Word: assassination
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...desperate cry for attention from the object of his obsession at the time, actress Jodie Foster. While no one has quite figured out how Hinckley established a causative connection between Reagan's death and Foster's affections, doctors report there have been significant breakthroughs during the would-be assassin's 18-year incarceration in the psychiatric ward of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In fact, the hospital is so pleased with his progress that they are recommending he be allowed to make unsupervised visits to his parents' nearby home; this sort of venture is generally seen as a precursor to eventual...
...ever there was a case of the Justice Department embarking on a wild-goose chase to satisfy a tragically deluded family, this is it. The farce began when King's family came under Pepper's bamboozling spell. He convinced them that Ray, the convicted assassin, was just a fall guy set up to take the blame for an intricate plot that encompassed, among others, Lyndon Johnson's White House, the Pentagon, the Mafia, the Memphis police and a mysterious figure named Raoul. Key parts of the story soon collapsed--for example, the leader of an Army sharpshooting team who Pepper...
...goodnik. One of the eds was recently nicknamed "erratic assassin" in Wu-Tang lingo, and she may rampage soon if she doesn't snag a summer job--from Let's Go preferably. Another threatened to kill his bubbly co-worker with his leatherman knife. Ooops. Blame it on nicotine withdrawal. Yet another was nearly arrested in the wee hours of Sunday morning after sharing his semi-digested pasta and savory chyme with an imposing 220 pound, goatee-sporting soul at a Bickford's in Braintree. And with the sidewalk...
...could tell from the start," claims Ford, "that the House was only a way station for him." Fourteen years later, Ford would get a Sunday call from Lyndon Johnson, beating down Ford's protests and ultimately persuading him to serve on the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination. He would fly to Dallas to interview Jack Ruby, the killer of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "He was crazy" is Ford's terse summation of Ruby. Ford is the only surviving member of the commission...
...Chastity Vampire Assassin Doll: Until there's Leather Daddy Barbie, kids will just have to make...