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Appearing in court on a stretcher-he suffers from diabetes-Can, 53, denied all. Asked to substantiate his denials, he snapped: "Who would give evidence for me in the situation I am in?" It took a nine-man tribunal 90 minutes to condemn him to death by firing squad or the guillotine, which, introduced by the French, is still occasionally used in South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Third Brother | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...Last week the government finally brought to trial on charges of murder and extortion Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of the slain President and former boss of Central Viet Nam. Can suffers from diabetes and spent his time in court on a stretcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Bandits to Battalions | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Last week the government finally brought to trial on charges of murder and extortion Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of the slain President and former boss of Central Viet Nam. Can suffers from diabetes and spent his time in court on a stretcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Coup in the Year of the Serpent | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...records showed that Oswald's was the same rifle that had been found in the warehouse. An autopsy on Kennedy's body produced one bullet that matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near the window, on the wrapping paper that was used for the "window shades," and on the carbine itself. Experts who later test-fired similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man Who Killed Kennedy | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...third wife of Lord Astor, suddenly collapsed and was in danger of losing her second child, due in March. On doctor's orders, the former London fashion model, nee Bronwen Pugh, was hurried back to the mainland, rough seas or no, and rushed supine, but smiling, on a stretcher to a Glasgow nursing home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 4, 1963 | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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