Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dallas, Cecil Stoughton was the only photographer on Air Force One when they brought Kennedy's body back and Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office. Heart pounding, he squeezed off the 19 frames that showed Johnson repeating the oath as the stunned, blood-spattered Jackie stood beside...
...Areas" and hung it around his neck and set off toward immortality of sorts. He slipped through the crowd filing up the Inaugural stands, found his way to his old spot behind one of the fake pillars. Everything went fine until it was time for Nixon to take the oath. Suddenly, a Secret Service agent said Stoughton couldn't stand there. Get out. Stoughton, for a second, was panicky. The oath of office was about to be administered. Where...
...than he is willing to see brought to light--either in print or in court. It is doubtful whether Caldwell would have been admitted to a Black Panther headquarters during a shootout if he could only have promised not to reveal identities, but would have had to reveal under oath everything else he saw. Still, some forms of confidential leaks where the information flow could be carefully regulated by the source might not be discouraged by such a qualified policy of journalists' privilege. At the same time this privilege, even if available to all citizens, would not pose as great...
...banditry, organizing into small gangs in the process). But the mob's bravado is a novelty. Until fairly recently, in fact, gangsters were obliged by a chivalric code to give to the poor and avoid harming innocent people. Like members of the Mafia, they took a blood oath that was not broken with impunity. For failing to live up to the yakuza code, an offender had to show penitence by cutting off his little finger and presenting it to his oyabun (boss)-a rite that still prevails in the Japanese underworld...
...Texas hill country aboard the presidential jetliner that was once known as Air Force One (and is now called The Spirit of '76), the same plane that had carried the body of John Kennedy from Dallas to Washington, and on which Lyndon Johnson had taken the oath of office nine years before...