TRAMPS: 'Frenchie% Ahrvays in Right Place at Worst Possible Time

Is the man in the clothes with the continental cut leading the three Compare the sketch of suspect In Dr. "tramps" in the picture at right a mere King's death, top left, with a blowup hobo or one of the most important of the picture of the "tramp" who has men of the 20th Century? The photo been nicknamed "Frenchy" by assas- was taken by a news cameraman in sination buffs. The resemblance of the Dealey Plaza after the "tramps" were suspect at first sought by the FBI arrested as suspects In the John after the Memphis assassination to Kennedy assassination, then released. "Frenchy" is uncanny. The FBI can- Above, the police composite *etch of celled their pickup for the suspect af- a suspect in the 1968 assassination of ter drifter James Earl Ray was charged Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the "lone assassin" of Dr. King.

Bay of Pigs invasion. The photo at left is an- an- is left at photo The invasion. Pigs of Bay

assassin of President Kennedy, was handing handing was Kennedy, President of assassin

out pro-Castro leaflets after the unsuccessful unsuccessful the after leaflets pro-Castro out

corner, when Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused . . accused the Oswald, Harvey Lee when corner,

New Orleans at the same time, on the same same the on time, same the at Orleans New Still other photographs indicated "Frenchy" "Frenchy" indicated photographs other Still

the tramp was also casually turning up in in up turning casually also was tramp the

faces in the pictures at right. Some assassins- assassins- Some right. at pictures the in faces demonstration in New Orleans. Compare the the Compare Orleans. New in demonstration

over his shoulder, walking by an Oswald Oswald an by walking shoulder, his over

blance to "Frenchy7 Jacket shine casually casually shine Jacket "Frenchy7 to blance

center shows a man with a striking resem- striking a with man a shows center

police in Dailey Plaza. The picture in the the in picture The Plaza. Dailey in police

other view of the "tramps" being escorted by by escorted being "tramps" the of view other

on on

But nobody has yet tried to pin an Identity Identity an pin to tried yet has nobody But

tion buffs — especially comedian-civil rights rights comedian-civil especially — buffs tion

burglars Frank Sturgis and E. Howard Hunt. Hunt. Howard E. and Sturgis Frank burglars activist Dick Gregory and Ralph Schoenman Schoenman Ralph and Gregory Dick activist

"tramps" In the photo at left are Watergate Watergate are left at photo the In "tramps"

— are contending that the other two two other the that contending are —

"Frenchyr who may have been at the ap- ap- the at been have may who "Frenchyr

assination of President Kennedy. A few days days few A Kennedy. President of assination

Dallas policeman involved in the arrests. arrests. the in involved policeman Dallas

ago, a Rockefeller investigator interviewed a a interviewed investigator Rockefeller a ago, Dealey tramp photos are being investigated investigated being are photos tramp Dealey

by the Rockefeller Commission looking into into looking Commission Rockefeller the by

exact time history was in the making. The The making. the in was history time exact

propriate spot in three different cities at the the at cities different three in spot propriate

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vestigation of whether a conspiracy conspiracy a whether of vestigation

assassinated. assassinated.

their significances in the in- the in significances their

Dallas on Nov. 22, 1983, the day day the 1983, 22, Nov. on Dallas

people arrested and questioned in in questioned and arrested people President John F. Kennedy was was Kennedy F. John President

man" became "the walking man." man." walking "the became man"

shielding himself behind "the tall tall "the behind himself shielding

sometimes grinned during the three- the during grinned sometimes

fifths mile trek. trek. mile fifths

a continental cut. cut. continental a

was called "the tall man." He He man." tall "the called was

"Frenchy" because because "Frenchy"

dubbed the leader leader the dubbed

Their identities are not known, but but known, not are identities Their

THESE WERE THREE of a dozen dozen a of THREE WERE THESE

The little guy who seemed to be be to seemed who guy little The

The disheveled man behind him him behind man disheveled The

The The

conspiracy- conspiracy-

his clothes had had clothes his

Untold Story of the Tramps' Arrest Arrest Tramps' the of Story Untold

of the trio trio the of

proponents proponents

former CIA agent who was con- con- was who agent CIA former

resemblance to Frank Sturgis, a a Sturgis, Frank to resemblance

assassination. assassination.

was lilly-white hi the Kennedy Kennedy the hi lilly-white was

Americans who never felt the CIA CIA the felt never who Americans

when Wateitgate blew the lid off the the off lid the blew Wateitgate when

Nixon Administration, the pictures pictures the Administration, Nixon

took on new fascination among among fascination new on took

publishing the pictures in 1988. And And 1988. in pictures the publishing

the day the President was shot. shot. was President the day the

pictures at random in Dealey Plaza Plaza Dealey in random at pictures

newspaper photographers snapping snapping photographers newspaper

"tramps" were taken by three three by taken were "tramps"

assassination is a • major question question major • a is assassination mark. mark.

was involved in the Kennedy Kennedy the in involved was

. Numerous pictures of the the of pictures Numerous .

".The tall man" bore a startling startling a bore man" tall ".The

Underground newspapers began began newspapers Underground

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Ray was pegged as the "lone "lone the as pegged was Ray

killing. This was before James Earl Earl James before was This killing.

artist's sketch of a suspect in the the in suspect a of sketch artist's

motel balcony, the FBI moved an an moved FBI the balcony, motel

King was shot and and shot was King

making a speech on a Memphis Memphis a on speech a making

moat interesting of the trio. trio. the of interesting moat

Nixon. Nixon.

other odds and ends for Richard Richard for ends and odds other

minded the Watergate burglary and and burglary Watergate the minded

assassinations and who master- who and assassinations

Howard Bunt, the CIA "super- CIA the Bunt, Howard

spook" who had a penchant for for penchant a had who spook"

man" strikingly resembled E. E. resembled strikingly man"

Acted in the \ Watergate scandals. scandals. Watergate \ the in Acted

But "Frenchy" is perhaps the the perhaps is "Frenchy" But In 1988, after Dr. Martin Luther Luther Martin Dr. after 1988, In

THE "SHORT MAN" or "walking "walking or MAN" "SHORT THE

'killed 'killed

while while

"Frenchy." "Frenchy."

scene, with head drooped forward, forward, drooped head with scene,

is a man who looks a lot like like lot a looks who man a is

man"? And "the walking man"? man"? walking "the And man"?

Orleans. Oswald is surrounded in the the in surrounded is Oswald Orleans.

picture by several men. men. several by picture

pro-Castro literature in New New in literature pro-Castro

President Kennedy, handling out out handling Kennedy, President

the so-called "lone assassin" of of assassin" "lone so-called the

of a youthful Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald, Harvey Lee youthful a of

double for "Preachy" the "tramp" "tramp" the "Preachy" for double

arrested In Dealey Plaza when when Plaza Dealey In arrested

Kennedy died. died. Kennedy

assassin." assassin."

Dallas police never bothered to to bothered never police Dallas

Who is "Frenchy"? And "the tall tall "the And "Frenchy"? is Who

On Oswald's far right in the street street the in right far Oswald's On

The official sketch was an exact exact an was sketch official The Another picture surfaced. It was was It surfaced. picture Another

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a report from railroad switchman switchman railroad from report a

Lee Bowers, who was stationed in a a in stationed was who Bowers, Lee

Plaza. Plaza. Wise and Roy Vaughn responded to to responded Vaughn Roy and Wise

chaos ensued in and around Dealey Dealey around and in ensued chaos shots were fired into the Kennedy Kennedy the into fired were shots

motorcade at 12:30 p.m. a state of of state a p.m. 12:30 at motorcade

be revealed. revealed. be

by TATTLER, the circwnstances of of circwnstances the TATTLER, by

the arrest of the "tramps" can now now can "tramps" the of arrest the

to the county jail on Nov. 22. 22. Nov. on jail county the to

the policemen herding the "tramps" "tramps" the herding policemen the

have oven questioned the Identity Identity the questioned oven have

find out. out. find

Policemen Billy Bass, Marvin Marvin Bass, Billy Policemen

After the firecracker-souding firecracker-souding the After

But through interviews conducted conducted interviews through But

SOME ASSASSINATION ASSASSINATION SOME

Jun* I; 1975 1975 I; Jun*

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of of . , tower in the railroad yards about sixth floor of the Texas School Book three-fifths of a mile, north of the Depository Building and figured the Triple Underpass near where the assassination was solved. President was shot. examination of the photograph, he The "tramps" were released (Hunt) is not that man," Kelley said. "Some strange things are going on without Dallas police bothering to Comedian-civil rights activist down here," Bowers reported to get their names. Dallas police. Dick Gregory is lecturing around the Vaughn would go on to take a country, telling college audiences Bowers had seen some men controversial place in history. Two the man in the photograph is E. scurrying around in the yards. days later, it was Officer Vaughn — Howard Hunt. the same policeman who brought the THE OFFICERS searched the "tramps" out of the gondola at the yards and found the tramps hiding in point of a shotgun — who was an open gondola car. One fact is "Come out of assigned to guarding the ramp to the there," Officer Dallas city Jail basement when Vaughn ordered. dear: The "Go to hell!" came the voice of "the tall man." 'Tramps' were Vaughn climbed atop the gondola Oswald was brought out to be not real tramps and threw down on the "tramps" transferred to the county jail. with his shotgun. • "Yes, sir," said "the tall man" A LITTLE STRIP joint owner named Jack Ruby walked down the Gregory has even testified to this ramp Vaughn was guarding and shot effect before the Rockefeller Officer Vaughn Oswald once in the stomach, Commission investigating domestic silencing the suspect forever.- . spying by the CIA. has unique place . Vaughn has been alternately HUNT HIMSELF has been called criticized and defended for his role before the Rockefeller panel and has in the history in the basement affair, but it hasn't •stopped him from rising in the police written that ranks. Today he is a sergeant in the day in Dallas police intelligence division. Numerous comparisons have been meekly,' who grinned and climbed made — both by laymen and out of the gondola with his hands up. scientists — of the pictures of the Vaughn's role in the "tramps" - "tramps" and pictures of Watergate testified he was at a incident was over, but his role as a Washington on the day Kennedy was footnote in history was only figures. shot. His witnesses: other . CIA beginning. He left the " tramps " In A most acceptable conclusion is agents. the care of the other officers and that the "tall. man" is not Frank. Many assassination buffs are rode a switch engine back to the 'Sturgis. "The tall man" is too tall. • convinced of one point: The assassination site. The "walking man" in the "tramp" "tramps" were not real tramps. The "tramps" were arrested pictures looks a lot like E. Howard The suspects In pie photographs, about 1:15 p.m., Wise recalled Hunt does today, but not like. Hunt though disheveled, had close- recently. They were , picked up looked 12 years ago. cropped hair, indicating recent minutes after the radio report was Both. Hunt and Sturgis have barbership haircuts. Their clothing broadcast that Officer J. D. Tripped repeatedly denied- they were in did not appear to be as worn as had been shot. Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Hunt con- tramps would be. Their shoes had tends he didn't even know Sturgis thick soles. BASS AND WISE turned the then. The three men arrested it the "tramps" over to Sheriff's Deputy Hunt, the old CIA pro who helped railroad yards could have merely Harold E. Elkins at the county jail. alter the course of history behind the been hobos down on their luck, Elkins, in his report on his ac- scenes, has found an ally in the head placed in Dallas by fate on /Soy. 22, tivities that afternoon, said that he •of the FBI. 1963. But until-their identities are took the "tramps" to the Dallas established and their stories told and police station and turned them over CLARENCE KELLEY, FBI verified, they'll remain a part of the to Homicide Capt. Will Fritz. - director, said recently that the Kennedy conspiracy mystery a agency has no evidence to indicate thousand years from now. By then, police had Oswald in that Hunt was at the assassination custody. They had found Ciswald's scene. John Moulder Carcano-Mannlicher rifle on the "To our knowledge and from our Despite critichun over Ruby's action, Vaughn has risen up through ranks of police dePt. Famous Zapruder Movie Still Frames From Assassination Film Show the Warren Commission Was Wrong Dallas dress manufacturer Abraham bargin with Time-Life, Inc., reportedly for a the first to offer copies of the film to the The frames from that home movie Zapruder, a Russian immigrant now in his sum between $150,000 and $250,000, although public; soon thereafter, ads for the film ap- published here come from a print of the film grave, became the one man who experts now some estimates have run as, high as 81 peared in other publications, offerings from believed to have been taken from the copy believe had significant evidence to prove a million. various individuals and groups. that was given to the Warren Commission. conspiracy was involved in the assassination Time-Life gaye the Warren Commission a That copy was then enlarged to 18 mm, and of President John F. Kennedy. print from the film and the Warren report In April of this year, Time, Inc., announced the prints shown here are from that 18 mm Using a Bell and Howell home movie published frames from that print in volume that the original film had been returned to the film. camera, he captured on 8 mm film the actual 18. family and heirs of Abraham Zapruder. shooting. Time, Inc., spokesman Lou Ellovinski also WHILE THE QUALITY of the prints are As soon as word got out about Zapruder's HOWEVER, ABOUT 1985, bootleg prints said that several first generation copies of the poor and that situation is compounded when 27-second movie, major, news organizations of the film fell into the hands of assassination movie and slides were being deposited at the . published on newsprint, they are presented around the world started to bid for the rights researchers around the country and private National Archives, and that the Zapruder film here to demonstrate the incorrectness of the to publish the film. showings of the film were conducted. The itself would keep its original print at the Warren report conclusion. EVENTUALLY, ZAPRUDER struck a Texas Observer, a liberal publication, was archives as well. —THE EDITORS

