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...boat" by publicly disputing the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald was the lone assassin. But he is adamant that the head wound suffered by the President came from the front of the motorcade, thus making it impossible for Oswald to have murdered Kennedy from a sixth-floor rear perch. The physician says it is clear that "someone had tampered with the body" during its extralegal transfer from Texas to the autopsy room at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, presumably to support a single-gunman scenario. The injuries shown on autopsy photos, Crenshaw says, "are not the same wounds...
More than 30,000 spectators perch on towers, hang off balconies and window sills and pack into the center of Piazza del Campo--Siena's main square--to catch a glimpse of the momentous horse race...
...affection for one another and to welcome Reagan to full status in the select library fraternity. Never before had five Presidents been on the same platform. There was a kind of sad joy on that parched hilltop 2,700 miles west of the real Oval Office. It was a perch of aging eagles. History made, history remembered, history fading...
...shoot the monkey' demonstration of gravity with a cannon and a Curious George also wins rave reviews, says Rueckner. In this one, George is dropped from his high perch at the same time that a cannon, aimed right at him, is fired. Gravity eventually does poor George in, bringing the cannon ball down just enough to still...
Alarmed at how easily this wisdom slips from its fragile perch in oral traditions, he also spends a good deal of time speaking to other tribes in New Guinea, either in person or on the radio, exhorting them to take pride in their culture. "I am an uneducated man," he tells them, "but white people value what I know...