Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sims, 41, an Athens machinist, and Myers, 25, a yarn plucker at an Athens textile mill, were charged with the senseless shotgun slaying last July 11 of District of Columbia Educator Lemuel A. Penn, 49, who was driving home after a training stint as an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel at Fort Benning, Ga. A third defendant, Gas Station Attendant James S. Lackey, 28, had been granted a separate trial. All three are Ku Klux Klansmen...
...Just as eyebrows were going up, three U.S. helicopters followed the paratroopers into Leopoldville, and the line was hastily changed. The helicopters would be flown by U.S. pilots on "rescue and logistical missions" for Tshombe's army, and the paratroopers would ride shotgun. But not, said a briefing officer in Leopoldville, as combat troops. Question: Might not their shotgun duties get them into combat situations? Answer: "I cannot comment on that kind of hypothetical question." Still later, another "official" line was that the helicopters would not be used to help Tshombe at all, and had been sent only...
They rolled through Atlanta, on through Athens, and into the lonely hills of northeast Georgia. They were about 23 miles outside Athens when a car pulled alongside. A white man poked a sawed-off shotgun toward the Negroes' car, leveled the end of its barrel only three feet from Driver Penn's head. He pulled the trigger. Penn died instantly...
...target, the Army is experimenting with cartridges containing two bullets, one packed behind the other. The front bullet flies true, but the rear bullet is deliberately made rough-ended so that it lags and drifts a little, approaching the target a foot or more to one side. The resulting shotgun effect is calculated to improve the score of a non-deadeye marksman...
...guard told Kocero that the payroll was not due until the following night, and swore it on the Koran. When Kocero returned with his men for the robbery the next night, the local gendarmes were waiting for them. During the struggle that followed, Kocero was caught by a shotgun's blast, but somehow he managed to stagger off badly wounded into the night. Two days later police discovered his body on the bank of a mountain stream two miles away...