Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seconds later, three shots were fired -and President Kennedy was dead or dying. Lee Oswald slipped out a rear entrance of the building, walked six blocks, returned to Elm and boarded a bus. The bus bogged down in traffic. Oswald got off, walked a few blocks, got into a cab, ordered the driver to drop him on the 500 block of North Beckley-five blocks beyond his room. He paid the 950 fare, gave the driver a nickel tip, hurried to his room, ran out again with a windbreaker...
...Jackson cab drivers told how, four days before Evers was ambushed on June 12, Beckwith had asked directions to Evers' home, saying, "I've got to find where he lives in a couple of days." A young woman said that she had seen a car similar to Beckwith's parked near Evers' house 50 minutes before the shooting. But because the bullet that killed Medgar Evers was too badly shattered to produce positive results in ballistics tests, the state never did prove that it had been fired by the rifle in the sweetgum grove...
...Weaver '65 and two other students were released from a Jackson, Miss., Juli Saturday upon payment of their three $1000 hall bonds. The three Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers had been held since December 26 on a strong-arm robbery charge, stemming from a dispute ever a cab fare...
...know for sure that there is a civil rights issue involved," said Shestack. "It might just be a dispute between a cab driver and his customers." He indicated, however, that he did not think the authorities would have carried the complaint so far if Waver and the others had not been SNCC workers...
When the trio finally handed Dewey two $1 bills, he allegedly refused to give them their change. A scuffle ensued, one of the students grabbed one of the bills back, and they left the cab. A few hours later they were arrested by Jackson police on Dewey's charge that he had been robbed...