THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: A SHORT HISTORY TO MID-1963 - PART 2

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The Central @nteUft nee l\ c o icy:
At the end of May, 1960, the CIA met with repre-
sentatives of the five Cuban exile groups, which
joined in a common front, the Cuban Revolutionary
Council, for which 'the CIA opened bank accounts in
New York, New Orleans, and Miami. The majority of
the Cuban exiles lived in Florida or Louisiana.
Word spread quickly that something big was in the
wind and that there was no lack of funds. Volunteers
poured in. and a first contingent of men described
as "geometrical engineers" departed for Guatemala
at the end of May, 1900.
A Short History to LVlk 963 - Part 2
"I never had any thought . . . when I set up the CIA, that it would be injected into
peacetime cloak -and-dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment
that I think we have experienced are in a part attributable to the fact that this quiet
intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role .. .
- Harry Truman, President of the U.S.
quoted at the start of the chapter
The book "Farewell America", by James Elepburn,
was published in 1968 in English by Frontiers Co.-
in Vaduz, Liechtenstein; .118 pages long, including
14 pages of index. James Hepburn is a pseudonym;
the book is reputed to have been written by the
French Intelligence, in order to report to Ameri-
cans what actually happened in the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy. Copies of the book
may be purchased readily in Canada, and at one or
two addresses in the United States. No bookstore
in the United States that I know of will order and
sell copies of the book. (Inquire of the National
Committee to Investigate Assassinations, 927 15th
St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20005, for ways to pur-
chase the book.) The twenty chapters are absorb-
ingly interesting, and well worth reading.
Information about secret intelligence services
and the way they operate is of course not in the
open literature. In the two and a half years
since 1 read the book, I have seen no demonstra-
tion that any of the information contained in the
book is false - and the information does tie in
with much else that is known. Perhaps more than
901"0 of what is in the book is true.
The following article is based on Chapter 15,
"Spies", of "Farewell America". Part 1 was pub-
lished in the November, 1972, issue of "Computers
and Automation". Part 2 is published here.
project had originated with an executive order signed
by President Eisenhower on March 17, 1960 authorizing
the clandestine training and arming of Cuban refugees.
The operation was directed by Richard Mervin Bissell,
Jr., a brilliant graduate of the London School of
Economics and former professor of economics at Yale
who had joined the CIA in 195.1 and, as director of
its Plans Division, had supervised the P2 project.
Bissell's original plan included the organization of
guerilla troops in Cuba itself, but the shortage of
qualified volunteers and the lack of support among
the Cuban population and Castro's army rendered this
impossible. Instead, Allen Dulles decided on a mili-
tary invasion of the island by Cuban exile forces.
The CIA immediately began looking for a suitable
training site. At the beginning of April, 1960,
Robert Kendall Davis, First Secretary of the Ameri-
can Embassy in Guatemala and the local CIA Station
Chief, visited Guatemala President Ydigoras at his
official residence, situated out of precaution on
the grounds of the Guatemalan military school.23
Ydigoras, who had no sympathy for Castro and who
was also faced with a mounting budget, agreed to
allow the CIA to train "special forces" on a base
in Guatemala. The CIA chose the "Helvetia" coffee
plantation atRetalhuleu, which covered 5,000 acres,
was easy to guard, and offered 50 miles of private
roads. There it established a training center for
saboteurs and combat forces equipped with barracks
and a swimming pool.
Beginning in 1955, the CIA extended its intelli-
gence networks on the continent of Africa, which up
till then, with the exception of Egypt and Libya,
had been considered of secondary importance. It
established itself solidly in Algeria, the Republic
of South Africa, the ex-L'elgian Congo, French West
Africa and the Portuguese African colonies. Latin
America and the Caribbean were controlled by its
American Division.
When Kennedy entered the White House, preparations
were already underway for an invasion of Cuba. The
The CIA provided military specialists and foreign
technicians, mainly Gerrnaiiand Japanese contractual,;.
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peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment
that I think we have experienced are in a part attributable -to the fact that this quiet
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intelligence arm of the President has been so removed
Introductory Note by the Editor
The book "Farewell America", by James Hepburn,
was published in 1966 in English by Frontiers Co.
in Vaduz, Liechtenstein; 416 pages long, including
14 pages of index. James Hepburn is a pseudonym;
the book -is reputed to have been written by the
-French Intelligence, in order to report to Ameri-
tion
i
na
cans %,hat actually happened -in the assass
of.President John F. Kennedy.' Copies of the book
may be.purchased readily in Canada, and at one or
two addresses in the United States. No bookstore
in the United States that I know of will order and
sell copies of the book. (Inquire of the National
Committee to Investigate Assassinations, 927 15th
St. NW. l':ashi ngl on, D.C. 20005, for ways to pur-
chase the book.) The twenty chapters are ab-
sorbingly interesting.
Jnformation about secret intelligence services
and the way they operate is of course not in the
open literature. In the two and a half years
since I read the book. I have seen no demonstra-
tion that any of the information contained in the
book is false - and the information does tie in
with much else that is known. Perhaps more than
90;: of what is in the book is true.
The following article is based on Chapter 15,
"Spies", of "Farewell America".
Everywhere - and the United States is no excep-
tion - there are criminals who will do anything for
money. But it is one thing to murder a creditor, a
Senator or a jealous husband, and quite another to
assassinate the President of the United States.
Hired Killers
Hired killers are rarely employed by a parapolit-
ieal or paramilitary group. They are much too dan-
gerous. Their connections. their morals, and their
insatiable avarice pose too many problems for a
responsible organization. On the other hand, a
number of individuals active in groups like the
John Birch Society, the Patrick Henry :,tociation,
and the Christian Crusaders would be only too happy
to volunteer for an ideological crime. But, although
successful assassinations have on occasion been the
work of fanatics, serious-minded conspirators would
prefer not to rely on idealists. History tells us.
why.
The Tsar's
death In 1911
- Harry Truman, President of the U.S.
quoted at the start of the chapter
kov's "Tsar Satan" at the KievOpera. I The assassin,
a lawyer named Dimitri Bogrov. was convinced he had
acted in the cause of freedom, and many others before
him had sacrificed themselves in the struggle against
the Tsars. But fanatics like Bogrov who are pre-
pared to die for a cause are few indeed, and the
nihilists lost more men-than the imperial families.
Professional Soldier Assassins
Today,'professional soldiers and guerilla war-
riors have taken up where the nihilists left off.
.They are just as courageous, but often less success-
rs
e
d 5
a
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ful. In Germany, in 12 years of Nazism an
of war, despite the Kreisau Circle and the numerous
groups that claimed in 1946 to have belonged to the
underground, despite the work of the Allied intel-
ligence. services and the plots hatched by several
high-ranking officers of the Wehrmacht and the 0KW,
Hitler was never assassinated. Two officers, how-
ever,, 'tried.
The first planted a bomb on one of llitler's
aides, claiming it was a bottle of cognac. The
bomb was'due to go off in the plane carrying the
Fuehrer to the eastern front, but it failed to
explode.-The assassination attempt was never dis-
covered. It was publicized later by its author,
who meanwhile had recovered his "bottle of cognac".
Colonel Von Stauffenberg Against Hitler
The second, more serious attempt was the work of
Colonel Klaus Von Stauffenberg. His failure dealt
a deathblow-to the plot of July 20, 1944. Stauffen-
berg either didn't dare or didn't care to shoot
I1itler.2 Instead, he placed his briefcase, contain-
ing'the equivalent of a pound of TNT3, under the
conference table t?.-here Ilitler was sitting and left
the room, claiming he had to make a phone call. The
TNT was set off by a detonator a few minutes later.
But Colonel Von Stauffenberg, while a brilliant
cavalryman, was a poor saboteur. His bomb would
have killed Ilitler, and probably most of the other
officers present. if the conference had been held,
as was usually the case at Rastenburg, in the case-
ment of a cement blockhouse. The closed quarters
would have magnified the compression, and the explo-
sion would have proved fatal. On that hot July day,
however, the conference was held instead in a wooden
barracks with the t+indows open. Hitler was only
knocked to the floor and slightly wounded by the
explosion.
Colonel Von Stauffenberg was mistaken in his
choice of an explosive. TNT is excellent for blow-
Fanatic Assassins ing up railroad lines and bridges, but for this type
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The Central Intelligence- Agency:
A Short t history t9T f-l963' Pc'
"I never had any thought . . . when I set up the CIA, that it would be injected into
peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarrassment
.that I think we have experienced are in a part attributable to the fact that this quiet
intelligence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role ..."
- Harry Truman, President of the U.S
quoted at the start of the chapter
Introductory Note by the Editor
The book "Farewell America", by James Hepburn,
was published in 1960 in English by Frontiers Co.
in Vaduz. Liechtenstein; 418 pages long, including
14 pages of index. James Hepburn is a pseudonym;
the book is reputed to have been written by the
-French Intelligence, in order to report to Ameri-
cans what actually happened -in the assassination
of. President John F. Kennedy.' Copies of the book
may-be.purchased readily in Canada, and at one or
two addresses in the United States. No bookstore
in the United States that 1 know of will order and
sell copies of the book. (Inquire of the National
Committee to Investigate Assassinations, 927 15th
St. AW, i'ashi.nnlon, D.C. 2000-5, for ways to pur-
chase the book.) The twenty chapters are ab-
sorbingly interesting.
Information about secret intelligence services
and the way they operate is of course not in the
open-literature. In the two and a half years
since I read the book, I have seen no deaionstra-
tion that any of the information contained in the
book is false - and the information does tie in
with much else that is known. Perhaps more than
90;: of what is in the book is true.
The following article is based on Chapter 15,
"Spies", of "Farewell America".
kov's "Tsar Sajtan" at the Kiev Opera.I The assassin,
a lawyer named Dimitri Bogrov, was convinced he had
acted in the cause of freedom, and many others before
him had sacrificed themselves in the struggle against
the Tsars. But fanatics like Bogrov who are pre-
pared to die for a cause are few indeed, and the
nihilists lost more men-than the imperial families.
Professional Soldier Assassins
Today,?professional soldiers and guerilla war-
riors have taken up where the nihilists left off.
They are just as courageous, but often less success-
ful. In Germany. in 12 years of Nazism and 5 years
of war, despite the Kreisau Circle and the numerous
groups that claimed in 1946 to have belonged to the
underground, despite the work of the Allied intel-
ligence.services and the plots hatched by several
high-ranking officers of the Wehrmacht and the OW,
Hitler was never assassinated. Two officers, how-
ever,,tried.
The first planted a bomb on one of Ilitler's
aides, claiming it was a bottle of cognac. The
bomb was'due to go off in the plane carrying the
Fuehrer to the eastern front, but it failed to
explode. The assassination attempt was never dis-
covered. It was publicized later by its author,
who meanwhile had recovered his "bottle of cognac".
Colonel Von Stauffenberg Against Hitler
The second, more serious attempt was the work of
Colonel Klaus Von Stauffenberg. Ilis failure dealt
a deathblow-to the plot of July 20, 1944. Stauffen-
berg either didn't dare or didn't care t
h
t
o s
oo
Everywhere - and the United States is no excep- Hitler.2 Instead, he placed his briefcase, contain-
tion - there are criminals who will do anything for ing'the equivalent of a pound of TNT3, under the
money. But it is one thing to murder a creditor, a conference table where Hitler was sitting and left
Senator or a jealous husband, and quite another to
assassinate the President of the United States. TAT the room, claiming off f he had t make a Ane call. The
by a detonator a few m minutes later.
? Hired Killers
But Colonel Von Stauffenberg, while a brilliant
hired killers are rarely employed by a parapolit- cavalryman, was a poor saboteur. His bomb would
Ical or paramilitary group. They are much too dan- have killed llitler, and probably most of the other
gerous. Their connections. their morals, and their officers present, if the conference had been held,
insatiable avarice pose too many problems for a as was usually the case at h'astenburg, in the case-
responsible organization. On the other hand, a ment of a cement blockhouse. The closed quarters
number of individuals active in groups like the would have magnified the compression, and the explo-
John Birch Society, the Patrick Henry S:sociation, sion would have proved fatal. On that hot Jul), day,
and the Christian Crusaders would be only too happy . however, the conference was held instead in a wooden
to volunteer for-an ideological crime. But. although barracks with the -Aindows open. llitler was only
successful assassinations have on occasion been the knocked to the floor and slightly wounded by the
work of fanatics, serious-minded conspirators would explosion.
prefer not 'to rely on idealists. History tells us.. .
why. Colonel von Stauffenberg was mistaken in his
choice of an explosive. TN?1' is excellent for blow-
Fanatic Assassins pg uXt,.~ ~?~,~}~~ br~t dues, but for this type
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By PATTY BEUTLER
Star Staff 1':riter
One president and one civil
rights leader were "murdered
by the CIA and by far right
groups" a former right wing
extremist told his U n i o n
College audience F r i d a y
morning.
Although he has no proof or
documentation to support his
/ suspicions, Dean Morris of
Turlock, Calif., believes that
his five years' experience a:,
a member of the Ku Klux Klan
,and the Minutemen i s
substantial support for his
theory.
On the campus Iecture
circuit "not for the purpose
of selling ideology," Morris
hopes that by sharing his ex-
periences he will h c 1 p
enlighten young people to the
dangers of cxtrcmis.n.
As a guerilla instructor for
the Minutemen, Morris taught
people how to make bombs and
plan assassinations It was a
life of "violence, hate and
fear," said Morris, adding that
"some people know no other
way."
Backed Wallace
While teaching guerrilla
tactics on weekends, he serve`
as a state chairman of the
1958 Wallace for President
campaign in Berks County, Pa.
Morris also spent some tima
in Lincoln in 1567 as an un-
dercover agent for the far
right in the Job Corps pro-
gram, looking for any misuse
of government funds.
He went on to explain his
political separation or i360-
egree turnabout which took
place in 1955 while attending
a Klan rally in So u t li
Carolina.
As a Klan motorcade laden
with weapons drove through
dhe black Rlietto as a show
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d f40 ta~.fFV 4~d~uivdeV+3L1
of power, Morris noticed a
young black Bay Scout stop
to salute the American flab
It was this `simple act of
a child which started him
thinking, recalls Morris.
ightmare
The following three days
were a nightmare as he "came
back from fantasia to reality. y
With the help of the FBI he
was ablle to get a w a y ,
although he was a "scared
man when he left.
groups that easily, explained
Morris, who added that "a
contract was out on my life."
The next six months he spent
"underground" on a small
farm in Missouri "searching
for life."
The son of migrant laborers
in Maryville, ,llo., Morris
describes his parents as racists
who instilled in him a fear
of the black an. Yet Morris
says he had never seen a black
man until he was 17 years
old.
After a brief stint in the
Army, cut short by a back
injury, 17-year old Morris
found himself pumping gas at
an Omaha station. It was here
that he became influenced by
a steady customer - 'a
member of the John Birch
Society - who convinced him
that "there's a Communist
conspiracy in this country."
One step led to another and
he was soon firmly entrenched
and committed to the far right,
cause.
As for his politics today,
Morris says "I'm not right or
left. I'm just a h u m a n
being."
affixed. to the windshield oii
'the lead car, right next to tie
Klan flag "whicli meant up-
pres ion racism and fear to
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The illegal release of the Pentagon Papers
and the more recent use of secret documents
by columnist Jack Anderson has re-opened
the problem of what should and should not be
classified.
During a conversation a few'years ago with
the late Senator Richard Russell I asked why
the CIA reports on Lee Harvey Oswald's
?traVOIN'tiiI'M xico had to remain classified as
secret and why. they had to stay secret for
many years to come.
The senator was at that time, and had been
for more than a decade, chairman of a special
appropriations sub-committee which con-
trolled all CIA funds. There wasn't anyone
who was in a better position to answer the
question than Russell.
He gave me a plausible reason for the
secrecy. The senator noted, and it's true, that
we have people in every country in the world
-who are friendly to the U.S. and though not
citizens of this country they often supply our
intelligence people with information. Some
are businessmen, some fishermen, artists,
students and so forth. They are basically loyal
to their own country, but still willing to help
us. The CIA report on Oswald's travels in
Mexico contains not only the facts about his
movements in that country but the names of
the individuals who provided those facts. If
the report was made public at this time some
of the contacts would end up facing a firing
squad and if they weren't shot or imprisoned,
they would no longer be of any value as
contracts. Their future services would be till.
Since they are still needed it makes good
sense to keep their identity unknown.
But what about thirty years from now? This
~~ out n't
Qllik*
is the time frame being recommended by the
National Security Council as a reasonable
time to keep papers secret yet there are
opponents around who want the lid to stay. on
far beyond three decades.
That's pretty hard to buy even from the
individuals who claim diplomatic or military
secret codes can be endangered by releasing
thirty year old data. It seems illogical to
assume that codes aren't changed in more
than thirty years and even more illogical to
believe any nation can keel) a code unbroken
for thirty years. If this is happening it is' a
first for all time. A recent rash of non-fiction
books have pretty well dispelled the idea that
unbreakable codes exist. If a man or woman
can conceive them sooner or later another
man or woman will be able to unravel them.
Anyone who reads my columns very long
knows I am pro-military, but lve long been
aware of the military's inclination to mark
anything and everything secret and keep that
tag on forever. In some cases this practice
can be defended, but not for 50.or 100 years..
While true military secrets should be
carefully guarded military blunders should*
not. Time doesn't erase stupidity, but it hides
it and that's wrong.
During World War II many a bulletin board
was so plastered with memos that it was a
standard joke that if one dug deep enough
he'd find a KP order from Valley Forge still
tacked tip. If one could actually dig deep
enough in Pentagon records there's a chance
that some of George Washington's actual
orders are still stamped secret. In a free
society that's 'no joke.
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_That's"pretty hard to-biry evert from the individuals who
claim diplomatic or military secret codes can be endangered
by releasing thirty year old data. It seems illogical to
assume that codes aren't changed in more than thirty
years and even more illogical to believe any nation can
keep a code unbroken for thirty years. Il' this is happening
it is a. first for all time. A recent rash of non-fiction books
have pretty well dispelled the idea that unbreakable codes
exist. If a man or woman can conceive them sooner or
later another man or woman will be able to unravel them.
Anyone who reads my columns very long knows I am
pro-military, but I've long been aware of the military's
'he illegal release of the Penta-
Pori Papers and the more recent use
of by 7locutrtnls by columnist
ack Anderson has re-opened the
irobleln of what should and should
.
not be"classified: `
During a conversation a few
years ago with the late. Senator
Richard Russell I asked why. the
trave
s
n
exico
ad to remain classified as secret and why ? ?
keep that lair on fore%cr. In some uses this practice call be
they had to stay secret for many years to come. ! defended, but not for 50 or 100 years. While true military
The senator was at that time, and had been for more' secrets should be carefully guarded military blunders
than a decade, chairman of a special appropriations sub- should not. Time doesn't erase stupidity, but it hides it'
CIS Areports on Lee Harvey?Os%'ald's
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committee which controlled all CIA funds. There wash t and that's wrong.
anyone who was 'in a better position to answer the During World War II many a bulletin board was so
question than Russell
plastered with mentor that it was a standard joke that if
He gave me a plausible reason for the secrecy. The one dug deep enough he'd find a KP order from Valley
senator noted, and it's true, that we have people in every Forge still tacked up. If one could actually dig deep enough
country in the world who are friendly . to the U.S. and '
in Pentagon records there's a chance that some of George
though not citizens of' this country they often supply one
Washington's actual orders are still stamped secret. In a'
intelligence people with information. Some are business- free society that's no joke.
men, some fishermen, artists, students and so forth. They '-~---- are basically loyal to their own country, but still willing -
to help us. The CIA report on Oswald's travels in Mexico v
contains not only the fuels about his nto%ements in that
country but the nanws of the individuals who provided -
those facts. If' the report wa; made public at this time
some of the con lads would end up facing a firing squad
and if they weren't :hot or imprisoned they would no
longer be of any value as contacts. Their future services
would be nil. Since they are still needed it makes good;
sense to keep their identity urknown. .
But what about thirty yeaf?s from now? This is -the
time frame being recommended by the National Security
Council as a reasonable time to keep papers secret yet
there are opponents around who want the lid to stay on far.
beyond three decades. .
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By KATHY LILLY
The pain of President John
F. Kennedy's assassination
has been dulled for m o s t
Americana, but not for Dr.
Cyril Wecht, who believes a
well-financed right wing
group and the CIA were.in-
volved in a death plot.
