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...instances. In Chicago in 1961, Negro Cab Driver Lawrence Boyd tried to stop three Negro muggers from robbing two white youths. Boyd was shot twice, paralyzed in one arm, lost his job, and is now $9,000 in debt. In Upper Darby, Pa., last fall, George Senn fired a shotgun in the air to prevent 20 thugs from attacking two girls and a boy outside his window. Senn was convicted of aggravated assault and battery, paid a $500 fine, and now faces a damage suit from his "victims...
...spoke, three men rushed down the aisle toward him. Eight feet away, they opened fire. One Negro with a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun blasted Malcolm at point-blank range. "There was what sounded like an explosion," said a dazed woman. "I looked at Malcolm, and there was blood running out of his goatee." Men and women threw themselves to the floor as the gunmen squeezed off at least a score of shots. Thirteen shotgun pellets tore into Malcolm's chest and heart; several slugs from .45-and .38-cal. pistols shattered his thighs and legs. A woman screamed...
...with the shotgun was hit in the left leg by a bullet from the pistol of a Malcolm X bodyguard. Crippled, he was caught by Malcolm X's furious followers, knocked down, kicked and stomped on. Cops rescued him, took him to a hospital, and charged him with homicide. He was Thomas Hagan, alias Talmadge Hayer, a New Jersey thug with a dreary police record...
Died. Lady Lansdowne, 46, California-born wife of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Britain's last Conservative government, an ardent hunter and crack shot who won the 1952 British women's clay-pigeon championship; of self-inflicted shotgun wounds suffered, apparently by accident, in the gun room of their Perthshire, Scotland, estate where her daughter Caroline, 17, died under almost identical circumstances nine years...
...whom Wagner had accused of bribery at one point during the battle, called a press conference, branded senators who had voted for Zaretzki "Wagner-fellers" and "Rocky-crats." Said McKeon: "At best it was a union between city hall and the Governor's mansion in the finest of shotgun-wedding traditions. The two guns held by each of these men were aimed at the eyes of the public." Mayor Wagner replied by again demanding that McKeon resign. That sort of bitterness seemed likely to keep New York Democrats split wide open for a long time...