GREGORY TELLS FEAR FOR LIFE IN PROTESTS

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and stir up the black commu-i
G ~O~Y TELLS yoth" the rally he praised!
youths there for or participating,!
lie said. 4
And on Aug. 29, 1968, he
FOR LIFE introdced several promine- JEAR F'
speakuers, including Sen. .Eu-
gene McCarthy, unsuccessful
aspirant for the DemocraticI
~ O i Presidential nomination at an-1
111 ~i 1 t0i other Grant nark rally. .
BY ROBERT I'NSTAD
Dick Gregory, Negro enter-
tainer, testified in the conspir-
acy trial of seven men in
federal District court yesterday
Afterward, he said , he!
walked w i t If demonstrators;
down Michigan avenue to 18th;
street, where police stopped;
them. There, he said, he saw;
Hoffman lie down in front of a
that he was reluctant to . tank and warned him to "watch
participate in the der-- ata-{'out." He and Hoffman, he said,
lions in the 1968 Der" atic led the marchers back to Grant;
national convention but took park. I
part in some anyway. - The seven defendants are,
He was reluctant, he said, accused of conspiring to incite
because he feared he might be disorders during the conven-'
killed if he did so and that his ~ tiro.
participation could stir up Testifies- About Beating
'.trouble in the black commu? Among other witnesses were`
/ Wily. Angus Mackenzie, 18, of Beloit,i
"I figured the CIA fcentxqJ
I M 116 1. L I IC ACV. Mill Lill 1,UUML , after he lowered King Jr.) and the two Kenne - rican;
:dys," he said. flag in Grant park to half staff,
Wanted for Festival and two who testified they saw
In the preceding winter, be', police beat demonstrators that
said, two of the seven defend- I day at Balbo drive and Michi-,
atnts in the current trial, Abbic gun avenue.
lfoffman and lorry Rubin, I indgo Julius .l'. Hoffman or-
iYippie leaders, wanted him todered removal from the court
;participate. in their proposed i room of Stuart Bali fn., ma' de-,
.1
other entertainers to do so. . denying admission of certain
But lie told them, he said,; photographs as evidence. He,
,that he could not because he . said he would decide this morn
,would be "going back on the: ing whether to readmit Ball...
issues we cannot talk about," This incident brought an out-,
reference to demands in behalf burst from Dellinger, who ao4
of blacks which he had sub.:! cu1 the -judge of beiq~ ltnaiY
`milted to Mayor Daley. Hoff-
man and Rubin rejected his;
tsuggestion that the festival be
theld in Washington park in the,
black community, he said.
In response to a call from,
Hoffman Aug. 27, 1968, he did
appear at an "un-birthday!
tparty" for then President John-i
,son. But he didn't tell Hoffman:
''when he would arrive, he said,'
for fear "someone would find;
out': and he would be killed.
Appears at Rally
The next day, he said, he,
l appeared at a rally in Grant+
park in response to a call from'
David Dellinger, another trial;
defendant. Uregory said he wasp
reluctant to attend because ho',
"did 't want In of inv vcdt
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The CIA's mcmoradum to the com wife of the alleged assassin,- knew of
Six years after the assassination of mission, now declassified and on file the letter and its contents before it
President John F. Kennedy, the FBI in the National Archives, states: was mailed.
is still seeking to unravel a number "We surmise that the reference in, Significantly, Mrs. Paine testified Os-
.of mysteries involving the activities of Oswald's 9 November letter to a man wald typed the letter while spending
Lee Ilarvcy Oswald, the suspected assas-who has since been replaced must refer the November 9 weekend at her residence
, with his wife. After observing the letter
sin.
Probably the most baffling of these when Oswald was not around, Mrs.
mysteries, still under investigation, , is Paine said she copied it. The com-
the last letter Lee Harvey Oswald is (mission s record shows she turned the
'believed to have written before the Dallas t .. t copy over to the FBI on November 23,
tragedy. the day after the assassination.
Intercepted and read by the FBI be - ;' One report reveals that the FBI agents'
fore it arrived at its destination, the involved in the intercept copied the text
Oswald letter was mailed to the Soviet'':"" ~`~ '# vt of the letter and put it in Oswald 's
Embassy here in Washington on .Nov . Washington file with a note that one
12, 1963-or 10 days before,the assas rr. paragraph verified earlier information
..,4z
Oswald's Mexico City visit.
sination. on
The FBI report pointed out that Os-`
n,wald's mention of "Comrade Kostin"
re
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recall of an official in the Cuban Em in the letter %;V11111 1111-U a
bassy in Mexico City whom he had " that he had met with Valerity Vladi-
dealt with during his visit there two mirovich Kostikov, a member of the.
si consular staff of the Soviet Embassy,
months before the assassination. The A
highly significant reference was as fol- ' and one of the top KGB officers in
Y * the Western Hemisphere.
lows:
"Of course the Soviet 'Embassy was A.? But the FBI report did not answer
not at fault, they were, as I say un- the question of how and when Os-H
ld know prepared, the Cuban consul was guilty . abHow out the real of a Cas roadiplom at wald learned that Cuban Consul
~-' of a gross breach of regulations, I am in Mexico City? Eusebio Azque was recalled. Sev-
glad he has since been replaced:" eral government investigators believe
to Cuban Counsul Eusebio Azque, who r if this mystery could be solved that
The unanswered question stillbaf- left Mexico for Cuba on permanent ',i it would go a long way toward de-
fling the FBI is: How did Oswald transfer on 18 November 1963, four":I termining whether Oswald had any
learn about this official's unan- days before the assassination. accomplices.
"
Azque was scheduled to leave in President Nixon has the authority
According to the FBI's investigation, October but did not leave until 18 to make public the documents that the
there was absolutely no way Oswald November. We do not know who might ' Warren Commission decided to keep
could have obtained this information have told Oswald that Azque was to be secret after its investigation of the Ken-
during his September visit to Mexico replaced." nedy assassination.
City, since the secret recall order from In its investigation of the letter,
Havana was not transmitted until after ' That s the private report that Atty.
the FBI inquiry ascertained that if
John 'Mitchell has sent to the
he had returned to Dallas.
CIA and KGB operators in Mexico 111/// White House after studying the Johnson
Even then there was no publicity City learned of the official's recall Administration's handling of the storing
and only a handful of persons know at approximately the same time and of the commission's files in the National
about the recall, one FBI report states. only a week.before Oswald wrote his r Archives.
This report, along with several others letter,
pertaining to Oswald's trip to Mexico Mitchell ruled that the President has
City, has never been released. The re- While the FBI investigation has been broad authority to declassify all of the
ports are among the documents ordered unable to resolve the mystery, it has commission's documents under the Na-
staled by the Warren Commission fol- narrowed the sources of where Oswald tional Freedom of Information Act passed
lowing its investigation of the assassina- could have obtained the information. by Congress in 1966.
tions of Kennedy and Oswald. These sources are: Approximately two-thirds of the com-
During its investigation the Warren (1) An informant in the Cuban Em- ' mission's estimated 28,000 documents
Commission spent considerable time try- bassy in Mexico City who contacted have been declassified since it published
ing to check out the letter and its Oswald after he returned to the U.S.; ,{ifs findings on Sept. 28, 1964.
content. (2) the Central Intelligence Agency; od/ The remaining one-third, which in-
One inquiry directed to the CIA to (3) the KGB, the Soviet Secret police. eludes a number of CIA and FBI reports
determine where Oswald might have The Warren Commission's inquiry in- believed to have significant news value,
obtained the unannounced information to the Oswald letter, most details of arc still barred from public scrutiny.
to deal
about the official'!, recall produced nega- which buried 4 Harvey trip docuents
Mexico
Y, revealed that Mrs. 'Ruth , Lee Y OsvWald p
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State Journal Staff Writer
Dick Gregory, the former co-
median who has become a civil
rights activist, predicted Fri-
day that the Central Intelli-
gence.Agency (CIA)"%vil.La er-
throw aid-Wilted States gov-
yvuu., v~cgva,, ---
BLAMES CIA Other remarks by Gregory:
lie blamed the deaths of "Your mom and dad don't'
John F. Kennedy, Robert F. realize you are going to pay
Kennedy, Martin Luther King,, he price for keeping these in-
Malcom X and even Georgeitutions (white institutions)
Lincoln Rockwell on the CIA. segregated.
Gregory added that he, him- NOT 'FREAKS'
self, is constantly shadowed by
men of the intelligence agency. "Some whites are dropping
"If you want to get word to' their racism in industry long
the White House fast," he said, enough to find out we aren't
"just call my house." , freaks after all. One of these
Talking to ' an audience of days the employment officer ;
about 3,500 persons, Gregory will be black and you better
told them again and again that not call me 'boy.'
"You have a big job ahead of"
you.,,
'
He said this generation of
youth is "the most morally'
dedicated a n d committed
group that has ever lived, bar
none."
Gregory also frequently re
ferred to the "sick minds" in,
the administration-especially
President Richard Nixon and
Vice President Spiro Agnew-
and said the government, is de-
liberately making marijuana:
scarce so the kids will get hung:
up on heroin and destroy them-'
selves, instead of working tq: ? .
destroy or change the presen '
system.
RAMBLING SPEECH
Most of Gregory's speech!
was rambling and a series of!
illustrations to show his beliefs,
~:r;~a='-?^" about file "sickness and cor
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he sees in Amer
Dick Gregory . Speaks at MSU ruptness
fo by Dave Webb society today.
Ph
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ernment in two years and that term, sponsored by the Asso-' gious conflicts going on toda'
this will be good for "the ciated Students of MSU. i'.with Catholics against Protes-'
human rights movement." Gregory is optimistic about .1, nts and Jews against Arabs,
Gregory made the prediction the overthrow because he says "it makes you wonder what se-
during a press conference pre- a great cret atheists have that makes
number of people, i- them so God-like."
ceding his appearance in the eluding the rich, will also be on The established press in this.
Michigan State University Au- the losing side, some in jail; p
ditorium as the last speaker in and they will join the humart ! country is not morally sound,
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New Orleans enjoyed the circus
established with greater cer- . "The Garrison Case" might
The tainty, and might have been, have been subtitled, "The Dem-
but for Garrison's imbecility. agogue as D.A.," or "Joe Mc-
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s pretens
That Garrison
ons Carthy in Prosecutor's Cloth-
Garrison to having "solved" the Kennedy ing." it is a cautionary tale,
and a terrifying one. it will
Case Mr. Bickel is a professor of send shivers up your spine, and
constitutional law at the Yale thus erforms a rest Ill.
r s
A Study in the
Abuse of Power.
By Milton E. Brener.
278 pp. New York:
Clarkson N. Potter. $6.
By ALEXANDER M. BICKEL
Law School. p g p
service. On Nov. 9, Garrison
imbecilic,;
that his prosecution of Clay,
Shaw was a groundless per-!
secution, and that the dark ac-'
cusations he came in time to
fling at the C.I.A., the F.B.I.y
Lyndon Johnson and the late
Robert Kennedy were desper-
ate ravines-all that has been
of criticism was loosed against and broadcasts, and in Edward'
the Report of the Warren Com- 'Jay Epstein's short book,.
mission on the Assassination of "Counterplot."
President Kennedy. Some of the Milton E. Brener, a New Or-
well-taken. was judicious and leans lawyer with intimate well-taken. Much of it was wild, ex-
perience of Garrison and of his
and there was no prospect that "investigation," asks the ques-
it could ever be stilled. But its tion: What was the motor that
credibility was obviously en- drove Garrison - self-delusion,
hanced by the doubts of re- recklessness in the pursuit of
sponsible critics. These, in turn, political ambition, or a total
could be dealt with rationally. cynicism?
It appeared for a moment late Mr. Brener is particularly il-
in 1966 that they would be. A luminating on Garrison's pre-
reinvestigation of one sort or Shaw case career. It is of a
another seemed a distinct pos- piece entirely with the later
sibility. one. What makes Garrison tkk,
? Just at this point, the District. Mr. Brener in the end is un-
Attorney of New Orleans, one
Jim Garrison, burst on the
scene with an official inquiry.