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one-ninth of a second from the Book Book the from second a of one-ninth

fired by the Mannlicher-Carcano Mannlicher-Carcano the by fired

rifle traveled at a speed of about about of speed a at traveled rifle

Commission admitted that shots shots that admitted Commission

Straining all physical laws, the the laws, physical all Straining

Commission report, went on to to on went report, Commission

strike Connally defied physics. physics. defied Connally strike

then, according to the Warren Warren the to according then,

first bullet that hit Kennedy and and Kennedy hit that bullet first

roughly 18 frames to a second, the the second, a to frames 18 roughly

twice, before Connally was struck. struck. was Connally before twice,

analysis of that viewing would bring bring would viewing that of analysis

these conclusions, at least: least: at conclusions, these

Zapruder film, and a layman's layman's a and film, Zapruder

layman would see upon the the upon see would layman

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THAT, IN ESSENCE, is what a a what is ESSENCE, IN THAT,

Since the Zapruder film ran ran film Zapruder the Since

Kennedy was hit once, if not not if once, hit was Kennedy

June 4 1975 1975 4 June

Connally, which can be strongly strongly be can which Connally, argued by inspecting the film, was was film, the inspecting by argued

Commission contends and that that and contends Commission

struck earlier than the Warren Warren the than earlier struck

basis of believing that Kennedy was was Kennedy that believing of basis around in space for upward to 1.8 1.8 to upward for space in around

seconds. They contend this on the the on this contend They seconds. Commission contend that the first first the that contend Commission

bullet would have had to hang hang to had have would bullet

eighteenths of a second. second. a of eighteenths

leaves the first bullet banging banging bullet first the leaves

around In space for at least seven- least at for space In around

Commission was right, it would have have would it right, was Commission Depository, go through Ke Ke through go Depository, taken the first bullet at least one-half one-half least at bullet first the taken

and then strike Connally. That That Connally. strike then and of a second to travel from the the from travel to second a of Zapruder film, and assuming the the assuming and film, Zapruder

Depository to the Kennedy car. car. Kennedy the to Depository

(Most critics of the Warren Warren the of critics (Most

Counting the frames in the the in frames the Counting

r•6s 1$ 1$ r•6s

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behind, he had a nervous-system nervous-system a had he behind,

ward is that while he was hit from from hit was he while that is ward

the President's head snaps back- snaps head President's the

( The Warren Commission and its its and Commission Warren The (

of one frame of the Zapruder film film Zapruder the of frame one of

defenders contend that the reason reason the that contend defenders

(less than 1/18th of a second), second), a of 1/18th than (less Kennedy's head pops backward. backward. pops head Kennedy's

conclude that because, in the matter matter the in because, that conclude

front of the car. A layman would would layman A car. the of front

rather it came from some location in in location some from came it rather

Dallas School Book Depository; Depository; Book School Dallas

Kennedy was not fired from the the from fired not was Kennedy

commission cannot account for.) for.) account cannot commission

are still left with almost half a a half almost with left still are

second of bullet-travel time the the time bullet-travel of second

the Warren Commission figures, you you figures, Commission Warren the

servatively, however, and assuming assuming and however, servatively,

struck later than the Commission Commission the than later struck

concluded. Playing it con- it Playing concluded.

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The fatal bullet that struck struck that bullet fatal The

18), starts with frame number 171, 171, number frame with starts 18),

frames. The Warren Commission, in in Commission, Warren The frames.

its published report of the film (Vol. (Vol. film the of report published its

Inc., has not commented on those those on commented not has Inc., missing frames 155 and 156. Time, Time, 156. and 155 frames missing

Warren Commission. Commission. Warren

Time, Inc., prior to to the film being being film the to to prior Inc., Time,

copied and turned over to the the to over turned and copied

208 through 211, were damaged by a a by damaged were 211, through 208 sliced out. Those missing frames, frames, missing Those out. sliced

number 208 through 211 have been been have 211 through 208 number

tcontents. He wrote, in Rolling Stone, Stone, Rolling in wrote, He tcontents. stress marks because frames frames because marks stress

frames, numbers 207 and 212, suffer suffer 212, and 207 numbers frames,

the film. Two particularly important important particularly Two film. the

junior photographic technician from from technician photographic junior frames are missing or damaged in in damaged or missing are frames

frames of the Zapruder film. Ten Ten film. Zapruder the of frames

nation and appeared on public public on appeared and nation

media. He is convincing. convincing. is He media.

private citizen or agency." agency." or citizen private

the Zapruder film than any other other any than film Zapruder the

optical research on clear copies of of copies clear on research optical

Zapruder film. He has studied it it studied has He film. Zapruder "I've done more investigative and and investigative more done "I've

the world's foremost expert on its its on expert foremost world's the

ago, he secured a bootleg copy of the the of copy bootleg a secured he ago,

photos, believes as many as six shots shots six as many as believes photos,

Kennedy was shot. About nine years years nine About shot. was Kennedy

since then and is now undoubtedly undoubtedly now is and then since

were fired at the Kennedy car. car. Kennedy the at fired were

more. more.

technician who creates slides for for slides creates who technician Zapruder film. Experts see much much see Experts film. Zapruder inductrial films and restores old old restores and films inductrial

would conclude from viewing the the viewing from conclude would

bullet.) bullet.)

reaction that caused him to move move to him caused that reaction

against the grain of the traveling traveling the of grain the against

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In essence, he believes: believes: he essence, In

HE HAS LECTURED around the the around LECTURED HAS HE

Groden, 29, was only 18 at the time time the at 18 only was 29, Groden,

Robert Groden, an optics optics an Groden, Robert

That is what a layman most likely likely most layman a what is That

Unexplained thus far are are far thus Unexplained

In all, there are or were 332 332 were or are there all, In

five assassins were involved. involved. were assassins five

all, analysis shows, between four to to four between shows, analysis all,

pears to be a possible assassin. In In assassin. possible a be to pears

some underbush. underbush. some

head, ears and rifle of an assassin in in assassin an of rifle and ears head,

Greer, the limousine driver, did not not did driver, limousine the Greer,

yet another man atop the stockade stockade the atop man another yet

said he did under sworn testimony. testimony. sworn under did he said

fence on the grassy knoll who ap- who knoll grassy the on fence

- to his left and toward his wife. wife. his toward and left his to - speed up the car until long after he he after long until car the up speed

(314), he is hit again, this time from from time this again, hit is he (314),

in front with a high-powered rifle rifle high-powered a with front in

that sends him backward violently — — violently backward him sends that

slightly forward. In the next frame frame next the In forward. slightly

head comes at frame 313. It is a a is It 313. frame at comes head

glancing blow and throws him him throws and blow glancing

The first shot that hit Kennedy's Kennedy's hit that shot first The

inches below the shoulder blades. blades. shoulder the below inches

neck). Kennedy was hit again, at at again, hit was Kennedy neck).

frame 227, in the back about six six about back the in 227, frame

below his necktie) is smaller than than smaller is necktie) his below

the exit area (in the back of his his of back the (in area exit the

the car because the entry point (just (just point entry the because car the

sign. This shot came from in front of of front in from came shot This sign.

when his car was behind the road road the behind was car his when

have come from the Book Depositiry Depositiry Book the from come have

be moving forward, instead of back- of instead forward, moving be reversing frames 114 and 315, it it 315, and 114 frames reversing ward, meaning that the shot could could shot the that meaning ward,

would appear that Kennedy might might Kennedy that appear would

receives his fatal head wound. By By wound. head fatal his receives

"printing error"). The importance importance The error"). "printing of this is that ha frame 313, Kennedy Kennedy 313, frame ha that is this of

front of the car. car. the of front

Edgar Hoover admitted this was a a was this admitted Hoover Edgar from the Zapruder film reversed reversed film Zapruder the from

frames 314 and 315. (FBI Director J. J. Director (FBI 315. and 314 frames

published version of the frames frames the of version published

thus avoiding the issue of an earlier earlier an of issue the avoiding thus

(which it didn't) instead of from In In from of instead didn't) it (which splice. splice.

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Frames 454 through 478 show show 478 through 454 Frames

Frames 412 and 413 show the the show 413 and 412 Frames

Secret Serviceman William William Serviceman Secret

Kennedy was hit first some time time some first hit was Kennedy The Warren Commission's Commission's Warren The

for their own reasons not to pursue the mob mob the pursue to not reasons own their for roles organized crime played in the case case the in played crime organized roles

tragedy. It would be years before the various various the before years be would It tragedy.

investigation in the months that followed the the followed that months the in investigation

undetected and ignored during the whirlwind whirlwind the during ignored and undetected

1963. 1963.

