Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST ONE LEFT, by John D. MacDonald. Murder at sea, mayhem on land, and skulduggery everywhere in this tautly told story by one of America's masters of suspense...
...railroad bridge just in front of and above the limousine, with the former Dallas police officer who saw Ruby enter the basement just before he killed Oswald, with a witness to the scene of the Tippit killing who indicates that two men may have been involved in that murder, with the photographer who took motion pictures of the assassination as the shots were fired, with Ruby's former bartender and his former bandleader, both of whom testified to his intimate relationship with the Dallas police, with the one person authorized to be behind the wooden fence from which some...
...fall afternoon in 1955, eight-year-old Janice May was found raped and beaten beside the railroad tracks near Canton, Ill. She died an hour later. Subsequently, Canton Cab Driver Lloyd E. Miller Jr., 28, was sentenced to death for the crime. Yet Janice's murder remains unsolved. Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed Miller's conviction because the prosecution had used false evidence with an almost incredible disregard for U.S. standards of fair trial...
...alltime recorded high in executions: 199 people were put to death for crimes ranging from rape to armed robbery to murder. In 1966, the country hit an alltime low: only one American was executed last year. He was James D. French, 30, an Oklahoma life prisoner who was electrocuted for strangling a cellmate...
...shed some of their drabness. Headlines are boxed in color, the number of pictures has increased, the quality of newsprint and typography has improved. Political puritanism and pre-publication censorship still keep the mass-circulation national papers, such as Pravda and Izvestia, from carrying stories about sex and murder, though such crimes are now sometimes reported in the local press...