Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admitted, met Pesquet twice in the days immediately preceding the attack, but the shooting itself, he insisted, was no fake. According to Mitterrand's new version, Pesquet had appeared one afternoon with the story that he had been assigned by a rightist underground organization to murder Mitterrand, but did not have the heart to do it; instead, Pesquet proposed that "for safety's sake" Mitterrand start using the roundabout route home that he had followed on the night of the shooting. "I am the victim of a classic provocation," cried Mitterrand. "Either I was killed and couldn...
Twenty-two men are currently on trial in New York for "conspiring to obstruct justice" by concealing the purpose of their 1957 "underworld convention" at Apalachin. By the normal standards of American morality, the majority of them are undesirable creatures, suspected, and possibly guilty, of assorted crimes from murder on down the scale of turpitude to petty larceny...
...scared he did not know what he was doing. The third was hoping to impress his superiors and advance his career. Cooper is even more startled when four of his five heroes calmly refuse the highest honor their country can bestow (one, it turns out, is wanted for murder in Albuquerque, and the publicity would probably hang him). When Cooper refuses their refusals, they t- blackmail. Finally, one of them tries to kill...
...best things in The Mansion are the old things: Flem pulling a dirty stratagem to latch on to more property, the heartbreaking description of the raw deal that led ignorant Mink Snopes to murder a rich landholder, the devastating characterization of Huey Long-like Politician Clarence Snopes, who rises from rural bully to candidate for Congress. If the Snopes family is unforgettable, it is because Author Faulkner understands them as deeply as he hates them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A day at the races gets this kooky crew involved in a fancy fix and a brief fling with attempted murder...