Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protracted absences from the city-trips that have apparently helped boost trade but have kept him away too long from the critical problems in his own backyard. Yorty's most embarrassing gaffe, faithfully recorded on nationwide TV, was his gratuitous recital of possible evidence against Sirhan Sirhan. accused assassin of Robert Kennedy...
...community. They even joined the Chamber of Commerce. Last week, when leaders of the society's 4,500 U.S. members met in Wheaton for their annual national convention, theosophy was once again under some suspicion. The scarcely adequate reason is that Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, had asked for and received a copy of the society's most sacred book, The Secret Doctrine. Its author: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), the Russian-born founder and high priestess of the movement...
...early morning after the Central Park gun battle, Saidallah Sirhan, 36, brother of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, pulled in to the Pasadena police station and said that while he was driving home on the Pasadena Freeway, someone had fired twice on his car after it was boxed in by two other cars. Police found two .38-cal. slugs embedded in Sirhan's 1955 De Soto. But some police officers were skeptical of Sirhan's tale...
...believe that it is rather unseemly to leap so hastily to the conclusion that the motive of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin derives from his virulent Arab nationalism, as you imply [June 14]. Let us wait and see what the trial will disclose-if it takes place; for another accident may occur. In any case, the fact remains that the only three men who since F.D.R.'s time seriously threatened the status quo are no more. And no presidential or other oratory will stop any thinking man, American or European, from regarding as strange the assertion that...
Here and there in the press, some commentators used the assassination as a weapon in their continuing ideological warfare. On the right, William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, said in so many words that Bobby brought it on himself. The Kennedys, he wrote in an editorial, encouraged dissent and disorder. "Class was set against class, group against faction, race against race. Was it not Senator Kennedy who himself assured the rioting, burning Negro mobs that they had every right to 'regard the law as their enemy'?" On the left, the Village Voice's Jack...