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...Perwin ’04 in two roles. As the Balladeer, he sings simplistic folk-style description and commentary on the first three completed assassinations. After the Balladeer is driven from the stage by a horde of bitter assassins, Perwin reappears in the final scenes as Lee Harvey Oswald...
...even before Nancy's books became international hits, the sisters were notorious; the "Mad, Mad Mitfords," the press loved to call them. Diana, a spectacular beauty, married an heir to the Guinness fortune but then jettisoned him to take up with Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of Britain's fascist party, which, Lovell says, made her "arguably the most hated woman in England." Just as scandalous was Unity, a close friend of Adolf Hitler's and so worshipfully devoted to him that she shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany (she survived with some brain damage; Hitler...
...Fort Worth, Texas. In his controversial 1992 book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, Crenshaw argued that the President was shot twice from the front in addition to having been shot from behind--suggesting the involvement of more than one gunman. The Warren Commission had found that a lone Lee Harvey Oswald fired from behind...
...Death - real, non-fiction death - is no stranger in our living rooms. We've seen war dead and street dead, we've seen Lee Harvey Oswald shot and Dr. Kevorkian at work. Earlier this year, public radio aired tapes of old executions in Georgia, and the republic stood. Maybe there is something magic, incomparable, holy about the live, planned display of the moment of extinguishment. But maybe not. Maybe what proponents and opponents of capital punishment have in common is that they expect an execution - the moment and the spectacle itself - to deliver too much: too much revulsion, too much...
...their Mob overlords. Also flying into the city that afternoon is a Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow Jr., who has been paid $6,000 by casino operators in his hometown to kill a black pimp named Wendell Durfee. Bondurant and Littell strongarm Jack Ruby into shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but Tedrow blows his murderous assignment during a fit of conscience. His scruples will diminish when he hooks up with Littell and Bondurant...