Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were afraid that the decision will only spark further trouble. The verdicts did not trigger the rioting that officials feared, but more than 1,500 people in Guilford and Durham counties participated in peaceful demonstrations to "express citizens' concerns" over the acquittals. In the only violent reaction, a gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road. Smith, who was not hit, managed to fire back before his car crashed into a tree. Meanwhile, the C.W.P. and other organizations announced plans to hold an anti-Klan, anti-Nazi...
Ever since their flickering beginnings, movies have been fair game for the scissors and splicer. In 1903 the distributors of The Great Train Robbery advised nickelodeons that a startling shot of a gunman firing directly at the audience could be inserted at either the beginning or the end of the film. D.W. Griffith's epic Intolerance (1916), which blended parables from four epochs into a "film fugue," bombed at the box office; so Griffith extracted and recut two of the stories and released them as separate films. Too soon, producers were applying the cleaver of their judgment to good...
...ready to squeeze one off. But my partner got in the way, and he squeezed one off instead." Added his partner, "All I could see was the barrel of that shotgun--looked this big." Obligingly, one points to the hole in the wall where the bullet hit. Then the gunman fled upstairs--a few minutes later they talked him down to the landing, then wrestled the rifle away from him. "Was the safety off?" "Yeah, turned...
...also rejected the belief of local officials that the rifleman was a professional assassin who had been stalking Jordan. Investigators noted that the gunman amateurishly left behind a shell casing from a .30-06 bullet. Moreover, said Roger Young, the bureau's official spokesman in Washington, hitting Jordan would have been an easy matter for even an average marksman, particularly if the rifle had a telescopic sight; the big man (6 ft. 4½ in., 225 Ibs.) was only 40 yds. away from the matted grass where the assailant lay in ambush...
...leads and a lot of theories-perhaps too many theories." One of them stems from Coleman's report that a motorcyclist had preceded her car on the 15-minute drive to the motel, timing the green lights perfectly. (Could the motorcyclist have been a spotter for the gunman?) Said Young: "We're a long way from the end." But he added: "Remember, it took us a long time to find Patty Hearst...