D r. W e c h t, Allegheny
County (Pittsburgh) coroner
and a well-known forensic
pathologist (a doctor who ap-
plies medicine to the law) ?
with a long list of credntials,
says scientific evidence clear-
ly shows Lee Harvey Oswald
did not act alone in killing
Kennedy.
"Based on scientific study,
I know Lee Harvey Oswald
was'not a sole assassin," Dr.
Wecht told the Beacon Jour-
nal in an interview. -
"My own theory - not
based on science - is that I
think there are two possibili-
ties not necessarily exclusive
of each other ... Some ultra
right wing group fearful of
the President's actions, philo-
I sophies and motives - and I
believe the CIA. was in-
volved."
"I want to try to get to the
heart of these inconsistencies
(in the Warren Commission
report and other documents)
and see if we can come up
with a truthful report."'
So far, he says, the govern-
ment won't let him.
ALL THE autopsy reports,
photographs and other scien-
tific document:. were given to
Kennedy's widow, who gave
th
h
em as a private sift to
t
e would account for this physi-
National Archives with the cal move,'' he said.
stipulation that a f t e r five The film, made by Abra-
years (which expired 1 a s t ham Zapruder, an amateur,
Fall) experts in the field with was the most accurate film-
historical or scientific inter- ing of the shooting. Zapruder
o
i
h
ne t
ests c
uld exam
e nma- sold it to. Life magazine
terial. whit used Dr. Wecht as a
Dr. Wecht asked the admin- consultant on it.
istrator. B u r k e Marshall, '
Dean of Yale University Law DR. WECHT said the film
School, for permission several disputes the single bullet
months ago and still hasn't theory of the Warren Com-
gotten an asnwer. , mission.
"The only one who has re- "The single bullet theory -
ceived permission is a urolog- I call it the `magic bullet
ist - a kidney specialist. He theory' - is that the shot
(the specialist) previously struck the President in the
wrote three articles agreeing back, re-entered (Texas) Gov.
with the Warren Commission John Connally's back, went
report. I had written about it through the front of his chest,
DR. WECHT was in Akron and criticized it. through the right wrist and
Saturday to address 130 mem- "Marshall's reasons are be- . lodged in his left thigh.
hers of the Ohio Osteopathic cause the g-~vernment is fear- "The bullet alleged to have
Medical Assistants Associa- fill. They know there age done all this was not found
lion, meeting at Hilton Inn parts of the investigation that until several hours later. A
West for an annual conven- are contradictory, incomplete janitor in the basement of the
tion. (Dr. 1Vecht is a medical and inadequate. I have some- hospital claims he found the
bullet on a stretcher The
d
y
octor)
.. "I am not consumed with what of a reputation in this deduced it was from Connally ,
my investigation, I don't have field. I couldn't make some- and had f a 11 e n from his fire only the one bullet.
the time. And I'm not plan- thing that isn't there," said thigh," said Dr. % echt. DR. tIECHT also said the
ning to write a book. But I in- Dr. Wecht. "That type of bullet, in its _.left side of the Presidens
tend to keep on pursuing this pristine state, weighs from
was to
because I'm deeply disturbed DR. WECHT grows more 161 to 161.51 grains. The- bul- brain rain wif never there exawasmined ned to
that or ganized bodies (like intense as he becomes in- let found weighed 159 grains. Fo- It had only lost a total of 2.5 er bullet or fragment.
the American Academy of volved in explaining the con- "There's no question in my
tonic Science of w-h h he is s grains.
immediate past pre=ident) tradictions. His brow wrin- "X-rays showed it left- par mind any testimony in even a
have been ignored. kled, his arms gesturing, his- titles in four different loca- routine murder case based on,
"I' ditbed t h a t the voice takes on a note of an- tions - Kennedy's- and Con- that sort of partial exantina-.
r
"
m s u
he
er and incredulity. rally's chest. and Connally's lion would be stricken, American public has been ? said.
deceived and that we're treat- "Lee Harvey Oswald was wrist and thigh. It shattered
? ed like children. a r'bb i C ally'5,she5 t and
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of the President. The Zapru-
der film clearly shows when
the President is struck he
slumps backward to the left.
He goes immediately back-
ward.
"Anyone who knows any-
thing about this sort of thing
would know this just could
not happen. A high velocity
rifle like Oswald used would
ha v.- a tremendous impact.
"The grassy knoll in front
to the right of the President
then extensively fractured a
large bone in the wrist.
"It (the bullet)- also shows
practically no deformity or,,
mutilation at all. A bullet,
E- simply would not do t l3 a-t
-without deformity, mutilation
'and some loss of substance,"
said Dr. Wecht.
DR. WECHT said he testi-
fied about his findings at a
hearing in a Washington,
D. C. federal court in 1969,
when New Orleans District
Attorney Jim Garrison was
asking to see the National Ar-
chives evidence.
The judge agreed to his re-
quest but government appeals
kept the material from being
seen before the Clay Shaw
trial began.
"I have been consulting
with Garrison, but didn't tes-
tify because I couldn't review
the material and because the
trial was coming on more like
a, circus than a real court-
room action,"'he said.
He said the government
doesn't w a n t the material
seen by an expert like him-
self qualified - to testify in
court (a forensic pathologist)
because "if you don't buy the
single bullet theory you can't
buy that Lee Harvey Oswald
was a sole assassin."
'He said the Zapruder film,
reviewed by the FBI and Ko- ?4
dak Laboratories, showed Os-
wald would have had time to .
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"This is an obsession, and typical
Americans aren't obsessed. Jack Arm-
strong.isn't obsessed. There's a fantastic
way in which the assassination becomes a
religious event. There are relics and
scriptures and even a holy scene - the
killing ground. People make pilgrimages
to it. And, as in any religious event, what.
happened there isn't clear. It's ambigu-
ous, surrounded by mystery and uncer-
tainty. I think there is a feeling with
some of us that it has to be clarified. It's
the symbolic status of it that's impor-
tant. Somehow, one hopes to clarify one's
own situation and one's own society by
clarifying this. . . "
Josiah Thompson, Assassination Buff
I first remember reading about the As-
sassination Buffs in a piece in The New
Yorker by Calvin Trillin. Trillin had
scared me. He made it clear that the
Buffs - an underground network in ob-
sessive pursuit of "the coconspirators at
Dallas" - threatened to consume them-
selves in a quest that was destined to end
in doubt. Essentially, the Buffs were hob-
byists. In other, less troubled times, they
might have collected stamps and read
Agatha Christie. Now they were wrapped
in a real game which, they fantasized,
could get them killed.
. At first the Buffs worked in isolation,
building their own research Libraries, ex-
hibits, mock-ups and blowups. Then they
learned of one another's existence, began
to compare notes, to canonize their own
heroes, vilify their own villains. With the
assassinations of Martin Luther King and
Robert Kennedy, their numbers would in-
crease. They would set up their own
dues-paying organization, the National
Committee to Investigate Assassinations,
and produce a newsletter flagged with a
Like the Buffs, I, too, found it hard to
believe that Oswald had acted alone, that
he had changed the course of history be-
cause he had an argument with his wife
over a lousy washing machine. I refused
to think life was that absurd. Somehow,
it would be less absurd if Oswald were
part of a plan, anybody's plan. But I was
a Jack Armstrong. No obsessions for me.
Let the authorities handle the case.
I made my resolve back in 1967, when,
after five years with Time, I was building
a new family and a new career as a writer
with a name. I had a two-novel contract
with New American Library, a free-lance
contract with Look and I had made a be-
ginning, to boot, in television news.
One year later, after the assassination
of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles, where
I lived, I put all that life aside and chose
death. In Josiah Thompson's metaphor, I
made a journey to the killing ground, col-
lected the relics, pored over the scrip-
tures. In the metaphor of my native Ari-
zona, I chose the conspiracy trail and
rode it as far as I could and found that it
led nowhere; as in the Black Mountain
area of the Navajo Indian reservation, I
found box canyons within box canyons. I
met a good many quaint characters along
the way, but at the end of the trail there
was nothing.
June, 1968. Los Angeles. Another Ken-
nedy killed. A reportorial challenge. I
found a way of getting to the assassin and
I took it. For all my reservations about
the Assassination Buffs, I wanted to
know more, more than I thought the offi-
cials would tell. Would I become a buff?
No, I was just a curious reporter in search
. of the facts. Maybe I'd even learn some-
thing close to the total truth.
So I talked with the assassin two or
provocative question next to its metered
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Open letter to Nat Hentoff & The Village Voice -
Feb. 15, 1972
Dear Nat,
For the past couple of months I've been
investigating the Manson case, and there
is evidence of involvementwith Scientology
and the CIA. During the course of my
research I discova?- ed that John Leonard's
double review of American GrotesgL-.'.y
James Kirkwood and A Heritage of Stone by
.Jim Garrison had been cut short, with
meaning changed, by the New York Times.
On December 1, 1970, under the headline,
"Who Killed John F. Kennedy?" the review
in the early edition of the Times concluded:
(Garrison) insists that the Warren
Commission, the executive branch of the
government, some members of the Dallas
Police Department, the pathologists at
Bethesda who performed the -second
Kennedy autopsy, and many, many others
must have known they were lying to the
American public.
Mysteries Persist
Frankly, t prefer to believe that the
Warren Commission didapoor job, rather
than a dishonest one. / like to think that Mr.
Garrison invents monsters to explain
incompetehce. (In the next edition, the
review enc(ed at this point, chopped off in
mid-paragraph. The headline was changed
to "The Shaw-Garrison Affair" and the
sub-head disappeared altogether. In the
original version it continued:) But until
somebody explains why two autopsies came
to two different conclusions about the
President's wounds, why the limousine was
washed out and rebuilt without
investigation, why certain witnesses near
the "grassy knoll" were never asked to
testify before the Commission, why we
were all so eager to buy Oswald's brilliant
marksmanship in split seconds, whyno one
inquired into Jack Ruby's relations with a
staggering variety of strange people, why a
"loner" like Oswald always had friends
andcouldalways get a passport - who can
blame the Garrison guerrillas for
fantasizing?
Something stinks about this whole affair.
"A Heritage of Stone" rehashes the
smelliness; the recipe is as unappetizing
asour doubts about the official version of
what happened. (Would then-Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy have endured
his brother's murder in silence? Was John
Kennedy quite so' liberated from cold war
cliches as Mr. Garrison maintains?) But
0-f- h' it. d !' 4- 11 f
n
frontal shot? Why was his body whished
away to Washington before the legally
required Texas inquest? Why?
John Leonard became editor of the New
York Times Book Review in January 1971.
The Timeshas never reviewed any of Dick
Gregory's four books. Here is an author
who went from being a pioneer for black
performers on television to being a write-
in presidential candidate, yet he was
ignored; only now with his latest book does
the Times present a review, and that is
critical of Gregory for his paranoid
conspiracy theories and facts. linking the
CIA with several assassinations.
The Times has never reviewed my own
book, How a Satirical Editor Became a
Yippie Conspirator in Ten Easy Years
(published by Putnam). I wrote to Leonard,.
trying to find out why. Since the Realist was
the first contemporary underground paper
-and since the book was praised lavishly
by Joseph Heller, Groucho Marx, Terry
Southern, Kurt VonnegutJr., Susan Sontag,
Julius Lester and others -a review would
have seemed appropriate. Leonard wrote
back to me, saying: "We have a review of
your book in the house; it's not a very good
one, I'm afraid." Even that never
appeared. I've since found out that the
review was extremely favorable, and the
critic was paid for it. So John Leonard Iied
to me.
I publicly accuse the CIA of controlling
the New York Times policy. Among other
things, my book quotes MortSahl on the TV
show from which he was fired: "I went to
the Archives (and saw) the Zapruder f i l m. I
was in therefor several hours, running it,
then looking at it frame by frame on a slide
projector. When the President Js first
struck it seems that he's struck in the back.
It's reasonably obvious looking at it, you
don't have to be a ballistics expert. Then
he's struck in the throat -and his hands go
up-andhe begins to fall slowly into Mrs.
Kennedy's lap, he sags as the life goes out
of him, and then he's hit in the head, and as
he's hit in the head it's the force of a train
hitting you. The President is hit from the
right front. I saw it repeatedly. I saw a
major portion of his skull fly to the rear and
to the left. (Audience recoils audibly.) Yes,
it's shocking, and it'll help any of you who
can't make up your mind about where you
are in this. .
ra
STATINTL
freedom of the press. However, the
material was critical of Johnson, not
Nixon. And, although the Times ran the full
Warren Commission Report all in one
day's edition, they serialized the Pentagon
Papers, thus setting the stage for the court
battle which -even though so many never
actually read through the material -
nevertheless left the image that the Times
would stand up to the government when it
came to the first amendment. That line of
credibility established; they could then
come out editorially in favor of Nixon's
peace proposal to Vietnam, that a junior
high school student could see through so
easily.
When World War Two ended, Werner von
Braun was not the only Nazi the United
States acquired. This country also
imported German Intelligence experts who
organized the CIA here. Fascism grow-
through control of the most important
media, as well as the legal processes. It's
foolish tobel ieve that the Rand Corporation
could engineer a dictatorship in Greece but
not here; or that the CIA could plot the
assassination of Malcolm X and Martin
Luther King and Bobby Kennedy but not
Kent State and Jackson State and, yes, even
Sharon Tate. and the others, partly as a
propaganda device to discredit the
communal. family, psychedelics, rock
lyrics -all the things-that add up to a
cultural revolution that could affect the
American economy which is based on a kind
of mindless productivity.
Even if Paul Revere were a paranoid
schizophrenic it doesn't mean the British
weren't coming.
- Love,
Paul Krassner
The Realist
1772 Vallejo
San Francisco, Calif. 94123
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Last semester, students of the seminar course Historical
Method studied the assassination of President-John F.
Kennedy. They began' with a reading of Josiah Thompson's
book Six Seconds in Dallas and then pursued their own
individual lines of research. Class time was devoted to a
discussion of their findings and a preparation for further
investigation. At the end of the course a number of the
students prepared papers on their special topics of interest.
Jim GarrIson's,'.lnvestigation
ALTHOUGH THERE ISNO INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE
to prove that John F. Kennedy was murdered by a conspiracy
iil assassins, there is good reason to think-that he was. The
conspiracy may have originated within the U.S. Government
)pelf. Kennedy was well aware of the immense power of the
mAmerican intelligence establishment and sought to curtail
Its operations. The Central Intelligence Agency, in parti-
Cular, with its invisible machinery and its pervasive connec-
tlons among the military an4.petroleum industries, appeared
INwruly and uncontrollable to the young President. In 1961 he
ordered it to reduce its foreign and military operations, and
In 1963 he closed its guerilla training camps for anti-Castro
refugees. His intention, according to The New York Times
(April 25, 1966, p. 20), was to 'splinter the CIA into a thousand
pieces and scatter it to the winds.' After the Bay of Pigs
(lasco, he demanded the resignation of CIA chief Allen
belles (who later served on the Warren Commission) and
his immediate subordinates. The threat to the CIA was
Unmistakable.
THE INTELLIGENCE ESTABLISHMENT WAS FURTHER
antagozined by Kennedy's political and economic decisions.
the President informed Secretary of Defense Robert Mac-
Namara of his resolution to end U.S. involvement in Vietnam
after the 1964 elections. This position not only struck at the
heart of U. S. anti-Communists whose vanguard was the CIA,
but also at defense-related industries which feared losing
Tuley contracts. The air industry was disturbed by the pros-
Pect of losing leverage over the luxuriant oil deposits off the
Coast of Southeast Asia. The petroleum industry was fearful
of Kennedy's plan to cut its depletion allowance from 27%
to 6%. This plan, which lay unfinished at Kennedy's death,
Would have reduced the profits of major oil companies by
2(1% and increased federal revenues tremendously. In his
liberalization of natioal policies through income redistri-
U
bution, John Kennedy was again acting counter to the de-
sires of the CIA, which increasingly viewed him as its
primary nemesis.
GIVEN ITS OBVIOUS MOTIVES, DID THE CIA INDEED
liquidate its enemy? Is there evidence of a CIA-inspired
coup? Many writers think so, and they have gathered much
information to support' their claim. The most potent and
controversial among them is Jim Garrison, District At-
torney of New Orleans. In the following paragraphs we
shall be concerned with his investigation of the President's
assassination.
GARRISON'S INITIAL INQUIRY BEGAN WHEN IT WAS
learned that Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused killer, had
lived in New Orleans for most of 1963 (he was in fact born
there). A routine check was made, with no significant results.
Two years later, after talking to members of the Warren
Comission who admitted gaps in its work, Garrison formed a
research team to reexamine the case. His investigation
produced front-page headlines, involved a mysterious death
and climaxed in the acquital of Clay Shaw, the only man tried
for conspiring to kill John Kennedy. Garrison is currently
under Federal indictment for taking bribes, a charge he and
his supporters denounce as governmental retaliation for his
probing into the assassination.
IN POINT OF FACT, GARRISON DID DISCOVER A GREAT
number of peculiar incidents surrounding the event. Con-
trary to the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald acted
alone, the majority of witnesses on Dealey Plaza heard
gunfire from the grassy knoll in front of the President.
Seven of them reported seeing smoke rise from the area.
At least nine men were -arrested in the vicinity immediately
after the. assassination, but their names have never been
released and their identities remain unknown. The car in
which the President rode was not examined and photographed,
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WHO SHOT PRESIDENT KENNEDY
or Fact and Fable in History
Gareth Jenkins
Cambridge School of Weston
Weston, Mass.
"I do not know who killed Kennedy nor their motives, etc. But I think I have shown
satisfactorily from physical evidence ... that Oswald alone could not have shot President
Kennedy. . . . There was a conspiracy, to the extent that his accomplice(s) remain
undiscovered. "
Nov. 22, 1971 was the eighth anniversary of the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas,
Texas. What follows here are some observations on
the treatment of that event by the special investi-
gatory commission set up by the then-new President
Lyndon B..Johnson (the "Warren Commission"). I will
concentrate on the implausibility of the "facts" as-
sembled by that commission to support their conten-
tion that a single man, Lee Harvey Oswald, was sole-
ly responsible for Kennedy's death. It ismy counter-
.contention that the bare physical evidence published
by the commission itself, fragmentary as it is, does
not support the commission's main findings in the
least. On the contrary, this article shows - using
the Commission's own cited evidence - that at least
two gun men - Oswald possibly being one of them -
cut Kennedy down in a hail of bullets,on Nov. 22,
1963. The other person (or persons) involved are
still at large.
First. let me express a note on the documentation
in this article. The Warren Commission published its
one-volume, 888-page report on Sept. 23. 1964, and
published a short time later a 26-volume compendium
of hearings, depositions, and exhibits accepted in
evidence before the commission. Citations to the
report itself are denoted by the initials WR (Warren
Report) and the page number, thus: (WR435), citations
to the 26 volumes of hearings are denoted by Roman
numerals; as an example; (XXX,114) denotes Volume
25. page 114 of Hearings/Exhibits. See the bibli-
ography at the end of this articl-e.for citations from
other sources.
hundreds taking pictures (of great importance later
on for the investigation) all along the parade
route.
At the corner of Elm and Houston Streets in Dal-
las, somewhat past the densest crowds and the city
center, the motorcade approached a tall building
-known as the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD),
which housed firms dealing in book distribution and
'other firms in other lines of business.
At 12:30 p.m. CST Kennedy's car had just passed
this building, moving at about 10 mph, when several
shots rang out. The first shot hit President Ken-
nedy in the upper back (or neck) and, according to
the Warren Commission, passed completely through
him at the neck to hit Gov. Connally (seated on a
jump seat directly in front of Kennedy) in the mid-
back.
This first shot broke Connally's fifth rib -
right side - and passed out of his body to the
front also, where it fractured his right wrist and
lodged finally in his left mid-thigh.
The second shot fired at the motorcade (all shots
were later said to have come from the sixth floor
of the TSBD) was a probable miss. In any case a
bullet did hit the sidewalk near President Kennedy's
car, throwing fragments which slightly wounded a
bystander, James T. Tague, on the cheek.
The third shot hit President Kennedy in the
head, Inflicting a mortal wound, from which he died
30 minutes later.
A capsule summary of the main events and offi-
cial findings according to the Warren Commission
report runs like this.
