Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wattsians are trying to achieve by peaceful, productive means the sense of racial pride and accomplishment that Black Power advocates hope to instill with bomb and bullet...
...thing that helped avert bloodshed in New Haven last week was a small aerosol bomb, the "Chemical Mace," that is being put into use by some 2,000 law-enforcement agencies across the country and in time may well replace the head-cracking, bone-breaking billy club. Dubbed the "gentle persuader" by some policemen, the Mace fits inconspicuously in a belt holster-and looks about as persuasive as a can of shaving foam...
...only after his bail had been reduced from $25,000 to $15,000 (bondsmen would not put up the bail, which had to be raised in toto among S.N.C.C sympathizers). "If President Johnson is worried about my rifle," he said on leaving jail, "wait until I get my atom bomb...
History lavishes its attention on successful assassins; the failures usually get footnotes, at best. In the 23 years since his death by firing squad, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the German officer whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by a freakish chance, has rarely rated more than brief references. Now German Historian Joachim Kramarz has pieced together the unfortunately sketchy materials on Count Stauffenberg's life and his daring plot in a readable full-length biography...
...Stauffenberg selected himself as the an-?el of destruction; it was his crippled hand that placed the briefcase stuffed with plastic explosives at Hitler's feet in a briefing hut in East Prussia on July 20, 1944. The outcome is an old tory. A chance gesture pushed the bomb out of killing range of Hitler, "thirteen officers were wounded; Hitler was only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight on July 20, he was seized, condemned to death...