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...Ford seemed to undermine the Government's claim that Fromme actually pulled the trigger of her automatic in an effort to kill him. The President said he could not recall hearing the gun click. Virga argued that his client had no intention of killing Ford, but simply wanted to get publicity for her concerns about the environment and her efforts to free Manson...
Sophomore Moot returned linemate Nolen's favor for a 3-0 Harvard edge in the early-going of the second period. While absorbing a heavy check, Moot managed to spot Nolen all alone in the left slot. Nolen pulled the trigger on the scintillating bang-bang pass play...
Oswald's 6.5 mm. Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle required at least 2.3 seconds between each firing to work the bolt, aim and pull the trigger. Thus it was possible for Oswald to have fired both shots at Kennedy within five seconds-but not to have got off a third shot that wounded Connally within the same time span. Since the bullet that went through Kennedy's neck obviously was traveling on a downward course but left no hole anywhere in the car, the Warren Commission staff concluded that it must have hit Connally...
...Communist plot. "When I took office," Johnson told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos in June 1971, "I discovered that we had been operating a goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean. I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he was the one who pulled the trigger...
...House and Senate on Dec. 13. From one end of the continent to the other, the public was stunned-and Whitlam's Labor Party supporters were outraged. In Canberra, the federal capital, Kerr's action was being assailed as a "legal coup d'etat" that could trigger the most bitter election campaign in Australian history...