President Kennedy, on a political fence-mending
trip in Texas in late Nov. 1963, was scheduled to
address an open-air rally at the Trade Mart in Dal-
las on Nov. 22. His arrival was to be in the grand
manner. with an open-car motorcade through the city
to precede the speech. Kennedy, his wife Jacque-
line, (now Mrs. Aristotle Onassis), Governor John
Connally (now Secretary_of the Treasury), his wife,
and two Secret Service-agents (one driving) were
the occupants of the lead car in the noontime par-
ade. The?crowds were heavy and enthusiastic, witr~
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tion, rumors, and conflicting eye-witness reports
of many kinds Circulated. No suspect, armed or
otherwise, was detained on the spot, though several
hobos in a nearby railroad stockyard were picked up
for questioning.
About an hour later a Dallas police officer, J.
D. Tippit, was shot to-death in the Dallas Oak
Cliff district, resulting in a huge dragnet that
bagged Lee Harvey Oswald in a. movie theater at 1:45
p.m. Oswald was booked at 2 p.m., and shortly
thereafter charged with the murders of both Officer
Tippit and President Kennedy. A rifle, thought to
be the assassination weapon,
~yhad been found on the
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A `Conspiracy' That Never Was
The theory that the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy was planned and carried
out by a wicked conspiracy at the highest
echelon in the government, in which both the
FBI and the CIA played a role, is based, in
large part, on negative evidence.
The Warren Commission, after its extensive
investigation, concluded That Kennedy had been
killed by a single assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald,
acting alone.
The very existence of the Warren Commis-
sion and its conclusions, however, have been
cited by those with a conspiratorial frame of
mind to prove how deep and wide the supposed
conspiracy was and is. Naturally, the conspira-
tors would hang together. After all, you wouldn't
expect them to admit it. As the Minister of
War remarked in Anatole France's coruscating
satire on the Dreyfus affair in France, "Penguin
Island," the alleged conspiracy "was invulner-
able because it, was invisible."
The conspiracy theorists have asserted that
the X rays and photographs taken of the mar-
tyred President would, if revealed to the pub-
lic, disprove the Warren Commission's con-
clusion that the President had been struck
by two bullets, both fired from the rear. The
Kennedy family has permitted only govern-
ment representatives to examine these X rays
and photographs, until now, on the ground
that they are too sickening to be spread out
for the public view.
Now, however, the family has permitted Dr.
John K. Lattimore, a New York physician who
has written widely on the'subject of the Ken-
nedy assassination, to examine the 65 items
in the National Archives, and he has concluded
that, as he told a New York Times interviewer,
they "eliminate any doubt completely" about
.the validity of the Warren Commission's con-
clusion.
Critics of the Warren report assert that one
of the two shots that killed the President had
been fired from the front, No one has ever
been able to find the supposed second assas-
sin or even evidence that there was one on
the grassy knoll to the front of the Presiden-
tial automobile. Dr. Lattimore concludes, upon
examination of the bullet trajectories, that if
anyone were to have shot the President from
the front "they would have had to be squat-
ting on the floor of the car in front of him."
It may be that not until all the horrible
pictures are made public that the doubters
will be satisfied. But more likely, not even
then.
For the conspiracy theory is also fed by
cynics and swallowed by the gullible, upon
both of whom evidence, however compelling,
does not have much effect.
In the former category there is New drleans
District Attorney Jim Garrison, who has
charged, with no tangible evidence, that the
CIA was "deeply involved in the assassina--
tion" an who spent a couple of years trying
to prove that a prominent New Orleans eq-
trepreneur, Clay Shaw, was a participant.
A unanimous jury found Shaw innocent. Last
month, Garrison himself was indicted by a
'grand jury on charges of income tax evasion
and a conspiracy to bribe law enforcement of-
ficers. Garrison thereupon blamed his indict-
ment on harassment by, a government deter-
mined to continue to hide its conspiracy, and
no doubt there are those who believe him.
What those with rational doubts ought to
ponder, however, is how it happens that, after
all the government secrets that have been
spilled in recent years, not a single member
of what would have had to be a widespread
conspiracy has ever breathed a word about it
in more than eight years.
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.i's at Jesse Audience
Political satirist Mort Sahl
took an uncharacteristic sober
pause in his fast-paced routine
of acidic barbs at Americans
and their institutions before a
student-dominated audience of
about 1,200 persons Wednesday
night at Jesse Aduitorium.
"You are a fist that can be
splintered into so many
fingers," Sahl warned. "Stop
thinking of issues as isolated
things. They're all vertebrae
along the same line. They've all
got to do with saving America."
Sahl allowed his advice to
"sink in" a moment tier
continued his rambling one-
after-another commentary of
jabs at the various "vertebrae"
he mentioned, suggesting
connections between all of the
country's problems.
He took special attention to
degrade the official in-
vestigations of the
assassinations of John F.
Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther
King and Robert F. Kennedy,
charging that high-placed
Central Intelligence Agents and
military officials have tried to
suppress unpublicized evidence
waling with the cases.
"The CIA hired five lawyers
- and you can quote me - to
defend Clay Shaw and they're
still on salary," Sahl charged
in another relatively serious
moment. Shaw was un-
successfully charged by New
Orleans district attorney Jim
Garrison with conspiring to
murder the late President.
"The evidence shows that
President Kennedy was the only
roadblock to escalation of the
Asian land war," Sahl said.
" P,'hen he died, we had 14,000
men in Vietnam - all Green
Beret volunteers and a total of
137 men had been killed in 3
years. Within.11 months after
Lyndon Johnson took over,
550,000 men were there, the
draft call was up, and we were
losing 130 men a week."
He said implications that the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA and
FBI were involved in the
murder are "extremely grave."
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A Model for Explanation
Vincent J. Salandria, Attorney
Philadelphia, Pa.
STATII'Il
"While the researchers have preoccupied themselves with how the assassination was accom-
plished, there has been almost no systematic thinking on.ty President Kennedy was killed. "
(Based on an address at the conference of the New England Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 23, 1971.)
For almost eight years the American people have
failed to address themselves to the crucial issue of
why President John F. Kennedy was killed. Much val-
uable time has been lost; it is becoming increasing-
ly clear that our delay has cost mankind dearly. I
urge that no one drop this question, for to do so is
to abandon the serious search for'peace internation-
ally and for domestic tranquility.
Since November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy
was assassinated in Dallas, there has been a great
deal of research into the micro-analytic aspects of
the assassination. I have been among the earliest
and guiltiest of the researchers in my protracted
analyses of the shots, trajectories and wounds of
the assassination. The ransacking of the facts of
the assassination is not a source of pride for me
but. rather of ug ilt. While the researchers have in-
volved themselves in consuming preoccupation with
the micro-analytic searching for facts of how the
assassination was accomplished, there has been al-
most no systematic thinking on why President Kennedy
was killed. We have neglected this essential work
of constructing a model of explanation which fits
the data of the assassination and explains the why
of it.
Conspiracy
One who takes the trouble to study the micro-
analytic material provided by the federal govern-
ment must immediately conclude that there was a con-
spiracy to kill President Kennedy. How foolish it
was of us to dwell so long on these governmentally
supplied pacifiers, rather than to put them aside
and undertake the serious work of constructing a
model of explanation. In this connection it is im-
portant to take note that the very organization
which made that mass of detailed microanalytic evi-
dence available to us - the federal government -
contended from the first that there was no conspir-
acy. But, the federal government's intelligence
agencies must have known that the material which the
government issued would indicate a conspiracy exist-
ed.- Then why did we get the evidence?
one'hand wish to provide us with data which prove a
conspiracy to kill President Kennedy and simultane-
ously contend on the other hand that there was no
conspiracy?
So overwhelming and voluminous is the evidence
of conspiracy provided for us by the government that
we are compelled to conclude that if not the, at
least a number of possible plots, were meant by the
conspirators to be quasi-visible. The federal gov-
ernment has deluged us with evidence that cries out
conspiracy.
Another theoretical problem confronts us. If the
killers were positioned in the highest echelons of
the federal governmental apparatus, and by the as-
sassination they had finally usurped the pinnacle
governmental power, then why did'they not conceal
the conspiracy? For, if they had accomplished a
coup, they could have exercised their control by
concealing evidence of conspiracy. But this coup
was covert. The people would not have tolerated an
overt coup against such a beloved man as President
John F. Kennedy. Because of the covertness of the
coup, I propose the explanatory thesis that the new
governmental rulers were eager to reveal their work
at differing levels of certainty to diverse people
and at different times. In this way, they could
avert a concerted counter thrust to their illegit-
imate seizure of power. Democratic forces could
not unite against the new illegitimate governmental
apparatus because of timing. The insights of what
had occurred dawned in the minds of the decent cit-
izens at different times and with different degree-
of clarity. The transparent aspects of the conspir-
acy were permitted to flash signals to various ele-
ments of our population, much in the fashion of spot
ads slanted at different times for selected audi-
ences. The new rulers carefully and selectively
orchestrated revelations of their bloody work, so
as to gain therefrom the. deference to which they
felt they were entitled by their ascendancy to ab-
solute power. I have long believed that the killers
actually preempted the assassination criticism by
supplying the information they wanted revealed and
also by supplying the critics whom they wanted to
This question presents ?a,se yuosrltheeo ~tFal 2006/01k4XIK14gW J sI QN0akeUQQar lithe
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(UPI)-Special Prosecutor
Benjamin E. Smith dropped
state , gambling and bribery
;charges Friday against Dis-
trict Attorney Jim Garrison,
saying the federal govern-
ment's refusal to supply him,
with evidence in the case
makes prosecution impossible.
Smith's action cleared the
way for the federal govern-
ment to proceed with its case
charging Garrison with taking
payoffs to protect illegal pin-
ball operations in Nev., Or-
leans.
Smith, however, said he
would continue with a state
malfeasance charge that ac-
cuses Garrison of having him-
self indicted on state charges
in order to "weasel out" of
similar federal counts.
Tile U.S. attorney's office
charged Garrison June 30 on
the bribery and gambling
counts. Garrison countered
that he was being persecuted,
for his contention that certain
government agencies were re-
sponsible for the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy.
Last week Garrison went be-
fore his own Orleans Parish
Grand Jury and had himself
and nine co-defendants in-
dicted on state charges iden-
tical to the federal counts.
In dropping the state
charges, Smith said there was
"110 reliable evidence on which
to proceed with the indict-
ment" since all corroborative
evidence is in the custody of
the U. S. attorney, who refused
to release it to the state.
"Phis incl it des marked.;
money, electronic recordings'
and tapes and key witnesses,"
Smith said.
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!Editor, The Arizona Republic:
Northern Arizona University recently
hosted Mort Sahl - comedian now poiit Salll talked for more than two hours.
ical commentator. It was a painful ex-, There were no police. There were no
perience. FBI or CIA" men who identified then'-
selves. There was no one who came to
Sahl began his presentation Nvith.the silence him.
story of an accident he had had recently
,near Winslow. When the police arrived - He finished his talk and walked freely
as lie tells it -- (even though he was off the stage. Ile'-had spoken lightly of
;seriously hurt) they began to give him a our flag in conjunction with his jokes.
shakedown and search his car, con,- Ile had made terrible a c c u s, a t ion s
pletely remiss'of (him) the victim. ?, against our leaders and our law enforces
He described one of the officers as ment abgencies.
having . a "Marine haircut, with an But I couldn't help thinking that the
American flag on top of his head." of grand old lady of liberty was still there.
her garments had b e hefoul_d,
course the. flag and the iniplicatioll that 1 hough
we live in a police state made good 'though she lied been profaned and ridi-
material for a joke. Puled, she still proudly hold her torch
'
ae1J.
men tie gave us a dries Vl ' 1
_i,
A real autopsy had '-.ever been per=
of the We President people, and its x.c:hls, she still allowed
n the bod
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John F. Kennedy, and the report of said amen to speak freely even at the risk of
autopsy was a lie. Several days before her own destruction. I wonder if Sahl/
he was killed, President Kennedy had would explain this?
issued a standing order that all Anheri MICHAEL J. IBEJSCII,
can troops were to leave Vietnam, Flagstaff
Lee Harvey Oswald had been a former
member of the FBI, and-also a "run-
nei.'" of information for the CIA and o`h- J
er U.S. intelligence agencies. Soon after
his inauguration, President Johnson be-
gan a sharp increase of our forces in
Vietnam.
Sahl's conclusion: That our CIA, FBI,
and Lyndon Baines Johnson had had a
hand in the death of President Ken- .
nedy..
And so Sahl's presentation went on.
One might go so far as to say that he
,.had these collegians in his hip pocket,
which I feel is right where he wanted
them - with one exception.
Halfway through his performance, one
lone but courageous man stood up and
shouted a reply to Said that everyone
might hear. "Sharrle on you," his an-
guished voice pierced the auditorium,
"Shame on.all of you. Do you dare even
to listen to such a man?"
For me, it was the high point of the
evening. Amidst the 'jeers and moments
of confusion until the man was ushered
out, I could not help but feel that his
love for freedom was sincere and gen-
uine; and that it. didn't make any differ-
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Edmund C. Berkeley
Editor, Computers and Automation
"We must begin to recognize history as it is happening to its. We can no longer toy with
illusions. Our war adventures in Asia are not related to national security in any rational
sense. ... A coup d'etat took place in the United States on November 22, 1963. when STATI NTL
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated."
In May.1970,Computers and Automation published a
32-page article "The Assassination of President Ken-
nedy: the Application of-Computers to the Photo-
graphic. Evidence" by Richard E. Sprague. The author
made the following important statements (among others)
which bear on the subject'of this article:
(Beginning of Quotation)
Who Assassinated Praskiant Kennedy?
On November 22, 19'63, in Dallas, Texas, President
John F. Kennedy, while riding in an open limousine
through Deal-ey Plaza and waving to the surrounding
crowds, was shot to death. Lee Harvey` Oswald, an
ex-Marine, and former visitor to the Soviet Union,
was arrested that afternoon in a movie theatre in
'another section of Dallas; that night he was charged
with shooting President Kennedy from the sixth floor
-easternmost window of the Texas Schcol Book Deposi-
tory Building overlooking Dealey Plaza. This act
Oswald denied steadily through two days of question-
ing (no record of questions and answers was ever
preserved). Two days later while Oswald was being
transferred from one jail to another, he was shot
by Jack Ruby, a Dallas night-club owner, in the
basement of the Dallas police station, while mil-
lions of Americans watched on television. The com-
mission of investigation, appointed by President
Lyndon B. Johnson, and headed by Chief Justice Earl
Warren of the U. S. Supreme Court, published its
report in September 1964, and concluded that Oswald
was the sole assassin and that there was no
conspiracy. -
In'view of the authority of the warren Commis-
sion, that conclusion was accepted by many Americans
for a long time. But the conclusion cannot be con-
sidered true by any person who carefully considers
the crucial evidence - such as the physics1of the
shooting, the timing of a number of events, and
other important and undeniable facts. In other
words, Oswald was-not the sole assassin, and there
was a conspiracy.
This article will develop that thesis, prove it
to be true on the basis of substantial, conclusive
evidence, and in particular some analysis of the
photographic evidence.
There was in fact a conspiracy. Oswald played
a role in the conspiracy, although there is con-
clusive evidence that on November .22. 1963, he did
ably four) - none of whom were in the sixth floor
easternmost wind;,: of the Texas School Book Depos-
tory building where the warren Commission placed
Oswald - fired a total of six shots at President
Kennedy.
One of these shots missed entirely; one hit
Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of-Texas, riding
with Kennedy; and four hit President Kennedy, one
in his throat, one in his back, and two in-his head.
(The bulk of the undeniable evidence for these state-
ments about the shots consists of: (a) the physics
of the motions of Kennedy and Connally shown in
some 60 frames of the famous film by Abraham Zapruder;
(b)?the locations of the injuries in Kennedy and i-t
Connally; and (c) more than 100 pictures, consist-
ing of more than 30 still photographs and more than
70 frames of movies.)
More than 50 persons were involved in the con-
spiracy at the time of firing the shots. These
persons included members of the Dallas police force-
(but not all of the Dallas police '- and that ac_
counts-for some strange events), elements of.the
Central Intelligence Agency, some anti-Castro Cuban
exiles, some adventurers from New Orleans, and
some other groups.- After the assassination, sbme
very highly placed persons in the United States
government became accessories to the crime. In
other words, they participated in assiduous con-
cealment of important facts, in shielding the per-
petrators of the crime, and in spreading a thick
layer of rewritten history (in the manner of George-
Orwell's famous novel "1984") over the whole crime.
Of course, asserting these statements makes theca
neither true nor believable. Without very strong
evidence, it would be evil to make such statements.
As to believability, prior to District Attorney,
Jim Garrison's trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans
in Feb. and March, 1969, public opinion polls in
the United States showed that over 75 percent of
the people in the United States believed that there'
.was a conspiracy. The press, radio, and TV almost
everywhere in the United States reported Garrison's
investigation and the New Orleans trial in a very
distorted way. Furthermore, Garrison did not prove
to the satisfaction of the New Orleans jury that
Clay Shaw was involved in the conspiracy, even
though he proved that Shaw knew and met Oswald.
.The news media of the United States (except for two
newspapers in New Orleans) reported the trial in
such a .way as to show that' no conspiracy existed.
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no shooting at President Kennedy, and that, just e a r 1 c I n S public
as he claimed when he waAPPkQ/WiFAr ,igaAe 2006/01/ x -} FQ ~ the
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Globe Staff
Skeptics over the gov-'
ernment's explanation of
the assassination of Presi-
dent Kennedy were given
some new theories yester-
day 'at -a meeting of the
Women's International
League for' Peace and
Freedom in Cambridge.
Three speakers reiter-
ated the-many criticisms of
the findings of the War-
ren Commission, which
concluded that Lee Harvey
Oswald alone killed the
President.
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Atty.' Vincent Salandria
of Philadelphia explained
to some 100 women and a
few men at St. Peter's
Episcopal Church his the-
ory that the Central In-
telligence A g e n c y was
largely responsible for the
killing and that McGeorge
.Bundy, Ford Foundation
president and former in-
telligence ofcer, was at
least aware of its efforts.
Manchester architect
Robert B. Cutler and Rich-
ard Sprague, secretary of
the Committee to Investi-
gate Assassinations, also
spoke.
Salandria charged that
both the CIA and the n-,ili-
tary were involved in. the
assassination, which, he
said, was intended to elim-
inate a thaw'in the Cold
War.
`"It is not irresponsible to
conceive of 'the American
military as having been in-
volvd in a plot to eliminate
Kennedy to assure contin-
uation of the Cold War," he
told the audience.
However, he did not
blame the military entire-
ly. He said: "I view it (the
Cold War) as a cooperative
effort (by Anu?ican and
Russian intelligence agen-
cies) to foist on both the
American and Russian ci-
vilian populations ail enro-
mous military-intelligecce
budget.
"The intelligence appa
ratus which killed Kenne-
dy had a need to keep our.
society in turmoil," Salan-
dria said. "It had - in
order to maintian its powe
- to generate a high de-
gree of chaos," Salandria
said.
At first, the attorney
said, the government in-
tensified-- us under the
guidance of Bundy, in-
volvement in the war in
Indochina and now, that
"The Vietnamese war has
been rejected by our people
gical CIA sees the need to/ a discussion of the media's
bring the war holne." Y responsibility in a democ-
. Salandria charged that
the CIA and former goven-
ment intelligence officials
ike Brundy are pormoting
"The polarization of our
society" and that "lake re-
volutionaries .. . are incit-
ing insurrection in -our
cities." -
'He cfte'" k ord Founda
. tion's.request for a defini
tion of powers before i
would grant funds to th
;Ocean Hill-Brownsvill
'decentralization project a
an event which led to the
New York teachers' strike
of 1959; the foundation's
funding of the autobiogra-
phy of Black Panther lead-
er . 1-luey Newton; and
grants which have piitted
some minority leaders
against others.
Salandria also warned
that the Pentagon papers
may be "designed as a
thrust against the military
by the CIA", charging that
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, who
claimed to have leaked the
papers to the 'press, is a
former. CIA agent, he said:
"in my assassination re-
search, - I ]earned that
ex-CIA people who under-
took work to assist the re-
search on the Kennedy as-
sassination invariably
turned out to be present
CIA people."
The league devoted three
of its five sessions to the
assassination. The others
were a report on China by
Mrs. Ruth Gage-Colby,
league representative to
the United Nations, who
racy.
. Founded in- 1915 to pre-
vent future conflicts like
World War I, the league
has sent representatives to
disarmament conferences
and to trials,. of minority
persons or dissenters, and
boycotted war producers. r
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NEWTO N - Comedian luort Sahl, who
some critics have said died just about the
time Lenny Bruce took his drug overdose,
was sitting in the recreation room of one of
those suburb ii middle-class homes Mbert
Young always lives in, trying to kill time
before his & p.m. concert.
