Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month the committee in effect re-convicted James Earl Ray of stalking and slaying the civil rights leader in the spring of 1968. In the process, the Congressmen discredited the persistent theory that Ray did not act alone. Last week the committee turned to the Kennedy assassination and added credence to the main finding of the Warren Commission: Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the President and wounded former Texas Governor John Connally...
...grounds that many of the remaining questions are simply unanswerable and that 14 years of attack on the Warren Commission report and almost a decade of faultfinding with the King investigation have failed to shake the fundamental conclusions of either of the official explanations: The President and the civil rights leader were each killed by a single assassin...
...Clown outfit wandered in off the midway to watch. Photographers clicked, including one from Time who was repaying a favor to a friend on Paris-Match. He said he hoped they wouldn't credit him. The A.P. photographer was snapping away, grumbling. "I'd rather be out coverin' civil rights marches, shit. Or a convention--them Kennedy people taught me how to buy a convention. Nineteen-sixty, there I was, lil' country boy from Dothan, Alabama, coverin' Johnson, shit, they'd paid off everybody. Paid off the goddam elevator boys. If you was with Johnson, you couldn...
DIED. Bruce Catton, 78, pre-eminent Civil War historian and journalist who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his first trilogy's concluding volume, A Stillness at Appomattox; in Frankfort, Mich. As a child, Catton listened to the yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A World War I veteran who pursued a peacetime career as a newspaperman, he tried to write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that...
MacArthur was a man of maddening contradictions, half mamma's boy and half the warrior son of a warrior father. Arthur MacArthur was not yet 20 when he led a charge up Missionary Ridge in the Civil War, an action that won him the Medal of Honor. He went on to fight Apaches in the West and Spaniards in the Philippines, which he subsequently administered as military governor. Temperamental and occasionally insubordinate, he was publicly rebuked by Teddy Roosevelt for predicting war with Germany. "Arthur MacArthur," his aide later said, "was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever...