Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jack Ruby did almost nothing efficiently-except to murder Lee Harvey Oswald. According to the Warren Report, he conducted his banking from his "pockets and the trunk of his car," dispensed cash generously to his pals and cared little about repayment, ran up an estimated $50,000 debt in legal fees, and at the time of his death last January in Dallas, owed the Federal Government about $44,000 in back taxes. To complicate matters even further, Ruby made out three separate wills, dividing his non-estate (mostly personal effects) among sisters, nephews and a friendly prison guard. Last week...
...cage over the most beautiful bay in the world." He once complained: "Although I am not especially eager for my daughter to marry one, some of my best friends are engineers." Says Chronicle City Editor Abe Mellinkoff: "Temko's stuff is just as salable as a murder in the Tenderloin...
...after the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, Daniel P. Moynihan, now director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, sensed the possible murder of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald if he remained in Dallas...
...digging up unprejudiced jurors for Speck, the Peoria selection was destined by Illinois state law to be a seemingly endless process. Besides dismissal of jurors for cause, the prosecution and defense both have 20 peremptory challenges (meaning the dismissal of potential jurors without explanation) on each of the eight murder charges-making a total of 320. At week's end no less than 194 such challenges remained to be made...
...Chicago court gave up two weeks ago, after five weeks of impaneling in the murder case of Robert Lassiter, charged with starting a tavern fire that killed 13 people. With only eight jurors picked, the defense successfully moved for a bench trial without jury...