Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trappings were poignantly familiar-the flag-draped gun carriage inching down Constitution Avenue, the throngs filing past a casket in the Capitol Rotunda, the millions pausing before their television sets to watch a hero laid to rest. To a nation that has lately witnessed all too many such occasions, the funeral of Dwight Eisenhower had a significant difference. It was not an occasion for grief over a life tragically foreshortened by an assassin's bullet but an opportunity to pay homage to one who had served his country and had died in peace, his work completed...
...National Cathedral. One witness of the transfer was Omar Bradley, 76, the last of the five-star generals, who saluted his wartime colleague with a sadly trembling hand. After the casket was taken to a spot near the Washington Monument, it was placed atop the horse-drawn gun carriage for the 1½-mile ride to the Capitol. Raven, a spirited black gelding, walked behind, bearing an empty saddle with boots reversed in their stirrups, an ancient salute to a fallen warrior. Some 50,000 people braved chill winds and a drizzle to watch from the sidewalks as the procession...
...prisoners be let out on $100 bail and 22 be held, before Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan arrived to protest the releases. Cahalan insisted that police needed more time to run the paraffin tests that could determine whether any of the 142 suspects had recently fired a gun. Judge Crockett said the tests were being administered unconstitutionally because no lawyers for the suspects were present. He also obviously felt that the indiscriminate mass arrests violated constitutional rights. But after heated arguments, he suspended the hearings...
...back in 1966. He later returned to his boardinghouse and went to sleep. At about 4 a.m., four policemen burst into the room and began to question him. Orozco not only admitted that he had been at the scene of the shooting but also confessed to owning a gun that proved to be the murder weapon. At Orozco's trial, one of the arresting officers was permitted to testify to these incriminating statements...
Even if adopted, Pastore's watchdog plan could prove about as effective as having the National Rifle Association regulate gun sales. Only 399 of the nation's 619 TV stations subscribe to the N.A.B. Code. It has no control at all over program syndicators, not to mention 220 individual stations producing their own programs. Even where it would have authority, the N.A.B. body would confront an enormous task. Either it would try to supervise the entire production process for every TV show or it would be forced to rely on each network to submit its most controversial programs...