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...identifiable fingerprints were found on the rifle after the assassination. According to the Commission, this was partly because the wooden stock was too rough to hold them. But the police did discover a palmprint from Oswald on a section of the barrel attached to the stock. Said the Commission: "Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled." A tuft of cotton fibers ? blue, grey-black and orange-yellow ? was found clinging to the rifle butt. Under microscopic examination, the fibers matched those in a shirt that Oswald...
...college kids, but a surprising number are middle-aged couples, flushed of face and strong of voice, swinging down memory lane, with a stop now and then for a swig and some peanuts. The band is properly twangy, the repertory-On, Wisconsin!, "Hold That Tiger," "Roll Out the Barrel"-the sort that only a trombone, a tuba, a washboard and a couple of banjos can get away with...
...telephone bills, office machines, electric light bulbs, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pens, cabaret tabs, theater and sports admissions. As a means of regulation, as much as a source of revenue, heavy taxes are also slapped on gambling, pinball machines, tobacco and alcohol: $10.50 per gallon of liquor, $9 per barrel of beer, 8? per pack of cigarettes...
...times-convicted felon. Yet as one lawyer remarked, "It has become almost axiomatic that the great rights which are secured for all of us by the Bill of Rights are constantly tested and retested in the courts by the people who live in the bottom of society's barrel." Gideon is a classic type of the cussedly independent man. His 22-page letter from jail (Lewis quotes it in full) to Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, who was appointed to represent him before the Supreme Court, is an autobiographic gem that ranks with the famous letter that Nicola Sacco wrote...
They rolled through Atlanta, on through Athens, and into the lonely hills of northeast Georgia. They were about 23 miles outside Athens when a car pulled alongside. A white man poked a sawed-off shotgun toward the Negroes' car, leveled the end of its barrel only three feet from Driver Penn's head. He pulled the trigger. Penn died instantly...