What he was doing was the thing he does
best, talking in his inimitable, seemingly
disjointed tray.
His day so far had been miserable. There
had been a communications foulup-over the
time his plane from Mobile was to arrive,
and he had had. to rent.a car and drive to
Bucks County instead of being picked up at
the airport.
And on top of that, his hack, vhi'ell had
been broken for the second time in an
automobile accident earlier in the year,
was bothering him and he was taking drugs
to ease the pain. -
Maybe, as they had with Bruce, the drugs
helped him in other ways, too. Because he
kept talking. And not even a two-year-old
competing for the small audience's atten-
tion could shut hint up.
- No One Like Him
The truth is nobody wanted to. There just
aren't that many people around with Sail ' I's
versatile approach to things. and there is
probably no one who can, all in one breath,
go through Gloria SteineAi, Truman Capote,
Vietnam, Spiro Agnew, late. night TV talk
shows, George Jackson, why he has to be
at Kennedy Airport by 11 .o-clock, Said
Alinsky, the CIA, ale, then bring hhusell
back to Gloria 6-tell,-m, the way Sahl can.
And have it still niaLe sense.
To Sahl, everything, it semis, is some.
how inextricably woven together. '
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"Tbe reason Teddy Ke,inecly hasn't told
where be was," Sahl said.
'Operation Lead Start'
But not all of the comedian's indictments
~of the CIA were quite. that iniproblibl---. At
another point, he said, ?'1f your school is
suffering from acadeiuic- inertia, you know;',
no ROTC buildings have been burned in a
while ... then call the CIA or the FBI and
they'll dispatch a boy with a beard and
shades, and he'll burn something. It's call-
ed Operation I-lead Start."
But Sal-.!, who first gained .national recog-
nition fc;: coil cdi~c talents 'when Pichad
Nixon s.: making his first run for the
presidency, was at his funniest when talk-
ing about the president.
Listening . to Nixon, he said, is "like
listening to the captain of the Titanic."
' L-./ ( 2'l / l>
At one point as he was talking, Sahl
noticed a small brown acid white dog
named Ilobo playing in the yard outside.
"You -know, it's really true now that the
dog is man's best friend. Man has certainly
given up that role,'." he quipped.
And later, speaking of a continent he
attributed to James Baldwin that the white
man had taken away Baldwin's pride-, dig-
nity and manhood, .Saint said, "I may have
taken away his priSlc and dignity, but I
sure as- hell didn't take away his man-
hood."
'What Can You Say?'
Sahl's humor was particularly visceral
when he spoke about the lovely Dais, Stet'
gem, the women's lib advocate with whom
he has done battle several tines on nation-
al TV. 'Agnew isBa one thrown to the liberals to
"When she was in college, she used to /chew on. ut he's the same all the time.
work for the CIA. What can you say about _Ile's this administration's Nixon," he' said.
someone who makes tapes of their friends
and then turns them over to Washington?"
he said. "And she can't even -make x cup of
instant coffee and has never breast-fed a
baby. So what does she know about
"Kennedy had, lines on .his face after
three years in office, and Johnson came out
after five Years looking lire Dorian Gray.
But to give you an idea of how Nixon
applies himself, take a look at him. He
looks great. You know: chat, me worry?
So Alfred F: Nixon is going to 'Moscow,
huh?" He th n suggested Nixon might learn
Communism to teach to the Lockheed Corp.
Vice President Spiro Agnew, hog. ever, '
"I could sleep in the salve tent with
Agnew. I might keep my eyes open all .-
night ]oil-, though.''
Russians Getting Ahead
The Vietnam problem is really a simple
one, he told (lie audience. "The generals
,
y,
Sall) isn't much different than lie is private- don't want to get out unless you can give
ly, though he does tend to be somewhat them an alternative. All you have to do is
more paranoid about the paranoia of which say, 'Pack your bags and go to Israel.' But
he has been accused' in recent y cars, most they're not sure they want to go to Israel. I
of which concerns his contention that the el anxious about anti-Semitism in Russia,
CIA and the FBI are directly responsible'$ don't want the Russians to get ahead of
for every malevolence directed against the us in that area." _
U.S. since Pearl Harbor was attacked. . Sahl cautioned the students against using
Sall] is - serious about his ` belief, in a drugs, because they would then become
reigning group of conspirators, and, unless more comfortable. "I don't think any of
he one clay indelibly proves his point, that you should be comfortable. You'll become,
is unfortunate, because what . it does is benign and then you won't change anything.
detract from much of what he has to say ? I'm intoxicated just by living during the
Friday night, for example, before an At one point, when he was talking about
audience of about 300 in the.'Ruc}:s County the sexual superiority of blacks, Sahl gave
Community College gynuiasium, lie sug- an excellent example of the manlier in
gestec} rather strongly that not only were which associations whirl throul h his brain,
the deaths of President John F. Kennedy, ]'hat's one of the few racial stereotypes
On stage
where lie makes his mone
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Deckussivication of RRelevem.t. ocEt mmeizt,; M'ote't the Not-iorid ArG: ives-
"The people of the United States have a right to know, to find out the truth
about the lies they bare been told. "
Richard E. Sprague
Hartsdale, N. Y.
The precedent setting ruling on the Pentagon Papers
by the U. S. Supi:cme Court produced the revelation that
"Secret" and "Top Secret" government documents prove
that the American'people have -been deceived and lied to
about Vietnam and U. S. involvement for many years.
. One of the immediate reactions of an American citi-
zen is: "How many other lies have been told by our gov-
erning officials, which would be exposed by declassify-
Sag and publishing other classified documents?"
Resting in a special area in our National Archives
are a group of Secret and Top Secret documents pertain-
ing to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in
November, 19G3. Publication of these papers should
reveal a great deal about that assassination. They may
contain the facts about a conspiracy, the names of some
.of the conspirators, information about the planning for,
and the backing of the conspiracy, and, most importantly,
proof that the American public have been told many lies
about the assassination by the Warren Connnission and
by others.
The documents fall into two categories: (1) Warren
Commission executive session minutes; and (2) reports
submitted to the Commission by government agencies.
The former documents were classified top secret by the
Warren Commission Itself, and are listed partially in
Reference 5. The latter category includes reports from
the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service, classified Secret or
Top Secret by each agency. The Commission did not
actually see most of these documents because they were
assembled Ip the Archives after the Commission dis-
banded. Reference 6 gives a list of the titles of these
documents, the agency Involved, and the document num-
ber. The classifications are all Top Secret, Secret, 'or
Confidential.
how do we know .the documents may be revealing?
As In any complex web of information about a sub-
ject, correlation of some data with other data, provides
a value judgment of validity or significance. In the
complex case of the assassination of President Kennedy,
it Is necessary to correlate the titles of the documents,
dates, and names of the classifying agencies against a
vast body of evidence about the assassination.
evidence extant and has performed such it correlation
against the classified documents. The sources for the
evidence gathered are:
- Twenty-Six Volumes of Hearings and Exhibits
of the Warren Commission
- Warren Commission Documents in Archives
(About 10 times the size of the 26 Volumes)
- Senate Investigation Files (Senator Ed Long,
Subcommittee, 1967-65)
-- NCTIA Investigations
- Books and articles
The work of correlating this vast amount of informa-
tion is tedious; It requires many people and man-hours.
Two computer systems are being developed to help re-
searchers and eotlimittce members with the analysis.
Enough work has already been done to Illustrate the
probable significance of the classified papers. Here are
a few examples:
Lee Harvey Osv:ald's Relation to the FBI
Thesis: Oswald was a paid FBI informer and the
Warren Commission probably covered up this fact.
Many meetings of the Warren Commission are still
classified Top Secret. (See Reference 5.) The dates of
many of these sessions follow Immediately after sessions
described in a book-2 by Gerald Ford, one of the Com-
missioners.
At these sessions beginning January 21, 1964, Ford
says he Warren Commission was concerned because
Wagonner Carr, Texas Attorney General, told them that
he had Information about Oswald being a paid informer
for the. FBI. The classified sessions would, no doubt,
be'very revealing on this subject.
The Commission wound up merely asking J. Edgar
Hoover whether Oswald was a paid Informer or not.
The National Committee to Investigate Assassina- Hoover said no; and that ended the matter as far as the
tionsl (NCTIA) has gathered together a vast amount of public record (including Ford's book) is concerned.
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- I went back to establish any motive .. , the Sion of America. Sunset Strip, and John Garfield
a Chicago nightclub recently classic American assassin. This style cannot be imitat- picked him up.
to c itch Mort Sahl again, and . Right here, for example, I eel bee: use it's more of a per- Thought ~ T
found myself sitting next to a have a list of the docunic'!ts sonal revelation than it is a The hIx..i+gs
friend who writes for another that the Warren Com r,ission method. It probably is the "Do you young fellows know
local newspaper` II- was there has never declassified, anld? most complex verbal style yet what this war's about?" Gar-
to do a story on the girl singer they ipciude Jack Ruby's clog- produced b y an American h+.I field asked Sahl. "Do you
who also is an the program, tal charts, because Ruby bit norist and in the way it re- know wily we're fighting in
and when she'd finished sine Oswald to death, see ...and, ? fleets the niomert to moment Germany?"
ing Ivy friend got up to leave. no, really, I broke my back in functioning of a restless mind, less mind Yes, sir," Salil said.
I-- asked . hire. if he wasn't Albuquerque, New Mexico, it is the poken equivalent of "Because if you don't," Gar-
going to stay and catch SahI, when I drove my car off the some of Faulkner's prose, field said, "there's no use in
and he. said he wasn't. I asked road, and there I was down in And yet my friend wouldn't going...."
him if he'd ever seen Sah11 this canyon, anG a state troop- stay for Salil because . . Said let that thought hang in
work, and he said no, he er drives tip in his ))odge Well, because of the olitical the air for a moment, and then
hadn't and he didn't want to Polara - not necessarily the thing. Mort S:ahl, you see, still ye went on to other topics:
because Sahl was . . well, lowest bidder - and orders believes the CIA assassinated /Frank Capra, Sidney Poitier,
paranoid, yo;? knew, and hung me out of my car. I explain john F. Kennedy, and that the recent popularity of mow
up on that political thing, and. that I can't stand up because Clay Shaw was tip to no good i:'s about losers, Nixon ("I've
my friend didn't do that gum- I've broken my back, and, be- in New Orleans, and that the been doing stuff on him since
her. sides, I'm experiencing a two Kennedy assassinations 1953, and my lips are getting
Well, what can yt,1[ say? 'My
heady intoxication from being are linked, and that the FBI's tired of forming the sylla-
friend left with his story about " hands aren't clean in the bles").
the, girl singer, and I stayed aliti'e in the i\}xon-Agnev~ era got onto the
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and watched the finest, quick- ? ? ? and he sees from my li- James Earl Ray case. You And then we will have to listen to Sahl's . Pentagon Papers. ?Sahl had
est,. most. intelligent comic cease plates that I'm from evidence on these matters (in- claimed during his act that the-
mind in America at work. Be- California, so he measures the c 1 it d i n g some-disturbingly New York Vines hadn't re-
cause that is how I feel about flare cf my pants, confiscates frank testimony he reads from printed the Pentagon paper for
Mort Salil, you see, and so I a bottle of Vitamin C and the Shaw trial transcript) and Oct. 2, 1963, in which (he said)
can't be reasoned with either, busts me ... which is the make up your own mind. President Kennedy ordered all
I guess. ' second time I've been lad-as- MIy admiration for Sahl is American troops out of Viet-
AJuggler at Work tray by Linus Pawling." based less on the tenacity nam, an order later ? with
The fundamental difference which he has pursued the po- drawn.
Sahl does do the political in style. between Sahl and oth- litical mysteries of the 1930s "well," Sahl said, "it's all
thing during, his current stand er comedians is that he than on his style of doing so. I seeping down now. You can't
in Chicago, but it is part of a doesn't do a monologue, he think it's possible to like come- beep people in the dark forev-
juggling act that includes cv- does a tapestry. Almost all co- dians. despite their material; if or. And the strange thing, the
ery ether subject in the con- medians do linear routines. Mort Said is funny, cynical tragic thing, is that all those
temporary zoo. Every time The old-fashioned c o nil c s and adroit in what he has to lies were told in the name of
Sahl opens here, the colum- string together jokes (that say about the assassinations, holding it together, of 'main-
nists report that he covered most linear of all literary it should be possible to appre- taining credibility. The divi-
everything under sun, and forms), and.the newer comics ciate his art entirely apart dead is that, today, no branch
then they list everything under impose some kind of an out- from his subject matter. of government can be be-
the sun to prove it: Agnew;. side structure like autobiogra- That eras what Sahl was say- lieved. In the movie `Mr.
Ralph Nader, Vietnam, Goner- phy, in order to give their es- ing, in fact, about Marlon Smith Goes to Washington,'
al Motors, Lockheed, etc. You sentially unrelated material Brando, in a talk wwe had be- you had to strain to believe
get the point. the appearance of hanging to- tweed shows. Sahl said he that there could actually be
But what you can't under-' gether. didn't like Brando, but that lie one corrupt senator. Today,
stand, unless you watch him would stand in line to see him. how many young people he-
orks is the v. ay he keeps sev- Unorganized Material in a movie becaus liege there are any senators
e he thinks
en or eight subjects in the air Sah} works in the opposite 'Brando still has it, and will who aren't corrupt to one do-
at once, and gets a lot of his way, seeming to glory in the always have it. "You have to gree or another?"
laughs by transpositions and fact that his material seems seprate the man from the per-. ' There was a silence on that
the intercutting of non sequi- incredibly diverse and unor- sonal bias, and admire his art note, too, and then Sahl got up
turs that, once you've thought ganized. He moves from Pius even if you can't stand him," from the couch were he'd
about . them, aren't. Here is kie to air in your hot. dogs to he said. "There are a coup' been resting his back, and his
Sahl, for example, begint_ing radical chic parties to Lenny of musicians I also think about v:ife helped him on with. his
with an ex planation of his Bruce to Freud, and then re- in that wa brace, and he pulled a sport
y." I
back brace and then,winging minds himself he was talking I had a
list of -questions I shirt over it and got ready to
it- about Muskie, and doubles wanted to ask Sahl about his do his second show.
"I got it in a car accident back, and free-associates off career, his beliefs and the fact if his back hurts him on
a car ran directly into the track in . a new clirection, That New 'Orleans District stage, he doesn't reveal it, and
vier after I accused the CIA and d rubles back again, and Atty. Jim Garrison, who pros- lie's doing long s is of an hour
of well, never mind ... keeps all of these subjects ecuted Shaw, has been indicted or more, working hard and at -
but they caught the guy who, going for 10 minutes at a time. by the federal government, the top of his form. This is his
ran his car into mine . . . he Then he snatches a line out of but as it ttutic:Aout the tallied 13th engagement at Chicago's
was a lone assassin, his n:ot : 2111 air that somehow, m , Mister Ke11e 's Sipco the mi~d.-
cr never . loved him, he h l l @ lit""a 'bpi - }V7SCrt'tfeh FMQ8Qq2&Q
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never been a member of any
political group ... a loner, in
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A new and far fetched
theory of the assassinations of
Presideiit Kennedy, Sen. Rob-
ert Kennedy, Dr. Martin Lu-
ther King and :Ta_lcol~n x is
circulating on Capitol Hill. It
is contained in a 14-page re-
port buttressed by various'
documents, which r,, s put to-
gether by Don Riley, a labor
union employee and assassina-
tion buff from San Francisco.
Its conclusion is that all /
four were killed by the same
"conspirators": CIA agents,
anti-Castro Cubans, soone Dal-
las police, FBI oli_ratives,
"States Righters," Nazis, a
"clique of very conservative
businessmen (mostly oil)" and
. rightwing religious leaders.
We have criticized every one
of these groups at one time or
another.
But our own investigations
convince us that the new -
"theoiy," as earnest and in-
genious as it may he, is pure
balderdash.
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BATON 11OUGi -- One of the roosk dif-
ficult tasks the federal. government is facing
-in prosecuting state officials and local office
holders. in connection with organized crime
is convincing ti'e public the motivation is not
political persecution.-
There is an election year in . the state
now. and one in the nation next year, two
items to bear is mind.
State Atty. Gen. Jack P. F. Gremillion,
who beat one set of charges and is faced
with another, already has sounded his politi-
. cal defense in his bid for re-election by
claiming federal. persecution of a state offi-
cial who tried to help his people.'
Why t1;e task is tough
When one considers the people of Louisi-
ana are somewhat hostile to the federal gov-
ernment, chiefly because of the desegrega-
tion issue over the years, then it becomes
recognizable why the task of prosecuting is
tough.
:Not only will this apply to persons"at the
state level who are caught tit) in the spread-
ing investigation of organized crime's influ-
ence, but to the local level as well.
There is Some indication that it will he
almost necessary to educate the public to
the idea that the federal task force on or-
ganized crime is investi.,ating the Mafia and
not conducting a political probe.
Dist. /atty. Jim Garrison, for a Prime
example, has dismissed the federal bribery
charges against him by answering that the
Feds were retaliating because of his investi-
gation of the Central Intelligence A f? rc
gambling-type pinball machine.
Many did not and it is known that the
federal agents are taking a close look at the
vote and those who were actively oppose([ to
it. U.S. Atty. Gerald Gallinghouse has al-
ready indicated that legislators may be
caught up in the pinball machine investiga-
Sometimes it seems almost beyond be-
lief that the legislation cc,21d have been
defeated. in the face of all the testimony
from law enforcement official,. that pinballs
represented a major s;alre of revenue for
organized crime..
The only real F oipe
But in reviewing the history of the Leg-
islature and the administration in their ap-
proach to combatting organized crime and
corruption anion; public officials it becomes
evident 'that the only real hopa for a resolu-
tion of the difficulties is that the federal
government is able to carry it off.
Local district attorneys, including Garri-
son, Sargent Pitcher of Baton Rouge and
Sam Cashio of lberville Parish, have consist-
ently been accused of failing to enforce the
law.
During the height of the legislative
committee's somewhat lackluster probe,
Pitcher was furnished information on pinball
gambling produced by the Public Affairs Re-
search Coun.il'as part of its research into
the subject for the Governor's Crime Com-
mission. However; nothing canie`'of it. '
The state police have formed in organ-
ized crime section, but thus far nothing has
come of it either-with not even all of the
allowed positions'being filled. Under the cur-
rent superintendent of public safety, the
state police have become more of an intelli-
gence gathering unit that posses on informa-
tion than an active crime combatant.
and the Kennedy assassination. y !A cry for Ct civantlp
1Vith a federal 1 ' b
am
t
gr
s luny a out
o Con- The cry for a cleanup of corruption in
vene in New Orleans to begin taking urp the the state already has been sounded by a
Garrison and pinball machine charges, the number of candidates for statewide office,
extensive work done by the federal task with Gov. John J. MclCeithcn staunchly de-
force may be about to unfold. f .
d
;cncemnecl legislators
en
ing Ius aunirnlstr?atron of the past seven
years.
What the impact of the federal i
li
tives
ga-
While it is in this process, many an lion into organized crime's influene . ' i o~}
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legisk{tor conirnented in his 1970'vote on the anti-corrcption thane as the campaign prop-
is!