It had all the trimmings, sub-
poenas, witnesses, charges of
conspiracy, and eventually an
arrest. Everything else stopped.
Garrison was a curious figure
of a D.A.-he was known local-
ly as the Jolly Green Giant-
but he wielded the legitimate,
indeed sovereign, power of a
state, and he had a strong
claim to priority. He success-
fully pressed that claim until
his increasingly implausible
case against his supposed chief
able to say. He tends to the
hypothesis of self-delusion, but
that Is rather more symptom
than cause. What enabled Gar-
rison to go on ticking, Mr.
Brener does know. Prosecutors
have immense unchecked power,
in the American system. We
rely on professionalism to im-
pose restraints, but in Garri-
son's case, this reliance was
ludicrous.
We rely also on public opin-
ion, informed by the actions of
an independent judiciary, but
public opinion In New Orleans
Is light-headed, and the local
judiciary less than rigorously
won the New Orleans Demo-
cratic primary, virtually assur-
ing himself a third four-year,
tfrm as District Attorney. Only,
nstitutional changes in the ad- ?
ministration of criminal justice!
in Louisiana can prevent fur-,
ther abuses of power by Gar.
rison and his like.,. ^ _ ..',v:,;,t
Shaw, a retired New Orleans toyed the circus, and cheered'
businessman, finally collapsed, when assorted Christians were
following a farcical trial, on thrown to the lions. The re-
March 1, 1969. sponsible organs of public opin-
In two-and-a-half years, Gar- ion feared the people and their
rison had succeeded in de- darling. Politicians were in
stroying whatever possibility hiding. Fifty businessmen who
had ever existed of a rational supported Garrison's oppres-,
reinvestigation of the murder sions and persecutions with
of President Kennedy. That is their money (the D.A.'s budget
too bad. It is almost certain was not enough) must have
that Lee Harvey Oswald was felt, as Mr. Brener says, that
the assassin, and that he acted "Garrison was popular. He was
alone, out of unfathomable per. obviously going places. The
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.The ignominious collapse of his John F. Kennedy
assassination "conspiracy" case last spring did nothing
to loosen District Attorney Jim Garrison's hold on the
loyalties of his constituents. Each new attack seemed
only to strengthen the people of New Orleans' faith
in him. The six-foot-six DA rode that faith last week
to a third four-year term, winning 54 percent of the
votes in the Democratic primary. He faces only token
Republican opposition.
Ward heelers and professional politicos have found
they can get along with the one-time "crusader against
vice." No mayoral candidate endorsed Garrison, but
most of them refused to criticize him either. Indeed,
Garrison might have welcomed more opposition, for
his campaign appeals consistently stressed the "power-
ful interests" he claimed were fighting his reelection,'
particularly the national press and "the federal govern-
ment." The latter was probably his most effective vote-
getter. Resentment against "Washington" still runs
high in the South, kept alive by continuing pressure
for school integration (unlike Mississippi, Louisiana
was granted little relief by the Nixon Administration).
Putting together an almost unbeatable coalition of
blacks (who consider him non-racist) and lower to
middle-class whites; facing lackluster and often inept
opponents; skillfully capitalizing on Southern hostility
toward "Washington" and local resentment against
the Eastern Establishment press; doggedly insisting
',that he had discovered the true murderers of John
Kennedy (the CIA and the "warfare-industrial com-,,//
plex") and would still, someday and somehow, prove
it - Big Jim was a shoo-in. "Conspiracy" defendant
Shaw knows what, awaits him - another' trial, for,
alleged perjury during his first trial; the rest of New'
Orleans, and as much of the nation as' cues; any
longer, can; only.wait an(wonder:
Beating the Weds
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There have been periods when Bernard' that the venture needed angels t 1 c helby Coffey, ??
Fensterwald Jr. has stood near the hot cen- had materialized.
mentionsthe assortment of;
ter of power in Washington, when he was the report Squoted and sought by an admiring press famous and obscure Fensterwald had
corps. Back in 1965, when Fensterwald was. talked with, an optimism emerges-there
general counsel of a Senate subcommittee were a number of "fascinating leads" to be
investigating the abuser of government chased after and explored and not enough;
invasions of privacy he and Bobby Kenne time to do it all in. But there is always a`
dy lashed out at each other in public and chance "next trip."
in private. To friends and acquaintances who find
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Now Bud Fensterwald's pale eyes narrow Fensterwald's recent activities strange, he ,
slightly when he says "I know what I'm replies with the certainty of a man who is
utterly convinced of not only the correct-
doing is unpopular." What he is doing, Hess but the need for his work.
aside from private law practice, is pursu He feels there may be more political as-
ing?a pastime that has sometimes come to sassinations if the earlier ones are not sol
be associated with a legion of fools and ved: He resents the statement of former
1 'opportunists: he is investigating the asses-. Chief Justice Earl Warren that there will
sinations of Robert and John Kennedy and be things that we will not know about the
But Martin Luther King. death of John Kennedy until 2039. "My
But Bud Fensterwald is no ordinary con le don't go in with anreconceived.
,spiracy-seeker, looking to turn a fast people
sayd Fensterwaldy"We.just look
review of flaws in the Warren Report into notions," for the inaccuracies." To document them ? ?
an instant paperback and cheap publicity. he traveled to London early in November
These days, he tries to arrive at his of-; to look into the stay of James Earl Ray in
to ock pore, in that city. Fensterwald's wife (his second,
s at he ices on morningng h when thing ns s are about " 7 quiet o'" 'clock
,
over documents addressed to his own CIA' he was divorced in 1964 from the mother of
the Committee to Investigate Assassl his four children) always travels with him
nations. CIA is a l(o)se confederation of', on these junkets, not so much because she;
people who hive written or worked on the is interested in the assas,4nation, but be-.
various conspiracy theories. cause "as soon as you say do you want to go
At his own expense Fensterwald took any ' ? my wife is already packing."
"8,000 mile junket" last May, traveling to He does not feel that'there is any imme
Los Angeles, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, diate physical danger in his consuming
and Memphis among other locations. He avocation; but he has set aside a sum of,
talked with James Earl Ray's lawyers, money for the investigation into his death',
examined slides of John Kennedy's assas-'should he vanish someday. He has also,
sination. visited with the controversial Jim placed copies of his most important evid-'
Garrison, and dozens of others, either fas- ence in "places that would be very difficult
cinated or peripherally (or not so peripher- ' to get to."
ally) connected with the three major politi- This kind of talk upsets some people,
cal murders of the Sixites. particularly those who know of Fenster-1
In a recent brief, breezily-styled "prog- weld's background-an impeccable blend
ress report" to his fellow CIA members' of a proper Southern Jewish family, trips
("There is no implication at all in the ti to Europe as a child, Harvard, Harvard }
tie," says Fensterwald with a bit of a wry; Law, a good World. War II record as a
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.WASIrINGTON - Six years assassinations of Kennedy and revealed that Mrs. Ruth Paine
to the assassination of Presi- Oswald. on, whose typewriter the final
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s=?cking to unravel a number THE CIA FINDINGS - Dur-swald, wife of the alleged
dk mysteries involving the ac- ing its investigation, the Warretlfassassin, knew of the letter and
deities of Lee Harvey Oswald, Commission spent considerable its contents before it was mall-
t4 e suspected assassin. time trying to check out the ed.
Probably the most baffling of letter and its content. Significantly, Mrs. Paine testi-
these mysteries, still under One inquiry directed to the fied Oswald typed the letter
CIA to determine where Oswald while spending the November cret
t
.Oswald ;
after its investigation of
er
investigation, is the last let
Lee Harvey Oswald is believed might have obtained the unan- 9 weekend at her residence with ithe Kennedy assassination.
to have written before the nounced information about the his wife. After observing the That's the private report that
Dallas tragedy. official's recall produced letter when Oswald was not Attorney General John Mitchell-
Intercepted and read by the negative results. around, Mrs. Paine said she co- has sent to the White House
The CIA's memorandum} to pied it. The commission's record after studying the Johnson Ad-
FBI before it arrived at its ministration's handling of the
destination, the OS.wald letter the commission, now declassi- shows she turned the copy over
was mailed to the Soviet Em- lied and on file in the National to the FBI on November 23, storing of the commission's files
1963 Archives, states: the day after the assassination. in the National Archives.
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bassy here on November 12,
- or 10 days before the "We surmise that the A check of declassified FBI Mitchell ruled that the Presi-
reference in Oswald's 9 Novem- reports on file in the National' dent has broad authority to
assassination.
In his request for a Sovietbet letter to a man who has Archives shows that the agency I declassify all of the commis
since been replaced must refer started its investigation imme-; sion's documents under the Na-
visa, Oswald made reference to to Cuban Consul Eusebio Az- diately on intercepting Oswald's tional Freedom of Information
the` unannounced recall of an que, who left Mexico for Cuba letter after it was mailed in Act passed by Congress in 1966.
official in the Cuban Embassy on permanent transfer on 18 Irving, Texas, on November 12. Approximately two-thirds of
in Mexico City whom he had November, 1963, four d a y s One report reveals that the t h e commission's estimated
de#ilt with during his visit there before the assassination. FBI agents involved In the in- i 28,000 documents have been
t months before t h e "Azque was scheduled to leave tercept copied the text of the i,,declassified since it published.,
its findings on September 28,
assassination. The highly signifi- in October but did not leave letter and put it in Oswald's
t reference was follows: until 18 November. We do not Washington file with a note that 1964.
f course the Soviet Embas- know who might have told one paragraph verified earlier The remaining one-third,,
as not at fault, they were, Oswald that Azque was to be information on Oswald's Mexico which includes a number of CIA
as say unprepared, the Cuban reports believed to
con,. it was guilty of a gross In its investigation of the let- The FBI report pointed out have significant news value,
blic
"
Co- are still barred from pu
breach of regulations, I am glad ter, the FBI inquiry ascertained at Oswald's mention of
be As since been replaced." that j, and KGB operators /mrade Kostin" in the letter con- scrutiny'.
baffii?g the FBI is: How did officials's recall at approx- had met with V a l e r i t y with Lee Harvey Oswald's trip,.
Oswald learn about this official's imately the same time and only Viadimirovich Kostlkov, a mem. ; to Mexico City.
unannounced recall? a week before Oswald wrote his ber of the consular staff of the
According to the FBI's letter, Soviet embassy, and one of the
Investigation, there was ab? While the FBI investigation top KGB officers in the Western ,
solutely no way Oswald could has been unable to regolve the Hemisphere.
have obtained this information mystery, it has narrowed the But the FBI report did not
during his September visit to sources of where Oswald could answer the question of how and
Mexico City, since the secret have obtained the information. when Oswald learned that Cuban
recall order from Havana was These sources arc: Consul Eusebio Azque, was
not transmitted until after he (1) An informant in the Cuban recalled.
had returned to Dallas. Embassy in Mexico City who S e v e r a l g o v e r n m e n t
Even then there was no contacted Oswald after h e? investigators believe if this
ystery could be solved that
/publicity and only a handful of returned to the U. S.; (2) o the it would go a long way toward
persons know about he recall, Central Intelligence Agency;
one FBI report states. This (3) the KGB, the Soviet Secret determining whether Oswald
report along with several others police. had any accomplices.
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pertaining to Oswald's trip to
Mexico City have never been OTHER DETAILS -- The THE SECRET DOCUMENTS
released. The reports are among Warren Commission's inquiry - President Nixon has the
the documents ordered sealed into the Oswald letter, Most de- authority to make public the
by the Warren Commission tails of which were buried in Cdocuments that,. the Warren
ommission decided, to keep se- i
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Garrison overcomes farce
People in New Orleans are die- making his assassination probe `
hards. the chief issue of the four-man .... -
That's the only impression one primary race.
could derive from the sweeping He apparently has Orleaners
primary victory of District , thoroughly convinced that the
Attorney Jim Garrison, whose President was murdered by the , .'
prone IIILU Lilt IIIUI UGl vi A L S A "dllU Mill, Lilt: LVUCl dl 5UV
dent John Kennedy has borne ernment has been successful so ;
about as much fruit as your far in stifling his attempts, to
neighbor's favorite dandelion.
