Word: assassinates
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...Inside the paneled assembly chamber, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd strode down the aisle, took his green leather seat on the front bench and, in a gesture that had become automatic, touched the fingers of his left hand to a small scar on his jaw, all that remained of the assassin's bullet that had nearly killed him in 1960. Verwoerd was in high spirits. He was about to make his first major speech of the session, and for the occasion he had had his hair...
...Will Bring Evil." The supreme irony of it all is that Verwoerd's assassin apparently thought so too. Dimitrio Tsafendas had been a drifter who hated the world. He speaks eight languages, has traveled all over the world as a merchant seaman-and has been confined in mental hospitals in both the U.S. and Portugal. He is also a religious fanatic who has dabbled in Buddhism, read the Bible, and often quotes his favorite passage from II Kings: "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...
...enough, from the commission's own evidence. They not only criticize the Warren group's procedures but, in most cases, seek to cast doubt on nearly every major conclusion reached in the report. They argue that the commission was determined to prove that Oswald was the lone assassin and that it blandly ignored or distorted any information that differed significantly from that premise. Some of them say that Oswald was not involved at all. Among the facts that they cite to support that contention...
...only man who testified that he had actually seen Oswald fire-and subsequently identified him as the assassin-did not at first identify Oswald when he saw him in a Dallas police line-up the night...
...total exoneration of Oswald thus fails the test of logic, but that is only half the story. Another, even more pervasive, theory has arisen, holding that there was at least one other assassin. This theory rests on the premises that 1) there may have been a shot fired from in front of the limousine, and 2) such crucial evidence as the autopsy report on Kennedy was altered to conceal the second killer...