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...third tramp--the Oswald double--appears to have been one of the actual assassins-assisted by two other marksmen on the grassy knoll across the street. His presence in Dallas resolves the contradictions in the Warren Report about Oswald's movements in the weeks before the assassination, which enabled him to be seen in two places at the same time. Canfield and Weberman contend that Oswald was earmarked by the CIA as a patsy for the assassination. Oswald, who thought he was involved in a plot to kill Castro, engaged in public pro-Castro activities to convince the Cubans...
...train passed into Northern Ireland without notice. There were no officials asking questions or conducting searches, no signs outside to indicate the passage from the South. The countryside seemed no different--a pleasant kind of green through the drizzle feathering the air. A sudden clump of people on a knoll flashing by in a kind of visual doppler effect brought the first traces of the difference. Standing on a group of large rocks, backdropped by reddish-grey cliffs stood three or four British soldiers in green berets and camouflage khakis. They were holding their guns across their arms, watching...
Although it could not reassess all of the monumental Kennedy assassination evidence, the panel agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald had acted alone. Some critics have claimed that two bystanders' movies of the assassination recorded the indistinct images of other gunmen on a grassy knoll near where Kennedy was shot. But the Rockefeller commission found that the vague shapes were "merely the momentary image produced by sunlight, shadows and leaves...
...after the film of the president being shot seems to demonstrate, from the backward jerk of his head and body, that the bullet or bullets which killed him came from in front of the car, perhaps precisely from the spot--known to students of the assassination as the "grassy knoll"--where the man with the rifle is situated. Lee Harvey Oswald, of course, supposedly shot President Kennedy from in back of him, out of a window in the Texas School Book Depository. The filmed evidence of the actual shooting, which certainly seems to make it questionable that Oswald fired...
French furniture design is dominated by Marc Held, 44, who claims the all but unique accomplishment of having created distinctive products for both the top and bottom of the line. In 1970 Knoll International, the firm that introduced the classic Saarinen "tulip" chair among many other designs, offered the new Held chair, a combination swivel-rocking chair made of leather-covered fiber glass with a rounded base...