Word: harvey
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...party, according to Epps and other observers of Negro history, descends directly from Marcus Harvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which was active during the 1920's. As a strongly nationalistic group, it had an estimated membership of from one to six million members and assets of $2 million. The depression and Garvey's deportment by the federal government weakened the organization, but did not completely kill it, Epps explained. He noted that many chapters are still active in New York and other urban centers...
...Harvard Medical School professor testified Thursday that Jack Ruby was probably not insane when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald...
Ruby, 52, shot Lee Harvey Oswald "with malice aforethought"-and not, as the defense argued, in a fit of momentary insanity brought on by grief over President Kennedy's death...
...Officer Graves had grabbed his gun and was wrestling the gun away from him. I was watching the gun more so than anything else at the time. The right hand was still contracting on the gun as if he were attempting to fire another shot. I had pulled Lee Harvey Oswald back behind me. As soon as I saw Mr. Graves had his gun arm, I turned my attention back to Mr. Oswald and carried him back into the police office...
...Wade saved perhaps the most devastating witness against Ruby until last. Police Sergeant Patrick Dean had spoken to Ruby some minutes after the shooting. Against anguished protests from defense attorneys, Dean reported: "He said something about he had thought about killing Oswald two nights prior, when he had seen Harvey Oswald on the show-up stand." Continued Dean: "He said he believed in due process of law, but he was so torn up about this, he and his sister also -his sister had just gotten out of the hospital and she was very emotional also-and he said because this...