Mafia courier who was arrested in Dallas Dallas in arrested was who courier Mafia supposed to have killed Kennedy on Nov. 22, 22, Nov. on Kennedy killed have to supposed

Dealey Plaza when Lee Harvey Oswald was was Oswald Harvey Lee when Plaza Dealey

connections with the case. case. the with connections

Mafia assassination of President John F. F. John President of assassination Mafia

Kennedy. Kennedy.

enough evidence to make a strong case for a a for case strong a make to evidence enough

The mob ties with the assassination went went assassination the with ties mob The

They either overlooked the obvious or chose chose or obvious the overlooked either They

Part of the obvious is Eugene Hale Brading, Brading, Hale Eugene is obvious the of Part

Warren Commission investigators had had investigators Commission Warren

Mob Was Behind Shooting Shooting Behind Was Mob

Evidence Exists to Show Show to Exists Evidence

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to meet with Braden before the assassination. assassination. the before Braden with meet to

Pleas. Brading was arrested stepping off the elevator elevator the off stepping arrested was Brading Pleas.

crowd. This photograph was taken Nov. 22 in Dooley Dooley in 22 Nov. taken was photograph This crowd.

in the Dal-Tex Building. Ruby had ample opportunity opportunity ample had Ruby Building. Dal-Tex the in

in an enlargement at top. Arrow points him out in in out him points Arrow top. at enlargement an in

EUGENE HAL BRADING,. aka Jim Braden, is shown shown is Braden, Jim aka BRADING,. HAL EUGENE

would be revealed. they left so abruptly is a mystery. When they had registered Nov. 21, the disk clerk noted in writing that they had planned The tie-ins take on a new and important significance in to stay until Nov. 24. light of recent disclosures of the strange and shadowy role Braden told Allan Sweatt, chief deputy sheriff, that he was the Mafia is playing in the intelligence operations of the walking down Elm Street in downtown Dallas, trying to flag a United States government. taxicab when he heard "people talking — saying, 'My God, Mafia gunsels have been recruited by the Central In- the President has been shot.' " telligence Agency to engage in plots to assassinate foreign He said he had gone to the third floor of the Dal-Tex leaders, with the CIA returning the favor in various ways. Building and had unsuccessfully tried to telephone his family And a Mafia motive in the Kennedy assassination is when he was arrested leaving the building. He said he wanted unquestionable. John's brother, Robert, then attorney to call his family in California and tell them of the tragedy. general, had prosecuted more Mafia mobsters than any other Apparently authorities believed him. federal prosecutor in history. Sweatt and C.L. ( "Ltumnie") Lewis, the deputy who And President Kennedy had failed to provide air strafing to arrested Braden, identified him in an enlarged photograph of protect the invaders at the Bay of Pigs, a campaign to a man apparently picking up a bullet slug in the grass of overthrow Fidel Castro's rebel government. The Mafia had a Dealey Plaza. The photo, taken about 10 minutes after the big stake in the Cuban invasion — had it been successful the assassination, showed a group of people about parallel with mob could again take over its lucrative gambling operations the spot where the bullets struck the President. that Castro's government shut down. PHIL WILLIS, photographer from Dallas, said he thinks he THE MAFIA'S BRADING slipped through authorities' may have snapped a photo of Jack Ruby wearing dark hands after his arrest as a suspect in the Kennedy glasses in front of the Texas Book Depository about the same assassination, without the local lawmen knowing his mob time Braden would have been in the building across the ties. This is documented in reports filed by the Dallas County street. The man resembles Ruby but has never been Sheriff's Department and the Federal Bureau of In- positively identified. vestigation. Ruby, of course, was the Dallas nightclub owner who The reason, though inadequate, is simple: - silenced Lee Harvey Oswald two days after Oswald was Two months before the assassination, Brading had supposed to have assassinated Kennedy. He was given much changed the name of his California driver's license to "Jim more scrutiny by the Warren Commission than Braden. Braden." Despite much evidence to the contrary, the commission Five years later, Jim Braden-Eugene Hale Brading, would concluded "the evidence does not establish a significant link turn up in Los Angeles at the same time that Sen. Robert F. between Ruby and organized crime." Kennedy was assassinated at the. Climax of his victory In whining the California Democratic preiddential priinary. Braden, aka Eugene Hale Brading, told Dallas authorities "Ruby has disclaimed that he was associated with he was in Dallas from Beverly Hills, Calif., on "oil business." organized criminal activities," the commission report stated, "and law enforcement agencies have confirmed that He was taken into custody after stepping off an elevator in denial." the Dal-Tex Building, across Houston Street from the Texas The commission noted in the "underworld ties" section of School Book Depository, minutes after the assassination. the report about Ruby that one of his first friends when he came to Dallas from Chicago in 1947 was Paul Rowland Braden-Brading gave Dallas County sheriff's deputies his Jones, a racketeer and trustee of a Teamsters Union local. new name, Jim Braden, and got away with it. Jones, once called the "underworld czar of Dallas," often boasted that he was the Dallas organizer of the old Chicago HE WAS GIVEN only a few brief paragraphs in one of the Capone gang. Shortly after Ruby arrived in Dallas, Jones Warren Commission's 27-volume report, as were dozens of began serving a three-year prison sentence for trying to non-entities rounded up by authorities for questioning on bribe former Dallas County Sheriff Steve Gutluie to let Nov. 22. members of the Chicago syndicate move into Dallas and Years later federal agents — then well aware of who organize gambling operations. Braden was — were investigating reports that he was a Guthrie had said that the Chicago-mobsters had intended to courier for laundering the mob's illegitimate money to have Ruby as their front man heading up "a very fabulous Ammsterdam and Zurich. Assassination buffs speculate his restaurant" in downtown Dallas with the upper floor devoted role in Dealey Plaza could have been one of the mob's ob- to gambling. servers, bag men, or participants. JONES, WHO EARLIER had been sentenced to five years While Braden waited two to three hours in the sheriff's in a federal prison for smuggling $1 million worth of opium office on Nov. 22 for questioning, his hotel roommates into this country from Mexico, denied that Ruby would have checked out and beat it at about 2 p.m., leaving Braden been part of the proposed gambling operation in Dallas when behind. This was 90 minutes after the assassination. Why questioned by FBI agents after the assassination. Jones told the FBI he doubted Ruby would have become emotionally upset and killed Oswald "on the spur of the moment." He said Ruby might have killed Oswald "for Ear/ Gok, an Invest/gat/ye re. money." porter for The Dallas Morning Jones said that if Ruby had been promised protection In News, is one of the nation's connection with the killing of Oswald and had been given orders to shoot Oswald, Joe Civello "would know about it." foremost experts on the ass. Civello was Dallas' delegate to the 1997 organized crime essinetion of President John F. meeting in Apalachin, N.Y., who reported back to New Kennedy. Golz, who has fre- Orleans Mafia chidden Carlos Marcello. quently won top honors for A part-time piano player in one of Ruby's nightclubs also excellence, in Journalism, has told FBI agents that Ruby was a "frequent visitor and devoted almost his full time to associate" of Civello after Ruby moved to Dallas. The FBI investigating the assassination said Moore volunteered the information to refute a statement for the last dozen years. on a television interview several days after Ruby shot Oswald. A Ruby associate had said Ruby had no "gangster connections." from Moore, who said he also worked for Civello, lived in Dallas California, Morgan H. Brown, were registered. Braden and Brown's from 1952 to 1956 in a rooming house at the rear of a liquor third floor suite faced what would have been and drug store he asserted was "a front for a bookie type Kennedy's parade route up Stemmons Freeway the next day had not the President been killed. . operation where bets were taken on all types of athletic One of the people Ruby met with in the hotel club the night Pventa and horse races.'! Moore said the place was before the assassination was "'patronized by most of the gambling element in Dallas and Jean Aase, whose apartment Ruby was a freqnent visitor," as were a Dallas police souse in Chicago had received a telephone call several weeks earlier from David Ferrie of detective and a state highway patrolman. New Orleans. FERRIC WAS AN important figure in New Orleans Dist. THE FBI APPARENTLY did not check out Moore's story Atty. Jim Garrison's ill-fated investigation of the Kennedy With Civello, who died four years ago, or the law officers. No assassination four years later When Ferrie apparently reference to follow-up interviews with any of those named by Moor. .can be found in either the Warren Report or the conimitted suicide in 1967. Garrison termed him "one of history's most important individuals." :National Archives. The. FBI, report of the interview with Moore ended by stating he "had no factual information." The 1964 New Orleans city directory listed Ferris's business address as room 1707 of the Pierre Marquette Dallas gambler Sidney Siedband, arrested in Oklahoma Sanding Lity in 1959, had Rubby's name among a list of telephone numbers of gambling acquaintances. Also among the names The same directory listed Vernon J. Main Jr.'s business was Lewis Joseph McWillie, described,by Dallas police as a address as room 1706 of the Pierre Marquette. ''`gambler and murderer." Main was the oil geologist involved in an oil deal in .The Warren Report, describes MeWillie as a "professional Louisiana that Braden had supposedly checked on during his gambler" and noted that in 1959 Ruby "visited Cuba at the visit to Texas hi November of 1963. Main said he didn't know invitation and expense of" McWillie. McWillie was working at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Havana before Fidel Castro flushed out the Mafia hoodlums who had control of gambling and vice under former cubes dictator Fulgencio Batista. MeWillie worked in Havana until the break In diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States, then left for Las Vegas to work at the Thunderbird Casino. Ruby's sister, Eva Grant, said she recalls Ruby went to see McWillie about working out a "deal" on the sale of jeeps to Castro in 1959. The deal apparently fell through, she said. Ruby was "interested in any way to make money and seemed to have good contacts with the police," Harry Hall, once an FBI informant, said. Hall, interviewed by the FBI a week after the assassination, said he "could not conceive of Ruby doing anything out of patriotism," but he recalled that Ruby once said he was going to Florida to "buy a load of -Ventraband' to send to Israel." Ferrie, but—guessed he listed room 1707 as his • address Hall also told the FBI that he and Ruby once bet the late because he may have been employed by criminal lawyer G. Dallas oil billionaire H.L. Hunt on the Cotton Bowl and Rose Wray Gill as an investigator at the time. Bowl football games and won a large sum of money, which "I don't know David Ferrie," Main said. "He never had an they split office next to me. He never had anything to do with Jim Braden and I don't know that Braden even knows this man THERE IS NO evidence that Ruby and the man who Ferrie." changed his name to Jim Braden two months before the Ferrie had told Secret Service agents shortly after the assassination knew each other. If they didn't meet the day assassination that he had made two plane trips to Guatemala before Kennedy was assassinated, they came close on two for lawyer Gill in October, 1963. The Secret Service report occasions. said Ferrie acknowledged "the trips Involved some 'in- On the morning of Nov. 21, .1963, Braden, the former vestigative work having to do with the Carlos Marcello Eugene Hale Brading, was scheduled to meet with Lamar case." Hunt and other oil speculators, according to a report filed by Marcello. was threatened with deportation by U.S. Atty. U.S Probation Officer Roger Carroll. Braden was required Gen. Robert Kennedy's Justice Department at the time. The to check with probation offices on interstate trips because he President's brother had launched the most intensive federal had been out of the penitentiary for less than four years. attack on organized crime in this country's history Braden gave Carroll his real name, Brading, and not the "Jim Braden" he used after his arrest by deputy sheriffs 24 • HE HAD SET IN motion plans for organized crime strike hours later. He claimed he had come to Dallas from Beverly forces in most big cities in the early 1960e. Chicago Mafia Hills. Calif., to see the son of H.L. Hunt on an oil deal. Years boss Sam Giancana had felt Kennedy's wrath and went to jail later he reportedly told an official of the Los Angeles Police for contempt of court. Joe Valachi had started telling federal Department he didn't go with his companions to the Hunt authorities about the inner workings of the Cosa Nostra in offices because of his criminal record. 1962 while serving time In prison. And Marcello's friend, then At about the same time Braden was scheduled to appear In Teamsters Union President James R. Rolla, was on his way the Hunt offices, Ruby was driving a young woman, Connie to prison, another Kennedy victim. Traminell, to see Lamar Hunt about a Job. Ruby drove Miss Ed Reid, ip his book "The Grim Reapers," writes about a Trammell to the Hunt office building on Nov. 21, he said, and late 1962 meeting of Marcello and three associates on his waited in the lobby for her to return from the interview. Churchill Farms plantation near New Orleans. When she did not return, he told the FBI, he left without her Marcello, Reid wrote, complained about Robert Kennedy's and went to his Carousel Club. harassment. Reid, regarded as one of the nation's top The Warren Report states that Ruby met the evening of literary experts on the Mafia, quoted Marcello as shouting to his guests, "Take the stone out of my shoe." Later he Nov. 21 with friends from Chicago in the Bon Vivant Club of the same Cabana Hotel where Braden and another ex-convict reportedly said, "Don't worry about that little Bobby son-of- . fraud case. Robert Kennedy in his book "The Enemy Within," wrote in 1960, three years before his brother was assassinated, that Hotta in 1949, "needed a powerful ally" in Chicago in his rise to the Teamsters presidency. Kennedy wrote that Hoffa "found his man in Paul Dorfman," Allen's father. "Dorfman, our testimony showed," wrote Kennedy, "was a big operator — a major figure in the Chicago underworld who also knew his way around in certain labor and political circles." 'Kennedy noted in his 1960 book that Paul Dorfman took over as head of the Chicago Waste Handlers Union in 1939 after its founder and secretary-treasurer, Leon Cooke, was murdered. Secretary of the union at the time Cooke was shot to death in his office was Jack Ruby. -One of Ruby's close Chicago acquaintances, Mitch Wolcoff, told the FBI that when Cooke was killed, Ruby told him he "wanted very badly to take over STRIPJOINT OPERATOR Jack Ruby, who slime- that union." ed Lee Harvey Oswald, with two of his gide. In memory of Cooke, Ruby, or Rubenstein as he was called then, adopted "Leon" as his middle name.

