Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police declined to speculate whether the motive for the shooting was racial, but Mayor Kevin H. White said Friday night it was "apparently racially motivated." White said the FBI entered the investigation Saturday because of possible violations of the civil rights...
...Francisco, Cincinnati and Signal Mountain, Tenn.; the Internal Revenue Service and Western Union Telegraph Co. Straw allegedly sold paintings that he did not own -and some that did not even exist. He staved off creditors with partial payments and bouncing checks. The case, now being investigated by the FBI, is one of the most sensational scandals ever to hit the secretive world of big-time art collecting...
Haber insisted last week that her source for the column was not the FBI but "a journalist" whom she would not name. Said Haber: "I am beginning to wonder who my best friends are. Obviously, if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have printed the item. It's absolutely shocking and appalling. I can now have no trust in anybody...
...FBI Director William H. Webster was also contrite. Said he: "The days when the FBI used derogatory information to combat advocates of unpopular causes have long since passed. We are out of that business forever...
...Floyd in a farmhouse near East Liverpool, Ohio. When Floyd, armed with two .45-cal. pistols, fled across a stubbled cornfield toward the woods, Purvis and his men shot him to death. It was one of the most celebrated exploits of the G-men, forerunners of the present-day FBI agents, and enhanced Purvis' reputation as one of the country's ablest crime fighters. The story of Floyd's death stood unchallenged for almost 45 years...