Word: harvey
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When the office learned that Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy's assassin, had travelled in the Soviet Union. Chayes' boss sent him to recover Oswald's passport files. "You felt like someone had taken your stomach out, but you had to keep going...
Even the media's coverage of the assassination's aftermath and Kennedy's funeral remains unprecedented: day after day, cameras followed his widow and children, and live television recorded Jack Ruby's assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Images from those days have become as familiar to Americans as lines from Kennedy's inaugural address...
...year-old man named Lee Harvey Oswald crouched in a drab sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository Building as President Kennedy's motorcade passed below...
...perhaps the most heartening black mayoral success was that of Democrat Harvey Gantt in Charlotte, N.C., where just one in four voters is black. He took 40% of the white vote; the election was almost entirely free of racial animosity. Said Gantt: "We ought to be able to go out and recruit industry on the basis that we have such racial harmony." Indeed, only in Los Angeles has a big-city black mayor won a larger share of the white vote...
...South Carolina's Clemson University when he became the first black student. A practicing architect with a master's degree in city planning from M.I.T., he served on the Charlotte city council, leading a drive to revitalize Charlotte's inner city. "Businessmen are attracted to Harvey's intellect," says Banker Hugh McColl Jr., who plays tennis on Gantt's own court. "He's no firebrand. He's very thoughtful, and unlike many black politicians, he's fiscally conservative...