Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen's Fingers. Queen Elizabeth of Hungary, who probably owned the altarpiece, headed a gay and lively court in Visegrad. When, one day in 1329, a berserk courtier tried to assassinate her husband and children, the Queen helped fight off the assassin. In the defense she lost four fingers of her right hand-"that hand," as a monk-chronicler put it, "which she extended so many times to the poor and miserable." Beautiful, bountiful and (thanks largely to gold mines that she owned) enormously rich, the Queen became more devout than she had ever been before...
GREENWOOD, MISS. FBI agents arrested Byron de la Beckwith, 42, member of a white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council, in connection with Medgar Evers' ambush slaying (TIME, June 21). J. Edgar Hoover said that the "Golden Hawk" telescope similar to that on the assassin's rifle had been traced to Beckwith, whose fingerprints checked with those on the murder weapon...
Despite the power of his appeal, Kennedy's speech did not and could not solve the civil rights crisis. A few hours after the speech, an assassin shot a Negro leader in the back in Jackson, Miss, (see following story). By the nature of the crisis, no single-front effort-whether by moral persuasion, court decision, legislative enactment, political action or street demonstration-can settle the U.S.'s civil rights dilemma...
Soon state and local cops, along with FBI agents, were scouring Mississippi for clues. They found the assassin's weapon-a Springfield rifle mounted with a new telescopic sight-in the honeysuckle patch across from Evers' house...
...pageant in Washington, D.C., a sailor emptied a pistol at a spectator who refused to rise for The Star-Spangled Banner, and the crowd cheered. In Hammond, Ind., a jury took only two minutes to acquit the assassin of an alien who yelled: "To hell with the U.S." In Waterbury, Conn., a salesman was sentenced to six months in jail for remarking that Lenin was "one of the brainiest" of the world's leaders...