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The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz

38 In 1964, four white men in McComb, Miss. pleaded guilty to bombing black people's homes. What was their sentence?

39 Who called the first Kennedy assasination "chickens coming home to roost"?

40 Who integrated the University of Mississippi?

41 What was Cook County State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan best known for?

42 Who said: "The only position for women in the movement is prone"?

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43 Who said: "Violence is...as American as cherry pie"?

44 Who ordered police after the killing of Martin Luther King to "shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand...and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting"?

45 Who said: "Get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder"?

46 Who said: "When they yelp, it's not a sign of pain, it's a sign of joy"?

47 Who said: "You can get an extra billion for a B-70 bomber program, but it's difficult to get ten dollars for disarmament. I happen to think we need both"?

48 What colonel in 1969 admitted that he didn't hate his Vietnamese enemy, but hastily added that he did "like to see the arms and legs fly"?

49 Who challenged the Black Panther Party to a shoot-out and promised to alleviate racial tension in Philadelphia by putting "a tank on every street-corner"?

50 Not counting U.S. presidents or military leaders, name five mass murderers of the '60s.

51 Name five victims of '60s political assasinations.

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