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...best-seller list last fall. DIED. L.C. GRAVES, 76, police detective; in Kaufman, Texas. It is an enduring image: Lee Harvey Oswald walking through the basement of the Dallas police building, his upper arm gripped by a black-hatted Graves, and inches away, Jack Ruby's snub-nose pistol. An instant later, as Oswald collapsed, fatally wounded, Graves grabbed Ruby's gun, preventing him from getting off a second shot. Graves left the Dallas police force in 1970; for the rest of his career he worked as a fraud investigator for a bank and resisted efforts to cash...
Viewers push buttons on pistol grips mounted on the armests of their seats; graphics indicate when it's time to vote and what the choices are. During the voting, a running tally appears on-screen. The idea is to push your button of choice not just once--which one would think would be all that was strictly necessary--but as many times and as fast as possible. This is clearly designed to foster an atmosphere of rowdy and cheerful competition, especially as audience members are encouraged to shout at one another. At the screening I attended, Interfilm lackeys in DPMO...
...Colorado's thriving weekend gun marts, business is pretty good these days. In the Denver suburb of Commerce City, where gun shoppers graze the warehouse aisles, you can buy a .22-cal. pistol for just $70. Granted, prices are down from a year ago, when passage of the Brady Law led to a surge of panic buying. But it's because of Brady that business is also done a little differently now--most gun dealers are frequently on the phone, calling state agents for a background check on every would-be purchaser. Not all the gun dealers, however...
...eyewitness accounts, it was Ferguson who one bloody evening two Decembers ago killed six fellow passengers and wounded 19 more with a semiautomatic pistol on the Long Island Rail Road's 5:33 train to Hicksville. The suspect's original attorneys, radical lawyers William Kunstler and Ronald Kuby, acknowledged as much when they offered up the controversial ``black rage defense,'' suggesting that an already unbalanced Ferguson had been pushed over the edge into murder by endemic American racism...
David Shane Shelby, 29, was arrested in Ogden, Utah, as he tried to mail a package containing a bomb to President Clinton, and another with a pistol to cult murderer Charles Manson. Authorities had issued a warrant for Shelby's arrest after he allegedly sent President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore letters on Dec. 7 threatening to kill them. The bomb intended for Clinton contained a light bulb filled with explosives, designed to go off when it was used, The Salt Lake Tribune reported, citing an anonymous police officer.In a second incident, police wrestled down William C. Phillips, also...