THE FBI INTERVIEWED Paul Dorfman on Dec. 18, 1963. bitch. He's going to be taken care of." and asked him about Ruby. The FBI report states that Marcello, however, knew that "to rid himself of Robert . Dorfman said Ruby "was not a successful organizer and Kennedy he would first have to remove the President," Reid finally voluntarily left his employment with the union in 1940. wrote. "Any killer of the attorney general would be hunted about two months after Dorfman was appointed to run it. down by his brother; the death of the President would seal Ruby probably left this employment because he was not the fate of his attorney general." making any money." Nacelle had "already thought of using a 'nut' to do the Telephone records show that someone called Irwin Weiner job," Reid , wrote. former Chicago bail bondsman with crime syndicate ties. 'Braden was not a nut. He was a natural born swindler who from Ruby's Carousel Club on Oct. 26,1983, and talked for DI was accustomed to living high off the hog, thanks at least in . minutes. Weiner was also acquitted with Mien Dorfman of part to the many rich women he and his partner Victor , charges of fraud in connection with the Teamsters' pension Emanuel Pereira, married over the years. Some women fund case in April, 1975. whom they stung, however later retaliated Ruby at about the same time started calling Barney Baket Braden complained that he and Pereira were being of Chicago, an enforcer for the underworld and a thug used by harassed when Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker refused to the Teamsters Union. Baker, who had just been released release them on the vagrancy charges unless they both left from the penitentiary ht June, 1963, was being contacted he the county in 48 hours. connection with Ruby's problems with the strippers' union in "You're in my county now," said Decker who was known to Dallas, Ruby said. give underworld characters until sunset to get out if they On Nov. 21, 1963, the night before the assassination, Bakes roamed into Dallas County. called Dave Yaras, Miami representative of the Chicago The Decker ultimatum, which got front page in local mob, and talked for three minutes. Mrs. Eva Grant, Ruhr* papers with photographs, 'made Braden, or Brading as he sister, later told Warren Commission investigators that she was known then, a public figure in Dallas. and her brother had known the Yaras brothers from Chicago Yet 11 years, later, Braden was to tell the FBI during his but "didn't have anything to do with them, yet we knew they assassination interview that he was "not familiar with turned out to be some pretty rough characters and I'm not Dallas." He said he "had been in Dallas twice before, but going to deny that." that was over 10 years ago," the FBI report stated. Ruby called another boyhood friend, Al Gruber, at Fresh out of prison in 1960, Braden married the wealthy Gruber's home in Los Angeles about 20 minutes after news of widow of a Teamsters Union official from Chicago whom the assassination was on television. Gruber had seen Ruby authorities ruled accidentally shothimself with a .45 revolver only once in the previous 10 years, that occasion being in — twice in the stomach. Ruby's Carousel Club about two weeks before the In addition to his underworld associates on the west coast. assassination. Braden seems to have an affinity with the Teamsters Union during the past 15 years. Two months after the assassination, THE FBI WAS TOLD by Gruber that he decided to visit his he became a charter member of the Teamsters-financed La old Chicago friend Ruby while traveling from New York to Los Angeles in early November, 1963. Gruber told the FBI, Costa Country Club about 20 miles from former President and it was duly recorded in the FBI report, that he thought he Richard Nixon's home at San Clemente, Calif. La Costa was would head south from Joplin, Mo., to Dallas because it was where Nixon's aides — John Dean, John Ehrlichman and Bob only "100 miles from Joplin." Dallas is about four times that Haldeman — met in February, 1973, to get their signals distance from Joplin. straight on Watergate. Gruber said he did not know why Ruby caned him on Nov 22 "and can only speculate that Ruby wanted to talk to a ANOTHER LA COSTA regular is Allen Dorfman, the link friend at a time when he was emotionally upset." between organized crime and the Teamsters Union Central The FBI rap sheet on Gruber shows he had a number of States Pension Fund. Dorfman, close friend of Hoffa's and aliases and a number of arrests, including a grand larceny millionaire former financial adviser to the pension fund, was conviction in 1929 and lesser problems since. A scrap metal acquitted in April, 1975, of charges of defrauding the fund of dealer in Los Angeles, Gruber was a friend of Frank Matula, $1.4 million. Dorfman had been released from prison in who was named a trustee of the International Teamsters December, 1973, following his conviction in another pension Union by Hoffa shortly after he was released after serving • _ 114 days in jail for perjury.

IN 19511 THE California State Legislative Investigating Committee charged that Mainla was an enforcer for the rubbish industry in Southern California, a charge Matula denied. • Gruber in early 1974 was seen at the Los Angeles area fuperal of Eli Lubin, a local hoodlum who was close to gangster Mickey Cohen. THE NATIONAL TATTLER

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are providing fodder for future editor says he and other researchers of the political assassinations of the

TATTLER he doesn't believe the historians to use to solve the riddle true facts in the murder of President crackpot by others, country

newspaperman Penn Jones Jr. told

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assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Jack Ruby, the killer of accused wide open," Jones said.

Lovejoy Award for exposes of a fects Mirror newspaper office. the bombing of his Midlothian, Tex., l985, he received the Elijah Parish

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lectures at colleges and universities in future years. It's too deeply en- pointing to where historians can dig newspaper and is devoting full-time trenched to come out now." Jones told TATTLER. Mike Douglas and Mery Griffin appeared on numerous television shows. presenting his case to the public. programs, including the network in his assassination research and in throughout the country. He has

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—J.M. Lost His Job, Shot, Bombed, Discredited Cop in Dealey Plaza Who Saw Oswald Drive Away With a Man in a Rambler Had the testimony of a Dallas law enforcement officer - J as well as backup statements by other witnesses — been ROGER CRAIG, work- . accepted, a conspiracy in the assassination of President 'ing 'for Sheriff's Office, John Kennedy might have been proved beyond doubt. spotted Oswald. Hed Instead, the unvarying eyewitness testimony of Warren Commission lis- Sheriff's Deputy .Roger Craig was discredited and twisted tened to him, a con- , around by Warren Commission probers. 'piracy would have been established. And because Craig's testimony didn't jibe with what the commission wanted the official lone-assassin version to be, he has been threatened with death and constantly harassed, the former lawman and his friend believe. Craig, now 37, wet named "officer of the year" in the Dallas County Sheriff's Department in 1960, but on depository steps who identified officer that the President's Independence Day, 1967, after never himself as a Secret Service agent. motorcade was late reaching Dealey wavering from his statements of The former deputy five years later, Plaza, the other lawman replied: what happened in Dealey Plaza the during New Orleans District At- "Maybe somebody will shoot the Dallas police station, be identified son-of-a-bitch." - day Kennedy was shot, he was fired. Lee Harvey Oswald as the man he, torney Jim Garrison's abortive Since then, he has been shot, He said when the motorcade saw running from the depository investigation of the Kennedy wounded when his auto was bombed, arrived, and he heard the shots, he building. The Warren Commission assassination; would identify the heard threats made against himself began questioning people. claims Oswald took buses and a cab "Secret Service agent" as Edgar and his family and has lost job after Eugene Bradley, a California right- "Several people indicated to me in his odyssey that led him to the that they thought the shots came 10 • Texas Theater Ini Oak Cliff where he wing minister Garrison indicted,for He's now living in an undisclosed conspiracy to kill the President. from the area of the grassy knoll or ' was arrested. Had Craig's testimony behind the picket fence ( to the front location. been accepted, it would indicate at Craig was one of the deputies The key points that place Craig in and right of Kennedy)," said Craig. least a second person being involved assigned to Dealey Plaza to the midst of the controversy ":epresent the. Sheriff's Depart- The Warren Commission contends surrounding the 'Kennedy — thus, a conspiracy. the only shots were fired by Oswald . • MRS. RUTH PAINE, with ment" but not to participate in the assassination are these: security, for the President's visit, from the sixth floor of the depository which Oswald's Russian wife, building behind Kennedy. Marina, lived in the Dallas suburb of Craig recalls in his manuscript , - • HE SAYS HE SAW a man Irving, drove a Rambler station "When They Kill a President," his running out of the Texas School Book ABOUT 15 MINUTES after the wagon similar to the, one Craig saw own account of his experiences. Depository and get inside a Rambler He recalls the bitterness against shots were fired, he contends, he Oswald enter. heard a shrill whistle from the north station wagon driven by a man who CRAIG SAID HE first gave this Kennedy by the law enforcement appeared to be of Latin descent and • side of Elm Street. information to a man standing on the officers in the city in which JFK's driving away 15 minutes after the popularity was at a low ebb. shot was fired. When Craig remarked to another • LATER THAT DAY, at the "I turned and saw a white male in his twenties running down the grassy knoll from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository Building. A light green Rambler station wagon was coming slowly west on Elm Street. . "The driver of the station wagon was a husky looking Latin, with dark wavy hair, wearing a tan wind breaker type jacket. He was looking up at the man running toward him," Craig recalls. - Craig never actually testified Dallas. He said he was asked to meet The driver pulled up to the curb, before the commission itself. His a client at a location. picked up the running man, and statement was taken by junior He said he went there, had coffee drove west on Elm Street. • commission lawyer David W. Belin, with the client at a waffle house, and Craig realized these were the only who now happens to be the Gerald when he walked out "...a shot rang people not running to the scene - Ford-appointed executive director out behind me and the hair just curious about what had hapPened. of the Nelson Rockefeller Com- above my left ear parted. The officer ran to Elm and mission investigating domestic "I felt a pressure and sharp pain Houston, asked for an investigator, espionage by the CIA. Craig con- on the left side of my head. I bolted and a man standing on the tends Belin changed 14 different for my car ... I drove home as fast as depository steps said, "I'm with the points in his testimony that:ap- possible." Secret Service." Craig gave the man peared in the Warren Commission When publicity about the attempt the information and he wrote it in -a volumes. . r on Craig's life got out, he lost his job. pad. It was just the start of a long chain of DALLAS COUNTY SHERIFF Bill personal hardships that would follow IT WAS MORE THAN four years Decker, now dead, wouldn't let the assassination witness. , later that ,Craig saw the "Secret Craig talk to national newsmenwho Once when driving to work, a car SerVice inan'i" picture on . tried to interview him about his pulled along beside him, the driver .television. He claimed it was Edgar account during the coming years. stuck a revolver out the sindow, but Eugene . Bradley — Garrison had And later, when Craig was before he could fire another car charged him in the assassination assigned to a desk job in the county pulled up and he withdrew the pistol. probe. Craig telephoned Garrisou jail, Decker expressed annoyance and thus became a part of the New because the deputy was talking to SHORTLY BEFORE the New ,Orleans investigation. -- Oswald assassin Jack Ruby's sister Orleans trial, Craig received a After Oswald's arrest, Craig Eva Grant, who was concerned telephone call asking if he was going heard his description broadcast. about her brother's health. to New Orleans:: Craig :thought --of - the man' running Finally after -Ruby's death When Craig said yes, the caller from the depository. He called Capt. penalty conviction was overturned replied: Will Fritz, homicide chief, and was and a new trial set in Wichita Falls, "Get a one-way ticket." asked to go to the police station and the Wichita County sheriff came to Another voice called again: look at Oswald:. , - take charge of the prisoner, The "Remember you have a family." Craig said he looked at Oswidd sheriff refused to accept ,him Despite the threats, Craig gave his and identified him.; because he was ill. It was then that testimony at Shaw's trial. According to .Craig, Fritz. told Ruby was taken to Parkland Oswald: , Hospital 1— where Kennedy died - HIS PERSONAL hardships "This man saw you leave." - and died a few dayslater of cancer. continued, but Craig may have Oswald replied: "I told you people Some Warren Commission critics figured the threats were a part of the I did." • . still claim that conspirators injected Past. Fritz said: "What about the car?"- Ruby with cancer cells to cause his He was wrong: In October 1970, he Oswald: .`.`That station wagon death before he could reveal started his car in Dallas and the belongs to Mrs. Paine — don't try to anything about a conspiracy. Ruby engine exploded and burst into drag her into this." himself repeatedly hinted , at a flames. He suffered five puncture Oswald sat back in his chair and- conspiracy — in one case to TAT- wounds in the chest and a vein was said disgustedly: "Everybody will TLER correspondent James Kerr in severed. know who I am now." . an audio-taped interview, other Craig recovered. This encounter would not be times in handwritten letters And some Warren Commission remembered by Fritz later in smuggled out of the Dallas jail. critics still believe he is a fugitive testimony before the Warren CRAIG, ON NOV. 1, 1967, was from those involved in a conspiracy Commission. - working for a bail bond service in to kill the President.—J.M. medical scientists joins the medical

ranks challenging the Warren of the American Academy of President John F. Kennedy was Commission conclusion of how Forensic Sciences and a facility' killed.

member at the University of Arizona Medical School.

