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...eyewitnesses agree, took place in 5.8 seconds. According to the Commission, it took 2.3 seconds to operate the rifle's bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded, from behind a ground-level sign blocking Zapruder's view...
...sleep." The idea was that the Defense Department's new Wound Laboratory would pay about $80 for each dog. When the time came for research to proceed, the dogs would be anesthetized with pentobarbital, suspended in nylon mesh slings and shot with a 9-mm Mauser from a distance of twelve or 15 feet. The dogs would then be carried into a lab, and people studying to be military surgeons would examine the damage and learn something about gunshot wounds, which might some day save human lives on a battlefield...
...restrained about the fighting. On Tuesday, a quarter of an hour after the deaths of the two Marine corporals, the Marines fired two illumination flares at the suspected sources of the hostile fire. On Wednesday night, after ten rounds landed in the Marines' compound, they fired six 155-mm howitzer shells at a target in the hills. On Thursday, as the shelling continued, the Americans responded with artillery fire and with four shells from a 5-in. gun aboard the Bowen, a U.S. frigate stationed off the Lebanese coast. The naval fire was aimed at a Druze artillery base...
...above us, and others were impacting on our sand bags," Sergeant Donald Williams, 28, later recalled. Whenever they saw a muzzle flash or some other indication of where the large rounds were coming from, the Marines retaliated with their rifles and machine guns, and finally resorted to their 155-mm cannons and missile-armed Cobra helicopters. At about 9:45 a.m., the first of two 82-mm mortar shells came cascading into the command tent where Staff Sergeant Alexander M. Ortega, 25, was getting batteries for radios. Just outside the tent, Second Lieut. Donald G. Losey Jr., 28, was running...
...mystery lay above the engine room in the Cloud's cargo hold, where 5,000 wooden boxes labeled TNT were stored. Each box contained two 122-mm shells, a caliber used exclusively in Soviet-manufactured field guns and howitzers. The Venezuelans determined that the crew had probably thought it could not control the fire, and that the ammunition was about to blow the ship to pieces. Said Captain León: "They were on a floating bomb...