Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every point, the testimony was conflicting. Although every investigation had discredited the original Guard claim that a civilian sniper had opened fire first, one former student, Joy Bishop, testified that she saw a gunman shoot in the air just before the Guard volley. Other students standing beside her testified that they had seen nobody on the spot where she said she had seen the gunman. One student, Harry Montgomery, said a Guardsman identified as Sgt. Myron Pryor had fired first; Pryor denied it. Guardsman James Pierce, who had said in 1970 that Pryor had instructed the troops to shoot...
...they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt my life was in danger," claimed former Sgt. Lawrence Shafer. Yet Guardsman James W. Ferriss testified: "I saw no necessity to shoot...
...Davis penchant to shoot from the lip tends to obscure the fact that he heads one of the more innovative and efficient police forces in the country. Crime is rising in Los Angeles at an annual rate of 7%-only half the nationwide rate of increase. And Davis deserves much of the credit. An admirer of Sir Robert Peel, who founded Britain's nonviolent and respected police system, Davis follows the British practice of running a strong community-relations program. He gets his cops into living rooms to talk crime prevention and build trust. "It's working," says...
There were eight witnesses who saw Sirhan Bishara Sirhan shoot the New York Senator, and there was little dispute at the time over his sentence to life imprisonment. Since then, however, a number of ballistics experts have found discrepancies between a bullet that struck Kennedy in the neck and the bullet that hit Bystander William Weisel in the stomach. Another bullet fired in the attack wounded Paul Schrade, a former United Autoworkers official and Kennedy aide. Although he does not support any conspiracy theory, Schrade has tried for more than a year to get the case reopened to remove...
Charles Oscar Finley, owner, president, general manager and remote-control field manager of the Oakland A's. was on a typical tear. "Get this crate rolling," he ordered. Chauffeur Howard Risner nosed the sleek black Cadillac into the moving traffic and headed toward Chicago's O'Hare Airport. "Shoot the works," said Finley. Risner hit a button, and downtown Chicago echoed to the Caddie's musical horn. "Now the siren," demanded Finley. A muted wail sent other cars skittering for the curb. Finley switched on a loudspeaker hidden beneath the hood and began broadcasting a stream of chatter to startled...