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Sparrow also scoffs at the idea that a gunman could have fired from an exposed position and "got clean away in full view of the public." It was Oswald alone, he concludes, who killed the President. As for the demonologists, Sparrow marks them thus: ^ Joachim Joesten (Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy): "Mr. Joesten's story (that there were two conspiracies, one to kill the President, the other to kill Governor John B. Connally of Texas) is extravagant and incredible, his book a compound of bad English, bad temper and bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: The Mystery Makers | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Lolita treated the forbidden subject of nymphet-mania with cool humor; his Dr. Strangelove demonstrated that the biliousness of black comedy was as American as the H-bomb. John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate was a flawed murder drama that explored the mind of a brainwashed assassin with psychological depth and technical brilliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Prince Erie | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...details are not all that new; the conclusions are Thompson states that "there were four shots from three guns in six seconds." What led him to this belief was a close examination of the film of the assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Back to Dallas | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Though she hardly thought so during the years she was married to him, Marina Oswald now figures that everything Assassin Lee Oswald ever touched has turned to gold. Oswald's Russian-born widow, 25, now married to Texas Saloonkeeper Kenneth Porter, is suing the U.S. Government for $500,000 in payment for Lee's confiscated personal effects-a treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 10, 1967 | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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