Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grimly pathetic reassurance in the face of what happened at 2319 East 100th Street last week. In an incredible, nearly soundless orgy of mutilation and murder that took place in the early hours, a single male intruder herded together and murdered, one by one, with packinghouse precision, eight pretty student nurses. The Windy City's greatest mass slaughter since the St. Valentine's Day tommy-gun massacre of seven gangland hoods in 1929, it was by any standard one of the most horrifying crimes in U.S. history. Even to Chicago police - inured to every form of sadistic death...
Within 48 hours of the slayings, a na tionwide manhunt was launched for a blue-eyed ex-convict charged by Chicago authorities with murder and by Federal agents with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He was identified as Richard B. Speck, 25, of Dallas, a drifter who sports a tattooed slogan on his upper left arm: "Born to raise hell...
...dagger device. Like most of Hitchcock's "adventure" films, as he describes them, Torn Curtain's script is built around set-pieces: climactic scenes like the Mt. Rushmore sequence in North by Northwest or the music-hall finale in The 39 Steps. But with one magnificent exception, a grisly murder scene that borders on the hilarious, Torn Curtain's set-pieces don't work...
Nasution wavered. The murder of his daughter had left him profoundly shocked. One day he would demand that Sukarno outlaw the P.K.I, or resign, the next declare his undivided loyalty to the "Great Leader of the Revolution." "General Nasution," observes one leading politician, "is the Hamlet of Indonesia. He believes he is destined to save the country. But he vacillates in a moment of crisis...
After diligently scanning the public record, sifting through an accumulation of evidence in the National Archives, and interviewing five of the seven members of the Warren Commission and ten of its top staffers, Epstein concluded that the commission was "extremely superficial" in its investigation of the President's murder. He bases some of his criticism on the fact that the commission members actually heard little of the testimony in person, but he fails to mention that all members received a full transcript of each day's proceedings and were free to ask questions or raise points when they...