Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months after JFK's assassination, a special commission--appointed by President Johnson and headed by Chief Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, reported its findings: Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-marine who had lived for a time in the Soviet Union, fired the shots that killed JFK. The committee stated that it had "found no evidence" that either Oswald of his own assassin, Jack Ruby, "was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy...
...Oswald was killed two days after JFK's assassination in the basement of a Dallas police station where he was being held...
...missing the big story, his awe for various world leaders, and his frequent fear for his personal safety. The journalist naturally has an eye for the unusual anecdote MacNeil got directions to a telephone immediately after the Kennedy assassination from a man experts now believe was Lee Harvey Oswald Rather than settle for the stock picture of political strife, he paints a vivid image of a policeman threatening to blow a young organizer's head off with a revolver in a Chicago hotel...
...world, Americans who try to kill the famous are engaged primarily in psychodrama rather than political drama. They do not seem to care much whether their victim belongs to the left or the right. Arthur Bremer, who crippled George Wallace, thought first of killing George McGovern. Lee Harvey Oswald apparently shot at General Edwin Walker, a right-wing fanatic, before killing President Kennedy. Giuseppe Zangara, who took aim at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (accidentally killing the mayor of Chicago), said that he would just as soon have killed Herbert Hoover...
Many have zigzagged from city to city, partly to stalk then" targets in an eery dance of death - drawing close, then pulling away - and partly to express in frantic motion a personality threatened with disintegration. Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union, New Orleans and Mexico; John Lennon's accused killer, Mark Chapman, moved from Tennessee to Atlanta to Honolulu and New York...