Word: factualism
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...When we heard of the resignation of Vice President Agnew, we could not have been any more shocked if a streak of lightning had hit us. We were guilty of criticizing TIME and other news media for their factual reporting and must now eat crow...
Much of the Ervin committee testimony is used as the factual basis for a highly readable chronology, but without tedious reliance on long quotations. The writers hold to a minimum all of those cluttering qualifications that blurred the news reports as the affair originally unfolded. The crafty evasions of John Ehrlichman, the astounding forgetfulness of Bob Haldeman, the dogged denials of John Mitchell are generally tucked between parentheses. The authors clearly consider them nearly irrelevant and feel that the truth might be better served by not reading the parenthetical matter-as indeed it would...
Conspiratorial theories surround all the tragic assassinations of modern U.S. history. What makes The Second Gun superficially plausible is that Sirhan's trial scarcely touched on the factual conflicts raised by the film. Sirhan's defense admitted his guilt but maintained that because of his mental state he had only a "diminished responsibility" for the act. Defense Attorney Grant Cooper concedes that his cross-examination of some prosecution witnesses was therefore less than tough. "What was the sense of wasting time on these things?" he asks. There may have been no sense tactically, since there was never...
...Petit-Clamart ambush-the factual starting point of Frederick Forsyth's otherwise fictional The Day of the Jackal-was De Gaulle's closest brush with assassins. It was, however, neither the first nor the last. According to a new book published in Paris, Objectif de Gaulle, there were at least 31 serious plots against the general's life, and dozens of others that never got beyond the talking stage. Indeed, even as the would-be killers of Petit-Clamart went on trial for their lives, police averted a sniper's attempt to shoot De Gaulle with...
...Times Magazine staff member said yesterday that the Magazine had checked the factual information Kilson used in the article...