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There was no inquest or grant jury investigation into the three gunshot deaths. Sellers said two of those killed were shot in the back...
...David C. Dow, Middlesex County medical examiner, reported that Crabtree died of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound of the head...
...disappears. Her body is found several days later. All the girls were brunette Caucasians, and all were murdered in rainy weather. Six of the seven were either strangled, stabbed in the neck or left with something twisted around their necks. The exact official causes of death: two by gunshot, two by strangulation, two by stab wounds and one by skull fracture...
...area: twelve-gauge shotguns firing low-velocity birdshot. Four youths on a rooftop were sprayed, two wounded seriously. One lost his spleen, a kidney and part of his pancreas and bowels in surgery; the other may lose both eyes. At least another dozen demonstrators and two newsmen suffered gunshot wounds, some of them from small-caliber rifles. The battle raged for three hours over 25 square blocks. When it was over, about 60 had been admitted for hospital treatment, including about 20 policemen, 36 protesters were under arrest and one car had been burned...
Gunsmoke Executive Producer John Mantley, who had finished ten segments before violence was de-emphasized, says that he spent the whole summer in the cutting room. But even with all of Mantley's frantic re-editing, the installment two weeks ago contained three gunshot killings, one death by trampling, two knife attacks, three fights and a threat to snap someone's neck "like a dry twig." Says Mantley: "It is difficult for me to continue making Gunsmoke. My position is that if you want to take violence off television, then you have to take drama off television...