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Ferre supporters made no bones about trying to exploit black distrust of Cubans. Black Radio Announcer Les Brown urged his WEDR listeners to form "a bolt of black thunder" at the polls. He had a taunt for any Cubans who tuned in: "You stole our jobs and you're not going to steal our city." The most dramatic display of raw enmity came when City Commissioner Joe Carollo went on TV to endorse Ferre and abruptly changed his mind, charging a visibly stunned Ferre with running a "racist campaign of hate...
...President and the governor were hit by separate projectiles, they could not have come from the same gun. The entire assassination, most eyewitnesses agree, took place in 5.8 seconds. According to the Commission, it took 2.3 seconds to operate the rifle's bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded...
...despite his "bolt" from the Democratic Party in 1980. Lucey says that this time he's sticking with the party "all the way." "There's not the same crying need for a third alternative this year," he says. And although he maintains that third parties are "an escape valve that ought to be readily available." Lucey says he's tried to persuade Anderson not to make a second effort...
...could you suddenly be for Mondale? Didn't you leave an important ambassadorship to work for Ted Kennedy in 1979? Aren't you the one who walked out of the 1980 Democratic National Convention to avoid any sense of commitment to a Carter-Mondale ticket? Didn't you then bolt the party to join the John Anderson "National Unity" ticket in open opposition to the Carter-Mondale slate? To all of those charges I plead guilty and offer no apologies. In both the Kennedy and the Anderson campaigns I felt that I was supporting the best available candidate...
...Reagan had a last word. At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, as the teams (only Conner was missing) stood stiffly in their blazers and slacks, the President congratulated both and offered "one final bit of advice to the Perth Yacht Club." Said he: "Don't bolt that Cup down too tightly." -By Michael Demarest. Reported by Richard Hornik/Newport and Ernest Shirley/Melbourne