BRITISH CRITICS REVIVE DEBATE ON WARREN REPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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British` Critics Revive Debate 'on,'W arr'en Report!
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LONDON, Sept. 25 - The Epstein and Lane Prompt commission. ,
review in,
Warren Commission report on The anly?favor-ble
~+ the serious Sunday papers was;
the assassination of President , New Round of Jcrutlny /. by Cyril Connolly, the literary;
Kennedy is undergoing another critic.
i~ouiid.. of .scrutiny. in. ,Britain. * He said in the Sunday Times
critics and defenders. seers. Lord Devlin, one of the most that he was now convinced that
;bout equally divided. respected legal figures in Eng- the authorities investigating
land, said in The Observer to. the assassination were unduly
The occasion for. the revival day that, in light of the Epstein committed to the view that
of interest is the publication of book, the commission "was not Oswald had committed the slay.
'two critical books already on Ing alone. He called for another
as potent an instrument for investigation by "some com-
the . market, in the - United discovering the truth -as ex- pletely 'unprejudiced and fear-
States-"Inquest" by' Edward ternally it appeared to be." less 'body."
:Jay Epstein and "Rush to Judg- On the other hand Lord i
Al
stair Cooke, the long-time
Anicnt" by 14ark Lane. Devlin' said Mr. Epstein had American correspondent of They
fir. Epstein's complaint that not sustained . his Intimated Guardian, also was critical of
'ithe commission headed by Chief charge that the coiiWssion had the Warren report. He said that!
i~ Justice Eail Warren did a hasty, ,brought itself to shirk the it had "signally' failed" to as-ii
inadequate job has won more truth because of its own fear certain the truth, and-that "this!
11 support than any conspiracy of the political consequences."President or the next should
theories-'either his or the
"
i x vldonee: Ifeld lAckIn convene another commission.
more fanciful ones' or Mr. Lane. g ' ,Another call, for, a further in
Mr. Epstein, a Harvard doe Mr. Epstein agreed with the dependent study was made by;
toral candidate, undertook his commission that Lee Harvey the anonymous reviewer in The:
study of the Warren .Commis- Oswald had fired at the Presi- Economist. Without it, he said,;
lion report as a master's thesis dent but thought, there, might the . judgment will "never ? b6
at:Cornell, Mr. Lane' i? a lawyer well have'' been ??? a. reeQnd Satisfying or conclusive.,' '
and former Democratic Assem- assassin. Lord Devlin thought - Bernard Levin, an often aci-'
blyman from New York City. the known' evidence on firing dulous 'columnist In The Dailyj
Tonight The Times of London times .left the possibility open, Mail, found both Mr. Epstein
failed on' the Warren Commis- but he saw it as only a possi- and i', Lane "shifty" in their
sine. to reopen its inquiry and bility, with no trace of affiruia- handling of the evidence. He
rte;ii, with the various points of tive evidence to' support it. 'said they merely served those
criticism raised. The' comment Prof. Arthur I. ? Gaodhart, who iefused. to believe the re.
Was 'in: an editorial, for'.tombr- another eminent lawyer, writ- port's conclusion_ "because the
row, s editions. ing in The Sunday Telegraph, truth is unbearable- to them.".
? "All things considered the ridiculed both the.. Lane, and "The "" truth iii" - Mr. Levin
Warren Commission did a' ,re- Epstein books, as worthless, es, wrote, '.'that ;Lee Harvey,,Os-
markable job ? of 'work' in dif- pecially Mr.' Lane's. wall killed. President Kennedy
fioult circumstances: and ex He recalled that Mr. Lane's though nobody told him to; and
trenie . pressure,", The. ? Times own testimony before the com- that the.wgrld.?is indeed subject
said. mission was evasive and devoid to chance,' accident and, lm-
However, in eontlnued, ;?it is of: 'direct' relevance, , He de- pulse,,?grid ,iA by, no means the
now clear", that the commission scribed as "utter nonsense"' a.rational, ,,ordered,' predictable
"did cut" some cornerstatement by Mr. Lane that Os'? &cq. that *o..long? for it'to b6,11
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