Wecht, the County medical examiner commission findings.

at Pittsburgh, in contesting the

specialist to be allowed to examine first non-government medical Kennedy autopsy evidence •in the

National Archives.

that the most imartant piece of evidence — the President's brain —

was missing from the Archives. others and now Dr. Joling agree,

bullet" theory is wrong. that the commission's "magic

One of the nation's leading

He is Dr. Robed Joling, president He joins such experts as Dr. Cyril

Wecht gained fame as being the

He made the startling discovery

WECHT CONCLUDED, and

the same bullet struck both Kennedy and Gov. John Connally, who was riding in the open-top limousine with author and granddaddy of all the assassination buffs, summed up the the President lecture at the Delta State University "magic bullet" theory recently in a bolt action Mennen Carcano rifle length of time determined by the in Cleveland, Miss.: used by OsWald from the sixth floor of the Dallas School Book Depository Zapruder film.

cold not have fired three shots in the

Bullet' theory that one bullet entered

President of American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Mark Lane, "Rush to Judgment" The "magic bullet" theory is that

"An FBI expert testified that the

"So they came up with the 'Magic

Disagrees Sharply With Warlren Report Conclusions

throat, hung in mid-air for 1.8 Kennedy's back, exited from his

seconds, observed Gov. John Con- nally, struck him in the back, took a

another right turn and struck his right thigh." right turn, struck his wrist, took assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin

congressional investigations of the

Luther King.

conference, Joling said:

matters so as not to warrant further scientific expertise and repute now doubts relative to each of these conclude that there exist reasonable

Dr. Joling backs new

DURING A RECENT press

"Too many persons of excellent

blind d approval of the official con- dusk dons reached." Oswa gild to have fired three shots at

the i ''.auto carrying Kennedy, Dr.

Jolint ig contends.

shots t fired, probably five, possibly

six, a and speculatively, as many as seven n," Joling said.

shots, s, said Joling, there had to be

more e than one gunman. "No one kind c of accuracy," he said. persoi on could have fired that many

He po ointed out it was conducted at shots . 3 in

condo ucted on President Kennedy.

It .v .would have been impossible for

"TI there were no less than four

ANI lD IF THERE were only three

Joni ling is critical of the autopsy

that period of time with that

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Bethesda Naval Hospital by Dr.

trained in forensic pathology.

refused to discuss the autopsy.

destroyed. Hume has consistently

Hume's notes were later

This bullet hit Kennedy, ex-

Warren Commission Report

Unmarred Exhibit 399 of

a right turn, struck his wrist,

onds, then hit Connally, took

around in mid-air for took another right turn, and then hit his thigh. Critics call ited from his throat, hung

it the "magic bullet."

1.8 sec- OSWALD'S FBI TIES you?" asked Rep. Boggs. THE COMMISSION did, after "No," Dulles said. receiving letters from Hoover "I know, ask questions about outlining the FBI's various contacts something—" with Oswald since Oswald's return "I never knew how to disprove It." from Russia. Hoover denied in the "So I will ask you," said Boggs. communications Oswald had ever "Did you have agents about whom been employed by the FBI. you bad no record whatsoever?" Leon Jaworski, to become special "The record might not be on Watergate prosecutor during the paper," Dulles replied. "But on Richard Nixon Administration paper would have hieroglyphics that scandals, was an aide to Texas only two people knew what they Attorney General Carr after the meant, and nobody outside of the assassination. JUSTICE WARREN his agency would know and you could The Warren Commission assigned commission heard testimony say this meant the agent and Jaworski to check out the Hudkins regarding Oswald's ties with somebody else could say it meant report in the Houston Post about the another agent." rumors Oswald was an FBI in- the FBI, but they chose to Commission members then former. ignore the information. discussed U-2 pilot Gary Powers, Jaworski, less than four months (Continued from Page 14) shot down in a spy plane over after the January executive session, Russia. Dulles explained that wrote Rankin that Hudkins was no the role of a U.S. intelligence agency longer with the newspaper. Noting in whether a person was an in- that the commission had the FBI telligence agent. statements on the matter, as well as "If Oswald never had A CIA agent statements from Oswald's mother, assassinated the President or at (like U-2 pilot "...I am wondering if it is really least been charged with worth your effort to follow up on assassinating the President and had Powers) might Hudkims." been in the employ of the FBI and somebody had gone to the FBI they not tell truth would have denied he was an agent," Senator Russell said. to his own chief The commission Dulles, the ex-CIA chief, replied: "Oh, yes." was fearful any "They would he the first to deny it. Powers had a signed contract with Your agents would have done the the CIA. further proof same thing," said Russell. REP. BOGGS: "Let's say Powers "Exactly," Dulles replied. did not have a signed contract but he would give 'Doubting Later during the meeting banker was recruited by someone in CIA. Thomases' more fuel John J. McCloy, a commission The man who recruited him would member, said he had received know, wouldn't he?" inquiries about the Oswald-agent Dulles: "Yes, but he wouldn't It obviously wasn't worth the tell." commission's efforts. Warren: "Would he tell it under Commission members expressed 'How do you oath?" fear of officially interrogating Dulles: "I wouldn't think he would Hudkins and others about the claim disprove a tell it wider oath, no." Oswald was a secret government Warren: "Why." agent for fear publicity about the fellow is your Dulles: "He ought not tell it under GARY POWERS ... commis- official action would add fuel to agent? You oath. Maybe not tell it to his own sion members used his con- "doubting Thomases" around the government, but wouldn't tell it any tract with the CIA to dis- world. can't disprove it' other way." cover if, and when, an agent Answering a question from Mc- SO ME PEOPLE were to accept might admit truth of his in- Cloy, Dulles said a CIA operative or disbelieve the word of J. Edgar volvement with a U.S. Intel- report and asked, "What is there to might not tell the truth to his own Hoover given in a note to Rankin the this story?" Chief. ligenCe agency. day of the Jan. 27 secret meeting: "This is a terribly hard thing to "What you do," said Boggs, "is "Lee Harvey Oswald was never rove, you know," Dulles replied. you make out a problem if this be '•I don't think it can," Dulles used by this Bureau in an informant Ts ow do you disprove a fellow was true, make our problem utterly replied, "unless you believe Mr. capacity. He was never paid, any not your agent? How do you disprove impossible because you say this Hoover, and so forth and so on, sums of money for furnishing in- it?" rumor can't be dissipated under any which probably most of the people formation and he most certainly "You could disprove It, couldn't circumstances." will." never was an informant of the FBI."

Mrs. Oswald said publicly she would would she publicly said Oswald Mrs.

tell her story in a revealing book she she book revealing a in story her tell

statement." statement."

but given the opportunity, I, the the I, opportunity, the given but

mother of the accused, can prove my my prove can accused, the of mother

only will history prove them wrong wrong them prove history will only

verdict of 'lone assassin' was ac- was assassin' 'lone of verdict curate. curate.

Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald. Harvey Lee and Kennedy

They worked long hours, were were hours, long worked They

conscientious, and believed their their believed and conscientious,

evaluate the deaths of John F. F. John of deaths the evaluate

before they were appointed to to appointed were they before

guiding our nation's destiny long long destiny nation's our guiding

men of integrity who had been en- been had who integrity of men

are men of integrity. integrity. of men are

trusted with the responsibility of of responsibility the with trusted

responsible for Kennedy's death - death Kennedy's for responsible

— which said her son alone was was alone son her said which —

recently to TATTLER, Mrs. Oswald Oswald Mrs. TATTLER, to recently writes: writes:

members of the Warren Commission Commission Warren the of members

Was a Government Agent' Agent' Government a Was

government. government. was an agent of the United States States United the of agent an was

son was innocent of killing John F. F. John killing of innocent was son

Kennedy and that she believes believes she that and Kennedy

the United States? States? United the

past 12 years: years: 12 past

that has been haunting the nation the the nation the haunting been has that

meet, Marguerite Oswald now sees sees now Oswald Marguerite meet, back in the news the same question question same the news the in back

Oswald's Mother• 'My Son Son 'My Mother• Oswald's

Not long after the assassination, assassination, the after long Not

"However, they were wrong — not not — wrong were they "However,

"The commission members were were members commission "The

But she also believes the seven seven the believes also she But

IN A STATEMENT mailed mailed STATEMENT A IN

Mrs. Oswald has always said her her said always has Oswald Mrs.

Did her son kill the President of of President the kill son her Did

Skipping meals to make ends ends make to meals Skipping

he he

her son. son. her

Security payments and sometimes sometimes and payments Security

selling documents connected with with connected documents selling than the wisdom of Solomon." Solomon." of wisdom the than

parent to me that the commission commission the that me to parent

members exhibited something less less something exhibited members

American history. It is very ap- very is It history. American

and their dubious contribution to to contribution dubious their and

the Warren Commission members members Commission Warren the

nocence, I would place on the stand stand the on place would I nocence,

determine my son's guilt or in- or guilt son's my determine

generations. History for our children children our for History generations.

must be accurate. accurate. be must

generation, but also of future future of also but generation, have become historic fact not only only not fact historic become have

for the children. of our present present our of children. the for

of the human element. element. human the of

evaluations of the printed word and and word printed the of evaluations

nesses' testimony, hearsay, hearsay, testimony, nesses'

opinions, 'rumors, distortions, distortions, 'rumors, opinions, omissions, errors and 'acceptable' 'acceptable' and errors omissions,

Oswald says: says: Oswald

heavy with contradictions in wit- in contradictions with heavy

from the book she will write, Mrs. Mrs. write, will she book the from

heavy." heavy."

