Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...would almost certainly die. By March 24, Republican Robert Griffin of Michigan warned Nixon that the Democrats needed to pick up only a dozen Republican defectors to carry that vote. From then on, the pro-Carswell Senate leaders and Administration liaison men met daily in the White House to plot strategy...
That conspiratorial army of would-be historians who specialize in the assassination of John Kennedy may have a brand-new plot to play with. In Chicago last week, Legal Researcher Sherman H. Skolnick filed suit in federal district court against the National Archives and Records Service to release certain documents. He contended that the archives had unlawfully squirreled away the details of a hitherto unknown plot or plots to kill J.F.K. at the Nov. 2, 1963, Army-Air Force game in Chicago, 20 days before his assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald...
...well-known courtroom gadfly with a penchant for legal battles, and he played a key role in getting two Illinois Supreme Court judges to resign amid charges of conflict of interest brought by him (TIME, Aug. 29). Thus it was not surprising that people with information about the alleged plot sought him out to help make their case; among the informants is a former Secret Service agent...
...Skolnick tells it, the Chicago assassination plot involved a supposed accomplice of Oswald's by the name of Thomas Arthur Vallee and three or four other men whose identities are uncertain. Their plan to kill the President had to be abandoned when Vallee, a lithographer, was picked up by Chicago police on a minor traffic violation on the day of the game. After spotting a hunting knife on the front seat of his car, the cops looked further and found a rifle. Vallee was put on probation for concealing a weapon; for the traffic violation he drew...
...made a speech in California which ended with "I'll see you in Chicago." Another was said to have suggested abducting the Chicago Chief of Police with the words, "Let's kidnap the big cheese and take him to the amphitheatre." Froines himself was charged with a "stink bomb plot." Abbic Hoffman was charged with inciting to "fornication" in Lincoln Park. "We all know Abbic," Froines said. "Abbie never used the word 'fornication' in his life...