The farcical trial of business
leader Clay Shaw on the charge
of conspiring to murder Presi-
dent Kennedy would have been
prove it.
That theory might have been
plausible to the rest of us at one .'j
? enough to kill Mr. Garrison Garrison could have come up
politically in most parts of the , with a few shreds of proof to"
country, but not in New Orleans.
Not only did Garrison over-
t`.come his fruitless efforts to un-
i cover the real Kennedy murder-
r, er, , he campaigned on -them,
time, if only the controversial
back up his theory.
As it stands now, it's only a lot
of hot air, but apparently that's
,'the kind of air New Orleans pre-
'fers.,. +?
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Garrison scores easy win
NEW ORLEANS - Jim Garrison soundly defeated his opponents
in the Democratic primary and will probably have an easy win for a
third term as District Attorney in the final election. His victory is as-
cribed to his wide support among the poor who consider him a champion
of the underdog. He got an almost unanimous vote in the black com-
munity. Garrison made naional headlines with his investigation into the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy which he- termed a con-
spiracy which involved the CIA.
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. To 17in AFew Orleans Primary.
By ROY REED
Seat In The New York Tames
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 9-
Jim Garrison, the controver-
sial District Attorney of New
Orleans, won yesterday's elec-
tion with the kind of populist
coalition that SouLhera, liberals
must dream about.
An analysis of the returns
from the Democratic primary,
in which the District Attorney
won a clear majority and
avoided a runoff, shows that
the bulk of Mr. Garrison's sup-
port came from Negroes and
working-class whites.
With 405 of all precincts re-
ported, Mr. Garrison was ahead
of his chief` rival. Harry F.
Connick, S3,3S4 to 61,441, with
two other candidates way be-
hind. Mr. Garrison had 53 per
cent of the vote. -
In a 12-man race for Mayor,
James E. Fitzmorris Jr. was
far ahead with about 35 per
cent of the vote. But he will
face Maurice Landrien, presi-I '
dent of the City Council, in a victory was due to a variety,
runoff Dec. 13. Victor H. of factors ranging from anti
Schiro, the Mayor of New Or- establishment sentiment to Mr.
leans, is retiring. Garrison's strong identification
Election Is Probable with the memory of President
Kennedy.
Mr. Garrison's first primary Among working class whites,
victory virtually assures his he is popular for "standing up",
election to a third term. He to the Federal Government. He
will face a largely unknown Re- charged repeatedly during hisl
publican opponent in the gen-
era lelection in April. Demo- two-year investigation that the
Brats make up 96.8 per cent of Government, particularly the
the registered voters in New Central Intelligency Agency/,
Orleans. was trying to thwart his effort
United Press International
Jim Garrison, New Orleans
District Attorney, at a
post election celebration.
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Perhaps the greatest reason
for his, popularity among
blacks, observers here believe,
was his reputation-deserved
or not-for trying to solve the
murder of President Kennedy,
one of the most beloved white
men in black America.
When it became known that
his chief challenger, Mr. Con-,
nick, had gained the support of
a large number of wealthy
sinessmen as well as both
daily newspapers here, an tin-
witting. alliance of the poor of,
both colors against "the estab-
lishment" became likely. The,
Mr. Garrison made it clear to discover the, truth.
whose appeal
Mr
Connitk
,
.
,
Ste
este da
--
..
regarded y
expression of confidence in the
handling of his investigation of
the assassination of President
Kennedy.
analysts note that this is an
was largely to middle and exceptionally 'class-conscious
a
upper-class whites who thought 'city,
the Garrison investigation was
irrational, became a victim of
finished, but added that he still
intended to prosecute Clay L.
Shaw on a charge of perjury.
businessman, was acquitted in
a jury trial last March of a
charge of conspiring to kill
Mr. Kennedy.
Mr. Shaw testified during his
trial that he had not known
David Ferrie, another figure ini
the Garrison conspiracy in-
quiry. Mr. Garrison contended
Mr. Shaw did know Mr. Fer-
ric, who is now dead, and
charged Mr. Shaw with perjury.
No trial date has been set.
'lie Goes to Trial'
Asked by a television inter-
-..,.wer .. here yesterday's elec-
The Government's Man
Mr. Garrison subtly portrayed
Mr. Connick, a former assistant
United States attorney here, as
the Government's man perhaps
actually put in the race secretly
by Government forces.
Mr. Garrison was actively
supported by a number of in-
fluential political organizations
in the black and the poor white
communities.
Black precincts voted for him
even- heavier than the poor
white precints did and prob-
ably gave him the edge he
needed to avoid a runoff.
Mr. Garrison was well known
in the black community and
-
f
th
e Shaw affair, tor.
lion le
t
Garrison replied, "lie goes to had a reputation, for being
trial. He goes to trial.", friendly to Negroes, although
1 1 t ..- sho was not regarded as a civil
s
l
y
ltlca Ina ys
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OCT 12 1969
,Can You Understand That?
Pacif ist Pars Life
The message, naturally:
Stop the war.
Few could call Champney
a boob. He has a' Ph.D. in
psychology, has edited a
number of books on child re-
search. Yet here he sits, 500
miles from his home in Yel-
low Springs, Ohio, with his
own impossible dream.
Why?
WASHINGTON - (NEA)-
They come almost every
day. Some of them regu-
larly. Rain or shine. And
take positions outside the
White House gates.
They are demonstrators.
Not organized demonstra-
tors. Individual demonstra-
tors. Young, old, black,
white. They are from Osh-
kosh, Wis., Poughkeepsie,
"I'm a Quaker. I've been a
pacifist nearly all my life. In
1967, myself and others like
N.Y., and Yellow Springs, me sent ti Vietnam aboard
Ohio. They carry pickets tl,.! Quaker ship Phoenix.
and pamphlets and a single
bizarre request: An inter-
view with the President of
the United States.
curb. She says she has been
deported from Canada to the
United States because "I
have conclusive proof that
John Kennedy, Robert Ken-
nedy and Martin Luther
King were murdered by the
There's ai.ather, talking to
a passerby. He claims he
Veit probably heard about it.
Well, we landed in the north.
And I saw some bad things.
Things that had happeneJ to
the children.
"So. when I got hack
home; I started wondering
about what I could do to stop
all that horror. I prayed and
sought advice. And I decided
to come here to see the
President. I know it must
sound strange. But, really,
this is something I must do.
Can you understand that?"
I
ndeed, many people who
was fired from his job be-'
cause lie was a union stew-! pass by the White House do
ard. He says there's a plot understand Dr. Champney.
afoot against organized la- They stop, read his sign,
bor. He wants to see "Dick sometimes talk. A couple
Nixon." . have even offered small do-
And there's a third, kneel- nations to keep his daily
Lang For Kids
Horace Champney began
his singular White House
demonstration with an open
letter to fellow Quaker, but
political foe, Richard Nixon.
Over the weeks and months,
he has passed out hundreds
of copies.
It reads in part:
"I am a father and grand-
father, retired from a life-
long work for child welfare.
I have been in Vietnam and
got to know the children.
Now I must put my life on
the line for the children:"
The last line is ominous
but, Champney insists, true.
He says he is tasting on vita-
mins and juice. He says he
has lost at least 30 pounds.
He says he has got to the
point where he's not hungry
any more.
And he says this, too:
"I may be a fool. I don't
even know if I have the
courage to go through with
this. But look at me, and
these other pickets you see
here. It takes some courage
just to come out here. So,
yes, right now, I think, I will
see the President or I will
die trying."
ing and praying. He's 18. vigil continuing.
Religious. He feels pollution Others, however, 'don't un-
is an act of God, and will derstanu. The old man says'
choke man to death for his
sins. He says prayers must he has oeen heckled with ob-
be allowed back in public ?seenities. He supposes the
schools. signword "Vietnam" boils
Call them kooks. Every- the heckler's blot+d. He says)
body does. L'ut even as pe-
destrians chuckle past the. they don't discuss aooything::
Pennsylvania Avenue pick- -they just call him a trai
ets, there is a hint of respect ? tor, or w o r s e, and then,
for these simple people who stomp a n g r i l y down the
risk humiliation to exercise walk.
their right of grievance. "Vietnam is a provocative
Take one of them, as a word," Dr. Champney sighs.
I think it makes some pea
case history: ple lash out angrily because
His name is Horace it makes them ashamed.
Champney. He's 64. White- And they are ashamed to ad-
haired and bearded. Rough mit their shame. So I sym-
clothing. He has been here, pathize with them. And I
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HOW ONE MAN RUINED ANOTHER AND SUBVERTED OUR LEGAL'
No OTHER PEOPLE love fantasy more
than the people of New Orleans. The
storied French Quarter bumps and
grinds nightly with silicone sex, and
offers make-believe love for a price.
BY WAfEN ROGERS
CHIEF, LOOK WASHINGTON BUREAU
The swamps and bayous and mossy The New Orleans newspapers, for two years supinely obedient to the
woods spawn poltergeists and loop- -court's demand for no pre-verdict comment, broke silence immediately. In
garou, the werewolf of Cajun lore., a page one editorial on March 1, the Stales-Item bristled:
A mysterious light, they say, glows : "District Attorney Jim Garrison should resign. He has ... abused the
some nights over the tomb of Marie vast powers of his office. He has perverted the law rather than prosecuted it.....
Laveau, the Queen of Voodoo. And, Clay L. Shaw has been vindicated, but the damage to his reputation caused'
if you know where to goin that land by Mr. Garrison's witch hunt may never be repaired. It is all too shameful...
of Mardi Gras, you can still buy'.,, "Mr. Garrison himself should nnw he brought to the bar to answer for his
.love -back" and
potions and "come -back" conduct. The jury has spoken. Clay lhat something was never
"go-away" powders to make any Shaw is innocent. ` produced in court, after two years
and all dreams come true. "And Mr. Garrison stands re.~ of talk about secret evidence-most
of itcannily put out on Fridays for
Nor do any other people morevealed for what he is-a man with-
appreciate an audacious, loqua- 1! out principle who would pervert the I leisurely weekend consumption. Yet
t has wrecked Clay Shaw's life.
cious,intriguing,slap-aroundpoliti legal process to his own ends." I it'
cian-a Huey "Kinofish" Long, an ,j Garrison was undismayed. Two Once moderately well-off, Shaw at
Earl "Ol' Uncle Earl" Longg a days later, he filed a newindictment 5 is broke and in debt and has
Leander "the Jedge" Perez. And against Shaw, this time on charges come out of retirement in quest of a
now, it is "the Jolly Green Giant"- of perjury. And nobody did any. 1 jrb. Once highly respected, he goes
Earling Carothers (until lie legally i thing about it. Private polls showed h about the city still, determinedly
changed it to just plain Jim) Garri-'i Garrison could easily wvin nomina- 11 cheerful but wincing under the
son, the out-size district attorney tion for DA, equal to election, in the star's, usually from rubbernecking
of Orleans Parish (New Orleans), 3 November 8 Democratic primary, tourists in the French Quarter,
with his own special brand of Dixie. and perhaps even for Mayor. Else- where he lives, but also from old
land McCarthyism. where in the world, Garrison may' fi en&4. lfe is the local two-headed
At 47, Big Jim-he stands six- be the Emperor without clothes- calf, notorious the rest of his days.
six in his size-14 shoes and weighs exposed as incompetent and irre- i_Elireputatioa as a genteel, discreet
b
arrass : sponsible. But not in New Orleans.
225-has suffered an em
mentthat would undo just about anyIn a month of knocking about my
other prosecutor in the country. For old hometown and sifting the em-
two years, there was the buildup, hers of the Garrison-Shaw debacle,
:.rife with cliff-hanging hullabaloo I kept running into the same, trust-
and a cavalcade of bizarre "witness- ing, hopeful phrase-word for word,
es," and then he finally went to trial ; as if memorized at some Orwellian
with charges that Clay L. Shaw, a mass-rally rehearsal:
retired New Orleans "Well
I don't know... Big
rominent
,
,
p
businessman, conspired with Lee I J;m must have something."
