disloyalty. Lee Oswald's murderer put himself no less outside the structure of law. Both men used the tactics of the battle field, not of a civilized society...
...usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: "She might well have been an assassin." As for the purpose of the President's stop-and-go entrance into New York, the official explanation was that he wanted no "fuss and feathers." It could only be presumed that Kennedy was zeroing in on the safe-motorists' vote...
...Iranian minister stood at bay, staring down the muzzle of a gas pistol. The cold-eyed German behind the gun worked quickly and methodically. A spy caught in the act? A would-be assassin? No. All Hermann Reissmeier wanted was to smash a dozen windowpanes and thus "collect" an outstanding debt...