Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruth Paine landed Oswald his last job. From a neighbor she heard of an opening at the Texas Book Depository on Elm Street in Dallas. She called the warehouse and recommended Lee. That day, Oct. 14, Lee took an $8-a-week room in a boardinghouse on North Beckley Avenue. He gave his name as O. H. Lee. Next day he was hired at the warehouse. On Oct. 20 his second daughter, Rachel, was born...
...Evidence. In the warehouse, at a sixth-floor window overlooking Elm Street, police found the killer's roost. Remains of a fried-chicken dinner, an empty Coke bottle, and three empty shell cases lay near by. The assassin had stacked book boxes against one wall so that he could not be seen through the window. He had sat on another box. Beneath the outside window, he had placed three boxes that served as a rifle rest. From that he had been able to track the slow-moving presidential car until it got past him, then got off three shots...
Next to him sat Jackie. In front of them, on jump seats of the President's Lincoln, its bubbletop off, were Texas' Democratic Governor John Connally, 46, and his wife Nellie. As the President's car approached an underpass near the intersection of Elm, Main and Commerce Streets, Nellie Connally turned to Kennedy, said laughingly: "You can't say that Dallas isn't friendly to you today." The President started to reply...
...early-shook elm leaves and grassy soccer fields wait to receive all children...
...fight is hotter than ever. With Silent Spring as their gospel, birdmen are on the march all over the Middle West. But the tree people have rallied too. In spite of spraying, they point out, there seem to be plenty of birds around; and what are birds compared to elms? "In Kansas in August," said one elm lover, "you have to run from tree to tree to keep from getting sunburned to death...