'' Harvey Oswald and others to assas-
sinate President John F Kennedy. It
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SHAKEDOWN FOR NEW SOVIET SUBS No Lung, former vice chairman of China's na-
1 tional defense council, member of the Central
Russia's new Y-class nuclear-powered, missile- Committee and the Politburo. Ito Lung disap-
firing.wbinarines have been detected for the first pcarcd from China in 1967 during an army purge
time on the high seas. Two Y-boats, similar to the 1 inspired by the Red Guards and turned up later
U.S. Polaris, are undergoing shakedown cruises in Moscow.
in the North Atlantic off Norway. The Soviets ' .
have a total of five operational Y-class subma- MORE SOVIET TROOPS FOR MONGOLIA
rines in their northern fleet. Each can carry six-
teen
SS/6 nuclear missiles of 1,500-mile range. i' The Soviet Union not only has heavily 'fortified
The Russians are believed capable of turning out i; its border with China (page 35) but has Vapidly
eight missile subs each year-which would bring;; expanded its garrison on the territory of Mongo-
them up to the present U.S. total of 41 Polarises lia, its close ally. The Soviet command there is
in five years. believed headquartered at Choibalsan in eastern,
Mongolia, within 75 miles of the Chinese fro--
HANOI STRENGTHENS ITS AIR DEFENSE tier. Several Soviet armored divisions are based.
at Choibalsan.
Though U.S. bombing of North Vietnam has
been substantially halted for nearly eighteen) D.A. GARRISON'S RE-ELECTION FIGHT
months, Hanoi's air defenses are stronger than
ever. Soviet-built SAM missiles have been in-'{ New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison
. stalled as far south as Vinh, which is 135 miles faces a difficult re-election campaign this fall. At.
north of the Demilitarized Zone. About 25 of the'. least three candidates plan to run against him,
35 to 40 SAM sites have new advanced Soviet: including Charles Ward; once his chief assistant.
radar. And North Vietnam has built up its air; Garrison has yet to secure any convictions in the'
..force to the highest level of the war: 72 super- alleged plot to kill President John F. Kennedy.'
-
,sonic MIG-21s, 130 MIG-15s and 17s, and eight But he says he is still investigating and he vows,
IL-28 jet bombers. Most of the planes are based "We will eventually prove the CIA was behind
at Phuc Yen near the Chinese border. it." Note: After former 'chief assistant Ward an-'
nounced his candidacy, Garrison ordered a grand;
KUZNETSOV: AFTERMATH IN MOSCOW !..,jury investigation of Ward in an alleged bribery;
case, but no charges have been filed. Garrison
Soviet writer Anatoly Kuznetsov's defection has 'also is being criticized for his alleged failure to.
resulted in a clampdown on the colleagues he;~ check the growing influence of the Mafia in
left behind. The Kremlin has tightened restric-. New Orleans.
tions on foreign travel by intellectuals. Six So- '
viet writers who were supposed to leave for!.THE LITTLE SHIP THAT COULDN'T
Rome last week, for example, were denied exit;
visas at the last minute. Aleksandr Tvardovsky, The U.S. spy ship Pueblo collected thousands of .
editor of the liberal monthly Novy Mir (New . feet of electronic tape on North Korean and So
World) may be the most prominent victim; viet radio and other electronic signals-but ncv-
his dismissal from the magazine is expected er retransmitted any of this information to naval
momentarily, intelligence or the National Security Agency be
fore being captured by the North Koreans. Asp
CHINA'S NEW EMIGRES r:one Pentagon source put it, "The Russians prob
i A small but growing coterie of former Peking of- ably know what we really got on that Pueblo
coterie
growing
but well new- know' how much the Bus-
f . trip
_
,
fici
Tse-tung regime in Chinese-language broadcasts 3 scans sound our-
.
.
.
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over Radio Moscow. The latest recruit is Marshal
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Shatv" conspiracy -case echoes as
Spectat to The Christian Science Monitor 0 u a
New Orleans
INTL
DA'
h
e
esigned from t
iden- Mr. Ward said he rs
Sh
Cl
aw pres
ay
The of the
agitation
assassination case, popularly believed office and announced his candidacy for dis-
'to have ended with the acquittal of Mr. trict attorney after Mr. Garrison had used
Shaw earlier this year, has risen again. the Davis charge as a pretext for disavow-
.
A prime mover in the revival is Charles ing his promise to recommend Mr. Ward
R. Ward, former chief assistant to District for a vacant criminal-district-court judge-
Attorney Jim Garrison and now Mr. Gar..ship.
rison's most formidable challenger for re- "My loyalty to Mr. Garrison ended when
election, he repudiated that promise," said Mr.
Mr. Ward, who resigned from office last Ward, "all the while knowing the charges
June 17 with a blast at his ex-boss, has ac- to be false." He. added that Gov. John J.
cused Mr. Garrison.of. such obsessive con- McKeithen had given Mr. Garrison carte
blanche in making the. recommendation.,
ince he initiated
cern with the Shaw case s the probe in late 1966 that he has flagrantly The two other candidates for DA, Harry
neglected the mounting problem of crime in Connick and Ross T. Scaccia, have, also
made plain their intention to zero in on
the streets. Mr. Garrison for his initiation and handling
wiM- f`"."
ick i
a former
^'-- '-
n
s
the
ties_of-the DA's.office since he became an i??assistant United States attorney, while Mr..
assistant DA in.1962 Mr..:Ward in recent Scaccia resigned as an assistant DA after
weeks has accused Mr.. Garrison of prosti- ? the Shaw case broke, avowedly in protest
tuting his office for his qwn, aggrandise- against Mr. Garrison's allegations -.about
went. .the killing of President Kennedy.
ed ti
criticized
Beaconin
i
g
clos
Bribe charge dis
As a result, Mr. Ward has contended, in. Mr. Garrison himself. has confirmed that
? .nocent persons have been maligned and- the Shaw case will loom large in the cam- ,
harassed at the whim of Mr. Garrison,' paign for DA by reiterating that he will
O sorely needed police officers and DA's in- continue to pursue his investigation "in a (?
vestigators have been reduced to the status modulated way. He still maintains that
--a President Kennedy was killed by agents of
h
e
the once highly respected' office of the dis- .
.trict attorney has fallen into low esteem. accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald " "was
atsy who didn t fire a shot.
a
merel
p
y
Some indication of the lurid charges and
Garrison as a man be-
ortrait of Mr
A
.
P
countercharges that may be expected in thedeviled by a fear of assassinaton and driven
A'
g campaign ibr the D
just-beginnins o nCc by an obsessive egomania was painted by
urround-
i
t
i
h
ances s
rcums
e c
n t
-can be seen
Mr. Ward in a recent interview.
ing Mr. Ward's resignation. The aggressive "The assassination probe started in Octo-
young prosecutor himself disclosed that he ber 1966," said Mr. Ward, "when Mr. Gar-
had been accused of accepting bribes aggre- ,
risen flew to New York with Senator Long
gating some $15,000 while he was chief assis- [U.S. Sen. Russell B. Long of Louisiana]. At
tant DA. th
whose own father
Senator Long
t ti
,
me
a
The money, which he asserted was intend- had been assassinated, expressed the conic-
ed to influence him to withhold legal action tion that the murder of President Kennedy
in collecting bail-bonding forfeitures, was ryas the outgrowth of a plot and voiced
said to have been paid to Mr. Ward in $2,500 belief that the man who solved it would be
monthly installments in 1968. the biggest man in the country and a logical
Mr. Ward said that an affidavit to that candidate for vice-president.
effect had been made by a former bail-bond- "This whetted Mr. Garrison's appetite for
?ing company executive. Subsequently that notoriety," Mr. Ward said, "and he corn-
executive was quoted in his affidavit made menced to read up on the subject. Eventu-
public that he had forwarded the. $15,000 to ally he inverted legal logic by substituting
"two New Orleans attorneys. They, in turn, ~ inductive reasoning for deductive reasoning.
were to turn it over in installments to Mr.; In the latter You find clues and from them
Attorneys indicted - you set up an arbitrary premise and from
it you seek 'facts' that will substantiate it,
A grand-jury probe that followed resulted 'airily disregarding those that would demol-
in the indictment of the two accused attor- '.ish it. ' . j
neys, Milton Masinter and Thomas Taranto
Mr. Ward, who testified before the grand ."Mr; Garrison loftily procla'lmed that he
jury in the case, hailed its failure to charge
{
had 'solved' the case in early 1967 after:
! his innocence
f
i
l
.
o
ve proo
us
him as conc
?
The affidavit charges by William Hardy the story of his investigation broke in the.
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rh
tury ? Surety Underwr"ilefa~~dla`fiaih~ O- co0
. usao, who waa e
have been vehemently denied by the two ;
attorneys. ..." , . s
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MAR 1 O 1969
From The Winston-Salem Journal
BIG WIND UP, NO DELIVERY
Where was everybody at the Clay Shaw
conspiracy trial in New Orleans?
Where was the "hard evidence" that
officials of the Central ntellig.nom ce Agency had
"covered up the truth" about the Kennedy
assassination?
Where were the high-level officials involved
in this "massive conspiracy" to hide the truth
from the American people? Where were the
Cubans in on the "plot," the Minutemen who
figured i n District Attorney Garrison's
charges? Where was evidence that the Defense
Department had shielded the conspirators? And
how about the neo-Nazis and that guerrilla
team which was supposed to have carried out
the assassination?
Where were all of these people, and where
was all of that "hard evidence," when Jim
Garrison desperately needed something to prop
up his case?
This was to be the "trial of the century."
These are the words Garrison himself used a
year ago when he claimed that he had
"solved" the assassination. But what has
actually happened at the trial?
Garrison has called two central witnesses to
prove that Clay Shaw, alias "Clay Bertrand,"
met with Lee Harvey Oswald and talked about
killing President Kennedy.
One witness, Perry Russo, said so many
contradictory things both in his testimony and
in previous statements made to the district
attorney's office - that one wonders if Russo
saw anything at all.
. The second witness, a bird-like little man
named Charles Spiesel, swore he heard Shaw
-and David Ferrie talk about killing President
Kennedy. Spiesel, it turns out, has initiated
lawsuits against a number of persons who he
claimed hypnotized him to ruin his business.
In addition, the prosecution called a number
of witnesses who testified that the shots came
from the textbook building (which is what the
Warren Commission believed), from a grassy
knoll to Mr. Kennedy's right and from the
railroad bridge directly in front of the
advancing motorcade-but no witness has
testified that the shots came from more than
one direction. Garrison claims that the presi-
dent was killed by a fusillade of shots; but his
own witnesses failed to back him up.
And this is all. No dramatic evidence that
agencies and individuals in the government
conspired either to murder Mr. Kennedy or to
conceal evidence about his murder. No
evidence that Clay Shaw was linked with Jack.
Ruby; no evidence that Clay Shaw ever called
himself Clay Bertrand; no evidence that Shaw
was involved in the actual decision by any
person or persons to shoot the president.
Despite Judge Edward A. Haggerty's decision
to let the prosecution roam at will, without
having to authenticate exhibits or obey
conventional restrictions on hearsay evidence,
Garrison's case has flopped. He couldn't even
prove that "one of the assassins" fired at the
Kennedy motorcade from a manhole in which
the man was concealed, and Garrison was
once so enthralled by this possibility that he.r
had the entire sewage network in the area of
the assassination searched carefully.
In short, a dismal flop. After two years of,
priming the public with halftruths and distor-
tions and "evidence of a new breakthrough" --
after riding the publicity circuit for so long -
Garrison just wasn't able to deliver. ,
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]Veiv Orleans Justice At the outset' of the 'i- al o tt,?