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Charges nga.inst Garrison6, who has \vas inforrncd that there was evidence
been. one of McKeitheil's clc est allies, of a collusion. between those involved
Louisiana h:;.s ,rocinced moan than camiat hell) hit disturb 11'.:: governor, 02', in o "11r1Gect ci ne ca ml City s'ml Sidle
its hare cf~ 1 1.1_o-l Political Wires since it adds one 1nC:C public t
ioil e n '- S
in its ?'istor,Ii ftl':r the old Creel- dais 1a\-; enforcement ofi_cAls
mall; against him. In viev.- of the fact The ni yor's cotllrn'ttr;~ cited the
to the carp urtio ers and sc~alm r'y of that Atty. Gen. Jac'. Greniilli011 faced
failure of city 'Ind. cte.ir Oie,C1d1S to U:;c^
the hCr[,rES+ lICi10'i Bra. On tIIl'0U l1 1.IC >
an m sundry i ,: federal char es in connection 11'tl",. the effc.:cti'; ely existing law, to stop SlI lit:
varicus a.,;. Longs F_R anti ~ s c 1
.h~L .c ~,nr t and still :lasts 1)er- and
Longs. operatio n , am 1,1E' failure to ~ Cn.^c.t'gc TtiIcKeilnon rlusl1 be la-,vs outlaw the ,10 1i'
cj_n ..,>'.SSlOrs of ,
noal_
wonaerin c;here lightning will Sir):e aill}11 iiit^
a politician who is as much of an P_ Viee
enisrna. as Jim Mahon, hot=;Ever. The next. The Mayo'_'sAdvisors' Committee
Charf;es that Garrison. toc!', bribes on Crime and Delinquency y -%vas orvied
Orleans }'ar1S11 CiiStrlCt ^ItOrPey" 5i:E'.i'r to allow 1. r, I
to attract contr0\'ergy the \'r "oilr=``' xr pine11 opCra}:.t+ls irlmunity in in 1953 by 1~,.e of Victor SL:'tlil'O and
attracts bees. the lcity is tae first serious ci:are Ie\'-, c,)erated through the remainder of his
rI he ln.tf:st COil.f1't?'; e1'~y Sli-1llh-1 elect apart rt a top official in this n1%t- e.dininntt2'atiori. The co llie i ttee's first
tier, bbut, it i~. not 11)00 first tinge that r e o ;a
around Garrison involves the federal eporo is issued on April 1'1, 1?c'~-, and
government. Fe lit= been cllal?g;, charges I:a\'C n glade legal'cllll pin- a second report on April. 30, 190.
ball gambling'. '
receiving hrlbh> to p gurgle pinball > t,? These t\vO eonlllliUrC reports sho\v
gambling 1o continue unharmed in hi:s On. April 1!, 1,.'+69, tree May rs _Ad- that some concerned. citizens, at least
jurlrclictioii. ISory Co riniittee on Crime. and De- were aware of a laxity in enforcing'' the
Garrison answered the thane by ? lmnquency in lie;'; Orleans reported that tail's against gambling at least as long
attempting to arrest the U. S. attorney or;aIu ed crime etiistso in the city andlso as April, 1939.
and the head of the federal ant +rike that its greatest source of funds came In .view of the seriousness of the
5`orce 1L1'Ne O Kans. fi01 1 g a r1 b I i 11 ---? handbook layoff charges leveled ag-llnct him, and in vne\',`
The charges against Garrison we l,Crtulg and gambling by use of coin, of other evidence that seems to indicate
serious ones, indeed, U.Ci the I c4 that ol?ei, E. pin ill machines. that pinball machine operators tivere not
the federal government should move On Sept. 3, 1969, the Orleans Pr>r_ prosecuted as they should have been, it
. against the chief law enforcement ofzi- is'1 Grand Jun. corifirmed u'ses' fizicl- is our recommendation that D.A. Gar-
ter of a major American city is not to mugs. I& Grand Jury subpoena.ect rison resign his position until the matter
be lightly dismissed as "a frameup," as operators of the major New Orl-cans has been resolved.
Garrison has attempted to do. pinball machine companies. Most of the We will agree that a man accused
It has been Garrison's contention operators pleaded the Fifth' Amend- of a crime should be deemed innocent
that federal officials have been after lllent. until proved guilty, but we doubt if,
his scalp since he attenlnled to prove The mayor's committee reported under the current circumstances, Garri.-
that -President John F. Kennedy was that the greatest percentage of the il- son will be able to administer the duties
assassinated by the f !_%,.r,:after than Ie al oarnhlincr *.
n~:-+rafinnc ?,-rr {nl,nri of his office as i.liev shc,tilci ha arlminic_
by Harvey Oswald. In other words, in lew Orleans bars and taverns. terl
Garrison would have us believe that "Many of these locations," the corn-
the Nixon a Ed'ministration would stoop mission reported, "are controlled, own-
to fabricating criminal charges against eci and operated by underworld char-
him because he accused a Democratic actors."
acuninistratiozn of wrongdoinl~g ,
? The committee reported that pin-
The charges against Garrison are ball machine companies. own or contmrJ
simply one more blow against GOV. p, New
hiinda~ecis of bars and taverns in dJohr, McKeithen's administration, art Orleans, and that there locations here
administration. that has already suf- used as' centers for many illegal actiil-
fered many blows through charge: of
hies other than gambling.
corruption and graft, as well as being ~'
The coinnlitiee also re_ported that
111 lea uE with the jV"Iafia. "many of the same inb tll distributing
The scandal charges have touched icompnies, whose officials took the
the Department of Rei-e~nue, the De- Fifth Amendment before the Orleans
pertinent of Education, the State: j'ax Parish Grand Jury, were also involved
Commission and the Louisiana Racing in business loans from the LL&T."
Commission. In addition, the Mctropoli- The tail Crime Ce_n.1n:i.ssio*i of New Orleans the chairman of thr mayor's com-
has concisteni:ly czbarged tiia~, imttee reported that in a 1Q1)~c~r ~{'r
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AMERICAN GROTESQUE: An Account of the Clay-
Shaw-Jim-Garrison--Affair in the City of
New Orleans, by James Kirkwood, 669 pages,
Simon and Schuster, $11.95
ThE N \X vo
`Something stinks about this whole affair. ...The starch is there
and c11nls to each are of us. "
Samt,el F Thurston.
Newton, Mass.
On December 1, 1970, "The New York Times" pub-
lished a review by John Leonard of two books. The
two books were:
A IIEDITAGE Or STOVE, by Jim Garrison, 253
pages, Putnam, $6.95
In the early edition of "The New York Times" the
title of the review was:
Books of the Times:
WHO KILLED JOHN KENNEDY?
In the later edition the title of the review was:
Books of the Tines:
THE SHAW-GARRISON AFFAIR
In the early edition, the last 43 lines'of the
review read as follows ("he" in the first line be-
low refers to Jim Garrison):
And he insists that the Warren Commission,
the executive branch of, the government, some
members of the Dallas Police Department, the
pathologists at Bethesda who performed the
second Kennedy autopsy, and many, many others
must have known they were lying to the American
public.
Mysteries Persist
Frankly, I prefer to believe that the
Warren Commission did a poor job, rather than
b dishonest one. I like to think that Mr.
Garrison invents monsters to explain incompe-
tence. But until somebody explains why two
autopsies came to two different conclusions
about.the-President's wounds, why the limou-
sine was washed out and rebuilt without
investigation, why certain witnesses near
the "grassy knbll" were never asked to testi-
fy before the Commission,'why we were all so
eager to buy Oswald's brilliant marksmanship
in split seconds, why no one inquired into
Jack Ruby's relations with a staggering vari-
ety of. strange people, why. a "loner like
Oswald always had friends and could always
AGENCY AN
STATINTL
.Something stinks about this whole affair.
"A Heritage of Stone" rehashes the smelliness;
the recipe is as unappetizing as our doubts
about the official version of what happened.
(Would then-Attorney General Robert F. Kenne-
dy have endured his brother's murder in si-
lence? Was John Kennedy quite so liberated
from cold war cliches as Mr. Garrison main-
ta?ins?) But the stench is there, and clings
to each of us. Why were Kennedy's neck or-
gans not examined at Bethesda for evidence
of a frontal shot? Why was his body whisked
away to Washington before the legally required
Texas Inquest? Why?
In the later edition, these 43 lines are replaced
by the following 13 lines:
And he insists that the Warren Cor.;mission,
the executive branch of the government, some
members'of the Dallas Police Department, the
pathologists at Bethesda who performed.the
second Kennedy autopsy, and many many others
must have known they were lying to the Ameri-
can public.
Frankly I prefer to believt that the Warren
Commission did a poor job rather than a dis-
honest one. I like to think that Mr. Garri-
son invents. monsters to explain Incompetence.
`And' that is the end of the review. Even the sub-
title "Mysteries Persist" has vanished.
Of course, this left a hole in the later edition,
and a hole needs to be filled. And the hole was
filled, by a section of editorial matter entitled
"New Books", which mentions one new fiction hook and
nine general books.
The evidence of these changes is shown in the
8ccompanying photographic exhibits.
In January 1971, John Leonard became editor of
"The New York Times Book Review", having previously
been one of the paper's daily reviewers. If he had
had any qualms about accepting the surgical change
that was wade In his review, completely altering.
Its character, presumably he felt It was reasonable
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son, r?.0. ).,:13 s ?L. tit; last
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the co 11 rtiiot!sc/ft.cin`g a
.. to e c2 co -; i , ; to i;iii
Presicleitt t1; n P. 1%, i,-Ciy.
Today it was Gnrr o:l in
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custody, token f~o1h1 his ,?al..-
front bonne to he fillcri.*-?inted.
like any suspect at the federal
courthou ~.
' PEF01114' l:iE started his
Kennedy probe late in Iff'i,
Garrison had a history of suc-
cess ihr using the federal au-
thority for his own erns.
He won an historic ictory
before the U.S. S 11 p r e nl e
Court when he beet a state
Court conviction for criminal
libel.
? The landmark decision over-
turned a $1.,GCO fine levied
against the DA is state Court
for his criticism of 'fli
nal District Court judges here.
soi ~ tl:d and c I _.t :i!h
col -;.i_; to kill Iiredy,
and ~ _ switch from most pre io s 1tn a5 s, to'.d a
By JOSEPH HAAS "There's no doubt In niy mind that the fn" calm,-literate story Of l aving nt Fe:rie in
19iw. In a bar In New Orleans and h:v
' vaetioatil.n should be rc_., ad 1r1 .53111E IM May
,
~?~ P` a,riG".rd 1-'el'rio and Shaw
If this >r:5 c.oue, a lot Of the party where he ov
old question
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k ~i0 Ah1Iii;ICA14 whoo i Nov. 2?, I0 3,? will ev i? f~a!ly heal the lingering doubts and fears in Ii`eo;?I;'s minds . discussing a way to murdar the President nd
Frount~sof e to CO this ,0111Y then flea in a getaway plane piloted by Fer-
that day. That is why tiie Jlnl Gar- might be resolved. The _0'VY
ninon-Clay Shaw affair in ,=sty a_leafs in the magnifies those doubts faid fear . rie. It was damaging t stimony against Shaw.
crake of President Ke1nt.dy's assassination "For inst nca, there is no reason why the
But- Shaw had the lnvney to enable his at-
must have pained many of tls like the taste- autopsy photographs shout! not j ave been re toBut- F. Irvl.1 Dymol:d, to spend $4,`his 00 for
less pica ink at a still-11-and--r : Cd J. leased In P. court of law or 111de avait2.b f tr, an a:chaus ve OVerni , iIispendati_~1'1 into
James Kirkwood Isn't r:- tly the person accredited e parts and set olrt~ s. It ,uch din S iesei's back;roi ;d. This, is cress e nto
' Inatlon the next day, Dyrnoid was able to dra w
you would cast to write t...definitive account closures v' ere made a man like 'Garriso p
of that controversial g u .n gothic dr::na. would not be able to appe GnteiOthef after from S? eael his story that believed that
A novelist, dramatist c.gil `: rnltir actor, 1?:e is ho lost the Shaer case a a bame the fade i for 16 p- years the Pin'.-:orlon Detective Agency
e " S . and others had hypnotized, tortured and ha-
den irwlit for 'him ham access rin to g e-~hisidence.invest!gatioli
the son o r thos.o rnatinea i,f l rf the '20s, Lila by government
Lee and James Kirkwood, S:r. y rassed him and his family to create th.e im-
With no prior journalistic experience. 'Y>irl:- THE 'LAPRUDER FJLiri, the movie of the pression that Spiesel was a Communist and a
wood Immersed himself for 21jZ years in the assassination made by an is nozent spectator, criminal. Spiesel had even filed P. suit in fed-
muddied maelstrom f;,:, of Clay Shaw trial. has been seen by only a f.-,Tr p-?ople. Kirkwood oral court against Pinkerton and other de-
Althouch Shaw has.baeil ,1e uitted of conspir- was one of them when It war subpoenaed by fendants charging that their rsecution* of
lag with Lee Harvey Cs r 1d ad David Ferns Garrison and shown repentc~i;y at t~ e Shaer him was depriving him of his civil rights and
.to assassinate President John F. Kennedy on trial, and It further swayed th author toward _-his ability to have normal sexual relations.
that shocking Friday in Dalian, the turbid a feeling that Oswald was not the only gun- sup*oir call you imk?a that any public
man. prosecutor, in good faith, vroua tYer'a'Jt Luca
`aftermath of that affair perhaps -will never
'When you see that . film, ''
be settled in our time. Y It raises marl) aman on-the stand?" nir,;rod asks. "Anti
Kirkwood says he would not want to endure doubts. Garrison had it shown a dozen tinges, :as a surprise witness, with no prior warring it again, nor the months he spent writing his for the shock value on the jury-in stop-'to the defense so that they might have an
engrossing account of tl e trial, "American frame, slow-motion, backwards and. forwards.opportunity to investigate his credibility? " (Simon & Sclhuster, $11.95), but "Well, it's an Incredible piece of film. Of
he feels that having undergone the ordeal course, it's. not Hollywood quality; It's grainy, OTHER -TlrfNESSES, Kirkwood Implies
"with Shaw will be useful to him as a man and and it's such a short piece, it covers only from his knowledge of. the case, were in-
s a writer. those seconds of violence. When you realize timidatd or coached by Garrison and hisQ
dible that one man aides to give untruthful testimony. Certainly .
?'TIHOLLY CONVINCED now of Shaw's in- this, it seems almost facie
nocence, Kir' ,all"!, sttl1b l'eves there is more with a rifle of such Inferior, quality, In that from the transcript Kirkwood presents of one
to the truth about'the.K ndy slaying than fleeting time, with a moving target and that - such queestiioon ago of wltne to ss,
has been revealed- .o far-iii New Orleans' distance, y with the obstructions of the sign and ry y
Dist. Atty. risoii's staff, Russo was given !most as
luriu Iin2~ininas, the trees and the difficulty of the wind and
Garrison's by the the crowds, could make, iwo or three or four much information through leading questions
press, y the professwnal
. as he mongers such as Mark Lane .ass oriby ithe shots count. It's just incredible."
i Russo repeated much of th'isefo ce f d infor.
'>hlaa pen Commission. WE CAN'T attempt to do briefly mation as fact when he testified that he sat in
For one thing, Kirkwood no longer is con- here - analyze Garrison's case a g a'i it s t as Oswald, Shaw and Ferrie' discussed details
ylncdd that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone s h a w - w h a t Kirkw: od does so -corn- of the conspiracy plot.
!assassin or than there was not a conspfracy. prehensively in his fat .(,N19-page) accog.ii of Kirlcwood's Iono interview v:ith Russo after
.lfe believes the Afar: 7Is a ~ haw a ri r ut lr ~~r 6p - O O~CiE80 $~(~0 8bidly faEcinatiro glimpse
much .harm as ggod D?CaL 9 4 t D i b n v : into the neurotic mind of a comou slve liar.
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The theory so succj; fly put by
Abraham Lincoln to-the bPfcct that
some.l~ ople will believb..anything
was .recently reinforced by a re-
port of the publishing success en-
joyed by New Orleans District
Atty. Jim Garrison.
If Ga rison is right, this coun-
',try is in a perilous state and we
must choose not to believe him.
Garrison has a theory of his
own, which try as he might, he
has not been able to prove. This,
however, has not diminished his
success as an author of books
even if his f a i l u r e has not en-
hanced his record as a prosecuting
attorney.
The Garrison theory is that
President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated as the result of a
conspiracy engineered *by the Coil-
i:al Intellig.ance Agcney at tlieili-
stigation of the Pentagon, a rather
generic term covering a lot of
ground. The reason for this action,
Ti
according to the Garrison theory,
is because Pi:esideiit Kennedy was
itary 'involvement - in Vietnam,'.
Presumably everyone kno;:'s th4.
a withdrawa' from Vietnam.
doesn't set too well with the "Pen-
tagon."
The New Orleans district attor-
ney, who gained much notoriety in'-
the: last several years, is the man;:,
who unsuccessfully prosecuted
Clay Shaw as a conspirator alleg
edly associated with Lee Ilarvey'
Oswald and others in the Novem-
ber 1963 murder of the. President
in Dallas. The conspirators met
and committed several overt acts
in the plot in New Orleans, Garri-
son charged, but: failed to prove.
He is now trying to bring 'Shaw
back to trial on a charge of perjury
allegedly made !in the conspiracy
trial.
He announced the other day he
has written a book about his inves-
tigation of the assassination and
now has offers to write several,
more. Apparently Garrison does
not stop at charging that the Pen-
tagon and the' CIA wanted Presi-
dent Kennedy murdered. He has
expanded his theory to encompass
the charge that the American in-
volvement- in Vietnam is compara-
ble to Hitler's Germany in that
America is responsible for the
murder of a million or more peo-
ple in Vietnam. The inference
being that our objective is genoci-
dal.
In light of historical facts and
sound reason it would seem that i
Mr. Garrison has a tough row to
hoe to prove his allegations, but
one is certain - he is at least
making money doing it..
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The assassination of John F.
Kennedy, an event practically rel-
egated to history books and the
Warren Commission Report, might
Washington columnist Jack An-
derson,. whose writing frequently.
appears on this page, claims to
have information possibly related
'to the assassination; He says the
information is from "sources
whose credentials are beyond ques-
tion."
Anderson'says the CIA fried six
times in the years is e tiding Ken-
nedy's death to assassinate Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro. In today's
4 column, Anderson also links the
CIA to the deaths of Dominican Re-
public dictator Rafael Trujillo and
former South Vietnamese Presi-
" dent Ngo Dinh Diem.
We don't doubt that the CIA is
:.capable of pulling off such James
Bond-style intrigues as Anderson
has suggested. The question is, did
it, and if it did, what can be done
now?
Many congressmen have criti-
cized. the seeming autonomy of the
CIA. Critics have charged that it
`acts as an actual policy-making
'body, rather than serving an ad=
yisory function on matters of in-
telligence and security.
Objections to the'CIA's activi-
ties led in 1963 to a bitter debate
-on the Senate, floor. Sen. J. William
become a subject of debate again
and perhaps even further investi-
gation, especially into the activities
of the. Central Intelligence _Agency.
Fulbright, D-Ark., introduced a
resolution which -called for the cre-
ation of a nine-member overseeing
committee to keep tabs on the CIA.
Fulbright wanted to draw the nine
members equally from the Armed.
Services, Appropriations and For-
eign Relations .. committees, in
hopes of bringing the activities 0.
the agency under closer supervi-
sion and scrutiny.
The resolution lost. on a point of.
order vote which relegated it to
the Armed Services Committee,
where it died; , '-
Early the following year, the
nation learned of the CIA's involve-
ment in secret subsidization of or-
ganizations engaged in education,
law, journalism, labor and reli-
gion. In response, President Lyn-
don Johnson ordered the CIA and
other government agencies to halt
secret financing of private vob n-
tary organizations. '
Now the CIA has been accused
of outright plotting to murder for-
eign heads of state.-Anderson hints
that President Kennedy had not
ordered'the CIA to undertake such
missions. Anderson also suggests
that Kennedy's own death was the
result of the.alleged CIA attempts
on Castro's life.
The. CIA continues to function
much as it did in the early 1960s---
no new controls have been put on
it. .
Anderson's charges, if proven
true, ?sliould' provide the impetus
for a renewed effort to bring the
CIA under proper controls. -
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What is new about that headline?
Nothing much, since Jun Garrison and
I released that information more titan
two yer:rs ago. During the past two
years we have witnessed numerous
denials, primarily based upon the
assumption that John Kennedy never
showed any inclination to wind down
the war, and was in fact fervently
committed to maintaining American
:coops (then called advisors) in
Vietnam. Now Kenneth P. O'Donnell,
appointments secretary and close
personal friend (later for that) of the
late president, reveals that John
Kennedy was committed to the
complete withdrawal of all American
personnel just after his re-election in
1964. O'Donnell said that Kennedy
.felt "that if he announced a total
withdrawal of American military
personnel from Vietnam before the
1964 election there would be a wild
conservative outcry against returning
Mr., to the presidency for a second
term "
O'Donnell then 1?4uoted Kennedy.;
"In P65; I'll be damned everywhere
as a Communist to peaser, but I don't
care.I tried to pullout completely
now, we would.) have another Joe
McCarthy red scare on our hands. But
I can do it after I'm rt-elected. So we
had better make damned sure that I
am re-elected."
Instead they made ..damned sure
that he was dead and unable,
therefore, to sun_for"re-election.
O'Donnell's statement was not
immediately followed' by the official
denials that we have come to associate
with the aftermath of all truthful
revelations. lr:stead, the Senate
Democratic leader, Mike Mansfield,
said at once that, after a White House
breakfast in the Spring of 1963,
Kennedy told him he agreed that a
''complete withdrawal of all
Americans frorii Vietnam was
necessary." The president added,
Mansfield reported, that this could not
be done until after the 1964 elections,
but should be done immediately after
the elections.
