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...Crimson kept to a ten-bout lead in the beginning of the match, but nervousness Quakers came back to knot the score...
...Russian explanation was transparently phony. Obviously the MIGs knew from listening in that the unarmed plane was having radio trouble. In fact, the T-39 probably had a complete electrical breakdown that knocked out its navigational equipment as well as the radios. This, and a 45-knot wind from the west, would account for the trespass. But that did not explain why the Russian fighters disregarded time-honored rules for handling airspace violations. Countless such violations occur in the crowded, nervous skies over the border between West and East Germany. Normally the trespasser-U.S. or Russian-is forced...
...level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall. A newspaper reporter who auditioned the Sheir snore, live, felt that all this electronic gear was unnecessary because "even to the naked ear [it] sounded like a circular saw going through a pine knot...
Thus Parkland doctors thought that one bullet struck Kennedy in the throat, just below the necktie knot, another in the back of the head, and either would have been fatal. But the autopsy indicated that the first bullet had struck Kennedy in the back, some six inches below the collar line, and that the throat wound had been made by a fragment of the last bullet, which literally exploded in Kennedy's head. Parkland doctors, who worked over Kennedy as he lay on his back, apparently missed the first wound. And it might not have been fatal. The bullet...
They were not careful enough. Somehow, presumably because he had become such a familiar part of the scenery, Jack Ruby succeeded in slipping in with the newsmen. At about 11 a.m. a knot of detectives and uniformed cops took Oswald out of his carefully guarded security cell on the fifth floor. His hands were manacled, and for extra safety Homicide Detective James Leavelle handcuffed himself to Oswald. "If anybody shoots at you," said Leavelle, "I hope that they are as good a shot as you are." Oswald "kind of laughed." Said he, "Nobody is going to shoot...