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...scene: Is the son as mad as the father? Love (Maggie McNamara) walks in, to soothe his fevered brow. And just when the action has settled down to a nice homey drone of hysteria, almost as dull as Saturday night in Bedlam-bang! Brother John (John Derek) puts a bullet into Abraham Lincoln, and the public takes its revenge on Edwin with a full barrage-of vegetables...
Hundreds of Terrorists? At 10:15 p.m., as the Lincolns sat watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth made his way unnoticed into the presidential box, fired a bullet into the back of the President's head, and escaped across the stage to his horse in the back alley. Where was Lincoln's bodyguard? John F. Parker, of the Washington police force, was drinking at a bar next door; he had deserted his post at the door to the presidential box, through which the assassin passed. Who was Parker? A questionable type with...
Last month her husband, Dr. Richard Sheppard, ailing with pleurisy, went to the hospital. Just before Christmas, Sam was convicted of murder. One day last week Ethel Niles Sheppard, white-haired and handsome at 64, locked herself in her bedroom and fired a bullet from a .38 caliber revolver into her brain. She left a note to her son Stephen, with whom she was staying: "I can't manage without Dad. Thanks for everything.−Mother." By court order Sam Sheppard was granted the privilege−unusual for a convict−of attending his mother's funeral...
From safety in outer darkness, the gunmen kept Remón's bodyguards pinned down for several minutes, then made their getaway in the Dodge. At Santo Tomas hospital doctors gave the President five transfusions−but it was likely that the bullet which pierced his aorta killed Remón even before he reached the operating table. Next day a throng of 40,000 followed his bier, borne on a firetruck to Panama City's old downtown cemetery...
...bullet hit Dalphin Garlington in the shoulder and knocked him down. His brother Sterling was hit twice in the back, but fired back, wounding one hunter in the head and killing another. After about 30 shots, the hunters drove away with their casualties, leaving the two wounded brothers for dead. "It looked like a battleground," a deputy said later. "Bushes were shot away, trees were hit, and there was blood all over the road...