Word: district
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Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
...Dollar Chip. The opening statement for the prosecution by Deputy District Attorney David Fitts was factual and low-keyed. It included the detail that Sirhan had chipped in only $6 in the purchase by his brother Munir of the $25 murder weapon. Fitts also noted that the day before the shooting, Sirhan went to the San Gabriel Valley Gun Range for target practice. While on the range, one Mike Soccoman asked Sirhan what he intended to do with the small Iver Johnson .22-cal. pistol. Sirhan said he could use it for hunting, adding: "It could kill a dog." Ballistics...
...Orleans last week, judge, jury and court relived the murder of John F. Kennedy. District Attorney Jim Garrison and his staff flashed onto a portable screen the color film of the assassination in Dallas that had been taken by Businessman Abraham Zapruder...
...prosecution hoped the film would convincingly demonstrate that at least one of the bullets that struck the President came from the front. Assistant District Attorney James Alcock argued: "If the state can prove that the President was shot from more than one direction, the state in effect has proved a conspiracy." One sequence-which was shown in slow motion and frame by frame-clearly shows the President falling backward in his seat, an unlikely occurrence if he were being struck by bullets from the rear. However, the Warren Commission Report has already met this objection by noting that Kennedy fell...
...city's big men gathered at the daily luncheons of the "Pappas boys," Tom and his brother John, in the dining room of their food warehouse. The brothers became important back-roomers in city and state affairs. John worked the Democratic side and was rewarded with an associate district judgeship; Tom earned some personal lOUs as a fund raiser for the G.O.P., got on the party's national finance committee and was a frequent guest at President Eisenhower's White House stag dinners. There he befriended then Vice President Richard Nixon. He also became influential...