Word: prove
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With the opening statements out of the way, the prosecution began calling witnesses to prove that Sirhan had killed the Senator. Two Ambassador Hotel employees identified the defendant as the assassin-a fact that is not disputed by the defense. A third, Busboy Juan Romero, when asked if anyone in court resembled the murderer, looked around and said, "No." When Sirhan was pointed out to him, Romero insisted, "No, sir. I don't believe that's him." Surprised, Sirhan leaned toward an aide, Michael McCowan, and asked, "What did he say?" McCowan replied, "He said it wasn...
...prosecution hoped the film would convincingly demonstrate that at least one of the bullets that struck the President came from the front. Assistant District Attorney James Alcock argued: "If the state can prove that the President was shot from more than one direction, the state in effect has proved a conspiracy." One sequence-which was shown in slow motion and frame by frame-clearly shows the President falling backward in his seat, an unlikely occurrence if he were being struck by bullets from the rear. However, the Warren Commission Report has already met this objection by noting that Kennedy fell...
Even when they live outdoors for days on end with only tents for shelter, men can prove more rugged than their machines. Last week 6,000 weary G.I.s trekked back to the warmth of barracks after a fortnight of war games across 642,000 acres of frozen Alaskan muskeg 128 miles below the Arctic Circle. Though they were engaged in the coldest winter maneuvers on record, only eight soldiers had been hospitalized briefly for frostbite and 46 others treated for minor freezing pains (six men died in accidents not connected with the cold). At the same time, 100 cold-soaked...
...headline-filled years, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison has made it clear that his assassination-conspiracy case against Businessman Clay Shaw involves another, unnamed defendant: the Warren Commission. To prove his contention that Shaw and others had been part of a plot to shoot President Kennedy, Garrison needed to disprove the commission's findings that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted "alone and unassisted" on November 22, 1963. He also hinted often that elements of the Federal Government itself?particularly the CIA?were somehow involved in the assassination. Last week, as testimony in the case finally started, Garrison...
...main beneficiaries would be state and municipal hospitals and welfare agencies, which could collect about $60 million. Another $20 million would go to competing antibiotic makers, private hospitals and other claimants. For the first time in an antitrust settlement, individual customers could also collect-if they can prove their purchases between 1953 and 1966 by presenting prescriptions and sales slips to state agencies. Most likely, few would be able to do so, and the agencies would thus keep most of the funds. Drug executives warned, however, that unless practically all of the 81 claimants accept their share...