Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a predawn card game with a guard in his Dallas County jail cell, Ruby asked for a glass of water and, when left alone, charged headfirst into a plaster cell wall. He suffered only a two-inch cut and a knot on his skull; moments later, guards found him trying to rip his white jail uniform into strips - presumably to fashion a noose...
...convinced that all the Jews in America were being slaughtered. This was in retaliation against him, the Jew responsible for 'all the trouble.' " The psychiatrist said that Ruby also believed he had recently watched while his own brother was tortured and incinerated in the street outside the jail and that the screams still echoed in his ears. "Once or twice," said West, "the patient seemed about to attack...
Henning added that the law students will not become involved in demonstrations or registration of voters, but will leave "the kinds of work that are likely to end in jail" to others...
...India by her father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The ailing Nehru wanted "Indu" (Moon), as he calls her, at his side for an important confrontation this week with Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," who has been demanding self-determination for his home state since his release from jail last month. Both Indira's visit to the U.S. as her country's representative and her abrupt recall as her father's aide define her importance...
...much the same position is Quadrangle, who won a brilliant victory in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct two weeks ago. Quadrangle is sharper than jail house coffee right now but he probably lacks the necessary oomph in the stretch to hold off Hill Rise...