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Three tramps. The three tramps are three men photographed by several Dallas-area newspapers under police escort near the Texas School Book Depository shortly after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Since the mid-1960s, various allegations have been made about the identities of the men and their ...
The army had also killed several civilians, including 14-year-old Annette McGavigan. [6] Extensive barricades were erected in Catholic suburbs of Derry, organized mostly by the two IRAs. These were intended to prevent access to the army, police, and loyalist mobs, and many were impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, [1] was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, [n 1] Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident.
Lee Edward Bowers Jr. (January 12, 1925 – August 9, 1966) [1] was a witness to the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. [2] The timing and circumstances of Bowers's death have led to various allegations that his demise was part of a cover-up subsequent to the Kennedy murder.
At 8:38 p.m. on Friday, July 16, 1999, Kennedy departed from New Jersey 's Essex County Airport, 21 miles (34 km) west of Midtown Manhattan. At about 9:41 p.m., Kennedy's plane crashed nearly nose first into the Atlantic Ocean though the particular details of the incident were unknown until after investigation. [1]
Derek Wilford. Colonel Derek Wilford OBE (16 February 1933 – 24 November 2023) was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment. In Derry, [1] Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday he was in command when soldiers within his battalion shot 26 unarmed civilian protesters, killing 13 of them.
Known for. Trial of Clay Shaw. James Carothers Garrison (born Earling Carothers Garrison; November 20, 1921 – October 21, 1992) [3] was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973 and later a state appellate court judge. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best known for his investigations into the assassination ...
Ulster Defence Association. The Top of the Hill bar shooting, or Annie's Bar massacre, [1] was a mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland on 20 December 1972, during the Troubles. Five civilians were killed when members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, opened fire on the customers in a pub frequented by ...