Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in Hutchinson, Kans., he walked through the lobby of the Baker Hotel, tried to get into an elevator. But the elevator was already jammed, and someone in the rear, recognizing Miller, cried out sarcastically: "Welcome to Hutchinson." Retorted Miller: "Thank you. And Merry Christmas." And in Reno, a little old lady who had just shaken Miller's hand turned to a friend and clucked: "The last time I shook a candidate's hand it was Dewey's. And it didn't do him any good either." The biggest audience that Miller drew all week...
...press car at the rear of the motorcade, Robert H. Jackson, a Dallas Times Herald photographer, saw a rifle being slowly drawn back through an open window. Directly across from the building, Amos Lee Euins, a 15-year-old ninth-grade student, saw a man shoot twice from a window; Euins hid behind a bench...
...slightly downward, ripped the windpipe, and shot out the front of his neck at almost the same speed at which it hit; it nicked a corner of the knot on his necktie. That wound, says the Warren Commission, lethal." But the second bullet that hit bored into the right rear of his skull, "causing a massive and fatal wound" approximately five inches wide on the right side of his head. So extensive was the damage that the Parkland doctors were unsure whether the bullets had landed from back or front. They did not discover the wounds in the back...
...Warren Commission: "When he came back, I asked him what had happened. He was very pale. He only told me he had shot at General Walker." Moreover, in Oswald's effects after the Kennedy assassination, officials found a map of Walker's neighborhood and three photographs?two showing the rear of Walker's home, the other an entrance to his driveway from a back alley...
Locked Wheels. Suddenly, the thin trail of purple smoke that billows behind the tires of swift-landing jets turned to a dense cloud pierced by a long tongue of flame. Fire engines screamed to the rescue, but the flame died out harmlessly. A brake had locked the left rear wheels; friction against the runway had rasped the tires down to the rims and ignited the rubber...