Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contingents of agents, was hurried away from the hospital to the airport. Press Aide Kilduff came out at 1:36. His eyes red-rimmed, his voice barely controlled, he said: "President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 p.m. central standard time here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound in the brain. I have no other details of the assassination...
Across the street at Denver's VA Hospital, a man was admitted for accidental gunshot wounds, and when it became clear that he could not survive, relatives gave permission for the use of his liver in a transplant. As the prospective donor's life ebbed, Surgeon Thomas E. Starzl opened Mrs. Goodfellow's abdomen to get her ready for a quick transplant. This operation took ten hours. Her liver was so enlarged by disease that instead of a normal 4 Ibs. it weighed closer to 20 Ibs. Dr. Starzl left his patient anesthetized, with her liver "just...
...Oudjda. The camp, formerly a French supply depot, was decorated with rebel flags and banners proclaiming in French and Arabic such long-winded slogans as "The triumph of our revolution demands absolute unity, organized action, solid leadership and well-defined aims." On an inspection of border outposts within gunshot of French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long imprisonment, gamely climbed up and down hills. Colonel Boumedienne. F.L.N. chief of staff, invited reporters to inspect the cave headquarters, which were simply furnished with cots and rough tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans...
...Officers can speak at least one, and often two, foreign languages. Every enlisted man has one specialty and a grounding in two others, e.g., weapons, demolitions, medical care. The training is intensive: demolition experts can fashion explosives out of fertilizer; medics can amputate limbs and treat any kind of gunshot wound under field conditions. (One sergeant delivered 32 babies during a tour in Laos...
...first day of the trial, a juror admitted to the judge that the mere mention of blood made him ill. Since the case before the court involved a brutal gunshot murder, he was hastily excused. After 21 trial days and 70 witnesses later, the remaining eleven jurors brought in their verdict, ending the longest-and one of the most spectacular-murder trials in British legal history. Found guilty and sentenced to hang next week for the murder of Michael Gregsten last summer was James Hanratty, 25, a petty criminal and mental defective...