Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist bloc and the related issues of Cuba and Berlin. Moscow's first reaction to Kennedy's death was one of near panic, caused in part by plain ignorance of Johnson's views, in part by fear that the association of Kennedy's accused assassin with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson...
...Evidence. In the warehouse, at a sixth-floor window overlooking Elm Street, police found the killer's roost. Remains of a fried-chicken dinner, an empty Coke bottle, and three empty shell cases lay near by. The assassin had stacked book boxes against one wall so that he could not be seen through the window. He had sat on another box. Beneath the outside window, he had placed three boxes that served as a rifle rest. From that he had been able to track the slow-moving presidential car until it got past him, then got off three shots...
...that first afternoon, the Times Herald was on the streets with a remarkably comprehensive account that included quotes from eyewitnesses and police, and a description of the assassin (who was then still at large). At 4:15, the paper was reporting Lee Oswald's arrest and the murder of Dallas Policeman Tippit. It also carried a picture of the assassin's rifle and a map of the assassination scene. Demand was so heavy that although the Times Herald jumped its normal 200,000 press run by 82,000 copies, vendors hawked the 5? paper for as much...
...President Kennedy is not a martyr to civil rights or any other of the legislation for which he fought. If the President's ideas rather than the personal tragedy should become the focal point of our emotion, then we would be the same kind of emotional being that his assassin was. It is possible to pay tribute to this man who died while serving his country without carrying out all or any one of the policies of which he was an advocate. If Barry Goldwater had been assassinated, would it be right for the Senate to abolish social security...
...Kennedy will not have died in vain." As a memorial to the fallen President, the New York Herald Tribune proposed "the resolute determination to see to it that never again should tinder be scattered around that might lead to such an evil blaze." Said the Los Angeles Times: "The assassin's bullet might wound the heart, but it could not still the inexorable beat of America's destiny...