Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that bad, but the main thing is, get well. I hope you pass all your tests so that you can become an American." Three operations failed to save him, however, and 13 days after the incident at Westport he died of blood poisoning and complications brought about by the bullet that had pierced his pancreas...
When the gasoline fire in the living room was finally put out, it was found that Mrs. Udine Harp's body had not been destroyed, and an examination disclosed numerous bullet wounds. County police in Boise City, Okla., soon learned from 14-year-old Bruce, one of her three sons, that he had seen a rug-cleaning salesman on the front porch shortly before the fire. An itinerant was picked up on suspicion of being the salesman, but the investigation continued. The husband, Lester Harp, was brought to the district attorney's office for further questioning, and eventually the three...
...Thompson states that "there were four shots from three guns in six seconds." What led him to this belief was a close examination of the film of the assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After talking to various eyewitnesses, Thompson decided that one assassin...
Four minutes later the Crimson regained the lead. Hardy aimed a free kick along the ground to Hoeppner at the edge of the penalty area. The senior inside trapped it, pivoted and sent a Hoeppner bullet inches inside the left post...
...battalions. A third battalion later followed and began sweeping the rubber groves east of Loc Ninh. It proved an eerie enterprise. Moving down the corridors between the evenly spaced, parallel rows of trees, the troops were frequently brought up short by jungle birds whose screeches mimicked the whine of bullets. The almost purple earth underfoot teemed with a fierce breed of red ant whose bite meant torment. But the battalion soon did some tormenting of its own. Running into a company of Viet Cong, it killed 83 in a four-hour firefight that left the bullet-punctured rubber trees bleeding...