Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
...charged John Patler, 29, with murder. He had often stood next to Rockwell as the Nazis' "Minister of Propaganda" and even changed his name from Patsalos to make it sound more Germanic. Rockwell had fired him some months back-but not before heaping unstinted praise on his accused assassin. In the latest issue of The Stormtrooper Magazine, which Patler had edited, Rockwell lauded the "dedicated work he has been doing for our people and our cause these many years...
...fore a press conference dressed in the striped uniform worn only by those who have already been convicted. Although local papers warn against prejudging Debray, the government is conducting a campaign to assure that the public remains convinced of his guilt. Throughout Bolivia, posters attack Debray as an assassin and warn: "He who kills with steel will die by steel...
...Naked Runner. In Von Ryan's Express, he played the Army's most fearless fighter. In Suddenly, he was a potential presidential assassin. In The Manchurian Candidate, he was the friend of a brainwashed veteran turned into a killer by the Chinese Reds. The Naked Runner shows Frank Sinatra trying to combine fractions of all those past film roles in a spy movie that just doesn...
...NEWS INQUIRY: THE WARREN REPORT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The first of three hour-long studies of the controversy that still rages around the official verdict on President Kennedy's assassination. Walter Cronkite and a team of correspondents attempt to answer some of the crucial questions: One assassin? One bullet? A conspiracy...