Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirrors inside the Ambassador Hotel-and four Tom Collinses-acted with hypnotic power, Diamond testified. Fuzzy with drink, Sirhan wandered in a trance until he encountered Kennedy in a serving pantry. "Only this time it was for real," said Diamond. "This time there was only the loaded gun." It was, he admitted, a "preposterous story, unlikely and incredible." It was also, Diamond insisted, what really happened...
...Breath. Sirhan professes that he has no recollection of shooting Kennedy last June. However, Diamond was able to make the assassin relive the killing in his prison cell six months later by hypnotizing him with a coin held eight inches from his eyes. "Sirhan simply pulled an imaginary gun out of his belt," Diamond recounted to the court, "and fired it convulsively again and again and shouted out: 'You son of a bitch...
...psychiatrist jabbed his finger to simulate Sirhan's cheap .22-cal. revolver: "It was very dramatic and very real-the convulsive movement, the grabbing of the gun and the expression on his face of the most violent contorted rage. Then there was a momentary pause and he started to choke. He was actually re-experiencing the choking when they held him down and took away the gun. He was gasping for breath...
...four o'clock the brigade commander, Lieut. Colonel Lambert Ihenacho, drove up in a camouflaged Land Rover with ammunition. The cartridges were counted out like gold nuggets, the .30-cal. machine gun ammunition belts handled like so many rare Grecian urns. Ihenacho, at 25 the youngest brigade commander in the Biafran army, supervised the process, his hands on the grip of a captured submachine gun. Then Ihenacho led the way up the trail leading to the village. The path was lined with civilians, young and old. "They help carry out the wounded," the colonel explained as he politely murmured...
...screaming birds. Wounded men straggled back. Their black faces shaded gray by shock, they handed weapons and ammunition to their replacements. There was the unmistakable whistle of a 105-mm. howitzer. "Don't worry," said the colonel. "It's ours. We brought it up this morning." The gun fired six rounds, and the Nigerian lines began to crumble...