Word: bovas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crowd was angry-and far too impatient for the slow, normally undramatic pace of a coroner's jury. Surging through the halls of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, it shouted its case in tattered handbills: "Wanted for the murder of Leonard Deadwyler . . . Bova...
...face among the 450,000 Negroes who live in the abrasive ghetto of Watts. In death, he was made a martyr, his name a provocation to riot. Speeding his pregnant wife to a hospital one night early last month, Deadwyler was stopped by police, then killed when Officer Jerold Bova's gun went off. Los Angeles police called the shooting an accident, but few Watts Negroes believed them. Sporadic rioting, the second outbreak since last August's uprising, struck the area...
...dramatically different stories. Mrs. Barbara Deadwyler, seven months pregnant, testified that her husband was hurrying her to the hospital after she began having labor pains, which, it turned out, were false. When Deadwyler noticed a pursuing patrol car, he voluntarily pulled over to let it escort them. Officer Bova, according to her testimony, put his service revolver through the passenger window and pulled the trigger, shooting Deadwyler in the stomach. He then turned impassively away. Four Negro witnesses agreed with her that the car had come to a full stop when Bova approached...
...team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...
...coal left all these years to support a worked-out mine. Fellin showed he doesn't know all there is to know about mining by getting himself in this predicament." These contentions made even more chilling the sound of another drill as rescue workers tried to reach Louis Bova-or his body...