According tc O'Donnell, Kennedy
met with Gen. Do_iejas MacArthur and.
then gave his staff a complete account
of the discussions:
"MacArthur implored the President
to avoid a US military build-up in
Vietnam,, or any other part of the
Asian ma'riland, because he felt that
the domino theory was ridiculous in a
nuclear at;c. MacArthur went on to
point. out 'that there were domestic
problems the urban crisis, the
ghettos, the economy -' that should
have far more priority than Vietnam."
I.? take you back to N9v. ptd0*d
Do,'you remember what kind of a
cou;itry we lived in then? Compare it
V
Ir
to America 1970. Think of the months
and years that followed the
assassination of President Kennedy.
Years of silence. Two years in which
not a single voice dissenting the
official version of President Kennedy's
assassination was permitted on
network radio or television. Think of
the responsible editorials in the
responsible press congratulating
Lyndon Johnson for his every act of
escalation, declaring that lie has
donned the Kennedy mantle as he
increased our investment from 15,000
advisors to more than half a million
combat troops. Do you recall how the
voice of the liberals was heard in the
land? I.F. Stone, the New York Post,
The Nation filled with support for the
Warren Report and condemnation for
those who dared to think that not all
the questions had been answered. And
how many redicals were heard to jeer
that JFK was all part of the pig power
structure anyway, and that his death
was an insignificant bit of trivia.
During the past half year we have
learned that the former chief of the
Dallas police force, Jesse Curry, has
concluded at long last that they never
did have any evidence to show that
Oswald did it alone; and that Senator
Richard Russell, a member of the 'Kennedy's friends and relatives.
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murder, the president (even, evidently,
when he signed tie report holding
quite to the contrary); and that
Lyndon Johnson, himself, never really
did believe the report and always did
harbor suspicion that there was a
conspiracy to kill Kennedy. The
pretense that Lee Harvey Oswald was
the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy
has now been so thoroughly
discredited that even the pretenders
have felt constrained to abondon it.
Curry in a book and in subsequent
media interviews, Russell ih an Atlanta
television interview, Johnson to CBS
in an exclusive interview the
relevant portion of which he then
asked CBS to delete. CBS, of course,
having had a great deal of experience
with re-writing and falsifying
information'in the field, complied.
Where this all leaves poor Earl
Warren and his lone hapless defender,
Louis Nizer, is a matter for
self-described "contemporary
historians" such as William Manchester
to ponder.
The rest of 'us might wonder what
Ken O'Donnell, described in the press
as JFK's closerpersonal friend; Robert
Kennedy; Ted.JCenned} Ted Sorenson
and all the other JFK confidants were
thinking as they heard Lyndon
Johnson order more men to Vietnam
and explain that he was following the
policy laid down by his predecessor,
and. what the survr\ring Kennedy
conficants have thought until now as
Nixon escalated, invaded a neutral
country cottittry, bombed North
Vietnam, sent'- troops Into Laos as
quietly as ong; can send troops into
another neutral country, and
explained it all as part of the
commitment of American military
personnel to Southeast Asia - a
commitment, he explained, that was
entered into and fully ?supporteduntil
his death by John F. Kennedy.
They all said they were his friends,
and surely he died as much for them as
for any others. Yet in cowardly
deference to- power and with craven
aspirations for a place near the throne,
they remained silent as his memory
was tarnished, the cause for which he
died scattered to the winds, the best of
our youth became victims or '
executions and often both, and as the
evil that was always present here as
it is in} all ?countries -- became so
dominarit~ 'that the country lost its
basic redeeming characteristics and
became an evil place.
Neither Lyndon Johnson nor
Richard Nixon could have wrought
such a monumental change alone.
They required the silence of John.
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A HERITAGE OF STONE. By Jim Garrison. Putnam's, $6.95 belief in his own integrity.
AMERICAN GROTESQUE. By James Kirkwood. Simon & He was. shocked when Garrison relied so comp:atel upon
M. testimony at the preliminary hearing and did not really
Schuster: $11.95.
go out and get supporting evidence. For example, Garrison
By Elmer Gotta announced,-on the streiu;tii of a statement by Russo, that
o of Russo's friends were present at the incrimir.,,ting
t
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These two books deal with the same subject-the assassi- conference at which the conspiracy was supposedly dis-
nation of President Kennedy as dramatized in a New Or- cussed. But Garrison never really had anyone talk with
leans production-but they are as different as day and night. those -two persons, and, at the trial, Russo said nothing about
Jim Garrison, the author of the shorter and much the lesser . then. They were no longer witnesses.
book, concocted the outrageous "case" against Clay Shaw, Judge Haggerty, whose career seems to be coming to- a
aided and abetted by the imaginary meanderings of a bizarre close because of his involvement with stag films and
strange attorney, whom he subsequently indicted for per- rostitutes, reached his private conclusion about the culpabil
jury, and an assortment of pseudo-witnesses whom, merci- pity of Shaw not on any real evidence, but simply because in
fully, a jury chose to disbelieve. his mind a "queer" could be guilty of doing almost anything
His book can be disposed of briefly, hav;ng clue regard for with other queers. Yet, this same primitive had courage
the laws of libel. He is gingerly in dealing with Shaw. His enough to excoriate a policeman he thought was lying. This
alleged concern is the assassination of the President and the
diabolical forces which, according to him, brought it a';out. may have saved Shaw.
Th rear tern ration to write at considerable length
a
g p -
Despite Garrison's failure in the Shaw case, he professes to exe -s
about'Kirkwood's fascinating and important book. It is not
find a continuing and au;'riented conspirac.. of man} people
high in public life, including at least two Presidents of the simply American grotesque, as he calls it, but American
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The best evidence that Garrison does not truly believe that who belong in hell. Ile still'faces trials and tribulations. Is
Shaw had anything to do with any purported conspiracy is there no meaning to it? Is there no way that there can be
that Garrison writes that Lee Oswald, Kennedy's presumed retribution? Anyone who reads Kirkwood's remarkable book
-slayer, was simply a scape_;eat who had nothing to do with should cry out in accusing terms against much on the Amerl-
the assassination. Why then was Shaw indicted for con- can scene. We do not have to concoct delirious charges. The
spiring to assassinate the President? According to Garr!-. reality is enough to create nightmares. .
son's strange lights, it is apparently a criminal offense to v,>,n, r_?>r, ,uon_sinmsn Chicago attorney, wrote "M^
participate in an imaginary conspiracy.
JAMES KIRKWOOD'S BOON, a monumental study of the
case, drives home what is implicit in the Garrison fiction.
He brings to his task all of his considerable gifts as a novel-
1st and an unexpected feeling for research and reality. His
book deals with the trial in depth-from how the jury was
selected, the opening statements of the attorneys, the kind of
evidence presented, the interplay of opposing counsel and
-witnesses to the temperaments and qualities of the judge,
the court' personnel and the men and women of the media
who covered the trial. He conveys well the general atmos-
phere: Mardi Gras was the time and carnival the spirit.
After completing his account of the case, Kirkwood gives
his eloquent and useful book its greatest value. He reports
on his interview of the judge, several of the jurors, the
defendant, the attorneys for the state and the defense, the
principal witness-that strange character, Perry Raymond
tent of Madness: Tire People Vs. Jack Ruby.''
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The French have an adage: "The
more things change, the more they re-
main the same." It comes to mind with
exposure by Carl T. Rowan on this page
e few days ago of the fact that college
students are almost psychotically sus-
picious of government.
Many collegians think the Nixon Ad-
ministration is plotting to prevent elec-
tioiss-in 1972, that the FBI is secretly en-
gaged in bombings, that the CIA was in-
volved in the Kennedy assassriiut7on, etc.
Does anyone over 50 recall when the
people who hated Franklin D. Roosevelt
whispered that he was plotting to prevent
elections in 1936 (or 1940, or 1944)? Or
that the assassination effort which killed
Mayor Cermak of Chicago was a phony?
Or that a hundred and one other sus-
picious or conspiratorial things were hap-
pening?
Does it seem at all odd that it was the
Establishment that whispered and ac-
cused and held suspicions in 1933 and
1934, whereas it is the Anti-Estab-
lishment that whispers and accuses and
holds suspicions in 1970?
Things have changed, but they also
remain very much the same.,
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The pretty coed insisted that dia are so doi gnaeed by a and
President Nixon and Vice ernment in
President Agnew must be plot- even more intimidated by Ag
ting to cancel the 1972 clec- new's attacks."
tions. A few students buzzed, as if
How, she asked,' could she asking, "Is he intimidated,
ignore rumors to that effect, too?" When I said I thought it
or stories claiming that the absurd that anyone imagined
administration plans "to re- the President or vice president
.peal the Bill of Rights," when would try to cancel the 1972
she sees so many other signs elections, I reminded theta
of growing government repres- that an alleged memorandum
sion? from the vice president's of-
A graduate student wanted - fice discussing such a plan had
me to "verify" that FBI been called a fraud by Agnew;
agents organized the pre- and "a complete fabrication"
e 1 e c t 1 o.n student outburst by Atty. Gen. John Mitchell,
against Nixon in San Jose and but the students did not seem
that "FBI infiltrators encour- overly impressed by the deni-
age and provoke student als.
bombings and other violence There was a distinct mur-
mur of disc ointment by a
sion and '. police-state mea-
sures."
A top student leader turned
o inc at dinner to say: "I'm
sure the CIA (Central Intelli-
gence Agency) was involved in
killing president Kennedy.
They operate irksome strange
ways."
A faculty member spoke
during the question-
and-answer session about a
"huge detention facility in
New Jersey," raising anew old
rumors that the Nixon admin-
istration is reopening and re-
furbishing an assortment of
facilities that are to become
concentration camps for
blacks, students, and other
dissident elements in this
country if the bombings and
other acts of violence con-
tinue.
A dapper senior wanted to
know bow the American peo-
ple "can hear or read honest
criticism of ' the government
PP
few students when I said, "No,
I do not believe the FBI is
deliberately inspiring bomb-'
ings and violence to create an
excuse for repression."
A campus leader just gave
me a quizzical smile when I
said it was far-fetched to try
to link the CIA with President
and that the CIA doesn't
"free-wheel" as much as he
thought, for its major "dirty
tricks" are approved bye. the
President, secretary of state,
and others.
After a couple of hours of
this at Indiana University
here, I walked out profoundly
disturbed by the depth of sus-
picion on the part of young
people who seen prepared to
believe almost anything bad
about their government.
The experience was disquiet-
ing because it was clear they
were not campus revolutionar-
ies or publicity-seeking rab-
ble-rousers. They were the
sons and daughters of Middle
America. They were decent,
troubled youngsters trauma-
tized by divisive. rhetoric to
the point of becoming violently
contemptuous of and hostile
toward those who.run the fed-
eral government.
As you reflect on the ques-
tions, the suspicion, the stu-
dents' penchant for seizing
upon the most far-fetched alle-
gations, two conclusions seem
obvious.
o our national leaders face
few challenges more impor-
tant or more difficult than to
restore in the younger genera-
tion enough trust and respect
for those who govern to make
good government possible.
o Someone must convince
students that, by vatting at
much time and energy arguing
about hoaxes, frauds, and fan-
ciful allegations, they debase
the currency of legitimate pro-
test about actual events and
thus move the nation closer.to
a police state.
When a national security tel-
ephone in a governor's office
is bugged, when a "no knock"
law leads to policemen break-
ing into a house and engaging
in a shootout with an innocent
couple, as happened a few
days ago in Arizona, when bu-
reaucrats are reading the mail
of private citizens; when the
military starts seeking a com-
puter file on those people
someone things 'dissent too
much or too vigorously, there
is no shortage of actual as-
saults on freedom about which
young Americans (and old)
can become alarmed.
There is no need to confuse
the issue, or to dissipate one's
indignation, by harping on out-
landish claims like a cancella-
? Lion of the elections or a re-
peal of the Bill of Rights.
Perhaps we of the media
have not done enough to ex-
tract elements of hysteria
from the national concern over
things line "law and order"
and "government repression."
It may be that we need to be
more energetic and direct in
telling the people what is fact
and what is fanciful rumor,
spread with or without malice
aforethought.
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Sail's performance wva as peace candidate who could ;vin theipr movements. Nigh Schools, and all of our
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in a time of repression, he eace. lion Center became the Strike helping us. Now all we need is
moaned, and the only hope we P * Center and we d'idii t want to some exposure and some
have is: You. Your generation. MORT DID NOT explain how be passed uwon for recognition .funds."
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the Kennnedy y the staff of ter ad- United States of America.
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conic back at me on that 31:;00 ministration, ran a story in He won't make as much on it
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certain the C ence comm,ttee member in charge quotes from students for Ot probably doesn't suffer as
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NEIL 1MACDONALD
ASSISTANT EDITOR
After the assassination of President John F. -
Kennedy in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 1968,
the Warren Commission, consisting of nine persons
appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and head-
ed by Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme
Court, examined evidence, and concluded that Lee
Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin.
The correctness of this conclusion has been
challenged by many investigators and researchers.
One of the latest challenges was the article, "The
Assassination of President Kennedy: The Applica-
tion of Computers to the Photographic Evidence", by
? Richard E. Sprague, published in the May 1970- issue
of Computers and Automation.
-Nobody who has studied the evidence, the con-
tradictions in the Warren Commission report and
documents, the acts of suppression of information,
the photographs available, the physics of the shots,
etc., can any longer logically maintain that a sin-
gle assassin accounts for all the shots and other
events in Dealey'Plaza on that occasion. This
implies a conspiracy.
It appears that at least some and probably a
majority of the members of the Warren Commission
realized very soon that there had been a conspiracy,
with more than one gunman in Dealey Plaza shooting
at-President Kennedy; and so, on grounds of "nat-
ional security", they engaged in a "second conspir-
acy" to cover up the first one.
Following the reporting of the Warren Commiss-
ion in September 1964, ten months after the assa-
ssination, over 200 of their documents.(ahd by some
counts as many as 350), were classified as confi-
dential, secret, or top secret, and were placed in
the U.S. Archives, many of them to stay secret for
75 years. Probably by some administrative error,
the list of the subjects of these documents was not
so classified.
Table 1 shows a copy of a list of over 200 doc-
uments of the Warren Commission which are in the Ar-
chives of the United States in Washington, D.C. , and
which have been classified as confidential, secret,
or top secret, so that the American people and re-
searchers jnto the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy cannot see them or study them.
This list shows the identifying "commission
document" (CD) number, the originating agency, such
as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the
subject, and in some cases the'place of origin of
the document.
Judging from the subjects, it is truly extraor-
dinary that some of these documents have been clas-
sified, such as:
322g USIA Public and propaganda reactions
to the assassination, in
.Poland
489 FBI Mark Lane, Buffalo appearances
Mark Lane is the lawyer and former member of the
legislature of New York State who wrote the best-
selling book Rush to Jud ement about President Ken-
nedy's assassination. At least eight of these clas-
sified documents mention Mark Lane in their title,
as if he had had something to do with the assassin-
ation instead of with questioning the -investigation
by the Warren Commission and other government agen-
cies.
There is considerable evidence that Lee Harvey
Oswald worked from time to time over a number of
years, for the CIA or one of its subcontractors.
Several of the subjects _in Table 1 suggest confir-
mation of this. possibility:
931 CIA Oswald's access to information
about the t12 [the high-flying'
spy plane]
528 CIA re allegation that Lee Harvey
Oswald was interviewed by the'
CIA in the USSR
692 CIA reproduction of CIA official
dossier on Lee Harvey- Oswald
698 CIA reports of travel and activities:
Lee Harvey Oswald as Marine
1216 CIA Memorandum from Helms entitled
"Lee Harvey Oswald "
1273 CIA Memorandum from Helms re'appar-
ent inconsistencies
Helms was the head of the CIA at the time of the
Warren Commission's existence.
Abbreviations used in Table 1
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
HEIV ' Department of Health, Education
-and Welfare
IRS Internal Revenue Service
JD Department of Justice
La. State of Louisiana
SIS -U.S. Senate Subcommittee
. Internal Security
SS U.S.' Secret Service
State U.S. State Department
Trs. . Department of the Treasury
USIA U.S. Information Agency
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of Speech During Reelection Campaign
BY BILL BOYARSKY
FREMONT, Calif. -
Sen. George 'Murphy said
Tuesday. he believes the
assassins of John a n d
Robert Kennedy may have
been acting under orders.
The Republican senator,
running for a second term,
told a GOP political lunch=
eon:
"A President and his
brother are assassinated,
for what reason and by
whose order I'm still not
certain."
-The Warren Commission
has said Lee Harvey Os-
- Wald was acting alone in
the assassination of John
F. Kennedy-a conclusion
disputed by some who are
convinced 0 s w a I d was
part of a conspiracy.
.:But the conspiracy theo-
ry has. been generally dis-
-counted by officials in the
killing of Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy. Sirhan . B. Sir-
han was convicted of the
murder in Los Angeles
and investigators said he
was acting alone.
-Murphy's remarks on
the Kennedys occupied
just a brief portion of the
speech in which he dis-
cussed labor affairs and
commented on the Ameri-
can scene.
He said there is much
more good in America
than had, then he listed a
few things that troubled
him. At that point he men-
tioned the assassination.
Asked to amplify the
statement after the
.speech, Murphy said of
the slayings, "Somebody, I
think, instigated them."
Asked for further clari-
fication, Murphy advised a
reporter to "just write the
speech," meaning stick to
what he said at the ?ltuich-
eon. In response to anoth-
er question he said, "You
go out and write the
speech."
Murphy also said of the
Robert Kennedy death," I
am not certain this young
man did it by himself.
Neither are you. Neither
are the courts."
The senator's comments
on labor came on the first
day of the United Auto
Workers' strike ' against
General Motors-an im-
portant development in
this city, site of a big
General -Motors plant.
Referring to the G.
strike, Murphy said,
"There has got to be a bet-
ter way." -
As an alternative to
strikes, Murphy suggested
creation of a series of "la-
bor courts" around the
country, staffed by labor-
management specialists.
They would, he said,
have the power to force
settlement on both sides if
negotiations fail.
Harsh Words
Murphy also expressed
strong support for volun-
tary arbitration of labor
disputes, the plan backed
by George Mcany, pres-
ident of the AFL-CIO.
The senator had harsh
worcls for both the Team-
sters Union and the AF'I,
CIO United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee, en-
gaged in a three-way labor
Republican-who used to be
a:-Demdcrat and made it
clear he was behind Mur-
phy: But a* Steel Workers
Union committeeman, al-
though go od - naturedly
shaking hands with A..lur-
phy, said later he did not
like the senator's voting
record.
-After lunch, the senator
drove north and inspected
a big repair facility at the
Alameda Naval Air Sta-
tion. He rested for two
hours at a motel in Oak-
land and then spoke brie-
fly at a reception in the
wealthy city of Piedmont,
adjacent to Oakland.
dispute with growers in
the Salinas Valley. ; -
. 'This is 'what you call
sweetheart contracts
where. the union- leaders
and the bosses make a deal
and treat the workers like
chattels," Murphy said.
The Teamsters signed
contracts' with growers in
the valley. UF\VOC, led by
Cesar Chavez, protested
that the workers wanted
to be represented by his
AFL-CIO-affiliated union
and has gone into the .val-
ley seeking to replace the
Teamsters in representing
farm workers.
This was the second clay
of Murphy's opening tour
of his fall campaign
against'Rep. John V. Tun-
ney, the Democratic Sen-
ate nominee. It was also
his busiest. .
At mid-morning, Mur-
phy walked through the
Pacific State Steel'. Co.
plant at Union City, near
here, putting on a green.
hard hat, taking off his
coat and rolling tip his
'
sleeves. ..:
The 6S-year-old, Murphy-
walked through . the :.big
plant for almost ah hour,
moving along' at a 'brisk
pace that had his entou-
rage.. scampering to keep
up. At times-the heat from
huge ovens was intense.
Murphy shook :hands
with many of the em-
ployes on duty and they
greeted him in a'friendly
style, A.- supervisor- smi-
lingly- announced he was a
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
PRESS
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Two deaths which occurred in
Dallas last weekend would scarce-
ly have attracted national atten-
tion except for their link to a tragic
date-Nov. 22, 1963.
Both Abraham Zapruder, 65,
owner of a dressmaking firm, and
James Eric Decker, sheriff of Dal-
las County for 22 years, died of na-
tural causes. Both played im-
portant roles in the slaying of Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy and the
bizarre occurrences which followed.
ing the event. of someone's imagination.
