Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...messenger for a local TV station claimed that he had seen a security guard fire back at the assassin-or perhaps at Kennedy...
...maitre d'hôtel at the Ambassador, Karl Uecker, told Charach that he was ushering Kennedy by the hand toward the exit when Sirhan stepped up in front of him and began firing; the maitre d' says that Sirhan was never behind Kennedy and that the assassin's revolver was never closer to Kennedy than l ½ ft.-a fact that Charach says has not been contradicted by any other witness...
...most determined assassin was the architect of the Petit-Clamart ambush (which the plotters called "Operation Charlotte Corday"*), an air force lieutenant colonel named Jean-Maria Bastien-Thiry. A brilliant engineer known as "the French von Braun" for his invention of the guided SSII missile, he masterminded both Petit-Clamart and an earlier attempt in which a napalm and plastique bomb was planted on the route to Colombey. De Gaulle commuted the death sentences of two other Petit-Clamart conspirators, Jacques Prévost and Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye. But he refused to grant clemency to Bastien-Thiry, reportedly...
Today the only would-be De Gaulle assassin left in jail is Jean-Jacques Susini, a cofounder of the O.A.S., who once directed its terrorist activities in Algiers...
...rivals and suddenly a shot is fired into the cluster. The car speeds off, leaving a 16-year-old lying on the sidewalk. Or a sniper's bullet from a rooftop a block away may have the same result. Plans for revenge are made, and a single assassin is often sent out to get a body in return. Such guerrilla-style warfare is, of course, far more difficult for the police to anticipate and stop than the old-style, large-scale rumbles...