Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected official, Jim Garrison, 45, the larger-than-life (6 ft. 6 in.) district attorney of New Orleans, has tilted at windmills and gin mills, chastened Bourbon Street's once-famed B-girls, scourged the judiciary and battled with the mayor. More recently, he added the Warren Commission report to his mandate. Predictably, Garrison's investigation of "several plots" to kill President Kennedy has yielded the most rococo tale yet to emerge from that tragic day in Dallas...
Howe, a member of the Law School faculty since 1946, was Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History. He was stricken at his Cambridge home during the night by a coronary occlusion, and died before dawn...
...disdain, this report decries the "scavengers" who continue to profit by President Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath. But it joins the very group it pretends to despise by presenting little more than a rehash of old tapes of the four black days in Dallas, a mishmash of Warren Report detractors, and the smuggled-out bedside interview with Jack Ruby shortly before he died. The interview, like the record, is shabby and unrevealing...
...pictures of the assassination as the shots were fired, with Ruby's former bartender and his former bandleader, both of whom testified to his intimate relationship with the Dallas police, with the one person authorized to be behind the wooden fence from which some shots were fired. The Warren Commission also felt that those who saw what was inconvenient for its preconceived conclusion were "peripheral." You may not be in good company, but you are not entirely alone...
...curriculum that is almost as contemporary as a daily newspaper. Its smorgasbord of noncredit classes ranges from "The Art of Singing Folk Songs" to the crassly commercial "What the Editor Wants: Media Placement in Public Relations." In the spring of 1965, the New School ran a course on the Warren Commission findings; this term it has a continuing series of lectures on the Viet Nam war-and it quickly signed up Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times for a 70-minute report almost as soon as he returned from Hanoi...