Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defendants will be tried later on the rioting charge which carries a maximum penalty of 12 months at public work, six months in jail, and a $1,000 fine...
...Secret Servicemen continued to question the suspect-but Lee Harvey Oswald defiantly denied any guilt. Nonetheless, the police charged him formally with the murder of the President. Then, on Sunday morning, as a huge phalanx of guards prepared to transfer Oswald from Police Headquarters to the Dallas County Jail, a man moved toward him, stabbed a revolver toward Oswald's abdomen and fired. About two hours later, 1:07 p.m., the prisoner was dead. Thus the world might never learn what had gone on in that strange mind that had driven him to assassination. There was, however, enough evidence...
...overwhelming evidence piled up against Oswald, police decided to transfer him to a maximum security jail. At 11:20 a.m., Oswald was led into the basement garage of City Hall and toward a nearby armored...
...announced that his real mission was the salvation of unity in the Republican Party. At last he decided that God's will had ordained Garfield's death. He bought a .44-cal. revolver, tested it by firing at saplings along the Potomac, and went by the Washington jail to check on its comforts. "Very excellent," he decided...
...Sunday, the networks were just settling to the sombre task of accompanying the cortege to the Capitol when they switched to Dallas to record Oswald's transfer to the County Jail. To their own astonishment, they caught instead what beyond all doubt was history's most public crime. The cameras caught everything: the gunman lurching into center-screen, detectives raining down on him and wrenching the gun away, Oswald being rushed to the ambulance, his hand dragging limply along the concrete floor...