Word: truck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cotton allotments in Texas. A big (6 ft., 200 lbs.) man who had worked for the department for 26 years. Marshall ate an early breakfast with his wife in their $20,000 home in Bryan, Texas, on the morning of June 3, 1961. Then he climbed into his pickup truck to look over his 1,500-acre ranch in nearby Robertson County. He dropped his son Donald, 10, off with relatives...
...Plethora of Puzzles. Some ten hours after Marshall left home on that hot, dusty day, his dead body was found face down beside his truck on his rolling ranch property. There were five bullet holes in his abdomen and chest, four in his back. There was blood on the side of his truck. His .22-caliber bolt-action rifle lay nearby...
Robertson County officials conducted no autopsy, found none of the spent bullets. They allowed the truck to be washed without determining if the blood was Marshall's, handled the rifle before checking for fingerprints. They could not even be certain that the rifle was the death weapon-but they immediately ruled the death a suicide...
...here and there, selling the segments as one-family dwellings. They were mere shacks, small enough to be transported on a truck. But there was a serious housing shortage around the airbase in those days, and people bought Estes' wares for lack of anything else...
...look each other in the eye, at home, amongst your families, do you not ask yourself what the world, what France is thinking? I demand that you disavow the murderers of children." The S.A.O. answered by machine-gunning seven more Algiers Moslems, and by sending a booby-trapped gasoline truck hurtling down onto the Casbah. Exploding just short of its mark, the flaming tanker blackened houses for 300 yds., but killed only one Moslem youth...