Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapidity with which the second attack on Ford followed the first raised the specter of a contagious spread of the assassin's disease. These attempts were particularly irrational, since they were aimed at one of the nation's least provocative and most amiable Presidents. Indeed, beyond the usual run of crank letters and threatening calls against any President, more serious attempts did seem to be proliferating...
Such speculations inevitably lead into the minds of real or potential assassins, who have been studied and even profiled, just as skyjackers were, for use by law-enforcement agencies as an aid in spotting killers in advance. The type is fairly well defined. "He has been neglected, abused or rejected by one or both parents," says Dr. Marvin Wolfgang, a University of Pennsylvania sociologist. He is frustrated, both in his work and in his personal life, and probably has some kind of sexual problems. Feeling rejected by his parents, he will likely seek reassurance in some larger paternalistic group, like...
...came so close to killing Ford. Tragedy was averted largely because another somewhat disturbed individual, but one impelled toward protection rather than destruction, casually drifted into the same crowd and wound up pressed beside Moore for nearly two hours. The street-side convergence of three people?the potential assassin, disabled Marine Veteran Oliver Sipple and Ford?showed how thin are the strands of chance upon which a President's life can hang (see box page...
...same time, he or she is a loner. Speaking of four assassins he studied, University of Chicago Psychiatrist Lawrence Freedman notes that "their life-styles without exception were chaotic. They led wandering lives without roots and with constantly shifting goals. Neither in their work nor in love were they able to escape their sense of failure." All the experts agree that an assault on the President gives such a person the feeling of identity he has lacked and a sense of importance akin to that of the man he kills. The one who pulls down the Colossus of Rhodes will...
...cowboy boots when overpowered, and her tan slacks had been split open. She was helped into a chair, and her handcuffs were removed. After she was assured that her son would be picked up at school, she waived her right to an immediate lawyer. Displaying remarkable casualness about her assassin's role, she declared that if Ford had not left the hotel when he did, she would have abandoned her shooting vigil to go pick...