Word: assassine
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Meantime, the seven-member Warren commission moved ponderously ahead with its work. Warren ordered the FBI to add more details to its five-volume report, told the State Department that it too must flesh out its findings about the background of Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "They are summary reports in more or less skeleton form," said Warren, "and in order to evaluate them, we have to see the materials on which they are based...
...Year is the one who most affects the news for good or ill, then you have no choice but the President's assassin...
...Parkland Hospital, Texas Governor John Connolly, 46, was back in, this time at Austin's St. David's Community Hospital, with an inflammation of the vein in his right leg through which he had been fed intravenously while recovering from wounds suffered during the President's assassination. Nevertheless, said he, doctors had given him the "real good news" that he would probably regain full use of his right wrist, shattered by the assassin's bullet...
...seven-member commission appointed by President Johnson to investigate the assassination of John Kennedy got started last week - but just barely. It met twice in Washington's National Archives building, performed a few routine organizational chores, voted to ask Congress for subpoena powers, and called it a week. "This commission has a sad and solemn duty to perform," said Chief Justice Earl Warren, chairman of the investigating panel. But, he added glumly, "we are operating somewhat in the dark." A first step toward getting the inquiry off the ground would be the receipt of an FBI report...
...rights leader and the threat of Negro violence could not be ignored; city, country, and state police joined the FBI in the hunt for the killer. Gov. Ross Barnett and Jackson's Mayor Allen C. Thompson, both members of the Citizens Council, offered rewards for the apprehension of the assassin. Fingerprints on the murder weapon led the federal detectives to Greenwood, Miss., where the first Citizens Council in Mississippi was founded, and to Beckworth. He was charged with murder, and District Attorney William L. Walker demanded the death penalty. It seemed as if the time had ended when Negroes could...