CRITICS, DEFENDERS VIE ON KENNEDY AUTOPSY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400490012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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On Kennedy . Autopsy
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a "tissue of distortion" and lie!sehMarship' went` into it pro-'
said when he had made similar??paration.
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threatened to sue him. :more to impugn the integrity of
"I've been waiting anxiously the Warren report' than Mark
for those papers ever since,""Lane did.. Epstein owes an obliga.
Liebeler said. "If you have them tion' to the public to explain his
here . . .I'll be glad to accept. work.
San Diego, -,Cal. Nov., 17 UPI-- ed famil to' withhold front n `r procee mgs, an .that ay sinn investigation "was the most
surv,ce o, p. o:;ess .. , uecause .:..IE our work Is c amined in the
Warren Commission Attorneys, 2 Authors Clash yot, ltnow very well as soon as"true spirit of scholarship. I am
you, rki that. you're iguing to hnve.;confirient that. It will stand the
On Conflicting Testimony Of Assassination n "")""it yourself to deposition]` test of history.", ,-1 . I
GHT -RGHT t;uel? oath. and go through dis-t _
X-rays of the dead
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the assassination of President
Kennedy, clashed today ' with
words-and. a challenge to file
libel action-with two critics of
the commission's report.
Joseph A. Ball, a senior counsel
'for' the commission, and Wesley
J. Liebeler, a law professor and
commission junior attorney,
traded sharp statements with
authors Mark Lane and Edward
J. Epstein. At several points,
Lane, author of "Rush to Judg-
ment" and the attorney for the
mother of accused assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald, called the com-
mission report fraudulent.
Evidence ignored
Appearing on a panel at the
tors Association Convention, Ball
I fair and conclusive and c-?iticiz-d
Lane and Epstein, % author of
the report ignored evidence in
shaping their versions of the
Mound that Oswald alone killed
Was the decision of the Uniteil~, ?J?1eb?Ie!',said,,Pne.g book wadi
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of a conspiracy depend on thi : n' s'lvc the contradiction posed by He said Lane drew conclusions
topsy photos. ' hr autopsy rohort 'and the FBI which were not. wai?i'nnted by thei
Conflicting Rep or(c V cSion and did not. include the
evidence and
called this the;
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He said the autopsy report iii-F81 satement in the final report. technique of propaganda." ,'.
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John Connally of Texas. But, i)C .rough and. thvrerr,'r, there. may .
said, a report by two FBI agcnts,l,ave been more than nne?a$sassin.: ? t1Neu , was Canuuih the ptesked
who. were present at the aulop ,~ I,pst.ein urged that X-rats and `, inyes igatlo es during said only one bullet hit Kenn d;':; autopsy pictures be rr?lea'ed, for iisionh by b thhe Warren
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"The autopsy photos migi,t As long as the, photos are.'not.
solve this mystery," Epstein said analyzed," he said, . "the.com-
"In a nutshell, if these awn;uti,' ntiissrron has not finished-ltd job.'"-
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the body that Would stibslr+n? ......
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Kennedy was killed by a single
press miserably failed the Ameri.
can public' by not demanding open
hearings of (he, Warren Commis-:
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inviting~tile author to f i l e a libel' Los A n d e s ; 1 . ne and, Epstein
suit against him lit+e it1 .