Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the callers seem to want him caught. Indeed, many praised the so- called subway vigilante. Several suggested that he run for mayor, and others volunteered to help pay for his defense if he is caught and tried. One World War II veteran offered to give the gunman his Bronze Star. "The story," wrote shocked New York Daily News Columnist Jimmy Breslin, "is more popular than a carol...
...local crusades for civil rights, including in 1936 an unprecedented-and dangerous-voting-rights march. During a life marked by personal tragedies, he lost, in addition to his namesake assassinated in 1968, another son by drowning in 1969 and his wife of 48 years, Alberta, shot by a crazed gunman...
...Martella is said to have a heretofore secret film that-along with medical reports, ballistic evidence and eyewitness accounts-lends further credence to the two-gunman theory...
...most spectacular assertion in a secret, 1,243-page report submitted to Italian authorities last week by Judge Ilario Martella was that a second would-be assassin, besides Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, fired at the Pontiff in St. Peter's Square. According to Martella, the second gunman was Oral Celik, 25, a Turk described as Agca's closest friend, who has not been seen since the day of the shooting. Agca told Martella that Celik was with him in the square that day, but his testimony is considered inconclusive...
...suspicion: the military did it. Specifically, a fact-finding board appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos concluded that Benigno Aquino, the exiled opposition leader assassinated at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, only moments after his return to the Philippines, was not killed by Rolando Galman, the alleged Communist gunman who was identified by the military as the murderer. Instead, the board had come to another conclusion: both Aquino and Galman, who was gunned down seconds later on the airport tarmac, were victims of a carefully plotted military conspiracy. The question that remained: How high did the conspiracy reach...