WHO KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY?

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• Publication Date: November 1, 1966
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by HARRISON E. SALISBURY '
i1 '1VE DAYS after President Kenned
A.. was assassinated, November 22
1963, I made a few notations in an oc
casional diary I keep. From the momen
of the assassination until the evening o
November 27, 1 had been so occupied i
directing the news coverage for Th
New York Times that I had not had'
moment for reflective thought. I wan
to quote two paragraphs from what
jotted down because they have a clos
bearing on what I shall have to say i
this review:
"1 am sure that the echo of , thi
killing will resound down the corridor
of our history for years and years an
years. It is so strange, so bizarre, s
incredible, so susceptible to lcgen
making . . . It matches Lincoln'
assassination and may well have equa
public effects.
"I am convinced that Oswald was
psychopath and Ruby a cheap gangste
and that, these were individual acts
But it is no trick to create a hypothe
sir of something just the opposite. W
are running down every single item o
Oswald's background that can b
found. And, strange story. though it is
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there is not one fact thus far which.
essentially changes the public story-tiro:
makes it any more ?unZlcrstandablc,"
Ten months later, September 27,
1964, the Warren Commission issued its
report on President Xe:,ncdy's assassi-
nation. Writing that day in an troduc-
tion of a paperback edition: of the
Commission report I said:
"It seems naive to suppose that the
Warren report-comprehensives,:, care-
ful, compendious, and compete::t as it
is-will provide the final word on Mr.
Kennedy's death. The facts of Abraham
Lincoln's murder are well known. Yet ".`.
today, one hundred years after -lairs
death, the legends of its occurrence area -."
still flowering. "'
"The legend of President Kennedy's.
death began with the crack of the
sniper's rifle that took his life. It was
born at about 12:30 p.m. on Novem-
ber 22, 1963, when "the lethal bullet'
whined toward his body.
"It has grown steadily since that mo I
ment. As an editor of The Now" York!
Times remarked when he read the Ar
bulletin announcing the President's'
death at 1:35 p.m. that day: 'The year
2000 will see men still arguing and
writing about the President's death.' A little more than two years have
passed since the Warren Commission
delivered its report and those words
were written. It is nearly three years
since the President's tragic death. The
legend, the enigma, the Euripcdcan
tragedy of that event have not receded.
As was predicted, all have grown and
flowered. The Warren - Commission
report, far from quenching the flames
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