Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even before his bullet-ripped body went to its grave, Malcolm X was being sanctified. Negro leaders called him "brilliant," said he had recently "moderated" his views, blamed his assassination on "the white power structure" or, in the case of Martin Luther King, on a "society sick enough to express dissent with murder." Malcolm's death, they agreed, was a setback to the civil rights movement...
...with the shotgun was hit in the left leg by a bullet from the pistol of a Malcolm X bodyguard. Crippled, he was caught by Malcolm X's furious followers, knocked down, kicked and stomped on. Cops rescued him, took him to a hospital, and charged him with homicide. He was Thomas Hagan, alias Talmadge Hayer, a New Jersey thug with a dreary police record...
...office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President." But what constitutes presidential disability? Who judges it? What would have happened had John Kennedy not been killed by an assassin's bullet but had lived on, seriously injured...
Died. Joseph Robert Rupley, 24, California Peace Corpsman stationed in Venezuela since last September; of a bullet wound inflicted when trigger-happy Caracas plainclothes policemen mistook him and three fellow corpsmen for Communist terrorists, shot out the tires on their station wagon when they ignored an order to stop, then fired point-blank when the Americans climbed out with their hands up, hitting Rupley in the heart and critically wounding David Glover, 25, of Grosse He, Mich., in the stomach...
...From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry and TV scanners gazed at the growing throngs. They guarded the speaker's stand in the east plaza of the Capitol, where armor plate braced the floor and 1½-in.-thick bullet proof glass formed a waist-high railing...