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...story of a guy who made his living in the carnival world; he worked as a barker with small-time freak-show acts like "the two-headed baby" and "the snake girl," he told the Warren Commission. He bummed around looking for roustabout jobs, met his first wife at a Salvation Army mission. When she left him in the summer of 1963, he hitchhiked all the way from the West Coast to Dallas looking for her. Picked up some work at the Texas state fair in a carney sideshow called "How Hollywood Makes Movies," which featured some of Jack Ruby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking A Darker View | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...about CIA complicity in the Kennedy assassination, 20 years of investigations have shown that the CIA was no stranger to complicity in assassinations. We know how the best and brightest blue bloods bonded with the bloodiest and dirtiest Mafia hit men in plots to kill Castro. We know the freak-show side of the agency that used damaging mind-control drugs on unsuspecting citizens; we know that the agency's own top counterspy, James Angleton, paralyzed the place with his paranoid suspicions that KGB moles and false defectors had penetrated the CIA in order to, among other things, conceal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking A Darker View | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

COMMUNISM, if anyone other than 1.1 billion Chinese remembers what that is, used to work something like this: You pretend to work, and we pretend to pay you. Let's do the same for this embryonic snit: The IOP pretends to bring Duke, and we pretend to freak out. It's efficient, satisfying and over in a flash...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Duke: Why Bother? | 12/19/1991 | See Source »

...nearly 70 hours of deliberations over nine days, jurors could not unanimously agree that videos like Animal Tapes 1-6, which depicts bestiality, and Dr. Bizzaro, a film that includes incest scenes, were obscene. Sturman, a cleanliness freak who attended the trial in a surgical mask, claims he is the subject of a vendetta by prosecutors and the IRS, which previously seized his Rolls-Royce as part payment for the more than $15 million he owed in penalties stemming from a 1989 tax-evasion conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: The Porn King Gets Off: The Porn King Gets Off | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...first it seemed like a freak accident. As the usual lunchtime crowd jammed Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, last Wednesday, a blue Ford Ranger pickup tore across the parking lot and barreled straight through the restaurant's plate-glass window. A few startled customers ran to help the driver. To their horror, a muscular young man in a green shirt sprang from behind the wheel with a semiautomatic pistol and began firing. "This is what Bell County did to me . . . This is payback day!" he shouted as he made his way through the crowd, pumping bullets in every direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Ten Minutes in Hell | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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