Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconstruction of the crime, in fact, Ray's only function was to throw the FBI off the assassin's trail, first by assuming the name of Eric Starvo Gait ("My theory is that there are two Eric Starvo Gaits"), and finally by planting his fingerprints on the gun that was later to be used for killing King...
...self-discipline of the minister himself rather than on a code of laws. "It is time we took seriously what we mean by a 'moral witness,' " said the Rev. Harold Bosley of Manhattan's Christ Church. "You do not make a moral witness under the gun; you make it because you choose to make...
...night the shooting begins-sometimes sporadic potshots across the DMZ, sometimes concentrated bursts from infiltrators on probing missions. Some infiltrators like to throw stones at guardposts or flick small flashlights to distract the occupants or draw fire so that they can see where gun emplacements are set up. "We get little nibbles all the time," says Captain Daub...
Boumediene had the car stopped and gracefully accepted it. The Citroen had scarcely begun to move again when its windows were suddenly shattered by a burst of machine-gun fire. The bullets missed their target: Boumediene, Bitat and the driver took only superficial cuts from the flying glass. As the car sped away from the scene, security police gunned down and killed two of the assassins...
...life insurance policies that paid double indemnity in case of accidental death. When he died-accidentally, she said-she sued the insurance companies for the double payoff. The companies protested that the death was hardly accidental, since it was caused by a bullet fired from a gun by Mrs. Legg. What's more, they told a Texas jury, she had been charged with murder and was awaiting trial. Mrs. Legg said it was indeed an accident. She had surprised her husband in bed with another woman, she said. She started firing her pistol only to scare the woman...