Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ursula Hemingway Jepson, 63, wife of a Hawaiian banker whose father committed suicide (1928) in the face of a debilitating illness, but who always denied that her brother, Novelist Ernest Hemingway, had done the same (1961), contending that his gunshot death was accidental because "suicide was against all his convictions and principles"; apparently of an overdose of drugs after writing a despondent note about a long illness; in Honolulu...
Such leniency shows up in crime statistics. The FBI reports that 57% of the 9,850 homicides in the U.S. last year were committed with firearms, and that all but one of the 53 police officers killed on duty were gunshot victims. In Dallas, where firearm regulations are practically nonexistent (as throughout all of Texas), 72% of all homicides were committed with guns v. 25% in New York City, where the state's tough 55-year-old Sullivan Law requires police permits for the mere possession of handguns. Says J. Edgar Hoover: "Those who claim that the availability...
...children. As a result, the state laws of descent seemed to entitle his surviving wife to all of his tiny $4,000 estate. But Charlotte Mahoney did not get a cent; a probate court gave everything to his parents. Reason: Charlotte had been tried for Howard's gunshot murder, convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to a maximum 15 years' imprisonment...
Surprisingly, there were only two gunshot deaths: a 14-year-old Negro girl, who had been watching the rioting, and a 28-year-old Negro man, found in an alley; at least 83 other civilians were wounded and 403 arrested by week...
Died. Kamel Mrowa, 54, U.S. missionary-educated Lebanese publisher whose daily Al-Hayat (circ. 22,000) ranks as the leading voice of responsible Arab nationalism, scorning Nasser's adventurous leftist socialism; of gunshot wounds inflicted by a pro-Nasser bank messenger; in Beirut...