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Kennedy's suit coat, the front ripped apart by frenzied doctors trying to save lis life, and his bloodstained shirt were mounted on a mannequin and used to illustrate the path of one shot. All too vivid sketches showed the exact entry point of the bullet that shattered the President's skull. There was prolonged discussion about what had happened to the President's lower brain after the autopsy. It had apparently been buried at the request of Robert Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Lone Assassins | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Since November 1963 the Warren Commission and two different teams of pathologists have reviewed the autopsy report made at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The House committee's panel, after its own reexamination, made only minor objections to the original findings, like the exact location of the entry wounds. Its views strengthened the conviction that the shots had been fired from the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald worked. Eight out of nine forensic experts retained by the committee said it was likely that one bullet passed through the President's neck and then wounded Connally in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Lone Assassins | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Punishment raises some of the most difficult questions that the moral intelligence has ever confronted, and most of man's answers over the centuries have been neither very moral nor very intelligent. The principle of exact retaliation formulated in Mosaic law ("An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") was actually a kind of early legal reform that placed precise limitations upon the extent of permissible revenge. When medieval kings began establishing strong central authority, and various offenses were perceived as crimes against the king's peace and his formal vanity, the older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: On Crime and Much Harder Punishment | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...aged warrior?who was probably in his early 80s, though his exact age was never known?had presided over the bloody transition to independence, and for 15 years had held his country's fractious tribes together. Under Mzee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Old Man Dies at Last | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...really knows the exact reason why senior Craig Beling's nickname is "Subway." Something to do with Newton's first law (Force equals mass times acceleration), I suppose. Subway led the football team in tackles while playing linebacker last year, and he earned All-Ivy honorable mention honors as a heavyweight wrestler...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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