Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early, hectic jockeying, California's James Hughes missed a turn in his green Lotus, killed Photographer George Thompson of the Tampa Tribune, and then was killed himself as the car flipped onto its back. For six hours the Porsche team of German Cafe Owner Hans Hermann, 31, and veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gendebien, 36, patiently waited back in the pack. One by one the Ferraris broke down under the strain as the Maserati bellowed to a six-lap lead. But at 6:10 p.m., just as headlights flickered on, Moss eased his low-slung car off the course with...
...Tampa, Miami, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach, Fla., sit-ins stirred Governor LeRoy Collins to brand the demonstrations "dangerous and illegal" under state...
...Tampa, Fla., Mrs. William Allen Taylor read the same list and stopped at the same name. Spears, a close friend of her husband since the days when they were fellow convicts in the Florida State Prison at Raiford, had been visiting her husband in Tampa. Two days later in the mail she got a $37,500 air-travel insurance policy taken out by Al Taylor (divorced but still friendly) at Tampa Airport just before take-off time of the doomed DC-7B. Taylor was missing, although he was not listed on the plane's manifest...
...Trail. The FBI first moved into the picture five days after the crash, when a Tampa contact reported that Spears had been seen in Tampa alive. The FBI alerted its agents to watch the abortion circuits for Spears, but they found no trace...
Meanwhile Spears drove Taylor's car from Tampa to Dallas and on to Phoenix. Somewhere along the way he put in a call to a casual professional acquaintance, another naturopath named William Turska, who owns an isolated little white stucco house 39 miles north of Phoenix. Spears wanted to know if he could drop by for a visit. Turska said sure...