Monday 29 September 1997: George W. Hickey loses trial
A Baltimore judge throws out the defamation suit filed by George W. Hickey against the author and the publisher of the "Mortal Error" book, which presents the former Secret Service agent as President Kennedy's "accidental" murderer on November 22, 1963. The judge says the suit was filed too long after publication of the book, exceeding Maryland's one-year statute of limitation on defamation suits.