Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farben not be bombed because he owned stock in the company; Forrestal was an "anti-Semite" and a "front man" for U.S. oil companies. Columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell spread the phony story that Forrestal had panicked and run away when his wife was held up by a gunman. The night Forrestal jumped to his death, he left a book open to a passage from Sophocles' Ajax: Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone...
...sombre task of accompanying the cortege to the Capitol when they switched to Dallas to record Oswald's transfer to the County Jail. To their own astonishment, they caught instead what beyond all doubt was history's most public crime. The cameras caught everything: the gunman lurching into center-screen, detectives raining down on him and wrenching the gun away, Oswald being rushed to the ambulance, his hand dragging limply along the concrete floor...
...Senate) James B. Donovan, the U.S. gave up four Castro thugs. Three had been caught in a plot to start tossing sabotage bombs around New York. The fourth, Francisco ("The Hook") Molina del Rio, 31, was the one the U.S. most disliked to let go. A pro-Castro gunman, he got into a shooting melee with anti-Castro Cubans in a New York restaurant during Castro's visit to the U.S. in 1960. In the process, he inadvertently killed a nine-year-old Venezuelan girl, Magdalena Urdaneto. Molina was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years...
About a year after John Dillinger was gunned down by FBI agents outside a Chicago theater in 1934, Actor Humphrey Bogart scored his first Broadway success as the gunman in Robert Sherwood's The Petrified Forest. Dillinger and Bogart looked remarkably alike: both were small and wiry, both had a kind of insolent, scarred good looks, each cultivated a distinctive trademark-Bogart a toothy wince and Dillinger a sarcastic, lopsided smile. Coming to public attention when they did, both became national idols...
...instance, Ma Barker, who moved to St. Paul with two of her four sons in 1933 to set up the most successful kidnaping gang in the Midwest. Ma took the boys to church every Sunday. Tiny, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker ran away from her husband with Texas Gunman Clyde Barrow and celebrated by writing adolescently boastful verses to the newspapers...