Garrison' spoke wiuely aA;1~,1t
A oes -.. ~~VV u'e ilge Vl, i,I Nl t.iwaw VV
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Within weeks of John V. Ken- +
nedy's assassination at Dall-lessence of which is that Oswald, me lion, .was hiding Warren tr
f as in November, 1963, Lyndon B. firtst ate mlark man or enjoyed f culprits, At one point in his one-,
,,Johnson, the successor President. t'emark ble luck at the moment man debate on the subject, he?
government and civilian people to s"~ sourc ~ ence Ae staging tho'
investigate the murder. For.lackof better e ma murder
.
Johnson went to remarkableIterial or greater investigative Two years ago we were spend-,
lengths to infuse an unbiased talent, the country has had to.
ing a f ew days' in New Orleans,
political flavor in its member- accept' the Commission's find arriving shortly after Sha ns l
though with widespread
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. t it an unlimited budget to hire the! ,,Several autho"rs+ha+ have chal+eng silver, knowledgeable in_ those j
r?'the day to day work - of assembl i writings stop snort th m
e agnet that rt ' is, we 'asked
Ing the evidence. I out inconsistencies in Fits assess whatahe local opinion was.
He ment of the evidence witnqut,1 ,? ' He commented.-that -Garrison;
He applied heavy press actually, filling the gaps their upon upon Earl Warren, chief justiceice, r had cleaned ? up a number of
questions raise.
of the Supreme court, to chair, . This air of suspicion was made backwaters i t u a t i o n s which,4.
the commission. Greatly against to order. for Jim, Garrison, the' others had winked at for.years,
his own' wishes, Warren took the! ; but. that retribution from' those;
assignment,. thinking possibly of, New Orleans. attorney , 1,trampled toes, could make itself",
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i FDR to ~ check what, 'went ;his arresta highly respected
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~- wrong at Pearl Harbor ~in 1941 ,h?A;nessman_ as the ringleader In;?duced, could divert that political,
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Roberts filed a reliable ie ort on vrledlls to uv a W ay W J 0. For what it's worth, the Shawl
dent Kennedy.. Y
that embarrassing debacle case may -not be leaving the halls,
(ZArriann:'ineluded Oswald as a!
doubt and mvaterv cinndina Lines ? a The president of the American,'
eo111?8 murder !n .Lava, lnxuly arrest; a Louisiana jury un ""` hi __.____. __o
]requesting his Louisiana mem-i
writers Arcola :vet. today that __.. -
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11 , out of the way. , jury room ;concluded 34 days. of ing the conspiracy charge, indi-,
trial work.' . N cates, he will ' sue Garrison in
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footwork
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allas Garrison left the
prosecution's damages for, malicious , prosecun
police had one suspect, Lee {conduct in the trial to four
Harvey, Oswald, in custody, but tion.
assistants?f And Garrison announced two:
even before Jack, Ruby gunned HO appear yt duel g1 days ' ago he will file pei jury
ed briefly, Oswald at 'the. local ail
charges against Shaw, on the
there was a strong suspicion as the prosecution's' summation of.
to Oswald being a loner in 'the,.its case, t6 describe the Warren P'contention. that he lied "on the;
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mission in 'removing the 'one was necessary to establish l.his,put-sue the rarlifications of any
reliable means of learning first
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z neurosis or possibly was the tool Garrison i. o- i al not 15ro'1S1Utiht;first to decry the Warren' Com-kJohn 'F. Kennedy. The corn-
him get a jell at mission's report. Mr. Lane hasimcnt was made that President
at different 's he said. contentioni parish
The prosccute cutors it would help
that the hospital, and that witnesses acted as an unofficial adviser l that the should be killed and
he would destroy tile of.
would testify that Mr. Shaw ha that the job could best be done
ficial theory of the assassins- would sifld that the area to to Mr. Garrison. y b era rifle.
tion brought a protest from F. The spectators were generall y At this point, the defend-
Irvin Dymond, leader of Mr.' register. well-dressed. The women wore' Cady Shaw. suggested that;
Shaw's panel of attorneXs. - Mr. McGee said that Oswald
was traveling in a "very r,1(1. hats and Flovcs. the men suits
Shaw had on a
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automobile and t
maybe dark green
~t}ic day he got the haircut. gray suit with a striped tic.
ilhcre was a woman in the' During Mr. Garrison's state-
front with him and a bash e ment, the defendant peered at
on the back seat. he said.. i a spot sornc where over the dis?
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Barring some unforeseen de-
velopments, of which there have
already been far too many, the
Clay Shaw trial will get underway
soon in New- Orleans. It is hoped
that at long last the conspiracy
theories of District Attorney Jim
Garrison will be thoroughly and
conclusively tested.
Shaw is charged with criminal
conspiracy, not actually taking part
i:: the death of President Kennedy.
He has denied knowing Lee Harvey
wish whom he is supposed to nave Orleans. According to the state's-;
prosecution are Perry Raymond
Russo, the man who .,blew the
whistle on the reputed conspira-
tors; Gov. and Mrs. John Connally
of Texas. (Connally was wounded
in the Dallas shooting) ; the physi-
cian who treated Connally; photo-
graphers, an FBI firearms expert, 'I
and two Dallas patrolmen who
were part of Kennedy's motorcycle
escort.
For the -defense, much is riding
on the testimony of Mrs. Harold,::,
McMaines of Des Moines, Iowa;.;
Oswald or the late David Ferrie, the former Sandra Moffett of New::
plotted. If nine of the twelve
jurors find Shaw.guilty, he could
get one to. 20 years at hard labor.
Selecting a jury was predictably
difficult, given the 'nature of the
trial and the long-winded discus-
sion of the case in public by the
flamboyant Mr. Garrison. Jurors
have been ,excused on the
grounds that they had, fixed .opin-
io hs and 'because the 'expected '. cution insofar as seeming-to "try
lengthy trial would' cause them
financial hardship. The moment
of truth is at hand, however,. with
the final juror selections near..
Central to Garrison's case; in ad-
dition to the alleged Shaw-Ferrie
Oswald conspiracy, is his charge .:
Dallas' Dealey Plaza, killed Presi- director of'the International Trade
in ; from entrenched positions in , the accused,' the former managing.
that as many as 14 assassins, fir
Gat Kennedy. Further, that the Mart, will- ' finally , have their. dayti
identity of the killers are known to in court..
the Central. Intelligence : Agency .
(CIA).
iy4.V i
just what part of this latter
charge will play, if any,. in the
Shaw trial remains to, be seen. It
may be that Garrison's man in
court, Assistant District Attorney
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James Alcock will stick to the spe-.
ciiics of conspiracy. Garrison is
cr*pected to make only a brief ap-
star witness, Perry Russo, she at-
tended the party at,which- the as-
sassination conspiracy took :place,
escorted by Clay Shaw -",She has'
denied attending such a party and
defense counsel has boasted she
will "tear Russo's testimony to,,
shreds."
After tedious months of delays,.
.questionable tactics by the prose-'
in the 'press, and endless
Shaw
?
11 speculation, the nation can be ;rate
ful that at last'the truth will out::
Does Garrison have something *or
has he climbed out on a very long .
limb?
It is gratifying that Garrison and:".
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By HAYNES JOHNSON
Star stau writer
NEW ORLEANS - Clay Shaw
sits in front of the mahogany
bench, gazing at the parade of
people who saunter past him to
take their place briefly on the
witness stand, and then pass on,
dismissed as potential jurors.
From time to time, he leans
back, lights a cigarette, twirls
his horn-rimmed glasses and
stares at the large courtroom
windows with the drawn blinds.
If you didn't know better you
would think he was indifferent to
being charged with conspiring to
kill a president.
Judge Edward A: Haggerty
Jr., a patient man with iron-
gray hair and a ruddy Irish
face, proceeds with his business,
hour after hour, day after day,
never losing his cool composure.
"Do you know any reason that
will prevent you from being a
fair and impartial juror?" he
? asks, again and again, to the
faceless procession seated to his
right.
And over and over he hears
the same response, "I have a
fixed opinion." Then he calls out
the next number and another
prospective juror marches -for-
ward.
It has been going on this way
'tor two weeks now. More than
1,100 persons, whites and
? ;Nrcgrocs, young and old, men' herein New Orleans.
;and women, have t r o o p e d
+through the small second-story" Trial by Publicity
`courtroom of the criminal courts Jim Garrsion's case so for has
'
wilding. Today,.only one person
.-- the last alternate - remained
?;o be chosen before the formal
gation began; Guy F. Banister, Not a "Shadow of Truth"
the militant anti-Communist pri-, Not the least of these concerns
vote detective who supposedly' involves the portion of the dc-
office and maintained an has arms also cache died; his, fendant, Clay Shaw. As he him-
tfice ; the i
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anonymous Cubans being
trained for the Bay of Pigs: the
equally anonymous Central I
telligence Agency men who ouCC-
fitted them; Perry Russo, Dean
Andrews, Gordon Novel, Alvin
Beaubouef, and others.
Nearly All Forgotten
Nearly all have been forgotten
by the public now. Indeed, New
Orleans itself seems bored by
the interminable preliminaries
of Garrison's vaunted investiga-
tion. It is not a topic of conver-
sation; it is not a top newspaper
headline;. it is not even a lead
item on television (the principal
news h&c, concerns a school
book censorship controversy in
Jefferson Parish).
New Orleans, on the eve of
Mardi Gras, is going its own
casual and lusty way.
And Americans in general,
who love a conspiracy, seem to
have lost their interest in the
New Orleans investigation.
At this moment, they even
have a second Kennedy assassi-
nation trial to contend with, if
they care to do so. They don't
seem to be concerned with ei-
ther.
Yet it is not too much to sug-
gest that a great deal is on trial
been largely a trial by publicity.
erview ear
put f. - 1n an in
ier
e
(his week with Michael Parks of
the Baltimore Sun:
"There isn't even a. shadow of
truth in the charges against me.
But I'll never be able to prove
that to the world.
"Even if I'm acquitted, I'll al-
ways be the man accused, as the
He, too,' eventually was e3
cured.
The judge is trying again tc
day with another large group c
potential jurors. One of theme, i
not today, then tomorrow or th,
day after, will finally complctt
the panel and the trial will be
gin.
There is only one final, iiis-
turbing thought. After all this
time and speculation, many
newspaper puts it every day, of EI Americans will never know what
conspiring with Lee Harvey Os-
wald to assassinate the presi-
dent."
He went on to say, "I feel that
it's the 'Book of Job,' 'Alice in
Wonderland' and 'Through the
Looking Glass,' Kafka's 'The
Trial' and Gogol all-come to life
to believe is the truth about th3
assassination of the 35th Presi=
dent of the United States;.
' .' ;. ?
at ogce." 1
Frustrating Task
In referring to the press, Shaw,
put his finger on the present.
problem in moving the case to
trial. It has been a frustrating
task to find anyone who does not,
have a firm opinion on the case.
As one man said yesterday in
answer to Judge Haggerty's:
question about his ability to re-
main impartial, "As far as my
opinion on Mr. Shaw goes, no.
As far as the publicity surround=
ing the case, I can't help but
have some opinions."
ty, your honor, I'm afraid I do,
Bused..
At one point yesterday after-
testimony can begin and the'charged -formally with invest!-
Kennedy
gating the circumstances of LTl
a Negro
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son
es Sim
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,
p
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trial is finally
under der way. John F. Kennedy's murder in postal employe with * five chit-.
2 Years Since Announcement Dallas. He has fed on fears ofdren who works at night and
In one way, it is all anticli- conspiracies operating with the who, by his testimony, seldom
mastic now. Two years have highest levels of the American reads or watches television, said
, thegovernment.
Ilex has n accused persons now'so),, had no fixed opinions. l.e did:
in response to questioning,;
,passedtheatrical since New Jim Orleans Garrison district dead of the most monstrous
that he thought he might
'attorney, announced d" the cal-. crimes. `Ile has arrested a re- have;
ly that he had "solved" the Ken-i si ected businessman of his own seen Jim Garrison giving his; assassination. city as the mastermind of a con- Carson on the television case on a program.
