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1 online resource (viii, 102 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-98) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Project; The Event; The Data; Timeline of Key Events; Chapter 2: Constituting the Other: The Context; The Immediate Context for Assumptions; The Power of First Assumptions; Chapter 3: Constituting the Other: The Evidence; What One Person is Capable of Doing: Mark Essex (The ""First"" Sniper); Signs of an Other; Others are Seeable; Others and Their Actions are Hearable; Turn-Taking (Reciprocity); Leavings; Speculation and Conspiracy Theories. |
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What One person is Capable of Doing: The ""Escape"" of the Second SniperA Note on Ambiguity: Either/or Explanations; Legitimating Evidence; Chapter 4: The Aftermath: Unconstituting the Other; Reworking the Evidence; NOPD Report; What One Person is Capable of Doing: Mark Essex (The ""First"" Sniper); Reworking Signs of an Other; Others are Seeable: Sightings at Howard Johnson's; Others are Seeable: Retrospective Sightings; Others and Their Actions are Hearable; Turn-Taking (Reciprocity); Leavings; Speculations and Conspiracy Theories; Lingering Traces of a Second Sniper. |
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A Path for a Second SniperChapter 5: Conclusion; Appendix: Witnesses' Sightings and Descriptions of Sniper(s); Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| Summary |
On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA. Six were killed, ten wounded, and the debate began about the number of snipers. Waksler traces the course of this event and analyzes claims and counterclaims made in the search to explain it. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Essex, Mark.
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Essex, Mark. |
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Murder -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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Murder. |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Case studies.
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Police -- Violence against -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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Police -- Violence against. |
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Other (Philosophy) -- Case studies.
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Other (Philosophy) |
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Phenomenology -- Case studies.
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Phenomenology. |
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Electronic books.
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Police. |
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waksler, Frances Chaput. New Orleans sniper. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010 9780761853893 (DLC) 2010936059 (OCoLC)664667220 |
| ISBN |
9780761853909 (electronic book) |
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0761853901 (electronic book) |
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9780761853893 |
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0761853898 |
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