Warren Commission in reconstruct- spiracy, but by the overtime labors
undoubtedly will revive another
outburst of speculation linked to
the witnesses and participants in-
volved in President Kennedy's
death.
Cash, political profit and some
degree of fame have gone to those
who suggest that the assassination
was a plot perpetrated by unnamed
conspirators and hushed up by the
Secret Service, the FBI, the ~
and the Warren Commission. The
death of anyone connected to or
witnessing the motorcade - and
there were thousands-is viewed
as another link in the chain of proof.
School Book Depository building, But as in the other cases, the
and his footage of the assassination deaths of Mr. Zapruder and Sheriff
scene was used extensively by the Decker will be linked not by con-
Zapruder, an amateur movie-
maker, filmed the Kennedy motor-
cade in color from near the Texas
The Zapruder and Decker deaths
Mr. Decker, on the other hand,
was a member of the motorcade,
and was riding in the lead automo-
bile.
The sheriff ' also was to take
charge of suspected gunman Lee
Harvey Oswald on the day Oswald
was shot. Instead, Mr. Decker was
given the custody of Oswald's kil-
ler, Jack Ruby.
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Young is r';5`~t is pct 1cnow
BY RICK NORTON .
HO IS the "Establish- Nixongruber" so they sent their testa-
ment?" Who is betraying Po agent Kissinger to be his "advisor"
d
ers.
revolution? A mem- and see that he. earned (JUL or
ber of the "NOW" generation recently
told me: "I knew I was being `conned,'
but I didn't know who was `conning'
me."
This article is an attempt to explain
how the Establishment is "conning" the
kids. Did you know that ; the Establish-
ment financed both the Nazis and the
Communists? And, did you know that
the Establishment's top men have
names such as Warburg, Schiff, Rocke-
feller and Rothschild? These are facts
that most "conservative' or "liberal"
.college professors won't tell you.
Because many people get "uptight"
over words such as "Jew" and "anti-
Semite," let me make it clear that al-
though this article names many Jews
in the Establishment, it is important to
note that some Jews have fought the Es-
tablishment. So anybody who claims this
article is "anti-Jewish" or "anti-Semit-
ic" better be prepared to get hit with a
lawsuit or a ton of bricks! There are
Jews who are pro-Zionist and some who
are anti-Zionist. Similarly, some were
pro-Nazi or pro-Communist while other
Jews opposed them.
men for the Establishment. One of the
key figures in the Establishment almost
200 years ago, Amschel Meyer Roths-
child, stated: "Give me control over
Nation's currency and I care not whc
makes its laws."
Getting the US into Wars
Zionist Establishment leaders have
openly boasted that Zionists in the
United States were able to railroad the
United States into two world wars tc
achieve the Zionist goal in Palestine.
Samuel Landman of London, from
1917 to 1922 Secretary of the Estab-
lishment's World Zionist Organization
disclosed in an official pamphlet, Grea
Britain, the Jews and Palestine, (Nev
Zionist Press, London, 1936) how the
World Zionist Organization in 191(
entered into a secret agreement witt
the British War Cabinet, by the term:
of which Great Britain promised Pales
tine to the Zionists as payment for us
ing Zionist pressure in the United State:
to railroad the United States into Wordc
War I as Great Britain's ally. Landmar
states on page 4:
"the only way.... to induce th(
American President to come into the
War was to secure the co-operatioi
of Zionist Jews by promising then
Palestine, and thus enlist and mobiliz!
the hitherto unsuspectedly powerfu
forces of Zionist Jews in America anc
elsewhere in favour of the Allies or
a quid pro quo contract basis."
The establishment Zionists also rail.
roaded the United States into Wor War II. The anti-war writer, Walte!
Millis, edited "The Forrestal Diaries'
which quote James Forrestal, Secretar;
of Defense under President Truman a:
stating:
eganizations on Oct. 21, 1968. He had to son, John, is a member of the Council "27 December 1945 - Played goll
get the backing of these Zionist mem- on Foreign Relations. today with Joe Kennedy (Joseph P
bets of the establishment in order to Kennedy, who was Roosevelt's Am
How does the Establishment remain bassador to Great Britain in the
become President. He agreed to do what in power? It is simply a matter of
they instructed. ut the Zo ist Es tab- P years immediately before the war)
ff&
$0~6 2$O ~d6him about his ronvers~tiom uKY- may c an but t t ev are merely frnnt
lishment didn't RR ov " en U'f1D ur
ront .,,trl. RnncrvFlt and NTe-v;I .- C'hamhr?r.
When college students are killed or
beaten, it's only because the Zionist Es-
tablishment approves. When college
students are diverted from anti-war
marches to "ecology" marches, it is be-
cause the Zionist Establishment is
afraid that the revolution might slip
away from their control - and some
Zionists might get killed. Note how
many Zionists use the boob tube to
urge "Get Out of Vietnam-and into
Israel." Note that the same U.S. Sena-
tors who are "doves" on Vietnam-are
"hawks" when it comes to killing Arab
women and children!
Let's take a brief look at only two of
the "Establishment" families-the War-
burgs and Schiffs. Paul, Felix and Max
Warburg were brothers. Max had been
chief financial adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm
during World War I at the same time
that his brother, Paul, was chief finan-
cial advisor to President Woodrow Wil-
son. Max helped finance the Bolsheviks
and Nazis. Paul came to the U.S. from
Germany at the request of Jacob Schiff.
Paul's son, James, is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and a
member of United World Federalists.
"Adolf" Nixon takes his orders from Paul was the organizer and first chair-
Zionist members of the Establishment. man of the U.S. Federal Reserve Sys-
So when Nixon suppresses college stu- tem. Felix Warburg helped Trotsky
dents, look and see who is giving him (real name: Bronstein) finance the Red
orders. 'Nixon himself is nothing more takeover in Russia. Felix married Jacob
than a "messenger boy" for the Estab- Schiff's daughter, Frieda. Schiff gave
lishment. $20 million to Trotsky at the 'time he
Before "Adolf Nixongruber" became was in charge of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
president, he appeared at a conferenpe the New York branch of the Rothschild
of the Presidents of major Zionist or- financial empire. Jacob Schiff's grand-
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'NEW OSWALD-KENNEDY BOOK GETS SILENT TREATMENT: A new and scholarly book on the slaying
of President John F. Kennedy is being given the silent treatment by press, TV and many
bookstores. Reason: the book tells the terrible truth -- not only how Oswald did it,
but w y; it comes down hard on Lee Harvey Oswald's motivations (principally love of /
Fidel Castro) and dispels the myths of CIA plots, LBJ machinations, Texas oil interests`
and right-wing nuts. The Assassination of John F. Kennedy; the Reasons y, by Albert
H. Newman (Clarkson Potter,I?nc., NY, l0)--is a major piece of investigative reporting
and a remarkable work of research. Newman, a onetime foreign correspondent and an edi-
tor of Newsweek, spent six years digging in Dallas, the National Archives, and the
Warren Report. He analyzed what Oswald was reading and hearing, uncovered new facts,
and followed up leads the Warren Commission neglected. Instant celebrity for Mr. New-
man? No.- A short mention. in Newsweek, an interview on a Dallas radio station, a
brief mention on a Manhattan program, and one all-night Q-and-A radio show. The pur-
veyors of the many conspiracy theories -- Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, James Garrison
-- found producers eager to book them onto "Today," "Tonight," Dick Cavett, Merv
Griffin, Irv Kupcinet, and many others. Five large bookstores checked by COMBAT did
not carry Newman's book (a sixth store did, but it took four clerks to locate the...
single copy). ..,,.,.,
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COMPUTERS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE"
-REPORT. NO. 2
THE MAY ARTICLE, "THE ASSASSIN
A new field for the application of computers is
the analysis of information about assassinations.
To analyze evidence is difficult at best; analysis
can be made easier with assistance from a computer.
Computers and Automation is accordingly going
to devote some space to this subject from time to
time. The article which launched this subject in
the pages of Computers and Automation is one en-
titled "The Assassination of President John F.
Kennedy: The Application of Computers to the Pho-
tographic Evidence" by R. E. Sprague published in
Edmund C. Berkeley
Editor. Computers and Automation
A total of 36 newspapers and periodicals, so far
as we know at time of writing (June 9), have to date
published reports on our May feature article, "The
/Assassination of President Kennedy: The Application
of Computers to the Photographic Evidence". This
article was written by Richard E. Sprague and cov-
.i cages 29 to 60. This article presented sub-
irmt-`al evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the
!ea, zssassin of President Kennedy, that there was
t
h
e Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the
Sam Francisco Examiner, the Detroit Free Press. and
the May 1970 issue. Report No. 1 on this article
was published on page 7 of the June 1970 Issue;
Report No. 2 is published below.
Interested readers who did not see the May is-
sue are invited to send for it; it can be pur-
chased on approval; see the notice on page 2
(inside front cover).
Some readers may not be interested in this
subject; they are requested to skip this section.
A magazine is like a smorgasbord: almost nobody
likes every dish offered) .
Atlanta
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Indiahapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Miami
Newark (N.J.)
Pittsburgh
Portland (Ore.)
St. Louis
Seattle
Why not?
Considering the news which newspapers do publish,
undoubtedly much less important news was published
in all those cities, than the news presented in the
article.
3. Therefore, it seems reasonable to conclude
that there exists either an organized understanding,
or else an unorganized "concert of ideas and atti-
tudes", by a large portion of the press of the
United States. The effect of this condition is to
suppress (i.e. not publish) certain kinds of news.
The suppression applies in particular to questions
,
challenges, and attacks on the Warren Commission
report. This report is treated as if it were sencti?
Pi
d
e
, revealed truth.
What should be done about-this suppression?
There is probably no prospect of reasonably al-
tering this condition. Accordingly it would pro-
bably be worthwhile to establish an auxiliary means
of wn mu..4 ..i - -- ?`- ' -- -
An at least the following 18 states: ------
`"'~ "? ?`? "' uuuLu ooLaln information about poll-
tics) assassinatio i
ns n the United States indepen-
dent of suppression by the press.
Alabama
Ohio
A particularly interesting example of what we
California
Pennsylvania
may call "leaky suppression" occurred in the case
Georgia
South Dakota
of The New York Times, which is of course one of
Massachusetts
Tennessee
the most distinguished and renowned newspapers in
Michigan
Texas
the United States.
Mi nnesota..
Utah
The New York Times and The New York Post have a
Nebraska
Virginia.
news service. This news service sent out a story
Nevada
New, York
Washington,.O.C.
Wisconsin
about the May Sprague article. (See Exhibit 1.)
The stor is sensible t ll h h i
2. Yet apparently no newspapers fit the follow.
ing large cities of the United states published any
reports about the May artiolet
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PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY: THE APPLICATION' OF
stmmp racy. and that the Warren Commission con-
slusioas are false. The cumulative list of news-
papers and periodicals appears in Table 1..
Can we draw any conclusions from this informa-
tion? Yes.
1. The first conclusion is this:
The story waS certainly newsworthy.
!.ccth Associated Press and United Press Internation-
al sent out wire dispatches-01 The publication of
these dispatches occurred here and there all over
the United States. This proves that a large number
of U. S. newspapers Independently decided that- the
story was newsworthy. and so published information
about it. This group included the Washington Post,
y
,
e
s muc
at
t
s important,
end is a not unreasonable report on the article.
The evidence of sending out the story is that it
was published in the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk,
Va. on May 13.
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June 1970
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY,
THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE
The May 1970 issue of Computers and Automation
contained the longest and probably one of the most
Important articles that we have ever published,
"The Assassination of President Kennedy: The Appli-
cation of Computers to the Photographic Evidence".
In this article Richard E. Sprague, President, Per-
sonal Data Services, Hartsdale, N.Y.,'stated that
an analysis of the evidence proved: '
. th.-t the Warren Commission conclusions (that
Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin and
that there was no conspiracy) are false;
that there were at least four gunmen firing
from four locations, none of which was
Oswald;
that the conspiracy to kill Kennedy involved
tral Intelligence Agency of the United
States.
The evidence published in this article included
eleven important photographs, of which one shows
Jim Hicks, who admitted he was the radio communica-
tor among the firing teams at Dealey Plaza, with
his radio transmitter in his back left pocket. The
article also included a tabulation of over 500 pho-
tographs (counting a movie sequence as one photo)
taken in and around Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas,
Nov. 22. 1963. at the time of President Kennedy's
assassination and shortly thereafter.
The assassination of President Kennedy was the
most photographed murder in history. Of the 500
photographs, the Warren Commission looked at 26.
Both a spatial chart and a timing chart of the
events and photographs are included in the article.
Sprague, a computer professional for over 24
years, has, as an avocation. studied both the old
and new evidence for over 6 years, and has analyzed
over 400 of the 500 photographs. The work in com-
puterized analysis of over 300 still photos and
over 25.000 frames of movie sequences has bepa
started.
This article has drawn an unusual amount of atten-
ties. Some of the attention it has received ineludest
a United Press dispatch on May 1;
an Associated Press dispatch on May 1;
more than 20 interviews of the author over the
telephone by radio and TV stations, result-
ing in many broadcasts;
?a considerable number of letters, requests,
and orders In regard to the article; and
publication of newspaper accounts in at least
.16 newspapers.
.The list of these newspapers so for Is the tol-
Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., May 1
Detroit Free Press, Detroit. Mich.. May 2
Fort Worth Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas,
May 2
Ledger Star, Norfolk, Va., May 2 .
Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisc., May 1
Staten Island Advance, Staten Island. N.Y..
May 2
Tennesseean, Nashville, Tenn., May 3
Washington Post, Washington, D.C., May 3
York Gazette and Daily, York, Pa., May 6
San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco.
Calif., May 2
Conspicuous by their absence are newspapers of
New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
Computers and Automation has been Informed that
agents of the Central Intelligence Agency of the
United States have been installed in these cities
(and in other places) to prevent many kinds of news'',
about political assassinations from being pub-
lished in these cities and elsewhere. It is cer-
tainly interesting to see the confirmation of
this quite unproved hypothesis by the failure to
publish any information about the article in almost
all major newspapers of New York, Los Angeles, and
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DePugh and the Minutemen:
Wonderland of the Mind
DePugh had first brought up the existence of this clique I
when I telephoned him in October of 1967, a call which $TATINTL
had been prompted by his public statement that "When
fascism comes to the United States it will come in the guise
OBERT BOLIVAR DE PUGH apparently possesses that
special staying power of a man obsessed, in his
case with the omnipresences of Communism and
Socialism. DePugh is the national coordinator and
founding father of the Minutemen, paramilitary organiza-
tion of the ultra-right. But over the past three years, the
title seems to have become more titular than real. Not that'
the Minutemen are withering away; if anything they have
become stronger. But an internal power struggle-the oppo-
sition consisting of those who consider him too tame-
evidently has robbed DePugh of much of his authority.
I first met DePugh in 1966 while researching an article on
the Minutemen (RAMPARTS, January 1967). We had con-
versed in the cluttered office of Biolabs Inc., his family-run
veterinary medicine firm located in Norborne, a dot on the
rich and rolling farmtable of northwest Missouri. DePugh, a
ruggedly handsome man in his mid-forties with intent dark
I eyes and receding black hair, was calm and businesslike as
he talked about the Minutemen and their manifesto. He
observed that the country had, for all practical purposes,
gone Communist during Franklin Roosevelt's second term,
and that only revolutionary, not political means, could
reclaim it.
OW, THREE YEARS LATER, he looked much as he
had before, although his changed circumstances
showed how much water had passed under the
bridge. This time I interviewed DePugh in a hold-
ing cell in the U.S. Marshal's office in Kansas City, where he
had been brought from Leavenworth Penitentiary to stand
trial for having jumped bail. The charge, stemmed from his
having gone underground for a year and a half, during
which time he roamed the western United States disguised
in the improbable garb of a hippie and sent off "Under-
ground News Bulletins" to the media. I was in Kansas City,
having been subpoenaed as a defense witrless in the case.
Also in the cell were his two attorneys, one from Legal Aid
-DePugh had claimed indigent defendant status-and the
other a volunteer with a professional interest in the legal
issues raised.
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For all his wild rhetoric, DePugh rarely has
to lose his cool, and he hadn't lost it now. He outlined for
me the technical defense he and his attorneys were con-
sidering for the trial, due to get under way the next morn`
fear for his life. There were indications, he explained, that
an opposing element of the radical right had marked him
for death, and there had been no point in going to the FBI
for protection because t e FBI was in cahoots with this
very element. It was clear that DePugh was alluding to a
Minutemen splinter group that he had earlier described as a
"Nazi Clique."
of anti-Communism." The full statement seemed not only
to confirm DePugh's known antipathy toward the Ameri-
can Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell, but to bolster
suspicions of a deep rift between DePugh and factions of
his own organization. On the urging of New Orleans District
Attorney Jim Garrison, I made the call and posed the possi-
bility that renegade Minutemen had been involved in the
Kennedy assassination. DePugh readily agreed, saying that
he had some evidence that might explain unanswered ques-
tions about events at Dealey Plaza in Dallas It was only a
few months after this exploratory contact on the topic of
the assassination that the chief Minuteman had gone under-
ground.
Pacing back and forth in the cell, DePugh said that Garri-
son had also been subpoenaed but had balked at appearing,
on the grounds of a recent back operation. DePugh ex-
plained Garrison's role in his case: "When I talked with Jim
on the phone [in October 19671, he told me about the
mysterious deaths of a number of figures in his investiga-
tion." Among those whose deaths had been listed by Garri-
son were three men who by DePugh's admission were mem-
bers of the Minutemen.
It was hoped that I would testify to the brief telephone
discussion on the assassination in 1967 as well as enumerate
the strange deaths. In addition, DePugh was a bit paranoid
on the subject of FBI harassment and surveillance, and was
convinced that agents had burglarized records in his Rich-
mond, Missouri, facility. Could I attest, on the basis of my
own experience, that such tactics were in fact regularly em-
ployed by the Bureau? During the discussion, one of the
attorneys was summoned outside to answer a telephone
call. "1 ran into an FBI agent in the corridor," he men-
tioned later. "He said he'd give anything to hear what was
going on in here."
If DePugh's fears about the FBI were slightly over-
wrought, his concern about Minutemen spin-off factions
was not. One bit of extraneous matter which had been
dredged up by the Garrison probe was the existence of a
paramilitary cell in New Orleans whose leader, a retired
Army officer, claimed to be "national commander" of the
Minutemen. And in Los Angeles and Orange County, Cali-
fornia, there is a clique that privately calls itself the "Real
Minutemen." Some of DePugh's former members are liter-
ally Nazis, having gone over to the American Nazi Party
(ANP). Wasn't the ANP a gross burlesque, 1 asked him?
"Not at all," he replied, naming a prominent Texas oil mil-
in the right wing."
HE SCHISM BETWEEN Nazis and Minutemen is
based at least in part on ideological differences. To
I DePugh and his , loyalists, the primary enemy is
Washington, the seat of power of an increasingly
large central bureaucracy.' DePugh once stated on a radio,
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Sprague said his analysis of the evi.
dence indicated the assassination was .1i
the result of a conspiracy involving over .1
50 persons.
NEWTON, Mass. (UPD - A computer
specialist today published the results of,
a computerized analysis of the assassina-
tion
of President John F. Kennedy which
he said indicated four'
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crime.
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ment and elements, of ;the CIA were in-' ~
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Mr. Sprague's article also said that
members of the Dallas Police, Depart= ,i
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300 photographs and 25,000 frames of .4
movie sequences.
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Part 1. Introduction
Who Assassinated President Kennedy?
John F. Kennedy, while riding in an open limousine
through Denley Plaza and waving to the surrounding
crowds, was shot to death. Lee Harvey Oswald, an
ex-Marine, and former visitor to the Soviet Union,
was arrested that afternoon in a movie theatre in
Oswald denied steadily through two days of question-..
another section of Dallas; that night he was charged
with shooting President Kennedy from the sixth floor
easternmost window of the Texas School Book Deposi-
tory Building overlooking Healey Plaza. This net
elusive evidence that on November 22, 1963, he did '
pnotograpnlc evlaence.
