Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coup d'Etat in America, the fruit of these labors, is based on the work of Warren Commission critics from Mark Lane onward showing that the Commission Report fails to explain the assassination and is contradicted by much of the evidence. Assuming along with the majority of the American public that the lone assassin theory is nonsense, Canfield and Weberman set out to provide an alternative theory which accounts for all the evidence and provides a motive for the assassination, the most conspicuous gap in the Warren Report...
...third tramp--the Oswald double--appears to have been one of the actual assassins-assisted by two other marksmen on the grassy knoll across the street. His presence in Dallas resolves the contradictions in the Warren Report about Oswald's movements in the weeks before the assassination, which enabled him to be seen in two places at the same time. Canfield and Weberman contend that Oswald was earmarked by the CIA as a patsy for the assassination. Oswald, who thought he was involved in a plot to kill Castro, engaged in public pro-Castro activities to convince the Cubans...
...PRESIDENTIAL assassination attempts within 17 days last month have once again made handgun confiscation a major national issue. It is, of course, classic naivete to assume that banning handguns will prevent a presidential assassin from obtaining one. Nor will banning handguns be any more effective in achieving any of the proposal's other aims...
Throughout Ford's trip, the Secret Service and the local police were haunted by the fear that they might have overlooked another would-be assassin. The scope of their problem was emphasized last week by Treasury Secretary William Simon, who pointed out in testimony before a Senate subcommittee (see following story) that the number of threats against the President had tripled during the first 20 days of September, jumping from the 100 or 110 that might have been considered routine to a new total of 320. Simon put part of the blame on the publicity given to Squeaky Fromme...
...familiar sonorous voice and stately presence never seem quite right in a thriller. Yet at 68, Laurence Olivier is again swapping the stage for the cinema and co-starring with Dustin Hoffman in Paramount's forthcoming spy flick, Marathon Man. Olivier plays the part of a professional assassin and is scheduled to sprint about Manhattan next month in the filming of a chase scene. Such sprightly plans are rather extraordinary for a man who has been fighting a long battle against cancer of the prostate, thrombosis and other serious ailments. Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer...