Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pale and still easily exhausted, Democratic Governor John Connally last week tried to tend to the business of Texas from a hospital bed in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital. His recovery from the bullet that ripped through his chest, wrist and thigh has been rapid. His punctured lung has re-inflated and is healing beyond all original expectations. Each day he is up and about for a bit longer. Half of the stainless steel wires used to stitch together his torn thigh have been removed. Doctors predicted that the Governor would leave the hospital in a week or so, should...
...Hidell" at a post-office box in Dallas. That name and box number were found later among Oswald's effects. Serial number records showed that Oswald's was the same rifle that had been found in the warehouse. An autopsy on Kennedy's body produced one bullet that matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near...
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...
...when Accused Assassin Oswald himself died by an assassin's bullet, photographers from both Dallas papers recorded his murder with a clarity and drama that television cameras on the scene missed. For the News, Photographer Jack Beers snapped a picture, a split second before the killing, that showed Jack Ruby's gun aimed point-blank at Oswald. Times Herald Photographer Bob Jackson caught the actual moment of shooting and the grimace of pain on Oswald's face, the looks of horrified disbelief on the faces of his police escorts...
...have died in vain." As a memorial to the fallen President, the New York Herald Tribune proposed "the resolute determination to see to it that never again should tinder be scattered around that might lead to such an evil blaze." Said the Los Angeles Times: "The assassin's bullet might wound the heart, but it could not still the inexorable beat of America's destiny...