Warren Report, commented, "It is is "It commented, Report, Warren

Lyndon Johnson, when handed the the handed when Johnson, Lyndon

Mrs. 'Oswald lives on Social Social on lives 'Oswald Mrs.

one called "A Woman in History." History." in Woman "A called one

books have been written about her - her about written been have books

book has not yet emerged, although although emerged, yet not has book

would write. write. would

"If ever there was a real trial to to trial real a was there ever "If

"The conclusions of the Report Report the of conclusions "The

"The Report is indeed heavy. It is is It heavy. indeed is Report "The

In what she says will be an excerpt excerpt an be will says she what In

SHE NOTED THAT President President THAT NOTED SHE

Now, almost 12 years later, her her later, years 12 almost Now,

going through all this again. You You again. this all through going

mean, but it's hard for a mother." mother." a for hard it's but mean,

probably don't understand what I I what understand don't probably

I knew it. it. knew I

TV again, and he's saying those those saying he's and again, TV these years. years. these words that I knew were so true all all true so were knew I that words

Dallas newspaper recently- recently- newspaper Dallas

analysis report, Mrs. Oswald told a a told Oswald Mrs. report, analysis

again on TV and the new Voice Voice new the and TV on again

anybody, no, sir." sir." no, anybody,

Tapes," that Oswald was telling the the telling was Oswald that Tapes,"

truth when he said, "I didn't shoot shoot didn't "I said, he when truth

new book, "The Assassination Assassination "The book, new

George O'Toole, who concluded in a a in concluded who O'Toole, George

arranged by former CIA official official CIA former by arranged

new scientific voice analysis analysis voice scientific new

the Oswald family. family. Oswald the

the news, the spotlight is is spotlight the news, the

in an interview more thenr a year year a thenr more interview an in

ago. ago.

wind," Mrs. Osviaid told TATTLER TATTLER told Osviaid Mrs. wind,"

friends and little food. food. little and friends

not being able to find work, few few work, find to able being not

"You know, it's pretty hard to be be to hard pretty it's know, "You

"I didn't just say they were true - true were they say just didn't "I

"Oh, there is my boy's picture on on picture boy's my is there "Oh,

AFTER HEARING the voice voice the HEARING AFTER

man. man.

ber, ber,

photograph taken in Novem- in taken photograph

previously previously

MARGUERITE OSWALD ...... OSWALD MARGUERITE One much-publicized angle was a • • a was angle much-publicized One

Now that her son's case is back in in back is case son's her that Now

"I have been treated like the the like treated been have "I

HER PROBLEMS have included included have PROBLEMS HER

1974, by Randy Chap- Randy by 1974,

unpublished unpublished

again again on on

I Ex-Sen. Ralph Yarborough Wants the Case Reopened Reopened Case the Wants Yarborough Ralph Ex-Sen. I

Lincoln — called "Lancer," — in in — "Lancer," called — Lincoln

limousine with Lyndon Baines Baines Lyndon with limousine

Johnson two cars behind the open open the behind cars two Johnson

recent network television program program television network recent

Zapruder film of the assassination. assassination. the of film Zapruder

correspondent after watching a a watching after correspondent statements to a TATTLER TATTLER a to statements

that showed the famous Abraham Abraham famous the showed that

assassination probe. probe. assassination

now wants Congress to reopen the the reopen to Congress wants now

lawyer in Austin, Tex., made his his made Tex., Austin, in lawyer

F. Kennedy's fatal trip to Texas, Texas, to trip fatal Kennedy's F.

former senator responsible for John John for responsible senator former

Yarborough was riding in a a in riding was Yarborough

He was kept silent up to this time. time. this to up silent kept was He

Yarborough, now a practicing practicing a now Yarborough,

Ralph Yarborough, the liberal liberal the Yarborough, Ralph

senator to a $100 a plate fund-raising fund-raising plate a $100 a to senator

political enemy, had not Invited the the Invited not had enemy, political

peeved because conservative Gov. Gov. conservative because peeved

Thomas. Thomas. John Connally, Yarborough's Yarborough's Connally, John

In Houston, he rode with Rep. Allen Allen Rep. with rode he Houston, In

with liberal Rep. Henry B. Gonzales. Gonzales. B. Henry Rep. liberal with

Nov. 22, 1983. 1983. 22, Nov.

Yarborough had agreed to, ride in in ride to, agreed had Yarborough

Presidential tour. tour. Presidential

Lyndon Johnson during the Texas Texas the during Johnson Lyndon

the same vehicle with feline Texan Texan feline with vehicle same the

which President Kennedy was riding dinner in Austin the night before. ' ' before. night the Austin in dinner riding was Kennedy President which

when he was shot in Maley Plaza on on Plaza Maley in shot was he when

Yarborough was reportedly reportedly was Yarborough

In San Antonio, be got into a car car a into got be Antonio, San In

IT WAS THE FIRST time that that time FIRST THE WAS IT

that film appear on pages 00 and 00.) 00.) and 00 pages on appear film that

Warren Commission. (Franier from from (Franier Commission. Warren

shot from the front and not only from from only not and front the from shot the rear as determined by the the by determined as rear the

head exploding and jerking back- jerking and exploding head

publicly for the first time recently recently time first the for publicly ward to the left, indicating he was was he indicating left, the to ward

over network TV, shows Kennedy's Kennedy's shows TV, network over

John Connally and Texas liberals, liberals, Texas and Connally John

leadership. leadership.

of Democrats Lyndon Johnson and and Johnson Lyndon Democrats of

who looked to Yarborough for for Yarborough to looked who between the . conservative followers followers conservative . the between

Texas on a mission to mend fences fences mend to mission a on Texas

The Zapruder film, viewed viewed film, Zapruder The

President Kennedy had gone to to gone had Kennedy President

Commission appointed by President President by appointed Commission

Gerald Ford to investigate domestic domestic investigate to Ford Gerald

Oswald in the basement of the the of basement the in Oswald spying by the CIA, Yarborough said. said. Yarborough CIA, the by spying

Dallas City Hall. Hall. City Dallas

be assigned to the Rockefeller Rockefeller the to assigned be

assassination, Ruby had murdered murdered had Ruby assassination, Oswald after the assassination, assassination, the after Oswald

Yarborough said. said. Yarborough

received a telephone call to kill kill to call telephone a received

CIA agent and that Jack Ruby Ruby Jack that and agent CIA

assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a a was Oswald Harvey Lee assassin documents exist that accused accused that exist documents

check out allegations that that allegations out check

The new official probe should not not should probe official new The

Forty-eight hours after the the after hours Forty-eight

A NEW INYE8TIGATION should should INYE8TIGATION NEW A

Some Of the docuinents were cr. cr. were docuinents the Of Some

Commission should be revealed. revealed. be should Commission

to prove or disprove a conspiracy conspiracy a disprove or prove to

assassination. assassination. dared sealed for 75 years after the the after years 75 for sealed dared

the documents of the Warren Warren the of documents the

believe enough facts have come out out come have facts enough believe

the sealed documents," be said. said. be documents," sealed the

the former senator said. said. senator former the

the public that we ought to open up up open to ought we that public the

committee because they think It It think they because committee

would.be trying to protect the CIA," CIA," the protect to trying would.be

Yarborough said he doesn't doesn't he said Yarborough

Yarborough said he believes all of of all believes he said Yarborough

"The suspicion is so great amoeg amoeg great so is suspicion "The "People will not trust an executive executive an trust not will "People Did Congressional Call to Reopen JFK Probe Bring Assassins Back? Rep. Henry Gonzalez recently introduced Trauma Room 1," Gonzalez said in an in- House committee the power to subpoena legislation demanding a congressional probe terview with Texas newspaper editor Penn witnesses and to hold hearings anywhere in of the assassination of America's political Jones Jr. _ the United States. leaders. "She looked so pitiful, like a cornered little In a statement accompanying his A week later, on a lonely stretch of high- rabbit." resolution, the congressman said: way, a sniper's bullet crashed into his station • Gonzalez two years ago first expressed to "I have introduced this resolution after wagon. Gonzalez was unhurt. TATTLER his interest in exploring a new much consideration — after receiving for Were the two acts related? Gonzalez and investigation into the John Kennedy more than a year material from committees authorities can only speculate. The San assassination. and organizations involved in the study of the Antonio Democratic congressman told police In the midst of the Watergate probe, assassinations and independent researchers the shooting could have been an accident — a Gonzalez revealed how he sought un- scholars, journalists, pathologists and stray bullet fired by a hunter. successfully to get the CIA to reveal the- others in forensic medicine — which I feel AT ANY RATE, Gonzalez narrowly wherabouts of certain of ha former agents on warrants our attention. escaped being added to the list of "coin- the day Kennedy was killed. Some of those "There are questions," be added, "to be cidental" mystery deaths that have been agents were linked to the burglary of the resolved regarding all of the assassinations. I following scores of persons who have become Watergate complex. was at Dallas the day the President was involved in various ways in the investigation murdered and I suspended judgment on the of the assassination of President John F. SINCE THEN, as more revelations turn up questions that arose then and shortly Kennedy. suggesting government intelligence was thereafter until Watergate revealed Gonzalez' House Resolution 201 called for involved in political assassinations, Gonzalez possibilities heretofore not considered. an investigation and study of the cir- has become -more Involved in seeking a new "The American people must find out," cumstances surronunding the deaths of John investigation. Gonzalez added, "what Lee Harvey Oswald Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. "I am not going •to say that the CIA itself carried to his grave before he had his day in Martin Luther King and the attempted was directly involved, but if there exists even court..." assassination of Alabama Gov. George a small possibility that CIA agents or in- Wallace. The resolution called for the probe to dividuals connected with the agency were ONE THING GONZALEZ wants to be made by a seven-member select com- involved, then that possibility should be determine is whether the. President's death mittee of the House appointed by Speaker thoroughly investigated because such in- was in retaliation'to the Bay of Pigs invasion Carl Albert. dividuals would be in a position t9 have against Castro's Cuba and whether Oswald's REP. HENRY GONZALEZ But Gonzales has a personal interest in the carried out the assassination of the -killer, Jack ituby,.was connected with such a John Kennedy assassination. A liberal and President," the congressman said in a recent plot. Ruby died in jail of cancer in 1965. In the left side of Gonzalez' auto. friend of the late President, Gonzalez was Interview. Gonzalez said he believes reason exists to The shooting occurred while Gonzalez and riding in the motorcade in Dealey Plaza when ' He noted that the "nation's psyche has been subpoena E. Howard Hunt and Charles W. his wife were returning to San Antonio. the shots were fired that killed the President. traumatized by a series of ahnost un- Colson. He noted that Colson telephoned Hunt, They heard "what sounded like a heavy believable events, beginning in 1963 with the a Watergate burglar, to order him ha- rock striking the ear." THE CONGRESSMAN was at Parkland assassination." mediately to Milwaukee to break into Arthur The slug wasn't found, but it appeared to Hospital as the grief of the President's death Congress, he said, has so far failed to Bremer's apartment after Governor Wallace have come from 'a high-powered rifle, was felt. assume Its moral obligation to remove the was shot down and paralyzed on a Maryland possibly a 30.30 caliber, police said. "I saw how frail all human glory is when I trauma facing the American people. parking lot. Bremer has been convicted of Gonzalez admitted there existed some looked at Mrs. Kennedy sitting alone in the trying to kill Wallace. "emotional feelings" concerning him, but he hallway of Parkland Hospital just outside GONZALEZ' RESOLUTION would give the The probable sniper's bullet hole was found did not ask for police protection. the 1972 race for President, and he was involved in the shooting. has been convinced a conspiracy gun knocked George Wallace out of

gearing up his drive for a last year about the time he started the feisty Alabama governor's life

at a spot where Wallace ordinarily floor of the governor's mansion in presidential race in 1976. Montgomery - during the afternoon would have been.

A bullet from Arthur Bremer's But a mysterious fire almost took

The fire broke out on the second

GEORGE

his govenor's mansion caught Another Close Call

cently had a close call when

fire. Had he been in it at the time - and he almost was -

he would have had a difficult

time escaping the flames in

his wheelchair. Recently, Wal- wee a conspiracy to assassinate

lace said he is convinced there

him when Arthur Bremer gun- ned him down in 1972.