Then, the press of the world spiracy to kill the president. Carson
" :
raised I remember something about
clamor-
d t New Orleans
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as, as a r
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He
ing for the e next sensation. questions about' the length of that, but I think . I , went to .
A host of characters figured in time it takes to bring a majorisleep," he retharked. `
Q the headlines-David Ferric, the case to tr>,al...;.
tormented former. pilot who
uoted Socrates and died mys-
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teriously, as Garrison's inveati.-
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To ward off a possible court order releasing pictures
and x-rays of President Kennedy's body to District
Attorney Jim Garrison of New Orleans, the justice
:! Department has published a report by a panel of four
11 doctors, whom it commissioned a year ago to make a
I fresh examination of the photographic material and
the clothing deposited in the National Archives by the;
Kennedy family. The Warren Commission did not'
. , examine the pictures and x-rays, relying instead on the
testimony of the official doctors who performed the''
'autopsy. Not surprisingly, the new panel found that
the autopsy doctors committed no elementary errors
-.~ in locating the President's wounds, and told no lies.
The President, it is now confirmed, received two bul-
lets, one at the base of the neck, the other in the head,.
both fired from behind and above. Taken together'
with other evidence concerning 'L'ee Harvey Oswald,
this conclusion in turn confirmed the Warren Com-
mission's finding that Oswald shot at the President,
and that he found his mark. What remains no better
established than it was before is that only Oswald,
The possibility of a second assassin is just that; but
it is not excluded by the Warren Commission's report,
Q nor by the conclusions of the new panel of doctors. ;
The
ossibilit
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p
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ses
rom t
e
act that Governor
Connally was also wounded. The Warren Commis-
:.; sion decided that he was hit by the same bullet that
j inflicted the President's neck wound, and that the
bullet in question was one found at Parkland Hos
pital. But the proof that the Parkland Hospital bullet
had ever been in Governor Connally is weak, and its
condition was such-it was virtually whole-as to
raise very grave doubts that it could have caused the,
bone wound that Governor Connally suffered. And
if this bullet did not hit both t~e President and the'
Governor, then three- shots found their marks, and
.
they must have been fired in a sequence for which !
?4 Oswald, by the Warren Commission's own calcula-
' tions, could scarcely have had the time. Hence the ;
possibility of an accomplice.
These are the nature and the sources of legitimate
;doubts that linger, and that are not dispelled by the;
doctors' report now released. There is a chance, if
4a slim one, that the trial of Clay Shaw, which has
begun in New Orleans, may throw some light on the!.,
problem. The autopsy -pictwa and :x-rays do not;,
,calve it. c J
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Evergreen Review
January 1969
STATINT(I
Has Jim Garrison really found the answer to the murder mystery of
t the century? Here is his charge -a conspiracy involving the CIA,
renegade neo-Nazi Minutemen and anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
? HERE WAS A new threat of in- solved. And if we cannot end our dif- highly indicative story appeared. It
d ferences, at least we can help make the told of "ten Cuban exiles returning
c Tternational peace in the air world safe for diversity. For, in the
this week, the kind of threat that final analysis, our most basic common from a raid on their homeland,. who
o leaves the sophisticates smirking link is that we all inhabit this small were picked up by United States
QL and the rest of us dumbfounded," planet. We all breathe the same air. authorities.
We all cherish our children's future. And the response in the U.S.S.R.
u wrote the astute geopolitical cli- And we are all'mortal.
matologist Max Frankel in The - grew even more positive.
John Kennedy concluded his vivid "For the first time in the 20
1963
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mes on
? New Yor
He might even have added "prevail- oration on the new American for- 'years of the cold war," said a Rus-
ing storm clouds appear to be die eignpolicy-no, his elucidation of a sian journal, "a President of the
E sipating, fairer conditions antici- fresh political philosophy-saying: United States publicly has come out
,0
t pated." We are not helpless before that task for the need of a basic reevaluation
6 The cause of this warm breeze. or hopeless of its success. Confident of Soviet-American relations and
o across the frozen countenance of and unafraid we labor on-not toward recognized to a certain extent the
E .a strategy of annihilation, but toward for peaceful coexistence."'
the cold war was John F. Kennedy. a strategy of peace. need E Or, more specifically, his stirring "We all breathe the same air. We
-" address to a deeply moved audience The statement was hailed in Brit- all cherish our children's future.
a at the American University, in ain and other countries. Russia And we are all 'mortal," had said
Washington, D.C. on June 10, when seemed hesitantly receptive for the . John Kennedy.
- he said: first forty-eight hours and, in The One hundred and sixty-five days
New York Times of June 13, Sey- later the young President's mortal-
a Both the United States and its allies, mour Topping reported from the ity was burned across the brilliant
u and the Soviet Union and its allies,
have a mutually deep interest in a Soviet capital: "Izvestia.published air of Dallas. His skull was sharded ,y.
A just and genuine peace and in halting tonight the text of President Ken- by a fusillade of fury, and frag-
E the arms race. Agreements to this end nedy's speech . . . the decision to meats fell to stain the very nature
are in the interests of the Soviet Union
as well as ours--and even the most . make the speech available to the of the land hee loved.
hostile nations can be relied on to ac- Soviet people . . . was interpreted New Orleans District Attorney
D cept and keep those treaty obligations here as an indication that the Jim Garrison believes' that Ken-
' ~? and only those treaty obligations
which are in their own interest. .. 'speech made a favorable impression :. nedy's, American `University ad
So let us not be blind to our differ- on the Kremlin." dress, which, along with the Nu-
ences, but let us also direct attention the day Topping's ""dispatch
to our common interests and the means TM Now York Times, June 13, 1963.
by which these differences can be re-. was printed in New York, another
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 TRIALS shot at from dlllercnt directions, and
by more than one sniper. The prose-
evidence that Garrison produces to the PHILIP GUAM ISCO
that Lee Harvey Oswald alone was re- table, then walked out 18 minutes later
sponsible for the assassination. Any real without having said a word. Garrison,
Sideshow in New Orleans cation has also issued subpoenas for
New Orleans District Attorney Jim such Warren Commission exhibits as Os-
Garrison withdrew a last-minute motion wild's rifle and Kennedy's clothing-
for a postponement and went ahead but is unlikely to get them. They have
last week with the trial of Businessman been withheld by presidential order.
Clay Shaw on charges of conspiring to After years of circus tactics, lie is ob-
kill ]'resident John F. Kennedy. Dc- viously the main character in the court-
.spite the sideshow atmosphere surround- room drama, but Garrison appeared on
inc the case, it could not be ignored. the stage only briefly in the first week.
,What is really on trial is the Warren He sauntered into the courtroom one af- ,
'contrary could shake confidence in the
officially accepted version of the Ken-
nedy assassination.
So far, the evidence is as insubstantial
as a Louisiana bog. Even so. Garrison
is not trying to prove that Shaw mur-
dered the President. In order to es-
tablish his case under Louisiana's con-
spiracy statute, which carries a one-to-
20-year sentence, Garrison needs only
.to show that Shaw joined in a plot to
murder Kennedy and that at least one
of the plotters took a concrete step to-
' ward carrying out the plan. Moreover,
state law provides that a majority of
nine jurors can convict Shaw; a unan-
Six Acts. As the examination of po-
imous vote by all twelve jurors is
unnecessary
would prove that six overt acts took
scn )u one o tie acts as a m1 Inf, t Evidence as mushy as a bog.
a Baton Rouge hotel, at which Shaw
gave money to both Oswald and Jack who has kept out of sight for weeks,
Ruby, who Garrison believes was in on has rarely tried a case himself as D.A.
the plot. Another alleged meeting was he- Chances are that whatever he has up,,
twccn Shaw, Oswald, and a former pilot, his sleeve, he will leave the courtroom;
named David Ferric (who died in 1967), work to the cool,. capable Alcock.:_
place in the autumn of 1963. tic (le- SHAW LEAVING COURTHOUSE
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surancc Salesman Perry Raymond)
Russo, 26, a key prosecution witness,
claims to have heard the three men plan-:
ning the assassination during that
meeting.
Garrison, nicknamed the "Jolly Grcenl
Giant" not only for his size but also
,for his erratic behavior, has tried to fos
ter the belief that he has something up'
This sleeve besides Russo's testimony. He
has hinted that Shaw, former head of,
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and the city's outstanding citizen in
1965, operated under the alias "Clay:
Bertrand," a familiar, name among the'
city's homosexuals. Garrison has inti-'
mated that the C.I.A. was behind the
conspiracy-and that Lyndon Johnson
was at least aware of the plot.
Different Directions. Before the start
of the trial, Garrison sought to sub-
poena 69 photos and X rays from Pres-
ident Kennedy's autopsy. District of Co-
lumbia Judge Charles Halleck ruled that
Garrison could not have the material un-,
less he could esc t other evidence
STATINTL
 ' Services for Allen Dulles, 75,
former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency who died
.Wednesday night at Georgetown
University Hospital of complica-
tions from pneumon;a and flu,
will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow
at the Georgetown Presbyterian
Commission t h a t investigated
the assassination of President
when he resigned after masier-
minding the disastrous Bay of
Pigs invasion in an attempt to
overthrow Cuban premier Fidel
Castro.
Ile later served on the Warren
Administration, directed the CIA
John Foster~Dulles, Secretary of
John. F. Kennedy and firmly be. his agency acquired the secret-
lieved the commission's find speech in 1956 in which former
mgs. Premier Kikita Knushchev de
Mr. Dulles started his career nounced Joscph Stalin, a turning
in diplomacy and intelligence point in Communist history.
around the end of World War I.
and served at the Versailles Ile also headed the U-2 pro-
peace conference after the war. gram, which with the exception
G
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f F
,Ile was chief of the state depart-
merit's near eastern affairs divi-
sion from 1922 to 1926.
One of his most notable sue-.
ce~ag~..as. CIA.. chief. was when.
1948 and served as Deputy CIA.
director 17 months before he
took over.
In his book: "The Craft of In-
telligence," Mr. Dulles wrote.
that in one generation the CIA'
had been able to catch up with
other countries' intelligence op-;
erations.
ary
s
ranc
of the crash o
Powers over Russia in May,
1960, was. considered one.of the
plums in American postwar in-
Ile returned to government telligence.
service as intelligence chief in t
Switzerland for the Office of J-2 spy planes flew high over Strategic Services during World the Soviet Union, photographing'
War Ii, and succeeded in plant. Russian military installations.
ing a spy in Hitler's Foreign But it was the Francis Powers
Ministry. The Allies thus were incident, just before a planned
able to gain information on the summit meeting between Presi-'
German rocket program and dent Eisenhower and. Pri-Smier?.
other secrets. Khrushchev. un 1960 ire ,Paris,.
He was appointed to a special that undermined the meeting
committee to coordinate rnili and cooled relations between the,
Lary and civilian intelligence in U-& 'and the Soviet Unwn,.
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In pretrial court papers, Mr.'tcnlpcratures in the G0's and
Garrison has asserted that Os- even 70's most afternoons..
nr aucn.~e+. r.1n+a ( w'ald, far from being the Com- groups as diverse as the Anlcri
(Sun S011 Cnrrttpondrn[t i iunist-oriented, confused young Cai1 Mathematical Association]
Xcw Orleans, Jan. 26-One of man driven to kit: the President 1and the National Swimming
the strangest assemblage of out of a need for publicity'-as P001 Institute have been meet-
characters imaginable is being he was pictured by the Warreni in; here. '
drawn to New Orleans by the Commission-was actually it There is also a convention.
trial of Clay L. Shaw. accused of highly trained a
ent of the CIA forming that the local Chamber
g
plotting with Lee Harvey Os Mr. Garrison also has aacrt- of Commerce did not anticipate_.,
Wald to murder President Ken ed that many of the unidentified -111t>torcyclists, in black jack=
nedy. 1 persons he gays were.. involved CIS. heavy boots and iron cross
Oswald's wife, Marina. noW in the conspiracy are also cur- es have been rolling into town
remarried and living outsidc?rent or former CIA agents. since Thursday from as far
Dallas, has volunteered to testi- Also in town, according to po- away as California and Chicago.:
fy on behalf of the retired New.lice and investigators for the "Conspiracy Tour"
Orleans businessman. . district attorney, - are several Warming up for the Mardi
Oswald's Mothcr Due dozen anti-Castro Cubans, who: Gras, three tour guides have
Oswald's mother, Mrs. 'Mar-.-have conic principally from Mi ;added "a conspiracy tour" to
gucrite Oswald, has made hotel: anti and camps in'Florida. their repertoire of French Quar-
reservations for the length of ter, plantation and bayou tours.
the trial. She is said to be trying New Orleans pdce say their One such "conspiracy_ tour"
ot
ti
h
d
d
ave n
ves
un
ercover
etec
to clear her son. + lakes 21/z hours, costs $10 a''11er=
cen
able to determine the Cu-, son with a minimum of three.
