Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have the details.'' Five calls to the President on that day last week fleshed out the details: four minutes out of Mexi co City, while southbound for Guatemala City with 81 aboard, a four-jet Pan American World Airways DC-8 had been "skyjacked" by a lone gunman and ordered to turn course for Cuba...
...with his gun whenever anyone reached for a switch without explanation. Pilot Buchanan nursed a double worry: the Cuban air force might attack because he was out of the normal Havana approach corridor ("They have some hot airplanes there with hotheaded kids flying them," he reported later), and the gunman might start shooting if any passengers tried to storm the door. He got Oquendo's permission to make one laconic announcement on the plane's public-address system: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a passenger that wants to go to Cuba, so we're taking him. Please...
More important, Berry's paper has a generous Sabbath dose of straight news-to the amazement of Fleet Street, which has long been satisfied that little happens on Saturday. This month, after a gunman shot three London bobbies and then handed the story-by telephone-to the Sunday Express, the Sunday Telegraph collected information from eyewitnesses and Scotland Yard, stitched a story that made the Express's account (1 TRAP WANTED MAN ON THE TELEPHONE) sound like a Beaverbrook promotion...
Died. George Washington Earp, 96, former cowboy and last of "the Fighting Earps;" in a Joplin, Mo. nursing home. First cousin to gunman, gambler and sometime cop Wyatt now sanctified by TV, George Earp rose above his Dodge City relatives to become a U.S. Marshal and Internal Revenue agent...
...nation's No. 1 hood, Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Accardo, 54, alias Joe Batters, is the very model of a modern mob general. He is popularly credited with half a dozen murders dating from his days as gunman to the late Al Capone, but has never spent a night in jail. Unlike Capone, whom he eventually succeeded as grand vizier of Chicago crime, Tony cleverly paid his taxes on enough income from gambling and "miscellaneous sources" (more than $1,000,000 between 1940 and 1955) to justify his $500,000 mansion in suburban River Forest, Ill. and his lavish vacations...