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...killed because an 83-year-old man (who also died) was driving north in a southbound lane. > Eddy Benavides, 29, identified as the look-alike brother of Domingo Benavides, a witness in Oswald's slaying of Patrolman J. D. Tippit, was shot to death in a Dallas tavern in February 1965. Ramparts reports that Dallas police classed it as death by "pistol shot, wrote up a cursory report and marked the case 'unsolved.' " The magazine also suggests that "Domingo was the intended victim." In fact, there is a full police report on the shooting...
...them back. Slowly he moved from table to table, hearing praise for his mother and father, stopping to sign autographs for people of every age. He was especially careful with the little boys who always play in the cafeteria of old Jewish neighborhoods, where a cafeteria is the neighborhood tavern, club house, and fraternity all at once all day and night long...
Walter Palmer, a 31-year-old medical technician, knows most of the men who frequent the tavern. When Palmer walked in one Saturday in August, a reporter waiting for him across the street could see, through the doorways, the reception he got. A handful of men rushed over and surrounded him with talk and laughter. Others took their beers with them and listened...
Poor Richard's, Ogunquit, Me. In a 1780 tavern on the King's Highway, now a restaurant specializing in Yankee pot roast cooked in wine, baked lobster in wine sauce, breasts of capon and prime ribs of beef...
Plentiful Land. Cape Town soon became famous as "the tavern of the seas." Under a warm sun, crops flourished, cattle fattened and the population of the tiny station multiplied. Dutch settlers began flocking in, to be granted plots of rich farm land by the Dutch East India Company. Land was plentiful, and rather than survey it all, the company often granted a newcomer as much as he could ride around on horse back in a given number of hours...