Earl Ruby, the brother of''b
Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub bans' purpose. Mr. Garrison
charges that the alleged plot to persons-and is "completely a
owner who shot Oswald to death kill President Kennedy original- fraud" according to the district
tion
i
.
na
two days niter the assass
was focused upon Premier. attorney's office.
is also reported to have made 1Y
Fidel Castro of Cuba, but went The tour takes he visitor by
and hotel reservations for l .he
which is expected to awry. Shaw's French Quarter
e trial
t
,
h
last until the cod of February. A These factors "and more",house,. the uptown apartment
spokesman in Detroit for Mr, have prompted Judge Edward,lbuildings' where he is said to.
Ruby has refused comment . IA. Haggerty, Jr., who is presid-' have worked out the alleged as
Mr. Shaw is accused, among ing over the trial, !o order strict' sass inaLion plot and the down-!
other things, of paying a "sum security arrangements. town house where Oswald lived."
of money" to Oswald and Jack Jurors Under Guard Stops' At CIA
Ruby it a Baton Rouge hotel The 8 men already chosen for It also stops at the CIA office,
before the assassination as part lthe panel of 12 jurors and 2'an advertising agency said to be!
of the alleged plot. alternates are under conslant a CIA font, a bar that has.
witnesses Brought In guard by deputy sheriffs and become a gathering spot for Cu-:
Jim Garrison, the district at arc living in a motel near the ban refugees, the courthouse'
torney. has subpoenaed almost courthouse. 1where Mr. Shaw is on trial, Mt'.;
two dozen out-of-state witnesses, Newsmen and rnectators en- Garrison's home and concludes'
including Dallas policemen, resi- trying the courtroom are'with a slop at a mysterious.
dents, photographers and sight-; searched and. are required to back-street, French.. Quarter
seers who witnessed the assassi have special passes. There are bar, entered through,a rear'door
nation. I14 deputy sheriffs stationed in- that is.practically* impossible to
Ile expects to use their testi- side' the courtroom, and morclfind
. .. gain.,
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hie theory . __ , _..
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that the President actually was I posted elsewhere around the:
caught in a crossfire, rather
g courthouse. The courtroom and-
than being shot from behind by outside hall are under continual,
Oswald as concluded by the surveillance by dosed-circuit
Warren Commission, television.
The FBI office here is report- Despite these 'ecurity ar-i
ed to have almost doubled its. rangements, efforls are being!
staff of special agents in the, made to strengthen them wheni
past month, bringing in men the actual trial and testimony]
from around the country. gets under way, probably this!
FBI Refuses Comment Thursday. Jury se,ection is to:
FBI spokesmen here and in; continue tomorrow and is ex-,
Washington have refused eom-i peeled to take thr'!e more clays.;
ment, except to note that agents Tass Present
have been subpoenaed to testify : Once a jury is chosen, more;
in the trial. ? than 100 out-of-town newsmen
Activity at the office of the including correspondents for,
Central Intelligence Agency Tass, the Soviet news agency
here has also increased with the are expected to rover the trial.,
influx of many new agents, sev- In the midst of all this activi-'
eralof whom will attend thelty, New Orleans is at the height
Shaw trial as observers. ? .,Of its ,convention, season. -With
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(E ;.:OIL'S NOTE: hews' Could the crime of the tenTary lead been picked after nearly
son spent days in New Or- ...2-. Kennedy with all Inc enn
had been examined and drsOswal, Garrison insists,
"
hoi'tm it implies -- be
? l
,
ess
leans Iasi year intett'icwin
DA Jim Gary ison and others : . hatched in this shad:,wy world: missed. was the patsy. Once or twice,
ltihen Garri~an's conspiracy, of cold water flats and leaky it is probable that the jury' Garrison has hinted lie doubts
leted and that ' Oswald was even firing a
com
ill b
p
e
theory in the death of Presi- plumbing and pot parties and w
dent ?tent;edy first came to malcontents who spend their. testimony in the long-awaited weapon on that grim Novcm-
uch discussed trial will !; ber day.
d
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an
liht. Richardson was on hand; days looking for a buck an
the wood begin this week.
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the day Clay Shaw was ar- fighting off ra
CLAI:eiS,
GARRISO\'
rested and covered Shaw's; work?
at least
IIET E ARE SOME bungs too "There
Jim
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press conference in which they New Orleans
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the grassy, knoll
suspect denied any know-i Garrison says it could; that it be remembered: on )' ahead and to the side of the
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er wh
ledge, or connection, with; did; that the. mur
e nation its Own the murder of President Kennedy motorcade), at least
ti
r
such a conspiracy.) gave an en
mass trauma was conceived; Kennedy. He is simply eharg'- two behind the picket fence,
By CHARLES RICI ARDSON in New Orleans.. ed with conspiracy to murder. ,and two or more be hind a
small stone wall to the right
News staff writer And because of that, hand-, who was murdered is, beside
ilia forme
D
major cities, teeming with; Shaw -- reurea oiret:'UL ?v,, tUOn, a tncre is sucil, w,lr,,.
' 's dent from each location, while
s' International;
settle the controversy
a
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.
.
n
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n
different kinds of life which; New
stack layer upon sociological; Trade Mart -- is on trial for, -Garrison, as flarnbouyant the role of his companion was
%-- Orleans has its conspiracy to murder Presi- a political figure to hit the to snatch up the cartridges as
i
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the late
ana scene s
s
nce
seamy side. But with a differ" dent Kennedy. Lou
In addition to the asssas
epee. Garrison says Shaw, in lea- . I?iucy Long.- is certain to. , ? ,. -
sins on the grassy knoll, at
ald
O
f
n
sw
orm
the
.hold trump.cards i
In that city, drawn by the :gte with Lee Harvey
fired,
Y of hidden witnesses. ` j `least two other men
i semitropical climate and thet and others -? met secretly 0n from behind the President,
i town's on inherent interna, severalocc asianc in Al aattars. Perry Russo, up until now
. one from the book depository;:;
tional flavor, the kooks
h
'
e
;.
the cons, the addicts and t
self-disenfranchised, the Iost
and the lonely, the lunatics
i and the chronically discontent
converge in uncommon num-I
bers.
Even the Chamber of Com-
that's the kind of city it is.
_. _ ,.Irate in'
with Oswald and Shaw about j .Proaaouuy, zlLu+ ui' y ? -~~
ti
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Inc impending assaJa
the ne man Garr;son So where 'does Shaw come
u5eu tU CrO+4U++OA, w~uur..c. av. -
his case in the preliminary t ; GARRISON DOESN'T say',
hearing.a year or so ago. It is the dapper Shaw-?-?55, greying,.
highly unlikely that Russo will , elegantly'dressed on all occa-
sions-was there. Garrison.
'
s big gun.
be Garrison
A man of Giirrison's known' "' maintains that Shaw, one of;
n bathe
k
'
'
now
best
s
legal cleverness`' 4111 trot out; the city
1....n n?R- man.ahaut?tOwn. be
lx,ritoads of shabh walk-up; , new cvttu:nce, new w+~++~a~uJ, longed to a nightmarish world
y
diate out'"' new surprises. of homosexuals; exiles and
apartments that r?
adventurers,
from dotvntaN?rn and out front. 7 ~
l' and ;rage.e tact sumrr.er. such as the publisher of "Fare-
Iltmhas been an evident best-'well America;'. are covered by
seller here; Mr. Lamarre put!that little country's secrecy
f
ar.Ilaws, as well as by, its tax
:Origin of Europe 8cstsoller,1Frc_ach sales at 60,000 so
? nnn of }hn.
4hC S;I.Q OV,VVS ,.vy.... ?. ,. ?? ]a'Irlial,'u . - .. --~, r
Remains a Mystery 11rn.. ish edition had bcenf inc book has found a Stli)
Spec: I to'Ine New :or'Ti.,ne. Gera wac the fear of libel action. l of President Kennedy, wIho was'
PARIS, Dec. 31-A book of
mysterious origin accusing the
entire American power strut-I,c
r ..__ -- 1-%An" had _uilty knowledge o;1 _. The other is the conspiracy
has spread through Western
:Europe and is now crossing the
Atlantic.
'America" in its English-ian-
A number of prominent citizens. w,dclv loved here. Kennedy;
^.?n .r'r?used in the book, eitherhal -dollars are worn as me-:
,lion's inesis? of a lone i ~
lcr
written in Clear ?rose - has never won wide Rcceotancel
clear, educated prose. heavily
-
studded w,tth citations from; both historic and recent Socio-
economic sources. It is harsh
on virtually all elements of
French, says -severai dozen,per-Ilhero, President Kennedy, I andl
r
sons participated directly in thel
plot and many more, Including
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation, knew about it before
s.
his brother, Roocrt; eve;
Jacqueline Kennedy does not
escape criticism, although thel
book was written before her
the event. 'remarriage. I
"Farewell America" waslI Two-thirds of the book is,
printed in Belgium for a com- devoted to an effort to explain;
d
h
a
pany chartered in Liechtenstein,iiii why the late President
apparently for that purpose. It' currcd the wrath of various
c was marketed in France, with segments of Aracrican so-4
considerable success, by a new, cicty -the underworld, seeie?'
company that has no other; gationists, the military, Texas.
product, and is n~_?.' being of-' oil interests, business, the Fed
fered to Americans outside reg eraI bureaucracy and especi
uiar trade book channels by a' ally the Federal Bureau of Ins
Montreal concern. vesti'ation and the Central In
The author is listed as James',.tellegcnce Agency.
. riephurn. He is described in, The authors are critical also.' '
publicity for the book as an of leaders of labor, Negroes;
American, but a biography on and liberals, and of the public'
the cover flap says he was born in general. At the time of the
abroad 34 years ago, went to assassination. they say. "Amer-
'the London School of Econont- ica was fat. dumb and happy."
ics, was graduated from the But they say the :'resident
"Institute of Political Studies", was actually was "condemned"
in Paris, met Jacqueline Bou-'by a "Committee" of Texas
vier in 1951, first visited the and Louisiana notables. The
it eif is reported as bav-
United States in 1960 and twiceI creme) .
met Mr. Kennedy 'that year. ing been committed by a band
'Pretty Much P seudoi:ynu' of professionals directly aided
by the Dallas police. 1
1 In fact, Rdnb Lariar rd, head No New Ividence Offered
of Editions Nouvelles Fron- Lee Harvey Oswald is de.
titres, the French company
scribed as having been an agent
mar..cting the book, affirmed of both the F-13-1- and the14
".. in all intClviM that "Junes C.I.A., as arc several other
Hepburn" was actually "pretty .fi
ures in the alleged plot. Un?
"
,;
represent-
much a pseudonym.
in? a group of European and like the > .B.I?. the C.I.A. as an
rican researchers." organization is acquitted O f
This is supported by author's 1)av-n.; had direct knowledge of
acknowledgments in the book, the affair. Only afterward, says
in which 16 collaborators in. "Farewell Araerica, did the
the French edition and 11 in commanding sections of the
the English are thanked. Only power structure rally to cover
first names are given for most up the crime.
