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...dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...really a question of dying. If it were, then of course the student deferment is immoral. For all but a few, it is merely a question of spending two years of drudgery. It is just a pain in the neck, not a bullet in the head...
...eight days the six battalions of loyal Vietnamese troops dispatched from Saigon by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky had been closing the vise, block by block, street by street, on 800 rebellious soldiers in the military capital. Shattered trees, some completely sawed off by gunfire, lined Danang's bullet-spattered boulevards. Pocked walls, splintered doors and decapitated houses testified to the city's agony, in which over 80 had died and more than 400 were wounded...
...milling troops, Boy Scouts, monks and nuns, ordinary women and children. As the correspondents entered, they saw a grisly series of tableaux. There lay a wounded woman with a tiny baby, just old enough to sit, screaming beside her. On another stretcher lay a young woman with two bullet holes in her back, freshly wounded and brought into Tinh Hoi for medical treatment. Torches illuminated a chamber where 26 corpses lay under Buddhist flags and swarms of flies. But there was no sign of a rebel spokesman or of the promised announcement. As the minutes passed and night fell outside...
Under pressure to complete the Report well in advance of the upcoming 1965 Presidential election, however, the Commission finally agreed unanimously to a statement that the evidence was "very persuasive...to indicate that the same bullet that pierced the President's throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds," Epstein says...