Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last January a 15-year-old Baltimore boy killed his father, mother and sister with a foreign-made .38 that he had purchased from the same dealer in California who sold Lee Harvey Oswald the telescopic sight for his rifle. As the youth was arrested, another gun was being sent to him by the same dealer...
...Same Old Story. As a belated result, last week James Mintkenbaugh and an old pal, Army Sergeant Robert Lee Johnson, 43, were arrested as spies. It was, according to an FBI complaint filed in Alexandria, Va., the same old squalid story. In February 1953 Johnson, then stationed in Berlin with Army Intelligence, made contact with the Russians at their East Berlin headquarters, agreed to photograph classified documents for them in return for $300 a month. A few months later, Johnson recruited Mintkenbaugh, also in the Army in Berlin, to work with him. A male Russian agent named "Paula" gave Mintkenbaugh...
...story brick house of Major Wilmer McLean at Appomattox, Va., on Palm Sunday, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieut. General Ulysses S. Grant. That act signified the end of the Civil War, and with it the bloodshed that cost the lives of 618,000 men-more than have died in all of America's other wars combined...
Similar engagements were run at other battlefields, and in nearly every instance the "soldiers" were accompanied by modern-day camp followers-hucksters hawking vulgar souvenirs like beach towels imprinted with the Confederate flag, ashtrays embossed with the faces of Grant and Lee, cigarette lighters emblazoned with the words FORGET, HELL! and which played Dixie when opened...
...Appomattox ceremonies, much to the dismay of an outfit called the North-South Skirmish Association, which sent 42 costumed emissaries. Instead of shenanigans, there was a band concert and an address by Virginia's Governor Atbertis Harrison Jr. Senator Harry F. Byrd was present, and so were Lee's great-grandson, Robert E. Lee IV, 40, national advertising manager of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Grant's grandson, retired Army Major General Ulysses S. Grant...