Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later, 30 miles south of Saigon, a paratroop battalion surprised and gamely engaged Viet Cong Battalion 514, which a year ago inflicted a major defeat on the government in the notorious battle of Apbac. Now grown from 250 to possibly 600 men, Battalion 514 stopped the paratroopers with machine-gun fire. Out went a call for help, but it was slow to arrive. Armed American helicopters on stand-by duty 20 minutes away in Saigon were not called in by the Vietnamese until three hours after the initial contact...
Wade: Yes. I've got paraffin tests that showed he had recently fired a gun--it was on both hands...
Reporter: A gun...
...Wade: A gun...
Wade said, "The wife had said he had the gun the night before, and it was missing that morning after he left." All indications are from statements made by other law officials and from FBI private briefings that Mr. Oswald had never been quoted as saying anything remotely similar to Wade's assertion...