Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brother Munir of the $25 murder weapon. Fitts also noted that the day before the shooting, Sirhan went to the San Gabriel Valley Gun Range for target practice. While on the range, one Mike Soccoman asked Sirhan what he intended to do with the small Iver Johnson .22-cal. pistol. Sirhan said he could use it for hunting, adding: "It could kill a dog." Ballistics evidence revealed that the fatal shot was fired into Kennedy's head from a distance of approximately one inch. Later, one of the prosecutors, Lynn Compton, said that Sirhan had "stalked" Kennedy for days...
According to some reports, two days before the Kremlin incident, the young lieutenant deserted his unit, taking his pistol with him. Reaching Moscow the day before the celebration for the Soyuz4 and Soyuz5 cosmonauts, he spent the night at the home of his sister. The next morning he borrowed his brother-in-law's police uniform, explaining that, clad in that manner, he would be able to get a closer view of the parade. Some variants say that he also took his brother-in-law's pistol, which would explain reports that he fired away with a pistol...
...Bucher, the grillings never let up. Brought before Super-C on his first day of captivity, he was told that he had two minutes to sign a confession or he would be shot. An officer held an automatic pistol to the back of his head. On the verge of total collapse, Bucher would only moan, "I love you, Rose. I love you, Rose." After the two minutes, and two clicks of the pistol, Bucher realized that his inquisitors were bluffing. As part of the softening-up process, he was then driven to a nearby prison to inspect a captured South...
...smiling at the crowds lining the streets, the Soviet Union's latest space heroes, the Soyuz 4 and 5 cosmonauts, received a tumultuous welcome in Moscow. Then, as the 20-car motorcade began to pass through the Kremlin's Borovitsky Gate, a young man suddenly fired six pistol shots at the third car. The driver and a motorcycle outrider were wounded. Bystanders apparently overpowered the gunman and police hustled him away. Whom was he trying to kill? Possibly, the gunman thought he was aiming at Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny (Brezhnev and other Soviet...
...Splendid Splinter? The Big Train? The Big Six? Pistol Pete? The Wild Horse of the Osage? The Yankee Clipper...