Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington that the national mood is one of anger and frustration compounded by a sense of disorientation. Congress, which senses these things with the politician's instinct for self-preservation, sees divergent trends. It discerns a conservative swing in the country-a swing accentuated, paradoxically, by the murder of one of the nation's most articulate liberals. The rationale is that the majority of Americans, the white and the relatively affluent, now crave a return to a kind of ordered normality that may in fact never again exist in traditional terms. How deep and long-lived this trend...
...interrupting the handshaking only long enough to brush away a wayward forelock that had tumbled over his eye. If the scene recalled one of Robert Kennedy's last visits to the black ghetto, it was not entirely an accident. Seemingly awakened from a trance by Kennedy's murder. Nelson Rockefeller was at last campaigning for real, openly seeking the support of the poor and the minorities who had made Kennedy such a potent political force...
Canadian Pattern. Four days after King's murder, Ray had hightailed across the Canadian border, and was renting a $10-a-week room from Mrs. Fela Szpakowsky on Toronto's polyglot Ossington Avenue. Just why Ray chose Canada is not entirely clear, but, almost surely, one reason was the knowledge-widely circulated among convicts in the U.S.-that it is ridiculously easy to get a Canadian passport. All that is needed is the gall to ask for one and a birth certificate-and the certificate is not strictly necessary...
...Crime Buff Truman Capote (In Cold Blood), it seemed conceivable that Ray, as well as Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, might all be cogs in a single, stupendous murder machine. The killers, Capote suggested on NBC's Tonight show, might all have been intensively trained, brainwashed triggermen of a type envisaged by Novelist Richard Condon in The Manchurian Candidate; their purpose could be to drive the U.S. to its knees by assassinating public persons-a theory, Capote claimed, that was once expounded by 19th century Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. (Sirhan, Capote noted, asked...
Vincent T. Di Pierro, college student and part-time waiter at the Ambassador Hotel, recalled seeing Sirhan at the moment of the murder. "The minute the first two shots were fired," testified Di Pierro, "he still had a very sick-looking smile on his face. That's one thing-I can never forget that...