Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Debate was scant, since there was virtually unanimous agreement as to the wisdom of having federal jurisdiction over crimes against the President. Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor reminded the House that FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover told the Warren Commission that if Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been held by the FBI instead of the Dallas cops, "I do not believe he would have been killed by Ruby...
Finally, Villa himself realized that he had lost popular support. He laid down his arms, agreed to stop molesting the government, and retired with a $250,000 government grant. Three years later the end came when an assassin pumped 47 bullets into his body. He was one of the last victims of the idealistic, passionate, violent, intrigue-filled revolution that he had symbolized almost to the point of caricature...
...justice of the peace. Only because the groom is an expert drag racer was the couple, zooming over back roads at speeds up to 75 m.p.h., able to stay ahead of pursuing newsmen. At last, back home in suburban Dallas, Marina Oswald, 23, widow of John Kennedy's assassin, posed briefly with her new husband, Electronics Technician Kenneth Jess Porter, 27, a twice-divorced father of two who met her two months ago. Marina said only that she felt "wonderful" and that "I just want to be alone with my husband." The groom obliged, whisking...
...Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump of bushes, every dark alley might conceal an assassin...
...free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled as a merciless despot until 1820, when his officers revolted...