Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer...
...years, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald has been trying to "forget the bad things." But last week, testifying for the first time in public about President Kennedy's assassin, she recounted their life together, from the day they met at a dance in Minsk to the time of his death, two days after he killed Kennedy...
...testimony, Castro repeated his previous assertion that unspecified United States citizens deliberately tried to link him with Kennedy's death. Castro said accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's attempts to enter Cuba two months before the assassination were part of this plot...
...simply unanswerable and that 14 years of attack on the Warren Commission report and almost a decade of faultfinding with the King investigation have failed to shake the fundamental conclusions of either of the official explanations: The President and the civil rights leader were each killed by a single assassin...
...successful Broadway play directed by Harold Pinter. But he was best known as an actor, first on the London stage (Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them: a sinister assassin in From Russia with Love, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, a glowering Irish gangster in The Sting and, in his most popular role, the shark hunter Quint in Jaws...