Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as it was impossible for the Warren Commission to conduct a complete investigation of the events in Dallas because it operated with the preconceived notion that Oswald was the assassin, individual researchers are also limited at the outset if they assume, without any substantive documentation, that they are going to uncover a conspiracy which led America down the road to national tragedy...
...introduction, Political Analyst Richard H. Rovere acknowledges the ability of certain cartoons to provide "flashes of extraordinary insight and political prescience." In this category he places a David Low cartoon of 1939. Hitler bows to Stalin: "The scum of the earth, I believe." Stalin returns the courtesy: "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume." Recalls Rovere: "It took most of us more than 20 years to catch up with the truth captured by Low-that where ideology and national interest are in conflict, national interest prevails...
...record, The Man with the Golden Gun finds Bond chasing around Southeast Asia in pursuit of an assassin named Scaramanga who gets $1 million per contract for the use of his gold weapon. There is the usual action (fights, pursuits, assignations), the usual bantamweight grotesqueries. Scaramanga's evil henchman is a dwarf, and Scaramanga himself (Christopher Lee), an unusually unimpressive villain, would be a dead cinch to spot on a beach since he has three nipples. Nothing much happens to any of these characters that has not happened before, and better. Maud Adams and Britt Ekland do, however, make...
...angle at which the bullets entered Kennedy's body suggests that the assassin fired from the floor, though witnesses say that Sirhan was standing...
...dwelt on his motives and mental state when he pulled the trigger and not on the other evidence. But unless a new inquiry turns up facts more convincing than those that have inspired the current renaissance of doubt, Sirhan will probably retain the grim distinction of being the sole assassin of Robert Kennedy...