There was in fact a conspiracy. Oswald played
a role in the conspiracy, although there is con-
evidence, and In particular some analysis of the '
This article will develop that thesis, prove it
to be true on the basis of substantial, conclusive '??
the crucial evidence - such as the physics of the wrong many times before,
shooting, the timing of a number of events. and wrong again in this case. For ethe reaa
other important and undeniable facts. In other !?''?'. g example, P
words, Oswald was not the sole assassin, and there r' of the United States almost entirely refused to 1/-r- Inv firs rears (10(11 fn IOonnAI that fhn Wringht
ht
Central Intelli
exiles, some ad
some other grow
very highly lilt
government bees
other words, tl
petrators of t
Orwell's famou
Of course,
neither true 1
evidence, iti
,,As to believe
Jim Garrison'
in Feb. and M
the United St
the people it
was a conspil-
investigatio
distorted wq
to the satis
Clay Show wa
though he pi
The news met
newspapers
such a way
The media 1
opinion, if
poll percen
lion, that conclusion was accepted by many America" . ,
for a long time. But the conclusion cannot be ton-
acy.
ing (no record of questions and answers was ever
preserved). Two days later while Oswald was being
transferred from one jail to another, he was shot
by Jack Ruby, a Dallas night-club owner, In the
basement of the Dallas police station, while mil-
lions of Americans watched on television. The com-
mission of investigation, appointed by President
Lyndon B. Johnson, and headed by Chief Justice Earl
Warren of the U. S. Supreme Court, published its
report in September 1964, and concluded that Oswald
as he claimed when he was in the Dallas jail, he
was a "patsy." At least three gunmen (and probe-
bly four) - none of whom were in the sixth floor
easternmost window of the Texas School Book Depos-':
itory building where the Warren Commission placed
Kennedy.
Governor John B. Connally, Jr. of Texas, riding is
by Abraham Zapruder; (b) the locations of the in- Is y e
In Kennedy and in Connolly; and (c) more old evidence, the evidence which the Commission it-
Juries y a y' 1;" self published in the 26 volumes of Evidence and
than 100 pictures, consisting of more then 30 ;,1'?.? Hearings accompanying the Warren Report. Much of
still photographs and more then 70 frames of me- the new evidence and the new analyses of the old
(a) the physics of the motions of Kennedy and Cos- i'?'?{? V.
Holly shown in some 60 frames of the famous film There now exists not only a mountain of new evi-
dence but also considerable new anal sis of th
in his throat, one in his, back, and two in his ?
hand. (The bulk of the undeniable evidence for The evidence for the statement - the Warren
these. statements about the shots consists of: Commission conelusiona are [alas - is now over-
w~` whelmin
persons included members of the Dallas police force `k' S?, shoul
There are four prime'sources of new evidence and
(but not all of the Dallas police - and that so- d write me.
' ! ,;,f~~~; atsalrabt
Note Researchers all over the United States. some
from the Publinher: In order to include the
article by Richard E. Sprague in this fsnus of Can- '.~;;'t ? y''~?', 1! affiliated with the Notional Committee to
e.tern n"el Aiitomation, it wait noconnary to type two Investigate Assassinations (NCTIA). others
ortLa n t~tflpejaoe of our "Across the bdltor'e acting independently but cooperating with
Dank" onotion, rather than the meta t typeface or the NCTIA. have ?btalned'new evidence from
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air. Only after the Wright brothers had won spec-
tacular air races and demonstrated other successful
flights in France, did the majority of the "hard-
headed" American press believe that the Wright broth-
era had flown!
But the evidence cited or referred to in this
article, and the existing photographic evidence and
its analysis, a little of which is published here.
establishes the fact of conspiracy. This evidence
along with other evidence should and can initialize
a major change in the beliefs of the people of the
.United States. As for beliefs of the people of
Europe, it has long been and still is accepted there
that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by
a conspiracy.
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As it has a way of doing from has pointed out, one of the most baf-
time to time, the Kennedy assassina- fling questions concerns a letter Os-
tion has crawled out from under the wald wrote to the Soviet Embassy in
Warren Commission Report and back , Washington on November 12, 1963 -
into the news. Sherman Skolnick, a only ten days before the Dallas trai-
legal researcher in Chicago, filed suit
last week in an effort to unlock secret
information salted away in the Na-
tional Archives until the year 2039.
Skolnick says he has evidence that
President John Kennedy was killed by
a conspiracy and not by a mentally
unstable individual acting alone, as
the Warren Report contends.
Specifically, he is tracking a man
named Thomas Arthur Vallee, "a
double for Lee Harvey Oswald," and
one of five conspirators who allegedly
,planned to kill the President at the
Army-Air Force football game in Chi-
cago on November 2, 1963. The law-
suit states that after Kennedy can-
celed his Chicago appearance at the
last minute because of a cold, the as-
sassination attempt was rescheduled
for Dallas. The suit cites a recently
declassified Warren document that
discloses an FBI freeze on all infor-
mation regarding Vallee's automobile
regist rat ion.
Regardless of the merits of Skol-
nick's case, at least his theory p.bout
an assassination conspiracy is not
without some substantiation.. Richard
,Russell, a member of the Warren
Commission and one of the most re-
?spected men in the U.S. Senate, said
in a rare television interview earlier
this year that he never has believed
'Oswald planned the assassination
alone. Because of his doubts, Senator people and why. This question should,``I~
Russell said he insisted on a disclaimer` be answered, once and for all by the
sentence in the final Warren Report,,. Nixon Administration. According to.r
before he would sign it. the Justice Department, the President
Six and a half years after the as- is now free, under provisions of the
sassination, the FBI still is trying. to Freedom of Information Act of 1966,
unravel a number of mysteries sur- to make public all' documents sealed
rounding the activities and. affiliations-,.i,: by. the;,,,--WanxrQA., .C rnmission.- Ti1iis
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wald's Russian wife, Marina, was,
staying, told the Warren Commission':j
that she managed to copy the letter
during.. the weekend of November 9;
she turned it over to the FBI the day
after the assassination.
In this letter, Oswald asked for
other Soviet visa and referred to the
then unannounced recall of Euscbio'
Azque, a Cuban Embassy official in
Mexico City with whom he had dealt
during his visit there two months ear-
lier. Oswald's mention of "C&'hrade'
Kostin" confirmed a CIA report that
he also had met with Valerity Vlad-
imirovich Kostikov, a Soviet consular
officer and one of the top KGB offi-
cers in the Western Hemisphere. .
What baffles the FBI is how Oswald:
came by inside information about. the
Cuban Consul's recall some time be-
fore the transfer took place on No-
vember 18, 1963, just four days before
the President was murdered. Among
the documents ordered sealed by the
Warren Commission are reports about
this letter and about Oswald's con
tacts with various Soviet and Cuban
officials in Mexico City.
If "people in high places".are sup-'
pressing facts about President Kenne-,
dy's death, as the assassin's assassin
Jack Ruby alleged, one wonders just''
what is being kept from the American
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U.S. Is Sued In Kennedy"Plot'
. Chicago, April 6 (p-A suit
charging the-National Archives
in Washington with suppressing
documents about an alleged plot
to assassinate President John F.
'Kennedy in Chicago was filed to-
Iday in U.S. District Court.
The suit, filed by Sherman
1Skolnick, a legal researcher,
contends that the archives are
1withholding information that
shows President Kennedy died
not at the hands of a lone assas-
I sin, but as the result of a con-
spiracy.
Radio station WCFL, a Metro-
media affiliate owned by the
Chicago Federation of Labor
and Industrial Union Council,
which aired the story before the
suit was filed and worked with
Mr. Skolnick In its preparation,
said the suit "is believed to be
the first in the nation challeng-
Ing the authority of the archives
to withhold information about
the Kennedy death for 15
years."
Warren Commission Finding
The Warren Commission, a
panel appointed by President
Johnson to investigate the as-
sassination, said that Mr. Ken-
nedy was killed by a single man,
Lee Harvey Oswald, and that it
could find no evidence of a con-
spiracy.
The suit asserts that five con-
spirators planned to kill the
President at the Army-Air Force
football game in Chicago No-
vember 2, 1963. But when Mr.
Kennedy canceled his appear-
ance. because ,o[ eoW at the
last minute, the suit alleges, the
assassination attempt was re-
scheduled for Dallas three weeks
later.
The suit states that "less
than an hour before the Presi-
dent's scheduled arrival," a
Chicago lithographer was arrest-
ed for a minor traffic violation.
It said the man, one of the con-
spirators, also was charged with
carrying a concealed weapon
after police noticed a hunting
knife on the front seat of the car.
Skolnick's Theory
Mr. Skolnick contends the lith-
ographer, Thomas Arthur Val-
lee, "was a double for Lee Harv.
ey Oswald."
Attached to the suit were 11
documents, including three FBI
reports pertaining to the assassi.
nation that recently were deelas.
shied by the National Archives.
One of the reports says that
Mr. Valee, in a January 14, 1964,
appearance in a federal circuit
court, "revealed he was very,
much against the present admin-'
istration." The report also states
that Judge 1F'ordon B. Mash
denied a defense motion to sup-
press evidence . on the con-
cealed-weapon charge and re-
leased Mr. Vallee on $100 bond.
Another report states that Wil-
liam . Corley, a Chicago televi-
sion news director at the time,
assigned a newsman to trace the
license plates on Mr. Vallee's
car, 311ORF-NV, but that the
newsman' reported that "the FBI
had placed a ii!. on any hint.
oration regarding this registra-
tion."
The third declassified docu-
ment states that Judge Nash
withdrew the finding of guilty on
the concealed-weapon charge at
Mr. Vallee's subsequent court
appearance and continued the
case for a year.
Mr. Skolnick, who said the
documents were sent to him by
an undisclosed person, said that
recent efforts to trace Mr. Val-
lee's whereabouts were unsuc-
cessful.
The suit demands that
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By Dick Gregory i the same America which goes 7y~ ~j'~
Every listing of the year's all over the world trying to. (r Y tJ
best films places the movie force democracy on other na-
"Z" very high on the list. { bons at guripoint,
. . moral standards, and honest
Z
d
Rightfully so. It is educa-
tional cinema and should be
viewed after a careful read-
ing of a synopsis of the
Conspiracy 8/7 Trial in Chi-
cago. Though filmed in France
and referring to the political
situation in Greece, "Z" deals
with topics increasingly fam-
iliar in America - government
control, the attempt of con-
cerned citizens to articulate
e
syn
rome runs orientation can be considered,
deeper in America, and the a "security risk" by the CIA,
Greece scenario could well be -I must conclude that the CIA
a glimpse at America's not- is worried about its own se-,
too-distant future. Americans:curity and not that of the'
were horrified and outraged';Llnited Statea_. they
when the late Malcolm X re-.,, Yet the CIA is generally re-1
ferred to the assassination of garded as a necess--.y pre-
President John F. Kennedy as. sence to guard against "com-
an example of "Chickens munist influences." The CIA
ing home to roost." What, is better trained, b e t t e r
passed as a flippant and cal- equipped and better prepared
prepared
a higher morality, and the bus disregard for the memory than any' communist
to assassination as a i of the dead president was ced group or individual in this ,
sure way to silence both dis- { really a perceptive political r country w 111 ever b e. If sent and morality, comment. Malcolm X realized,' overnmental takeover re-
in the movie, the peace the role of the Central In sults in America, it will be .~
faction is the "enemy" of es- telligence Agency (CIA) in the the CIA's doing, not the com-
tablished government. Rallies overthrow of foreign govern- munistsl
and mass meetings are dis- ments and the killing off of The CIA has been very active
couraged and frustrated by Political leaders. ` He was infiltrating movements and in-
h
h
e c
u..,,,,
denials of meeting permits and agency well schooled in the ?",V,, e - t
.rnvern_ educational institutions, the
_
art of overthrowin
f
g
large
e
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ments is like1 to a p that
-
meeting places to refuse rental .art one da on our own gov
(which finance both movements ,
ern-
privileges to the peace faction. ., y g and institutions), and the
After a mass meeting, the ment. ouch/peace movement. Such
_ - - _ -
There is no doubt in my
by
a truck. An investigation is mind that the CIA snot v r1V than a kind of political vo-
launched and the unmistake- and had a hand in the subse-
t
s of Robert yeurism.
uent killin
g
able evidence points in the 41
___--{... ennedy. Malcolm X and Mar- Perhaps it would take a
t
b
r ... _..._,,..
y
government goons. Result: tin Luther King Jr. 1 ne list o--- -11.-.
..,. ,,,. ., ., -S ..,.,......,,, of mysterious and convenient unsuspected forces within the
ling of all those wise to the ation of JFK bears a strong i majority of Americans realize,
governmental conspiracy (all resemblance to the movie )I what . a precious commodity
under the umbrella of acciden- "'Z." That the CIA is actively , true democracy really is;
tal death and due legal process) I capable of close and illegal i much too precious to be
and, in the end, government surveillance is proved in my mocked and ridiculed by the
by dictatorship. , personal experience almost current Infatuation. with
But what has this to do every day. pseudo-patriotism.. }
RAN
with America, the silent As I travel in this country ,
majority will say? For one and abroad, I am constantly
thing, it deals with a very ;followed and watched. I know,
real siruarionIn rre'ce. And that hotel rooms are bugged
America, whose governmental and wired, that two-way mir-
.gut characteristic has never xors are installed, right in
been an aversion to Interfering ,the nation's capitol, as pointed
Doug-
William O
i
.
ce
in the affairs of other nations, put~in Just
stood silently by and watched las new book "Points of Re-
democracy fall. Then Amerl- bellion." And I also know my
deep and abiding faith in the
h
ca s silence was broken w
en Constitution of the United
she officially recognized the States and my commitment to
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28 Feb 1970
Clay Shaw Sues Garrison
And Others for o5-Million,
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 27 (AP)'
--Clay L. Shaw, acquitted a
year ago of charges that he
conspired to kill president Ken-,
nedy, filed a $5-million damage
suit today against District At-
torney Jim Garrison and others
involved in the case.
The suit, filed in Federal Dis-
trict Court, contended that the
conspiracy charge brought by
Mr. Garrison against Mr. Shaw
was "in furtherance of his
scheme and that of the defend-
ants to conduct an illegal, use-
less and fraudulent investiga-
tion of the assassination of
President Kennedy."
Mr. Shaw was acquitted
March 1, 1969, by a criminal
district court jiKy
Others named in the suit
were Perry Raymond Russo, the
chio:r prosecution witness at
Mr, Shaw's trial; Dr. Esmond A.
Fatter, who iiyimotized . Mr.
.Russo at G. rrison's request
Ito help him recall events lead-
ing up to the alleged conspira-
cy, and three members of Truth
and Consequences of New Or-
leans, Inc., the private fund
that helped Mr. Garrison finance
his investigation--Joseph M.,
IRault Jr.. Willard Robertson
sand. Cecil M. 6hilswne.' : s
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Lan e - rots at C
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I By DAVID L. RUSSELL nocent or not atone ttf ms guilt,
I Gazette Staff Writer but we don't really care about
the truth."
He said the assassination of
'John F. Kennedy was the pro- Had to hide Truth
*ct of an elaborate and well "At the time," continued
rganized conspiracy. Mr. Lane, "it was necessary
lie said the murders of Mar-(for Jack Ruby to shoot Oswald.
in Luther Kin-, and Robert F. Whether Oswald was guilty or
i
ennedy were probably alsoinnocent, the truth had to be
planned and executed, not by ,concealed to -protect the con-
la lone assassin, but by a group spracy."
f A erican conspirators ::But only five years later,
on incomplete, far from con
elusive and "mostly concocted" 4
L _ fy jiL J ..~ evidence.
fZ1' He said the commission "fits
the physical evidence at hand,
Predicts New Trial Into a carefully prepared but
Mr Lane predicted Tuesday' entirely erroneous" description
night that "in shout foul of Oswald's movements and'
months" a new trial against actions that day, then "called,
flay Shaw, for perjury this the whole theoretical fabrication;
time, would uncover "startling the facts."
revelations about what really
happened that day in Dallas,
and under whose direction."
Questioned about what those
revelations might be, Mr. Lane
Evidence Sealed..
"After the report w a 61
published," said Mr. Lane,
"Lyndon Johnson took all the
evidence collected by the Dallas
said that he was, not In a posi?!the Secret 'Service and put ii
'lion to say. in the National Archives, to be
He also said, however, thatopened sometime toward the.
he thinks Mr. Garrison believes end of September, in the year,
the Central Intelligence Agency, 2039."
was at least indirectly involved "Johnson thus prevented,
in the assassination of President: continued Mr. Lane, '' a n y;
Kennedy, further use of those materials'
Mr. Lane said that the Presi- by those who are not convinced)
He spoke calmly and with James Earl Ray did not have
conviction and called the War- to be silenced by the con-i
tiro Commission Report' "a spirators who assassinated
Imonstrous 26 -volume absur- Martin Luther King.
dity." "No one seriously believes
He said the, Central Inte1. i that Ray alone murdered King.
Bence Agency m"ay nave n Ray himself testified he was
iavclC ~?" and Lyndon Johnson part of a conspiracy, but his
testimony was dismissed as ir-
eras at least an accessory
t " in the billing of relevant. _
..
th
f
fter
e
ac
,
rea,ueu. i~cuucu~. )about the truth find, it Seems,
Avers it's True still don't." CIA and replacing it with an
intelligence group that would be
ked
l
~
oo
,
i Mark Lane somehow
._ 500 people in the eye and swore Backed Garrison "more responsible to the ex- fact," said Mr. Lane.
What he said was the truth, Lane said that although bery' ecutive branch" The former New York Stater
The author of the best-serer Knnnedy never publicly exJ "Kennedy felt," said Mr ,legislator spoke for more than.
t the CIA had pur?
"th
I'
a
"Ftush to Judgement" told those
Lane,pressed his views on the War-, him about the si?'a nour in the NU student cen-
tho' duped
gathered Tuesday night at the posely
ten Commission Report,
lecture sponsored by Niagara tuation in Cuba before the Bayi r, and )stet) answered ques-
lUniversity's s t u d e n tgovernI young senator had privately of Pigs invasion so that whe lions from people-on both sides
!?. b
n exile. were nushed`Inf the communications car).
h
a
t
e
neat that a recem Vtu,U-, rU,t calnc~cu ouyva. ~? ??~??, Weapons Involved
ndicated 84 per cent of the Orleans Dist. Atly,+ Jim Gar- off the beach, the President!2
l committed to sending
that
ld f
di
ence ,
ee
wou
He told the au
merican public does not accept rison's attempts to prove con- TT s aircraft to their rescue."
to the findings of the
ontrar
c
y
i
s
i
on
ss
tale Warren Comm
splracy in the assassination. (Warren 'Commission, all
count of events in Dallas in "Just before Bobby himself plan Didn't Works. ~~
Those aircraft never came, evidence indicated that the shots
L
id M
b
"
"
ane
er
sa
so thefired in Dallas in Novem
November 1963. as murdered,
r. continued Mr. Lane,
"The most disquieting thing'.,"he sent emissaries to Garrisol, CIA's plan to force KennedY11963 had come from at least'
about that," he said "is that' urging continued investigation. into taking Cuba back from.two directions and at least two
According to Mr. Lane , Castro didn't work." 1weapons.
the same pbll shows that most' himself a witness at the. Clay.
Mr. Lane said he did not; No one, he said, is capable
,Americans do not want any, Shaw conspiracy trial in New; know for sure whether Mr. of firing the "unreliable and
further investigation into ~rlcans, one Robert Ken; Garrison's current lnvestiga- inaccurate loth century sinrle-
matter." nedys emissaries to Mr. Gar al tions had anything' to do with shot rifle" which the commission
"That means we all know Lee trison carried a direct quote: the possible involvement of they said Mr. Oswald used to fi:c,'
Harvey Oswald was either foil , "There are guns' between me CIA in the assassination of the, from above and behind, -three
into. the Kennedy li-j
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Continued
lust 'before he was killed, lof thg basis in fact of the War?
dent
r port by the Warren Com-.
oussion on the assassination of
concluding that]
John Kennedy
,
Lee Harvey Oswald had been;
the sole assassin, was based,
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3 Feb 1970
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ory
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y
g
E%cry listing of the year's best films crnments is likely to apply that art one "commodity true democracy realty is; mucn
places the movie "Z" very high on the day on our own government. too precious to be mocked and ridiculed by
list. Rightly so. It is educational 'cinema There is no doubt in my mind that the'/the current infatuation with pseudo-patri.
Jand should be viewed after a careful read- CIA shot JFK and had a hand in the sub otism.
ing of the synopsis of the Conspiracy 8/7 scquerit killings of Robert Kennedy, Mal-. 1, It will be a had day for many Amerl-
Trial in Chicago. color X and Martin Luther King Jr. The cans when events force them to realize
Though filmed in France and referring lost of myslei ~us_~tud convenient.