CRITICS, DEFENDERS VIE ON KENNEDY AUTOPSY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Harvey Oswald, called the com ual zed,' `hi?' said, _ "the ;cnm?
solve this mystery." Epstein said, ) hearings of the Warren Cortical
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authors Mark Lane and Edward r y ' New-,C Omission Asked
said, a report by two FBI a; I I i~,ve been more than mieassassin h
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dicated one bullet went the ou- t Lane accused the press of f ai
commission junior attorney, inn have said Oswd!d could' not
Kennedy's throat and hit Go,. mg in its duty following the as
lA\'e lued three bullets 'quickly slnalion
traded sharp statements with Jol C 11 r T
'for' the commission, and Wesley 131 o-?lalement in the final report. I technique a c gandaua , .
He said the autopsy report in- technique o[ proppa."
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myself a a lawyer. . Ball said,
libel action-with two critics of of a conspiracy depend on tiro a';. ,'-he the contradiction posed by He said Lane drew conclusion
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hreatened to- sue him. s oo . IV sa , ias on
"I've been waiting anxiously to impugn the integrity o
y~ ly the Warren report' than Mar
On I(e ! brie ay .4 u t?p t~ or those papers ever since," Lane did.. Epstein owes all oblig
Liebeler said. "If you have them tion' to the public to explain hi
ere . . .I'll be glad to accept work
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service of p: ocess because. . "It` our work' is cramined in th
Warren Commission Attorneys, 2 Authors Clash you khow very well as soon as?'true spirit of scholarship. 1 a
;nu, tin that. you're iguing to have.;confitient that it will stand th
On Conflicting Testunony Of Assassination .11brnit yourself to dcposit.ionl test of history.".
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1i.der? oath. And go through dis?i -Ball said the' Warren Comtni
San Diego, Cal. Nov, 17 (A- nedy, family to' withhold frrnr nrer; proceedings, and, that day Sinn investigation "was the mo
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Two attorneys for the Warren public release autopsy photos a.;d If wait for, Mr. Lane. intensive ever conducted in lhi
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Commission, which investigated X-rays of the dead President's I,aii-. satin? next V Liebeler
,aid qni^tl? "You I1 have them
the assassination of President body.' 01'y s""ii If we had (ane d did the Sam
Kennedy, clashed today ' with Epstein said most theories that book, I. as Laee hi
Epstein ??bacged that Warren book, I. would be ashamed
words-and a challenge to file the assassination was the result nlnmis ull attorneys did not re?
paiation.
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ussue 01 U15IUFI1"n an" tie''scliolarship ' went into ita pre
a 0 - aid when he had made similar-
and Liebeler called the rcpoi-I
fair and conclusive and criticit_,d
Lane and Epstein, , author of
"Inquest."
Ball hinted that the critics of
the report ignored evidence in
shaping their versions of the
Kennedy slaying. The commission
found that Oswald alone killed
President Kennedy. - -
...At the core of the controversy
ba virtually to nil.
"If they reveal that the buiizt
in question did not pass tiirougi ;
the body .. . that would sub;l:. n?'
tially reduce the probabil`ty that
Kennedy was killed by a singic
assassin."'
Liebeler and Laile had the
sharpest' exchange, with Liebeler
inviting, t1w author to file a libel'
suit against him.''
was the decision of the United l"',LeebeleC, said -i.ane's,~book wagi
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