Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "Who Killed King" [April 26] attributes the following quotation to me regarding James Earl Ray: "Extremely dangerous, cold-blooded and ruthless. There is no doubt in my mind that Ray could be a paid assassin." I made none of these remarks and used none of these descriptive adjectives regarding...
...Twice within five years, we had to hear from the land that all others strive to emulate, the harsh, frightening crack of an assassin's rifle. The shots that were echoing around the world after the death of John F. Kennedy, shaking the belief that the U.S.A. is the last place where the courage of an individual to fight against man's inhumanity to man would be met with the cruel bullet of an assassin, had hardly died away. And now Dr. King is dead, crucified on the cross hairs of a madman's telescopic sights...
West Germany's leftist students idealize violence as a necessary weapon for revolution against what they consider their country's corrupt and repressive society. After their leader, Rudi Dutschke, was badly wounded by a would-be assassin two weeks ago, the students staged violent and bloody demonstrations in virtually every major city. Last week, bruised and battered from police truncheons, they were having some second thoughts about the efficacy of violence. They had, in fact, found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined...
...whether it was really the murder weapon was uncertain. Clark initially hinted that a ballistic test had yielded positive results. Subsequent reports that the unjacketed slug had been too badly mashed for a definite comparison to be made went undenied. Whether the palm and thumbprints, thought to be the assassin's, were of any help was also kept secret. Other rumors died quickly, such as the one that had a Memphis police officer under secret arrest. Said Assistant Police Chief U. T. Bartholemew: "We're struggling...
Violence flared in Europe last week. An assassin picked as his target Rudi Dutschke, 28, a self-avowed revolutionary, leader of Germany's student unrest and author of fierce tirades against "repressive" European society. As Dutschke wheeled his bicycle away from the headquarters of his Socialist Student League on West Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, a young man who had been lying in wait fired three shots at him from a pistol. The bullets hit "Red Rudi" at close range in the chest and head...