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...Fifteen-year-old Jerry Sikon of Macomb County, Mich, watched a TV horror mystery as he cleaned his shotgun. Four of his brothers & sisters were also looking on. His father, Deputy Sheriff John Sikon, a former preacher, objected to the program. His mother said it wasn't harmful. Words between the parents led to blows. After the deputy sheriff struck the wife with a paint roller, Jerry slipped a shell into his shotgun and fired at his father. "Don't blame the boy. I was wrong," said the father just before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...from Mars) began leveling its shotgun, a patrolman fired one shot from the hip. The figure fell, shot through the temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Death of a Man from Mars | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...eccentrics were so common that supermarket clerks refused, until too late, to get excited at the appearance of a Man from Mars. But this time the police arrived just as the apparition was leaving the store, clutching $13,675 in a canvas bank bag. As it began leveling its shotgun, a patrolman fired one shot from the hip. The figure fell, shot through the temple. The cops pulled off the mask and helmet, and there lay Forrest Ray Colson-back in uniform. He died two hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Death of a Man from Mars | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On to Snider's Cornfield | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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