Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappears. Her body is found several days later. All the girls were brunette Caucasians, and all were murdered in rainy weather. Six of the seven were either strangled, stabbed in the neck or left with something twisted around their necks. The exact official causes of death: two by gunshot, two by strangulation, two by stab wounds and one by skull fracture...
...area: twelve-gauge shotguns firing low-velocity birdshot. Four youths on a rooftop were sprayed, two wounded seriously. One lost his spleen, a kidney and part of his pancreas and bowels in surgery; the other may lose both eyes. At least another dozen demonstrators and two newsmen suffered gunshot wounds, some of them from small-caliber rifles. The battle raged for three hours over 25 square blocks. When it was over, about 60 had been admitted for hospital treatment, including about 20 policemen, 36 protesters were under arrest and one car had been burned...
Gunsmoke Executive Producer John Mantley, who had finished ten segments before violence was de-emphasized, says that he spent the whole summer in the cutting room. But even with all of Mantley's frantic re-editing, the installment two weeks ago contained three gunshot killings, one death by trampling, two knife attacks, three fights and a threat to snap someone's neck "like a dry twig." Says Mantley: "It is difficult for me to continue making Gunsmoke. My position is that if you want to take violence off television, then you have to take drama off television...
Ranchman nevertheless pays the extreme penalty-extremely. He dies in the electric chair, in the gas chamber and by gunshot while being hanged. Each time, he is casually resurrected to go on talking, shouting and heckling with the rest of the cast, in the course of which none of them utters anything trenchant, or moving, or witty...
...first time since Robert Kennedy's assassination, the surviving Kennedy brother returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...