Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sole Assassin. In the hour following the assassination, normally lucid people did strange things. Since the murdered President had been scheduled to make a luncheon address at the Dallas Trade Mart, Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz Carpenter, assumed that the Vice President would make the speech. She hurried to the mart only to discover, of course, that scarcely anyone was there. In Parkland Hospital, medical attendants struggled to remove the critically wounded Governor's clothes. It was Connally, finally, who had the presence of mind to remind them, "Why not cut them...
Skeptics will always wonder whether Jack Ruby's televised murder of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was the meticulously designed act of a conspiratorial network or - as the Warren Commission concluded - simply another irrational element in a tragic tangle of non sequiturs surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy...
...stand that, among other reasons, eventually alienated him from his colleagues to the point where he fled the country in 1964 with $14 million in party funds and spent his hours plotting to overthrow first Ben Bella, and then his successor Boumediene; of bullet wounds inflicted by an unknown assassin; in Madrid...
Died. Jack Ruby, 55, convicted slayer of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dallas (see THE NATION...
...report of her reaction on learning the identity of her husband's assassin. "That's absurd," she cried when she was told that it was not a right-wing fanatic but Lee Harvey Oswald. "He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist." To her mother, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, she later said: "It robs his death of any meaning...