Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
...when an assassin shot at Roosevelt while he was in Miami, and killed Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak instead, F.D.R. supplied an eyewitness account: "I heard what I thought was a firecracker; then several more ... I looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up ... I called to the chauffeur to stop ... I motioned to have [Cermak] put in the back of the car ... I put my left arm around him and .my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse. He slumped forward . . . That trip to the hospital seemed 30 miles long ... I said...
...body of one assassin, killed in front of Blair House on Wednesday, were found two letters bearing Campos' name. Campos surrendered early yesterday after tear gas bombs were thrown into his home...
...chopper to chief engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago on Pat Nash's death ("To be a real mayor . . . you've got to be a boss...
...name, address and the reason for the murder. (The captain had engineered the murder of a Korean queen.) The authorities threw Kim into jail, but in 1901 he escaped, disguised as a Buddhist priest. In 1917 Kim decided that periodic prison stretches were interfering with his efficiency as an assassin, transferred his base of operations to Shanghai. There he organized a bombing which killed a Japanese general, mutilated a Japanese admiral and blew a leg off Mamoru Shigemitsu, who later signed Japan's World War II surrender aboard the Missouri. This made Kim a topflight Korean hero, a position...