Word: snipering
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...White Album," Didion notes that neither she nor her friends was surprised at the news of the Sharon Tate murders. She walks through her days anticipating horror, sporadically paralyzed by migraines, dreaming of "the children burning in the locked car in the supermarket parking lot...the freeway sniper who feels 'real bad' about picking off the family of five...
Security was tight. If you didn't have one of the laminated photo-identity badges distributed by LILCO, police arrested you (two reporters were taken into custody after their badges were misplaced). Police later said they had received a report that a sniper was planning to hide at the site and pick off protesters. He never showed...
...sultry morning heat, U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr., 63, walked out of his San Antonio town house to drive to court. Suddenly a sniper's rifle shot rang out. Struck in the small of the back, he wheeled slowly around and collapsed. His wife Kathryn rushed to his side and found him dying. He was the first federal judge to be murdered since...
...thanks to fiercely competitive Japanese correspondents based in Peking and Hanoi, including those of Communist organs favored by the regimes. Isao Takano, 35, Hanoi correspondent for Japan's Communist daily Akahata, became the war's first press casualty last week when he was killed by a Chinese sniper's bullet at Lang Son. The Kyodo news agency first reported the original invasion. Tokyo's military sources also proved useful in tracing Soviet naval movements in the area...
...evidence on the shooting of President John F. Kennedy, trying to disprove once and for all the various conspiracy theories. Until now its conclusion was the same one that the Warren Commission had reached 14 years ago: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, fired three shots from his sniper's nest above and behind the presidential limousine...