Word: swore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prosecution witnesses identified the rifle as Beckwith's. One told of trading Beckwith a Japanese-made sight-identical to the one on the Enfield-in return for a revolver. An FBI expert swore the fingerprint belonged to Beckwith and to "no one else in the world...
...answer to all this, White House Aide Jenkins swore in an affidavit that he had no knowledge "of any arrangement by which Reynolds purchased time on the TV station." Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said that the President had assumed the stereo to be a gift from "a longtime employee," not Reynolds. And President Johnson, in the course of an impromptu press conference, brought up the matter himself. Said he: "The Baker family gave us a stereo set. We used it for a period, and we had exchanged gifts before. He was an employee of the public and had no business...
...mountain of evidence, the accused pleaded the familiar defense that they were only "little men" who followed orders. One of the major defendants, Robert Mulka, 68, a prosperous Hamburg importer who was assistant commandant of Auschwitz, declared that he "knew nothing, saw nothing, heard nothing" about mass extermination. Why, swore Mulka, he had never even set foot inside the vast prisoners' compound...
Burr B, with its staid academic blackboards, was an ideal arena for Goodman's irreverence. He swore freely, in Manhattan monotone, and looked up in blank surprise at the reactions he evoked. What words are taboo among confidential friends? He opened himself to the audience, it seemed, confiding his bisexuality, his extra-marital philandering: "I am very sexy," he told us. He reassured the skeptics with benevolent ridicule: "So she gets pregnant," he conceded with a friendly grin. "So what's so terrible...
...American embassy, Oswald announced that he meant to become a Soviet citizen, swore out an affidavit that said: "I affirm that my allegiance is to the Soviet Socialist Republic." The Marine Corps got news of Oswald's action, convened a special board and gave Oswald an "undesirable" discharge from the Marine Reserve. Enraged, Oswald wrote a letter to John Connally, who had just stepped down as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor of Texas. Said the letter, which was found among Oswald's Marine records last weekend...