Gov. Wallace Has

WALLACE re-

after the fire. the day," Wallace told reporters

to be at a speaking engagement at there when the fire broke out there the time.

smoke damage caused the mansion time making phone calls. upstairs in my room at that hour of would have been doubt that they could have gotten me out.

to be closed for several months for

luncheon speaking date.

decided not to attend the business repairs.

especially when you can't walk or center. him down in a Maryland shopping governor who was paralyzed from run to save yourself," said the the waist down when Bremer shot

gotten down the stairs myself. I

usually stay up there pretty much

"Ordinarily I would have been

"I'm usually up in my room at that

Firemen doused the blaze, but INSTEAD, WALLACE happened

"A fire, is a horrible thing, WALLACE SAID he had almost

"There's no way

I could

If

I'd been

have

an upstairs of a house when it's on exists to take his life. fire," shaken Wallace said. imagine yourself in a wheelchair alone and make the phone calls. definitely determined. Adding to the

fire department after seeing smoke pour from the building. warning system didn't work. mystery is the fact the fire alarm

fire broke out rather suddenly."

tended that Bremer did not act alone

in the assassination attempt.

staying at the Waldorf Astoria in questioned where Bremer obtained funds to travel around the country following Wallace's campaign, even made enough money to keep him in hot dogs.

New York.

"It's a nightmarish thought to

Cause of the blaze hasn't been Wallace is convinced a conspiracy

A MANSION GUARD called the

Repeatedly, Wallace has con-

THE GOVERNOR HAS

As a dishwasher, Bremer rarely

The •

is or domestic

more than 11 years. But many people disagree. to say unknowingly witnessed a domestic the accused is dead and cannot `while he was acting alone' now that the conspiracy were afraid Oswald defend himself. I think the leaders of execution program."

was going to talk and tell the truth, if

'We have found no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign

The official verdict has been in for "It is the

"The American people have Here is a sampling of opinion:

Oswald did

easiest thing in the world

-.Ralph Schoenman,

Writer-researcher

the assassinating

he had been allowed

assassination had a bigger hand in it tually everyone else

love to be a part of the investigation team. But I imagine there are than did Oswald ... I, for one, would

several thousand more men that feel the same way as I do ..."

and Nixon's resignation was plan- Dallas. That is the reason Watergate Kennedy was killed. People here ned. It has already been 1984 since

in Texas know this so they keep their

"A police state was set up here in

Owner of an Investigations Firm.

involved in the

to live ... ac-

Tulsa, Okla.,

-Ben Miser,

•

been a possibility that Kennedy was mouths shut because they want to stay alive." shot

against the man who signed the death warrant of Fidel Castro."

"I always felt there might have

"Oswald's act was a retaliation

- .

,

from the front."

Former Dallas Police Chief

Famous San Francisco

-Name Withheld

-F. Lee Bailey,

-Jesse Curry,

Trial Lawyer.

The Warren commission

crazy-man assassinations are too consistent to believe," Oswald could not have carried out

Kennedy alone." the assassination of President

THE NATIONAL TATTLER

"All of these one-gun, one-man,

"It can be proved that Lee Harvey

-Bernard C. (Bud) Fensterwald,

Investigate Assassinations

, -Rev. Jesse L Jackson

National President Of

theories

Operation Push

Director of the

Committee to

•

on

June 8, 1975

peak now. It will not die down and the last 10 years. This is ween the assassinations of OIL, mend you and the TATTLER for know what is going on. We know the RFK and Dr. King and the attempt on Governor Wallace and I com-

the American people eventually will making the effort to clear up the controversy." truth is going to come out."

"Americans have been told 'a line

"I

feel there Is a direct

Comedian-Civil Rights Leader

'

Toronto, Ontario

-Dick Gregory,

-Don Young,

coming

link bet-

Page

to

77

a

coverup — in the Watergate scandals of the the of scandals Watergate the in — coverup

investigation of American intelligence intelligence American of investigation

Nixon Administration and even now in the the in now even and Administration Nixon

nedy assassination — if indeed there was a a was there indeed if — assassination nedy

involved in the coverup of the John F. Ken- F. John the of coverup the in involved

the emergence of many of the same figures figures same the of many of emergence the

of those momentous events. events. momentous those of

telligence agents were involved in every one one every in involved were agents telligence

cumstantial — shows that government in- government that shows — cumstantial

caused the resignation of a President - President a of resignation the caused

to resign. A bungled "third rate burglary" burglary" rate "third bungled A resign. to

Campus demonstrations placed a President President a placed demonstrations Campus Richard Nixon, where the chain first started. started. first chain the where Nixon, Richard

bribery investigation caused a a caused investigation bribery

in such despair he chose not to run again. A A again. run to not chose he despair such in

candidate — knocking him from the race - race the from him knocking — candidate

put another presidential contender out of the the of out contender presidential another put

he was, winning. Gunfire crippled another another crippled Gunfire winning. was, he

running — just at the point that it looked like like looked it that point the at just — running

removed a President from office Gunshots Gunshots office from President a removed

just at the point it appeared he was winning; winning; was he appeared it point the at just

happen during those chaotic years, years, chaotic those during happen

beach at San Clemente, Call Call Clemente, San at beach

trying to size up himself what caused what to to what caused what himself up size to trying

disgraced Richard Nixon paces the lonely lonely the paces Nixon Richard disgraced

Cuba Cuba

charge of the CIA planning of what would become the Bay of Pigs In- Pigs of Bay the become would what of planning CIA the of charge

vasion in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's rebel government of of government rebel Castro's Fidel overthrow to effort an in vasion

ministration when then Vice President Richard Nixon was placed in in placed was Nixon Richard President Vice then when ministration

A fascinating aspect of the entire chain is is chain entire the of aspect fascinating A

themselves, have determined who would and whO would not be be not would whO and would who determined have themselves, scenes forces involving intelligence agents and perhaps the agencies agencies the perhaps and agents intelligence involving forces scenes

President of the United States during that period. period. that during States United the of President

trolling America's destiny for the past dozen years. years. dozen past the for destiny America's trolling

And evidence — some actual, some cir- some actual, some — evidence And

DURING THAT period, gun barrel politics politics barrel gun period, THAT DURING

Fifteen years later, a defected and and defected a later, years Fifteen

The strange web of circumstances go back to the Eisenhower Ad- Eisenhower the to back go circumstances of web strange The

If these theories — and they're just that — are correct, behind the the behind correct, are — that just they're and — theories these If

A A

scoffed-at theories that an "invisible government" has been con- been has government" "invisible an that theories scoffed-at n eerie web of circumstantial evidence gives credence to once once to credence gives evidence circumstantial of web eerie n

From the Bay of Pigs to JFK's JFK's to Pigs of Bay the From

Vice Vice

President President

By JOHN JOHN By

perhaps perhaps

Of the Tattler Staff Staff Tattler the Of

MOULDER MOULDER

Richard Nixon Nixon Richard

School Book Depository Building a few blocks blocks few a Building Depository Book School

away away

day John F. Kennedy was shot. It was years years was It shot. was Kennedy F. John day

for a bottlers' convention. At that same same that At convention. bottlers' a for

named Lee Harvey Oswald was at the Texas Texas the at was Oswald Harvey Lee named

overthrow the Castro government. government. Castro the overthrow

after Nixon's clandestine plot with thd CIA to to CIA thd with plot clandestine Nixon's after

moment. a supposed Castro sympathizer sympathizer Castro supposed a moment.

century, take a look at the the at look a take century, during the most momentous events of the 20th 20th the of events momentous most the during operations — especially the dread CIA. CIA. dread the especially — operations

the paths of the individuals have crossed crossed have individuals the of paths the

Two hours before Kennedy landed at Love Love at landed Kennedy before hours Two

Nbton, a New York lawyer, was in Dallas Dallas in was lawyer, York New a Nbton,

NIXON WAS IN Dallas on Nov. 22,1963, the the 22,1963, Nov. on Dallas IN WAS NIXON

In analyzing the intriguing pattern of how how of pattern intriguing the analyzing In

participants. participants.

CIA wanted air support for the Invasion-of the Bay of Pigs. JFK turned them down. down. them turned JFK Pigs. of Bay the Invasion-of the for support air wanted CIA

Field, Nixon stepped aboard a New York- New a aboard stepped Nixon Field,

bound American Airlines plane at at plane Airlines American bound

the day Kennedy was shot, perhaps the only only the perhaps shot, was Kennedy day the

unable to remember he had been in Dallas on on Dallas in been had he remember to unable

airport. airport.

the height of a race for the Democratic Democratic the for race a of height the days prior to the assassination of President President of assassination the to prior days

the United States. States. United the

brother, Robert F Kennedy, from politics politics from Kennedy, F Robert brother, forever. He was shot down in Los Angeles at at Angeles Los in down shot was He forever.

cause Richard Nixon to become President of of President become to Nixon Richard cause

was in Dallas, Texas, during 1963, was two two was 1963, during Texas, Dallas, in was

sober adult that could not remember exactly exactly remember not could that adult sober

John F Kennedy." Kennedy." F John

reported to J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover. Edgar J. to reported

what he was doing that historic day day historic that doing was he what

New York on Feb. U. 1966• The agent agent The 1966• U. Feb. on York New

Three moments later, Nixon would be be would Nixon later, moments Three

Five years later, two separate events would would events separate two later, years Five

FBI agent John F. Malone quizzed Nixon in in Nixon quizzed Malone F. John agent FBI

