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...down Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger, in 1934; in Southbury, Connecticut. A minor bureau clerk whose on-the-diamond skills got noticed by baseball fanatic J. Edgar Hoover, Connor was drafted as a special agent, and ended up stationed in a Chicago alley during Dillinger's final and fatal showdown...
...have to be expended simply responding to defense motions, meritorious or not. Already next week there will be a motion to reopen the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor now serving a life term in prison for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in the infamous Fatal Vision murders in 1970. MacDonald's lawyer, Harvey Silvergate, says the motion will be based in part on affidavits of FBI agent Michael Malone, formerly a lab examiner, submitted during the lawyer's attempt to reopen the MacDonald case. According to last week's report, Malone exhibited "inexcusable" behavior...
...Coughing kids. The incidence of children with WHOOPING COUGH--a serious, sometimes fatal disease that's preventable with a vaccination--has shot up 83% so far this year, compared with the same period...
Ginsberg suffered a fatal heart attack on April 4, shortly after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer...
...body moments after the civil rights leader was shot at the Lorraine Motel 29 years ago last week. According to the theorists, McCullough was a secret U.S. agent who helped cover up the plot by pointing toward the flophouse from which the FBI maintains James Earl Ray fired the fatal shot, leading police away from a brushy area across the street where several witnesses saw a man who they believe may have been the real assassin. Last week TIME confirmed from U.S. government sources that McCullough has in fact been a CIA agent since at least 1974. McCullough denies being...