BOOKS RAP WARREN REPORT ON JFK AS 'WHITEWASH'

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: June 12, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By GEORGE MORRIS M A. THESIS' of .the testimony, - 'other is running around loose
--Richtlf?d -Rbvi l?e, of the N'ewithis day.
THE WARREN Commis- By the end of this month, Yorker magazine. who wrote a?-
1 Viking Press will publish Jay:.
; i,eface to the Epstein boo PREJUDICE
1011 buried its material 011
Epstein,s ?Inquest,?-_a C'arnell says:
the Kennedy assassination in !University master's thesis to " 'Nothing Mr. Epstein !revcal5 in two, chapters on Oswald
+hn Nntimiril A r'hivaa. nnnt. ! havn nn initial ran of i F nnn , __ ,- _,__ .._ connectibns, Weisberg does
.to be touched for 75 years, Ho"', Reinhart & Winston has
but many books are now coming' announced it will have a first
off the presses challenging its printing in 30,000 of former as-
conclusion that Lee Harvey Os-. scmblymlan Mark Lane's .13" w"11
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conspiaracynd. that there was nor mother in the hearings.'
conspiracy. I-.....,, ., , , . ,,. ,. -
that this great investigation wascommission's prejudice In fillip
carried out by men' who could much of the record with. O!
not give their full attention tO,.,ald's alleged "Marxism." H
it and who because of their own, shows however by the commix
needs and also because of cer= ' ' '
sion s own data that t?swal-
tain political circumstances werowas an enemy of the Sovic
in a desperate hurry. to get It Union and the Communist Part
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conclusions are challenged' SaUvab` e xigaro, rags, witiI Epstein says that McGeorgcto be a "Trotskyite," rather?tha
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largely on the basis of its own Bundy, who was assistant to a friend of the USSR. Wei'
or,, next' September, .
hearing compiled in 26 vplumes,.I President Johnson, and mom-berg quotes ,extensively fro'
the FBI's. summary apparent hoped-for bur, commission pressed Oswald's documents in. tvhic
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ial glaring omissions and evasion of al of the case has already been' for completion Of the re ort
shattered as hews)aHers ever p he spewed hie hatred of th
facts in its own 'report. } l Y. 1. well in advance of ? the 1904iSoviet Union and the Comm,,
facts significant in the mate- tvliere take notice of the new'; Presidential election. Deadlineslnists,=
facts coining to light and much were set for June 1, Weisberg also advances th
rial now coming to light is the!-: then ex-I
persistent virtu that more than') new analysis. tended to July 15, to Aug. 1 and theory that "agents of agents
one killer was involved and' that : The Washington Post blazed, eventually to September. (Oswald associated with were i
either, by inference or direct out with a headline across the; Epstein's major stress, as in the sphere .of anti-Castro Cuban
charge Oswald was an agent of I top of its front page May 29 rand Weisburg's book, is on the dish in' this country. He' pieces, to
one of the intelligence bodies`! with a full page on the Weis- crepancy in the first and secondgether bits of evidence that ar
'.or of some outfit that served as'bei?g and Epstein books, of the FBI's reports on the as!iti the Warren Commission's rcc
,an undercover agent of a govern- r. .The N. Y. Times - also ran, a ., 'ssination that beCaine in e ert rds, showing at' least some re
ment intelligence body. lengthy summary of the trend 'evidence 'on which the Warre lationship. He sharply criticize
Harold Weisberg, invesl.igator in its Sunday issue JunhP 5, inquest was based. The 1 rst wu he Commission for not pursuin;
of the La Follette Civil -Libor- Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy,' suotnited Dec. 9 and the "supJ1ha.t path of investigation an(
ties Committee of the Senate ? too, is interested in afully-doe- : plementary report" Was dated for brushing off charges tha
that exposed the industrial spy uniented story of the assassina. Jan, 13, ' ? (Oswald was an agent of a groull
agencies of the thirties, who tion,? and is ' cooperating, with . The Mr. report hits been "de-;and was involved in-.a conspir
served in other investigations of ;William Manehaster on a book classified" and. is therefore opeu;riacy. He calls attention to the in
Nazi ' activities and monopoly i that may not be published, how, ' for analysis. volvement of more than one per
practices,, had to publish his ever, until .1908, according to The supplementary report was'son in the several times Oswal(
book, "Whitewash," personally announced plans. ,
the basis for the i_com-Atission,s took. a' post office box 'irk bi
in offset form, from ty'pewritten', i conclusions that the same bul-imail order purchase of. a rlf),
pages because offers to 103 pub. STAFr INTERVIEWED C let hit' both the President, and , and,' later;' in his dealings will
lishcrs, despite widespread praise Epstein wrote his book mainly I Coy. Connally of Texas. IQ gun shop for attachment' of
.of the book, were turned down, on the. basis of interviews with' The commission hid-the prob-I teleSVOpio??'sighl~ r'?.
The ap'parent key reason is the members of the .Warren Coni- lem 'of explaining% how twaiJ
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, .,a port,psten quotes ? Norman ; i rint.5 leading to the gl"Asdoors? given, and only three commis- Redlich: of the Commission's-;
r--Are- Uci b` - "tle5el'1bC$}'" it1"` ''a"' sioners heard more than hahf of s1-all' as defending the report; taut
lengthy preface his futile efforts, -the testimony with average' for conceding;
to get a publisher. the entire commission 45 percent ; "To say that they' were hit by'.f
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sassination; issued' by A kard; di c} c o r'diii*!)i Athe. sassiias.F - . ' 1.11 1
Books in 100,000 phas' g"`~fiTOSt:"`"oY'?' .,
.been sin 10 ? since paperbacks rba P. period--'-CoVcred???by? "background i And that is exactly the%issue:
,.,..._.. _ ._..., ,: to _tJl event , liea'i'd 71"pet ccut 1_l; , there were- two assassinti, on.
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