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Some questions seem rather conclusively settled. The Zapruder film, for example, shows Kennedy lurching backward after the shot to his head, implying that the bullet came from somewhere in front of the car. But the medical evidence leaves no doubt that both shots came from the rear; as one expert explains, the backward lurch could have been caused by an involuntary neuromuscular reaction to the devastating bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What If Oswald Had Stood Trial? | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...November 5 at around 6:20 p.m., a Harvard-affiliated woman was approached by a man who asked her the time, and then grabbed her rear, said Harvard Deputy Police Chief Jack Morse...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Man Attacks Woman Near Div School | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

Thai Airways International Flight 620 was nearing Osaka, Japan, when suddenly a terrific bang in the rear of the plane sent it into a steep, rolling descent. Within minutes the A-300 Airbus had plummeted four miles, to 12,000 ft. Passengers were pitched around the cabin, said a witness, "like astronauts training in a gravity-zero zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Dangerous Souvenir | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...gridders are now tied with Princeton for fourth place in the Ancient Eight behind still unbeaten Penn (5-0) and Cornell (4-0) and the Bruins (3-2). Yale and Dartmouth both stand at 1-3 and Columbia brings up the rear...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: The Captain and His Two-Way Big Man | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...White House has had its bawdy moments. An early problem was Betsy Donahue, a carpenter's wife who established a whorehouse on the construction site. When she began dragging men in off the street, the new city's normally tolerant commissioners had her removed. When that British rascal Rear Admiral George Cockburn broke into the White House with 150 of his sailors on Aug. 24, 1814, they ate the dinner prepared for James and Dolley Madison, who had fled. Then, before firing the place, Cockburn claimed a chair cushion, declaring that it would help him remember Mrs. Madison's seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Republic's Palace | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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