Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figuring that Ford "was from Detroit just like me," Sipple decided to get a look at the President. He joined the crowd across the street from the hotel and, as others got tired of waiting, found himself in the front row. As he shifted from foot to foot and chain-smoked, he was crowded against Moore. Shortly after 3 p.m., about 100 Secret Service agents and police lined both sides of the street and faced the waiting crowd. The spectators began jostling in anticipation, and Sipple was pushed behind Moore. All the activity suggested that the President might soon appear...
...action. Representative John Murphy, a New York Democrat who authored the ineffective 1968 gun-control law banning some imports, introduced a new bill to require registration of all guns and owners; anyone buying a gun would have to get a certificate of eligibility. Democratic Congressman John Conyers from Detroit proposed confiscating almost every handgun except those used by the police and armed services...
Every proposal seems to have drawbacks and arouses opposition beyond the N.R.A. Many blacks, for example, are opposed to banning the Saturday night specials because they are the only means the poor have of defending themselves. Detroit's Mayor Coleman Young, a black, overruled his own police chief when he tried to ban handguns. A ban on the manufacture of handguns would certainly cut down one source of supply, but the production of guns would hardly be eliminated. "It would create rather than solve a problem," says Lieut. James Eisel, an officer in Wayne State University's public...
...eight children, Sipple grew up in Detroit, where his father George, a retired pipefitter, and his mother Ethel still live. It was never a close family. After attending high school, Sipple ran off, working for a while as a television technician in California, later as a bartender in Texas. In October 1967, not quite 26, he stood among a group of 17-year-olds to sign up at the Marine Corps recruiting depot in San Diego. "I didn't really know what war was," he recalls, "but I wanted to fight for my country...
After the Weather Bureau approved a proposed bombing, logistics were carefully plotted. Undercover agents studied the target. Other members bought dynamite at rural stores or stole explosives from construction sites. Couriers contacted sympathizers to ready safe houses in case flight became necessary. Grathwohl helped plan the bombing of the Detroit Police Officers Association headquarters in February 1970; at the last minute Ayers called off the attack...