Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whites who confess ignorance of some of the contemporary black thought even down to using such trite expressions as 'some of my best friends are Negro. They're often in the position of starting off conversations with such corny, ill-phrased, and nonsensical conversation pieces as Will Mays, or Jim Brown, or James Brown or any other things they can associate with black people. Many can only go on stereotypes, scenes they remember from Sidney Portier pictures, and the like...
Until 1966, New Orleans Parish District Attorney Jim Garrison was a square. He was a hawk on Viet Nam. He was satisfied that the Federal Government was made up of relatively honorable men. He even believed the Warren Commission Report. Then one day Louisiana Senator Russell Long suggested that the Warren Report had serious holes in it. Intrigued, Garrison began reading everything he could find on the presidential assassination, including all 26 volumes of the documents and reports that had been sifted by the commission. His thinking on everything changed. Others had reached similar conclusions, but Garrison was different...
Financed by a group of New Orleans businessmen, he set to work. One assistant, Jim Alcock, concentrated on the legalities of the case; a second, Andy ("Moo") Sciambra, handled the field work. After months of investigation, Garrison finally announced that he had "solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza...
Nonetheless, as Garrison quite properly points out, until the trial takes place the only one who knows the strength of his case is Jim Garrison himself. His friends in New Orleans like to remember that he has won many a tough one before. He cleaned out the well-entrenched B-girls on Bourbon Street and also took on eight local judges, winning the right to criticize them in the U.S. Supreme Court. On the other side, local enemies, of whom he has his share, recall that he was discharged from the Army for mental reasons and that...
...filters as American smokers, and American Tobacco Chairman Barney ("Brand-a-Month-Barney") Walker has plenty of brands for the British market, led by fast-selling Tareyton. In addition, Walker can also introduce through Gallaher such products as Mott's apple sauce, Sunshine Biscuits, and perhaps even Jim Beam bourbon...