Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recall scrambling onto the back of the limousine in the instant after the President's head was shattered by the bullet. But Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who sprinted up from behind and leaped onto the presidential car, later told the Commission what happened after he heard Oswald's first shot: "I had a hold of the handgrip [on the rear of the limousine] with my hand, when the car lurched forward. I lost my footing, and I had to run about three or four more steps before I could get back up in the car. The second...
GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY, 47, who was wounded in the same limousine in which Kennedy died, was uneasy in large crowds during his winning gubernatorial campaign this fall, often jumped nervously at sudden noises. His right wrist, smashed with one of Oswald's bullets, still gives him trouble. He must eat lefthanded, has difficulty brushing his teeth, cannot handle small coins with his right hand. Obviously scarred by his involvement, he sobbed recently during a television interview about the assassination. At a press conference last week, he said: "More than ever before, I have tried to keep uppermost...
JESSE CURRY, 51, chief of the Dallas Police Department, drew volcanic criticism for allowing reporters and cameramen at police headquarters to all but dictate his handling of Oswald and for setting up security standards so lax that it was easy for Ruby to shoot Oswald while the U.S. watched on television. Curry suffers from high blood pressure, seldom appears in public now, but his job is considered safe, for if Dallas officials fired him they would be in effect admitting the city's responsibility for the shameful affair...
Griswold, for example, was convinced that "Lee Harvey Oswald could not have received a fair trial anywhere in the U.S. and the Supreme Court would have so held." Nothing like the Oswald case, said the Warren Commission, has so dramatized "the need for steps to bring about a proper balance between the right of the public to be kept informed and the right of the individual to a fair and impartial trial...
...convenient victim on pen point? In Osborn's case, the assassination of John F. Kennedy left him nearly unable to draw. After a while, the cartoonist wrote his dealer, Edith Halpert, "I began to lay down my resentment of the disordered, disoriented, dislocated, DISJOINTED being-not so much Oswald as against the fragmented, illogical destroyers of man's best hopes...