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...GUNFIGHTER by Joseph G. Rosa. 229 pages. University of Oklahoma Press...
...hear Author Joseph G. Rosa tell it, though, the debunkers have gone too far. A Western buff who lives in England, Rosa has written a well-informed and lively book that tries to make a balanced revaluation of the six-gunslinger in the making of America. Rosa ends by according him a special status, halfway between John Bunyan and outright bum, as a marked-down culture hero who created for his epic era a flawed but salient image of the male...
Given the violence of the age, says Rosa, the "gunfighter" was largely created through the mechanical ingenuity of one man: Samuel Colt. By 1861, there were nine main varieties of Colt revolvers (mostly known as "Peacemakers" or "hog-legs") in use on the frontier. They constituted the most dramatic revolution in sheer firepower since the invention of the musket. Colt revolvers were fast and reliable. In superior hands they could regularly hit a five-inch circle at 50 yards. At 100 yards, the Peacemaker could drive a bullet more than three inches into a pine plank. With such a weapon...
Schoenenberger made his exit in a grand and confident manner. He called a press conference in the Sala Rosa of Rome's Cavalieri Hilton, ordered drinks set up for newsmen, and explained why he was going. "Controversial issues with in the order," he said, had caused him to be "reproached for his progressive position and modern approach to life." Later he told a TIME correspondent that "I would have betrayed my vocation if I had remained in the order under present conditions. I would have been bound to a life of inaction." Instead, Schoenenberger will remain a priest, plans...
Since psychiatric testimony will be essential to the case, Cooper tried to expose any skepticism about this kind of evidence among potential jurors. Cooper asked a widow, Mrs. Rosa Molina, whether she shared the opinion of some that "all psychiatrists and psychologists are crazy." No, she replied. Did she have any prejudices against the Rorschach test, hypnosis, lie detectors or Sodium Pentothol (truth drug)? Again Mrs. Molina answered no, and she was one of those persons who by week's end had been tentatively accepted as jurors...