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...viewing" was of nothing more than a closed casket, draped with an American flag. Some might attribute the choice to decorum, but the conspiracy theorists, who have spent so long looking for a "smoking gun," would not be satisfied with anything less than a "stinking corpse...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

...staring down at the small color photograph in her lap, Myrlie Evers' hands quivered slightly. The wood-paneled courtroom was silent. Mrs. Evers paused, drew in a breath and then spoke, her clear voice cracking for the first time that day. "Yes," she said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify because white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Going the Last Mile with Medgar | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Gore and former presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter show up soon thereafter. The sad procession begins as O'Neill's hearse pulls up in from of the church. The casket is carried inside. The church doors close...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

These shows sometimes draw the line. Hard Copy was offered pictures of River Phoenix in his casket but turned them down. Among the other offers Hard Copy has passed on: $50,000 for an interview with Charles Manson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easing the Sleaze | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Zito told of his cousin who was killed and mutilated in a car accident. As a pallbearer, Zito dropped his cousin's casket, and saw the head roll out into another person's grave as the other person's family was visiting...

Author: By Noemi Flores, | Title: U.C. Comedy Evening Draws Sell-Out Crowd | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

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