Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leary, who will leave office August 30 after three years as school superintendent, answered questions for an hour and a half from a panel of four reporters, sounding discouraged about the strife that has accompanied busing in Boston and unhappy with the anti-busing Boston School Committee...
...agency determined whether he was a genuine defector or a spy. According to the report, "for much of this time, the defector was held in solitary confinement under extremely spartan living conditions." Eventually, he was released and, despite his treatment, became a U.S. citizen. In another case, the panel reported, "a defector was physically abused, although not seriously injured." The report included no other details except that the CIA employee involved was fired...
...custody by Dallas police after the assassination; two of the men, identified by police as derelicts, bear a faint resemblance to Hunt and Sturgis. At the commission's request, FBI Photoanalyst Lyndal Shaneyfelt studied the photographs and determined that they were not of Hunt or Sturgis. Moreover, the panel found no evidence that either man was in Dallas that...
Although it could not reassess all of the monumental Kennedy assassination evidence, the panel agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald had acted alone. Some critics have claimed that two bystanders' movies of the assassination recorded the indistinct images of other gunmen on a grassy knoll near where Kennedy was shot. But the Rockefeller commission found that the vague shapes were "merely the momentary image produced by sunlight, shadows and leaves...
...movies also recorded violent back-and-forth movements of Kennedy's head and body, leading some people to believe that he was struck by bullets from two directions: from the rear by Oswald and from the front by someone else. But medical witnesses told the Rockefeller panel that the movements were caused by a neuromuscular reaction to the bullet entering from behind and that there was no medical evidence that Kennedy was shot from any other direction. In fact, one witness said, the motions of Kennedy's body could not possibly have been caused by a frontal bullet...