Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Explain." Kennedy paused to shake hands with a dishwasher, turning slightly to his left as he did so. Before Bobby released the hand of Jesus Perez, the gunman managed to get across the room, prop his right elbow on the serving counter and, from behind two assistant maîtres d'hôtel, fire at his victim just four feet away. Kennedy fell. The hotel men, Karl Eucker and Eddy Minasian, grappled with the assassin, but could not reach his gun hand. Author George Plimpton and Kennedy Aide Jack Gallivan joined the wrestling match. The gun, waving wildly, kept pumping bullets...
...hard to tell whether the scene is day or night. The tired bloodshed of the plot about gringos and greasers-as the script tastefully refers to Texans and Mexicans-is a vehicle for England's Terence Stamp, Cheapside accent and all. Would you believe that he plays a gunman raised from childhood by a band of Mexican brigands...
While chaos erupted and aides rushed to the fallen candidate, two Kennedy associates, 1960 decathlon champion Rafer Johnson and Los Angeles Rams lineman Roosevelt Grier grabbed the gunman and disarmed...
...rights leader had been the victim of a well-planned conspiracy. The rumor mills were lubricated in part by the assiduously cultivated doubts that some still entertain about the killing of John F. Kennedy. In this case, however, the conspiracy theorists could point to the fact that, though the gunman was clearly identified, he remained -for all the far-flung resources of the FBI-mysteriously at large...
...immediate neighborhood-muffed their best chance to capture the killer during the minutes immediately after the shot. He escaped in exactly the right direction: the entrance to the rooming house fronted on a street just one block west of Mulberry, across which the shooting occurred. Thus the gunman had eluded the main concentration of police even before he hit the street. Just why he dropped his weapon and overnight bag is a mystery. Though the search spread to a six-state area (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee), Attorney General Clark refused to predict an early arrest...