Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After you fill out the card, you sit in the waiting room, flipping through last month's New Yorker and listening for your name. The array of blank office doors off the big room begins to look like the cylinder of a gun for Russian roulette. Behind one of them is the doctor they will send you in to see-take him or leave...
...Dallas and Detroit-where his brother Earl lives-waded through the financial morass, it appeared that the strip-joint owner's most valuable possession was the snub-nosed .38 Colt Cobra revolver with which he killed Oswald. Collectors have reportedly offered as much as $50,000 for the gun...
Beyond all that, lax gun laws help to ensure that a policeman's life is always on the line. Clearly, the U.S. expects a great deal from its law enforcers-and gives them little. Everywhere in the country, police facilities are understaffed, policemen are underpaid and inadequately trained. To make matters worse, outmoded traditions require all novice policemen, no matter what their education or skill, to start their careers alike-at the bottom. As a result, it is almost impossible to recruit the college graduates and specialists so desperately needed to combat today's sophisticated criminals...
...would give anything if this had never happened," said Jackson, who had never used his gun before. "I exercised what I felt was my best judgment, and I did what I thought I had to do." Nashville Police Chief Hubert O. Kemp agreed with him, went on TV within hours after Hall's death and called it "a clear case of justifiable homicide...
...comes into conflict with Liberty Valance again when the town has to elect two representatives to the Statehood Convention; Sotddard and the townspeople want statehood--it would mean government protection of their rights, the establishment of schools and the railroad. But Liberty Valance and his guns work for the cattle barons who want to keep the territory for themselves. Valance challenges Stoddard to a show-down, although he knows Stoddard can hardly hold a gun. Miraculously, Stoddard kills Valance, wins Hallie (Tom's former girl), and goes to the political convention...