Q of those thanked', who are list- ! . No new evidence is offons?,
to support the a11cgaI
ed as living in six countries, which are generally conciu-
including the United States._. ' ohs or suppositions drawn
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gence Agency are "deeply in-
volved" 'in the killings of both
President Kennedy and the
Rev. Martin Luther King, New
which the CIA is deeply in-
volved.'
"This does not necessarily
James Garrison has charged.
"I think all other alterna-
. fives are now eliminated,'' he
said in an exclusive interview
Vin the January issue of Ever-
green Review magazine. Gar-
last' year that the CIA was
hampering his investigation in-
.down from the top, but it does
mean that at least a major
component of the CIA is now
in the business of exterminat-
ing any national leaders who
are opposed to the perpetua-
tion of the Cold War, as well
as to our adventures in Asia.
-And I think it will continue,"
are many guns between him
and the White House."
Garrison said he had "no
doubt" Senator Kennedy would
murder case if he was elected'
president.
"1 think the fact that he
(Sen.' Kennedy) was killed so'
quickly indicates that there's
no question in the mind of the
cabal element of the CIA"
Garrison said. "I think in his.
cas' uiey had no other alter-
native. I'm sure they were re-
to the president's death, also[ Garrison said.
said there is "a probable con- Asked if he believed a con-
nection" between the CIA and, nection existed between the
Sen. Robert Kennedy's mur-' killings of King and President
der last June. Kennedy, Garrison said he had
In the last killing,' Garrison "strong evidence."
said, the -CIA likely used "a
cover organization." In the
other murders, he says, CIA
agents were involved directly:
"There is enough data avail-
able in all three cases to state,
as a probability, that they were
all accomplished by the same
1 force and that they were allI disengage U. S. forces from
intelligence assassina- ( military action in Asia.
Lions." He said Senator Kennedy
monde if U. S. intelligence op-
eratives are- responsible, Gar-
;prison said, "Yes, particular-
ly true with regard to 'the as-
sassination of President Ken
of his becoming President."
Sen. Kennedy had lost the De- mental power involved" will
mocratic primary in Califor- attempt to break up his Shaw;
His victory, the New Orleans extra-legal methods. He said'
district attorney said, marked he expects to' be killed by the;
him for murder because, if he CIA. "I don't want to sound
'became president, he would 'gloomy, but my attitude is
very simple. I don't expect to.i
survive this thing (trial). But;
I don't worry about it, I'm go-
ing to keep pushing ahead. At!
ren Report on his brother's [ least, they're going to know i
killing because be felt power they were danced with." i
less- to do anything . about it The New - Orleans official[
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But Research (hopefully):
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good
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Mr. They: Weil, gentlemen, we can't rest on our laurels, Chinese Communists and covi-
I'm proud to report that 1968 gentlemen. Let's look ahead to artily Indians?
was a very good year for con- the ? coming' year. Let's talk Mr. They: I think you can do
snce es - one of our best rapid growth. better, Research. But we're'.
since the heydays of Me- . Research: Well, chief, we've going to fill this unmet need.
6.4 pism. Production was up been working on a new Red- Production, double your output
1
X16.4 percent and sales reached yellow Consiirac composed of whole cloth. Design, I want
a First f Vice President: Right, ? of Chinese 1Communists and delotzils. of fancy embroi ready for
chief. Our standard Insidious cowardly- Indians. But so far, the biggest year in our history.
,Communist Conspiracy in six we h4ven t found a market for The Treasurer (an elderly'.
(colors, all of them frightening, ft fuan in a lur,h collar)::pow, Now-
isx-
(frowning):
Th
,
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,hold on there, young. Hirami.
continued to sell very well to Mr.
the right win. What about the Softy. We tend to develop a You know darn well your fa
left wing Joe? conspiracy and then look for a
n, look at then and your grandfather be-
Second Vice P r e s i d e n t: maritct. I say let's loot a, the fore him never mode any fool
We're doing better there, %d, . market first. And, gentlemen, attempts to sell our products
with both products. As you we may sell well to the right to tae in,ddle-Gf-the-roadcrs.
know, we have the Industrial- and left, but we've overlooked Io's alwa s been a known
Military .Conspiracy and the the biggest market of all - that they ve lacked the ona
the-roaders
f
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a
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Nast Assassination Conspira- the m
l cy. The latter wraps up five , First V. ' P.: By God, chief, good customers - a touch of '
ou re right
different assassinations and .y
paranoia.
the Mr. They (nodding): Here The
the Treas
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partments, Cuban refugees, pily secure in knowing why der): Thank you for your tarn-!'
white racists and, as an op- thins are in such a mess, And fly loyalty. But I'm afraid you .
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ing - The Anarchist Conspira- What a ready-made market,
of a chief! Who's responsible for
i
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cy. Its pattern
tightly knit conspiracy of an- making tire chains an inch too
Arid it's rauun on Sunda r; Yrnu bra:.
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Suit Will Demand Rcknsc of Classified Files
New Prune JFA sse a0'd Dion
By ARTHUR C. EGAN JR. into acuuu. IM" a &." ,.?.It
New York City Dec.'19 and 20, ments were printed as 'com-'
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 28 preliminary plans were, made mission exhibits" and stored in t
- A lawsuit to be filed shortly for formation of a non-profit 4he vault. .
',in federal court will petition for corporation to carry out the new H o w e v e r , the "documents"
the release of all 'classified" investigation. being held in the vault were not
.files of the Warren Commission Tto makeup' of the newly printed in the 26-volumes ac-
submitted by the Parkland '?avauao-c_? for v,cw,im9 u-
1
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,bearing on the assassination offormed citizens committee is'companying the Commission'siI
tlPresident John F. Kennedy. known to the New Hampshire Report on the assassination.
According to information con- Sunday News but, at the request One interesting fact noted In
veyed exclusively to this re- of the man who will act as chief'the 37-page catalog was that the
porter, the legal action will be,,lnvestigator, it is being,withheld Warren Commission reached its
signed into law by President' at this time. findings on the assassination
hs
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where
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ptan aas,
announced its findings in the two, the spokesman o
two from a sourc
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commis,
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disclosed the commission had News. However,
designated a number of docu- disclosed now, that' the private. Kennedy not only refused to sign.
members`to There are 525 "commission:
and
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mcnts as 'classified material."Icomm On thn inctriirtinnc of thellawyers will include also' some -sce these exhibits but. also ;documents" being held in thel
.. . .,- _ . .. .,- - _. Arrhivrc which are said. to Del
crgmit,i?iuu, tiIIe, uvcu,,,c.,.?? --
the first step by a privateiU. S. Senate along with some.
(committee of distinguished citi- private investigators who will`
zens and canstitutional lawyers be retained by , the newly!
seeking to reopen the investiga- formed group.
it-on of Kennedy's death. .NOT FAR ENOUGH'
-UNDER 1967 LAW The new. committee will be
The suit will be filed "shortly financed by individual contribu-
f after. the first of the year"-tions from dedicated citizens
under the new federal "Free with the possibility that some
.dons of Information Act" of 1967 government -funds might be
were placed in a vault in the' offered and accepted. as the
National Archives with the investigation progresses.
contents to be kept secret for 75: 'We are not trying - to dis-
'years. It is these documents credit the Warren Commission
that the newly formed 'Citizens findings. We feel the commis-
-,Committe" are attempting to sion did not go far enough and
have "de-classified." I is concealing a ' number of
I. Chief Justice Earl Warren, important items and testimony
,'commission chairman, declared from the general public," said
' a of the commission'. the committee spokesman.
m
41, t
4
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are still in
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The catalog complied by the been pr
committee, also disclosed that note form. This true also for'
some documents in the vault 1,807 pages which remain un-,
were printed in whole while printed and were deleted from
others' were - printed only in documents which were printed.
part. Many documents were, There is no official explana-
!spl,it, some parts being printed tion of why the documents were
i
d
.
and others parts unprinte
Many documents were neither
printed nor made available to
anyone but remain in note form.
The committee spokesman
told the Sunday News that all
I testimony and exhibits ?in4con-
nection with Lee Harvey's Os-
documents being ' held in 'the
National Archives vault for the
next 75 years.
There are '. 194 "commission
documents" which are "un-,
available to the press, public}
or any committee wishing tot
conduct its own probe into they
assassination of the late Pre.i-
dent. Of this -number, 133 arc
from the FBI; 37 are from the
Service; six from. the U. S. t
State Dept.; two from Health,
the "unprinted,note only stage.".
Of the printed 'documents in
the Archives vault, 491 pages of
FBI ' testimony was labeled
"unavailable" and deleted from
the printed reports.
Two pages from a report
wild's trip to Mexico was'subntitted -by the U. S. Senate
labeled "top classified materi-Internal -Security Subcommittee
al." also was placed on the "un-,
Oswald was the alleged' as-;'available" list along with a
sassian of President: Kennedy. ?'selected sections of reports"
-
a
2
;findings that the true facts of Although not officially formed
the Kennedy assassination ploV,1mtil last week, some members ----b to anj "The Warren Commission, b
army }okesmriyate all reference
'months, have on :spokesman,
voiced placing these documents in t e
1 uld not become known "in our' of the
catalogued for many committee
'
lifetime." . ' new
It is expected that Warren, their own time and at their own' advance statements about a plot vault for the next 75 years, and
and the commission will oppose expense, the documents being to assassinate Kennedy was using devious methods of num-
'fiercely the, legal maneuver' to held in the National Archives "classified material." The armybering the documents, are pre--ana open the contents of the "classi-`under the "classified material" mantwas picked up bydhe0o FBI, ventin
the mthe ateprial being u lic from held back
ficd documents" to public' ' in title. f 'mques, ental institution for a tim~lfrom the world in connection
It
spection. The 37-page catalog, a copy o I (with the % assassination, the
1which came into the possession and then released. okesma MEETING DEC. 19, 20 I of the Sunday News, disclosed 'lie was she won tteven tall it mwase los sed 'lie n that claimed. the
The actual structure of the
private citizens committee has
been under discussion for many
months and, only in the laal~
weeks have plans been. solidified
there are 1,555 "Commission by someone-
Documents" being held in the to one of our investigators;' th n-lee'~form; 9111 Citizens appeal t o
ed
h
.
arg
vault.-These range in size from s}x-kcsman c
~ ~-~? The nda News, using th President-elect Nixon to "or-I
- P'$i1k>M8 0'80~- d 1dgcuments be'
mente, of ; teovora o mittee ", brok,q` dowq the ,1,55tiniade pub lc once he Ossumcs
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~n A says Kennedy,
i~ In
ked by CIA
Agents of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency are "deeply in-
volved" in the killings of both
President Kennedy and the Rev.
?Martin Luther King, New Or-
leans District Attorney James
Garrison charged this week.
"1 think all other alterna-
tives are now eliminated," he
aid in an exclusive interview
the January issue of Ever
,reen Review magazine. Gar-
.ison, who charged in May of
last year that the CIAwasham-
pering his investigation into the assassinations."
Asked by author Pdris Flam
monde if U.S. intellijence e-
pe r atives are respens ibje, Gar
rison said, "Yes, p ticulai' y
true with ragard to 1i1e as5i
nation of PresidvAit KenAo
and Martin Lt;ther Ki;: Z }lyits7(
all other alteri;.tives are now
eliminated. The _ ..afl2 clear
ly assassin ".`i'm. in W.hiCh 'th
CIA is deeply i .,~ _ved.
"This doe, nect65c61y'
mean that thr? anma.tlcl came
down from ti-.. ton, but itc&xx
mean that a% 1P. st a rritj~r
component of the CIA i5 y1OW
in the b...:,1ess of exterr:.'r.
ting an, national leader'
U t
are opposed to the perp,ly,--
tion of the Cold War, as u;W
as our adventures in Asia, .Aril
I think it will continue," Gar-
rison said.
Asked if he believed a con-
nection existe,? between the kil-
lings of King and President Ke;:-
nedy, Garrison said he had