Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Negroes were victims of roaming predators. Rudolph Hargett, 18, a Negro Air Force recruit home on leave in Jacksonville, Fla., was astride his bicycle when he was shot in the head by a .22-rifle bullet that apparently came from a car full of night-riding whites. The Rev. George E. McKinney, 50, and his 16-year-old son were crossing the street not far from their home in Kansas City when both were shot down either by an unknown sniper or by police gunfire...
...being sought by police would be almost as bold a move as the shooting itself. Adding to the confusion was a new report that there had been two white Mustangs parked near the rooming house on Memphis' South Main Street, the origin of the single fatal bullet...
...evidence on the battlefield was even more persuasive testimony of the extent of the U.S. victory. The North Vietnamese are normally an extremely frugal foe that never leaves even a rifle bullet behind. In their haste to get away from Khe Sanh, they left piles of valuable matériel. In only a cursory search of the area, U.S. troopers counted 182 rockets and mortars, 260,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 13,000 rounds of larger-caliber ammunition and 8,700 hand grenades and mines. Several hundred North Vietnamese even left behind their AK-47 rifles, violating the most...
...house painter named Josef Bachmann, who had traveled to Berlin expressly to kill Dutschke. "I read about Martin Luther King and thought, 'You too must do something like this,' " he explained to police. Even as Dutschke underwent a successful five-hour operation for the removal of a bullet from his skull, and seemed to be on the way to recovery, the news of the attempted assassination caused Germany's most widespread civil disturbances since the early 1930s...
...bullet lodged in the lower abdomen just above the buttocks, Marckini said, but no vital organs were ruptured...