Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Splendid Isolation. For months, Host Gamal Abdel Nasser had looked forward to using the conference to stake a claim as Africa's spokesman, black as well as Arab. Tshombe, whose African peers regard him with distaste as Patrice Lumumba's accused assassin and as a white-backed agent of "neocolonialism" as well, was sure to disrupt Nasser's tea party, and Nasser was determined to keep him out. Tshombe was just as determined...
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...that the Warren report is published, I am waiting for the journalists and television commentators to correct the gross errors that they made. Immediately after the tragic act, these opinion molders started a campaign trying to convince the public that the assassination took place because of the "extreme right-wingers" in Dallas. In fact, Dallas people put on sack cloth and ashes as if each and every one were partly guilty. Even university professors wrote books and articles about this guilt. The FBI and the Secret Service were criticized because they should have "rounded up" or done something or other...
...limousine has been redesigned to permit two Secret Service men to sit facing the President in jump seats. In the car following the President's limousine, an agent with an automatic rifle now sits facing toward the rear-ready to fire should he spot a potential assassin aiming at the President from behind, as Lee Harvey Oswald did. Before Kennedy was killed, Secret Service files with names of persons potentially dangerous to the President contained no more than 400 names; now, thanks to broadened criteria for including names, those same Secret Service files list some 8,000 people, including...
...Postal. She called the police. They came quickly, entered the theater, turned on the lights, and Brewer identified Oswald in a seat near the back. Patrolman M. N. McDonald approached him, heard him say: "Well, it's all over now." Oswald sprang up, slugged McDonald in the face. The assassin drew a pistol, tried to fire, but fell while grappling with police...