Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around Washington for a while," said Political Adviser Fred Dutton, "then I think I'll clear out. There's no need to try to re-create the past. When it's gone, it's gone." Attorney Frank Mankiewicz, the press secretary who performed with such grim efficiency in the hours after the shooting, said sadly: "I can't do this again-not for anyone else...
...fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests out of their beds, cut telecommunications, dug a huge crater only a few feet from the statue of the Madonna of Peace in John F. Kennedy Square. The final toll for the raid's ten grim minutes: 26 Vietnamese civilians killed and 116 injured...
...Ethel by his side, Kennedy was taken first to nearby Central Receiving Hospital, where doctors could only keep him alive by cardiac massage and an injection of Adrenalin, and alert the better-equipped Good Samaritan Hospital to prepare for delicate brain surgery. As if there were not already enough grim echoes of Dallas and Parkland Hospital, the scene at Central Receiving was degraded by human perversity. A too-eager news photographer tried to barge in and got knocked to the floor by Bill Barry. A guard attempted to keep both a priest and Ethel away from the emergency room, flashed...
...examiner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, presided over a six-hour autopsy attended not only by members of his own staff but also by three Government doctors summoned from Washington?again a lesson from Dallas. Sirhan was indicted for murder by a grand jury. Meanwhile, once again, the nation watched the grim logistics of carrying the coffin of a Kennedy home in a presidential Boeing 707. This time the craft carried three widows: Ethel, Jackie and Coretta King...
There is a grim possibility that yet another candidate will become a target. What to do? Stop crowd contact, use sealed cars, exploit TV to the exclusion of almost every other campaign tactic? In the Los Angeles aftermath, a stricken Eugene McCarthy pondered: "Maybe we should do it in a different way. Maybe we should have the English system of having the Cabinet choose the President. There must be some other way." But most politicians-including highly vulnerable Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Hubert Humphrey and John Lindsay-emphatically veto such suggestions. If a candidate cannot mingle with crowds, said Rockefeller...