Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flamboyant Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, fresh from his successful defense of Lynette "Squeaky" Frame in her legal appeal, begins working to "clear the name" of Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor found guilty of assisting John Wilkes Booth by giving the assassin medical succor during his escape. In return, grateful NBC anchorman Roger Mudd--a descendant of the doctor--promises Dershowitz "all the air time he wants...
...other men decades in years. Reagan's face is still rosy, and if he has more wrinkles, they are not particularly noticeable. For a man of 71, he is in remarkable physical condition. The most prominent change since Inauguration Day is not the scar left by a would-be assassin's bullet in March 1981 but the 1½ in. of new muscle added to his chest by daily workouts with a weight machine in the White House family quarters. Says Presidential Assistant Richard Darman: "He is fantastically resilient...
...such case in the realm of destiny and identity. But to accomplish this, one must choose--and you have made a choice. After a life of pleasant experiences, you arrived here, not some other place. It was a perfect choice. Perhaps as perfect as Meursault's in his indifferent assassin's cell...
...Dallas on November 22, [Kennedy] and his wife were cheered enthusiastically as their open car passed through the streets [on a speech-making tour]. Suddenly, at 12:30 in the afternoon, an assassin fired several shots, striking the President twice, in the base of the neck and the head, and seriously wounding John Cannily, the governor of Texas, who was riding with the Kennedys. The President was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about a half hour later. Within two hours, Vice President [Lyndon B.] Johnson look the oath as president...
...months after JFK's assassination, a special commission--appointed by President Johnson and headed by Chief Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, reported its findings: Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-marine who had lived for a time in the Soviet Union, fired the shots that killed JFK. The committee stated that it had "found no evidence" that either Oswald of his own assassin, Jack Ruby, "was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy...