Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must we always kill our prophets before we will listen to them...
Goods v. Lives. The low "kill-rate," to borrow an unhappy term from the other war, was due in large measure to lessons learned from three years of urban upheaval. Heeding the advice of the Kerner riot-commission report, which warned that "the use of excessive force-even the inappropriate display of weapons-may be inflammatory and lead to worse disorder," lawmen in most cities refrained from gunplay, and magistrates quickly processed those arrested for rioting, setting low bail as the commission suggested. There were few black snipers on the rooftops; on the streets, police and National Guardsmen mostly kept...
That restraint may have resulted in part from the white man's inchoate sense of guilt over King's death. It was abetted by the carnival air that pervaded the looting mobs ("Hell, I can't kill a kid running away with two sports coats," said a Chicago cop) and the unprecedented cooperation of many black leaders-moderate and militant-in helping police to pacify angry slum dwellers...
...least two whites were deliberately killed by Negroes overwrought by the assassination of King. In Minneapolis, John F. Murray, 25, was shot three times in the head, reportedly by a man who lives in Murray's housing project. Police charged unemployed Factory Hand Clarence C. Underwood with the killing and said he dropped a gun when accosted and cried: "Shoot me-Martin Luther King is dead!" In the Virgin Islands, Contractor Roger D. McKibbin Jr. was knifed to death at a drive-in ice-cream store while his three young children watched. Police arrested Michael Raymond Crowe...
After a sharp firefight, police wounded the assailant and dragged him from a nearby cellar. He was identified as a 23-year-old Munich house painter named Josef Bachmann, who had traveled to Berlin expressly to kill Dutschke. "I read about Martin Luther King and thought, 'You too must do something like this,' " he explained to police. Even as Dutschke underwent a successful five-hour operation for the removal of a bullet from his skull, and seemed to be on the way to recovery, the news of the attempted assassination caused Germany's most widespread civil disturbances...