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...Point-Blank. During the fast-breaking hours and days that followed, Dallas newsmen, familiar with the city, managed to beat visiting correspondents repeatedly. OSWALD'S ROOM YIELDS MAP OF BULLET'S PATH headlined the News in a copyrighted story; the News also interviewed the cab driver who had taken Oswald home after the shooting, copyrighted the driver's account...
...hand. Czolgosz, dressed in his best, simply stepped in among them. None of the 50 guards present noticed the gun he held wrapped in a white handkerchief. McKinley extended his hand as Czolgosz drew up to him. The killer slapped it away and fired two shots point-blank into the President's chest and abdomen Guards and soldiers pounced on him and beat him with rifle butts until McKinley called out, "Be easy with him boys." McKinley died eight days later. Czolgosz told his disgusted lawyers that he would take no part in his defense. "I killed the President...
...Some storytellers filled in the blank with s.o.b.). Newman says that Diefenbaker threatened to make the paper public to ensure his re-election on an anti-U.S. issue but changed his mind after U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant informed him that all further dealings between the two chiefs of state would then become impossible...
Sunday, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald point blank, the Boston strangler struck again in Lawrence. In Washington, the rain continued. The Sunday New York Times carried the following filler: "Because of poverty and food shortage in many countries, the World Food Congress estimates that 10,000 persons are dying daily from malnutrition or starvation...
...from several side streets, the attacking columns began pouring point-blank fire-from tanks, cannons, machine guns and rifles-at the protective walls. Back came a murderous counterfire, everything Diem's defenders had left. First one Diem tank caught fire and exploded in a tower of smoke and flame. Then another was knocked out of action. Two of the rebels' tanks were also destroyed...