Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People thought to have sat next to Oswald on a bus were tracked down all over the world. Agents heard out a woman who was sure that someone had put glass crystals and cleanser in her sitz baths after she had reported seeing Oswald and Ruby together in Michigan (neither was ever in the state). The bureau spent weeks trying to trace a bad check Oswald was supposed to have cashed in a bar in Pflugerville, Texas, and months tracking the origins of graffiti discovered in a boxcar reading LEE OSWALD-FUTURE MAN OF DESTINY, APRIL 4, 1963 (it turned...
Hoover opposed the establishment of the Warren Commission, presumably because he thought the FBI should handle the case. At one point he dispatched aides to the Washington Post to try to stop that paper from publishing an editorial supporting such a blue-ribbon panel. The mission was unsuccessful. He thought many requests made by the commission were foolish (one he labeled "poppycock"). But he dispatched agents to fulfill them. Hoover's personality, including his most odious and eccentric characteristics, comes through vividly in the files. He told aides that President Johnson wanted all leads pursued vigorously "without complete regard...
...life the ten victims were very different from each other. They ranged in age from twelve to 28. One was black. Two were Chicanos. Three were thought to be prostitutes who hustled along Hollywood and Sunset boulevards. Four were drifters. Two were coeds. One was a waitress who, according to friends, was "very cautious" about strangers. Their deaths, however, were frighteningly similar. Between Oct. 18 and Nov. 29, all ten were found sexually molested, strangled and flung down desolate ravines or roadside gullies in or near northeastern Los Angeles. In nine of the murders the bodies were nude...
While Sadat rushed ahead with his plans for the conference, his friends struggled to keep up with him and, some thought, to veer him away from a fatal blunder. Crucial to Sadat is the continued support of Saudi Arabia, which indicated last week that it still backs him despite Riyadh's concern over the damage to Arab unity produced by his recent actions. "We did not support the trip to Jerusalem, but we do support Egypt," Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Mansouri told Correspondent Wynn, "and we are very concerned at any action that breaks...
...Egypt had improved, while Israel-already popular in the U.S.-was viewed more favorably by 27%. Both Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin also rose in public esteem. There was widespread feeling reflected in the poll (64%) that Sadat and Begin are equally interested in peace. A minority thought that Sadat (24%) or Begin (7%) had shown more concern for a settlement...