Word: waco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subdivisions I worked were almost as horrifying as the Collier's sales pitch. There were flags everywhere-on poles, stuck on cars, even pasted to front doors. There were even more yapping dogs than there were flags. And at least three of the streets seemed to be named "Waco...
Throughout a long Texas night, 43 troubled soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division squatted defiantly in a parking lot at Fort Hood, far out in the wasteland between Waco and Austin. They had been ordered to Chicago as part of the force massed by Mayor Richard Daley to guard the Democratic Convention from antiwar demonstrators and a feared eruption of Negro militants. The violence that later engulfed the convention was viewed with cool, apolitical disdain by Chicago's Negroes, but Daley was taking no chances. The 43 troopers were black too. And rather than risk...
...Waco, Texas...
With the permission of a Mexican judge, U.S. officials drove the demented doctor across the border (after putting him in a straitjacket) and deposited him in a Waco mental hospital. Since released, he is now practicing in Houston. Bullets from his assorted weapons have never been matched against those used in the Villagómez murder, and no solid evidence links him to the Villagómez crime. Nor has any American in living memory ever been extradited to Mexico...
...Waco, Texas...