Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should not tolerate persecution of the innocent by the law in the name of legal prosecution. To obtain the conviction of a man for murder by using false evidence, as did Prosecutor Elaine Ramsey in Illinois, is in itself an attempt to murder...
...into custody after five hours of nonstop questioning. "There was an agreement and combination," said Garrison's office, among Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and others "to kill John F. Kennedy." There it was-the first formal allegation that someone besides Oswald was involved in the President's murder...
Mississippians know Evers as a man of his word, and Natchez whites seemed to take Jackson's murder more seriously than similar incidents in the past-most notably, the still-unsolved slaying of two young Negroes whose dismembered bodies were dredged from the Mississippi River in 1964. The board of aldermen put up a $25,000 reward for the killers, and Armstrong, which has so far pleaded inability to keep Klansmen off its payroll, chipped in another $10,000. Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson called the bombing an "act of savagery which stains the honor of our state...
Filling the Gap. Despite the new mood of concern in Natchez, however, Mississippi's standards of justice still leave something to be desired. More than a dozen Negroes and civil rights workers have either been murdered or died mysteriously there in the past three years without a single conviction by state courts and, in many cases, without even indictments. Last week the Justice Department, using a combination of old Reconstruction laws and new civil rights measures, none of them truly appropriate for so serious a crime as murder, moved to fill the gap in two of the more notorious...
...wartime chief of the Treblinka concentration camp, was obviously of interest to Wiesenthal, a man possessed with chasing down escaped Nazi war criminals. When Wiesenthal protested that his Jewish Documentation Center did not have anything like $25,000, the Gestapo veteran began to dicker: "How many people did Stangl murder?" Wiesenthal's answer: about 700,000, including 400,000 Jews and the rest Christians and assorted anti-Nazis. "All right," said the visitor. "I'll give you a special price. How about a penny a head? That makes...