Don Penny, chief of security for the Los Angeles Coliseum, had heard of Arthur Bremer, Sirhan Sirhan, and Lee Harvey Oswald. What he never expected was to find "a nut with a rifle" in his own stadium--not on Super Bowl Sunday with 90,000 people packing the thirty miles of stands and 75,000,000 people watching the annual contest on TV--not with three governors, five Senators, a dozen Congressmen, and three recently returned astronaut heroes in the crowd.
With only minutes to go in the final quarter of the Dolphins-Redskins play, the cameraman in the Goodyear blimp, high above the packed, cheering throng, relays a disturbing shot to his colleagues monitoring the TV spectacular; Behind the scoreboard, in the most inaccessible spot in the Coliseum, a man leans against the wall with a high-powered rifle by his side.
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With only minutes to go in the final quarter of the Dolphins-Redskins play, the cameraman in the Goodyear blimp, high above the packed, cheering throng, relays a disturbing shot to his colleagues monitoring the TV spectacular; Behind the scoreboard, in the most inaccessible spot in the Coliseum, a man leans against the wall with a high-powered rifle by his side.