Assassin bullets would remove John's John's remove would bullets Assassin

"Mr Nixon advised that the only time he he time only the that advised Nixon "Mr

the the same same presidential nomination. when Jack Ruby pleaded with them to take BOBBY KENNEDY had been a thorn in the him to Washington to get his full statement of side of the CIA, and had he become President, what he knew about the assassination. Ruby, undoubtedly would have scuttled the agency. who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, died soon The other event that insured Nixon's after his request was, denied. election was the decision of President Lyndon Ford hired a staff to assist him in his role as B. Johnson not to seek re-election. He made a Warren Commission member. And after the his announcement "with a heavy heart," commission was dissolved after its lone- influenced by the unrest, violence, and assassin declaration, Ford came out with a campus demonstrations of forces on both the book, "Portrait of an Assassin" which tried to left and right put down any connections between Oswald And recently it has been revealed and and the intelligence community. confirmed — that government intelligence agents, both from the CIA and the FBI, were IN HIS BOOK, Ford even "edited" out of a the leaders of many of these demonstrations. "Top. Secret" transcipt of a commission Thus the intelligence network — either by executive session damning testimony con- accident or design —. definitely had a hand in cerning speculation that Oswald was either changing the Administration of the most an agent of the CIA or the FBI. (See related powerful country in the world. article, page 00.) Then the next year —1069 — a third Ken. If the Warren Commission "report" on the nedy brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy, had his Kennedy assassination was a coverup, Ford tragic accident at Chappaquiddick that must have been a part of it, knowingly or resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. unwittingly. Kennedy had done a fair job himself of When the intelligence branch of the Internal crippling his presidential chances, but the Revenue Service made its case against Vice Nixon Administration dispatched White President Spiro Agnew and forced his bribery House "plumbers" — drawn from the In' conviction and resignation, Richard Nixon telligence ranks — to Massachusetts to do again hand-picked Gerald Ford — this time to what they could to make sure the dainage was be Vice President of the United States. permanent And when Nixon was forced into resignihg, Gerald Ford became President. No longer IN 102, assassin's bullets again decided was he the obscure congressman from who would be President of the United States Michigan handpicked by Nixon to investigate George Wallace was shot down at a shopping the assassination of the President; be himself center in Maryland Wallace had a good shot held the most powerful office in the world. at getting the Democratic Presidential nomination. His crippling assured a nomination for the controversial George McGovern, which assured a reelection victory for Richard Nixon Two years later Nixon would resign and go into seclusion after the revelations of the crimes of his administration. And the revelations were largely shade by E Howard Hunt and James McCord, who as CIA operatives had long been altering the course of world history. Again, people drawn ,,John Connally from the intelligence community had helped CONNALLY RESIGNED as John Ken- change the administration of the United nedy's Secretary of the Navy to become States governor of Texas. He was riding in Ken- nedy's open-top limousine and was wounded Gerald R. Ford in the barrage of gunfire that killed NT FORD WAS HANDPICKED by Richard President. Nixon to be one of the seven members on the - The governor's name was found in the notebook of accused assassin Oswald Con. commission chaired by Chief Justice Earl nally had routinely corresponded with Oswald Warren to investigate the assassination of concerning Oswald's Marine Corps records- President Kennedy. Years later, after Nixon became President, President Lyndon B. Johnson Nixon Connally switched his allegiance from the to recommend a Republican to serve on the Democratic Party to the Nixon. camp. commission and Nixon recommended the Connally became Nixon's Secretary of the obscure congressman from Grand Rapids, - Treasury. Connally was a top contender for Mich. the Republican presidential nomination in Ford played a dominant role on the com- 1976 until he was indicted for accepting mission — present for the testimony of more $10,000 bribe from Texas attorney Jake witnesses than any other commission Jacobson to influence legislation. member except Earl Warren himself. Many Connally observers asked: Why Ford was present with Warren — the only would a self-made multi-millionaire such as two actual commission members there — Connally be interested in a mere $10,000 bribe? The jury that found Connally innocent of the Nichols, said he had been asked to make a charge recently may have asked the same report on the Oswald matter to a Miami, Fla., question. meeting of the American Trial Lawyers Assn. But one fact had 00 question mark: Another Jaworski failed to mention he was presidential candidate was 'tainted, and for representing the state attorney general in an whateyer motive, would not be the next investigation of the assassination. President of the United States. JAWORSKI CONTINUED to take a role in the Warren Commission probe — or, coverup, Fred Korth if it was — of the Kennedy tragedy. He was present June 7, 1964, when Ruby KORTH WAS ANOTHER Secretary of the . begged to be taken to Washington. Navy under John Kennedy.-He quit the job "Gentleman," the little nightclub owner said, "unless you get me to Washington, you shortly before Kennedy was killed during a can't get a nationally-publicized controversy over . fair shake out of me. If you un- awarding the ;6.5 billion TFK — later known derstand my way of talking you have got to as the F-Ill contract— to General Dynamic.* bring me to Washington to get the testimony 'in Texas. The Fort Worth-based plant got the con- Jaworski, Ford and Earl Warren, who were tract through. President Johnson's influence present at the meeting, ignored Ruby's after he became President after Kennedy was further plea addressed to Warren personally: killed "If you want to hear any further testimony, you will have to get me to Washington soon, The fascinating fact about Korth was his because it has something to do with you, Chief :connections with Lee Harvey Oswald. Korth's Warren." name also appeared in Oswald's address book. Korth acknowledged he had known the JAWORSKI, WHO has had past ties with Oswald family for many years. the CIA and once prosecuted the Nazi war He'd represented Edwin A. Ekdahl In a divorce suit against Marguerite G. Ekdahl. criminals at Nuremberg, would surface a few now Marg years later to again take a role in history. uerite Oswald, the mother of Lee He became Nixon's second choice as chief Harvey Osviald, who has contended her son prosecutor in the Watergate crimes — chosen was a government intelligence agent after Nixon fired Archibald Cox for stepping Korth now practices law in Washington on too many toes. As special prosecutor, Jaworski was Im- portantly involved in what led to changing the administrations of the United States govern- ment. • ' Arlen Specter , SPECTER WAS FOR a time a member of Richard Nixon's defense team in the Leon Jaworeld allegations smothering him during the Watergate scandals. JAWORSKI WAS prominently- Involved in A White House aide said Specter's selection the Hwestigation of the assassination of • . was "logical and inevitable." Specter was also involved In the Warren Commission investigation — prominently. President Kennedy; he was equally In fact, it was Specter who came up with the prominently involved in the prosecution of the highly controversial "single" or "magic" Watergate crimes that led, to the resignation bullet hypothesis In the. Kennedy of President Nixon. assassination. A Houston attorney, Jaworski had been Specter propounded the theory after tests assigned by then . Texas Attorney General by leading sharpshooters showed the alleged ' Waggoner Carr to head up a Texas court of murder weapon could not have been fired inquiry into the Kennedy assassination. Carr within the time period a film showed that has told TATTLER he was called off the in- both Kennedy and Connally were wounded. vestigation by Lyndon Johnson. But Jaworsid misrepresented himself hi a telephone call to H. Louis Nichols, then J. Lee Rankin president of the Dallas Bar Assn., on the day after the assassination. RANKIN WAS CHIEF counsel for the Nichols visited Oswald in the Dallas city Warren Commission and thus his role became jail for a few minutes. He asked Oswald if he was being treated fairly and if he wanted the bar to appoint him an attorney. Oswald said he wanted to be represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. Jaworski,. after Nichols' visit to Oswald, telephoned the lawyer and asked to know what Oswald had said. Jaworski, according to one of the most controversial of all in the . numerous and varied charges of a coverup. • A decade later Rankin's name would surface again in the Watergate scandals. Rankin was the choice • of Charles (Chuck) Colson, the Nixon hatchet man, for special ' prosecutor in the Watergate scandal, but the appointment was never made. Colson was the one who said he wouldn't hesitate to run over his own grandmother to get Nixon elected. David Belin BELIN WAS A junior counsel on the Warren Commission. Hauntingly thine who participated in investigating JFK 's death have popped up in He took a deposition from Dallas County other Important roles. Sheriff's Deputy Roger Craig, who later claimed Bela changed his testimony 14 times vestigating a conspiracy in the death of John operatives. Both have admitted participating in the version that appeared in the Warren ' Kennedy. in plots to assassinate foreign leaders. Report. Garrison was never able to secure Novel's Both deny they were involved with a plot to Warren Commission critic Sylvia Meagher testimony. assassinate President Kennedy. claimed Belin fathomed the perjury of witness Novel was a key figure in the Garrison But both, as CIA operatives, were highly Charles Givens. Givens said after the probe. When first subpoenaed March II, 1967, involved in anti-Castro operations. In fact, so assassination, he saw Oswald on the first floor Novel admitted to reporters he knew David was Eugenio Martinez, another of the of the Texas School Book Depository 30 Ferrie, whom Garrison had accused in the Watergate burglars. minutes before the shooting. This would have Kennedy conspiracy, and Sergio Arcacha Hunt himself was political officer of the given Oswald an alibi had he lived to stand Smith. Novel also admitted knowing the late abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was also trial. Clay Shaw, a Inisinessman who was fried and station chief of the CIA in Mexico City the By the time Givens gave his story to Belin, acquitted for conspiracy to kill the president. year Oswald went there to try to gain a visa to hi had changed it to say he saw Oswald on the Charged along with Ferrie in a munitions enter Cuba. sixth floor of the Depository — the floor the bunker burglary, Novel said: "You will see Warren Commission claims Oswald stood to that it was the most patriotic burglary in NEW YORK DETECTIVE Jack Caulfield fire the shot that killed the President. history." was a Nixon. secret policeman who testified Belin is back in the news now. He is A few years later, Novel expressed some about his stiper,spying before the Senate executive director of the commission Gerald interest in another matter involving a Watergate Committee. Ford appointed Vice President Nelson burglary. Recently-declassified Warren Commission Rockefeller to head to investigate affairs of documents show that Caulfield, on assign- the CIA — including a possible role of the NOVEL, ACCORDING to syndicated ment from the FBI, investigated Lee Harvey Oswald and his Cuban connections both agency in the assassination of President columnist Jack Anderson, conspired with Kennedy Kennedy. ChuckColson to erase electronic tape before and after the John Belln has since said repeatedly that there is recordings incriminating Nixon. assassination. absolutely no evidence to connect the CIA The plan, never carried out, was to fire a • • * with the assassination. laser beam from a Buck Rogers-type cannon from a truck toward the White House to erase the tapes. It could go on and on — the list of prominent Gordon Novel and not so prominent Americans who' played roles in more than one of the staggering THIS FASCINATING CIA agent was Watergate Gang events of the last decade that shaped the probably the most elusive of the witnesses course of world history. New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison sought BOTH FRANK STURGIS AND E. The significance of it ail? Future historians to pin down before his grand jury in- HOWARD HUNT were longtime CIA will ponder it for centuries. The Watergate complex: Home of the "third-rate burglary" that forced a President of the United States to resign. Joe Cooper Saved Vice But. Wound Up Dead After President From Assassination Investigating JFK's Murder

By JOHN MOULDER himself, headed off a plot to assassinate Vice Of the Tattler Staff President Hubert H. Humphrey. The Humphrey assassination conspiracy • William H. (Joe) Cooper, good was carried out in Louisiana, the same state natured down-home Louisiana where former New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim man, once saved the life of the Vice Garrison said the conspiracy to kill John Kennedy was hatched. President of the United States. Cooper filled me in on the details of the - And he spent most of a decade Humphrey plot during three separate in- tracking down possible links terviews. in the Baton Rouge area. The con- spiracy was started by members of what connecting the assassination of Cooper described as "the old, original Ku- President John F. Kennedy to the Klux Klan" although, he said, he had no government intelligence network — evidence to indicate the conspiracy was an official Klan action. particularly Naval Intelligence. A former Baton Rouge policeman, Cooper His investigation ended last Oct. was a paid informer for the Federal Bureau of 16 when the 50-year-old Cooper was Investigation from 1963 to 1965. found shot to death in his apart= HE ATTENDED KLAN meetings in ment in Baten Rouge, the home of abandoned houses in the woods, abandoned the state capital where Gov. Huey Long was assassinated 40 years buildings in town, private homes. Once a ago. meeting was even held in a barn. Cooper's death was officially ruled a "My government contact encouraged me to suicide, although his wife, other relatives and take part in Klan activities," said Cooper. friends are convinced Cooper was murdered. "The Klan would sometimes beat somebody He enjoyed. living too much to take his own up, fire gunshots into somebody's bonne, life. And, a few dais before his death, Cooper intbnidate integrated restaurants. Once 25 of telephoned me, excited as usual, with what he us drove cars up and down the street all night to considered new angles in his Naval . In- long in front of an integrationist's house telligence theory. intimidate him. "The police didn't try to stop WI. Hell, I FIRST MET Cooper last summer when we members of the Klan included state troopers, tracked down and interviewed two men who policemen and deputy sheriffs." said they had been offered a bundle of money It was only natural that Cooper would learn - and had turned it down — to fly two men from of the plot to assassinate Hubert Humphrey Dallas to Latin America on Nov. 22, 1963, the when he appeared before the Louisiana AFL- day John Kennedy was killed. CIO state convention in Baton Rouge on April TATTLER told this story, but never before 9, 1965. Cooper's death was the story told of how Cooper was a member of the KBI — the Klan Cooper, working for government intelligence Bureau of Investigation, the Klan's answer to the FBI. trusted union men serving as serge a. arrive. That night, the Klansman-spy was arms. was arranged BUT AS AN FBI CONTACT, Cooper had the with other Klansmen scattering anti- The entrance to the ballroom code name — "Lyons Bucks." He used the Humphrey literature around the LSU cam- so all visitors could be observed. Therefore, code name when he telephoned his FBI pus. the would-be-triggerman was spotted im- contact to report on Klan activities. But when Meanwhile, based on Cooper's information, mediately. He was a union member and had a he signed receipts for payments from his FBI the Secret Service — directly responsible for ticket to get, into the ballroom. Undercover men serving as sergeants-at- contact, he used his real name. the Vice President's safety — urged hint to One day a fellow Klan member came to him cancel his trip to Baton Rouge. arms escorted the man to a seat in the rear of the ballroom. Two FBI agents sat down in and told Cooper of the plan to assassinate front of him. Secret Service men sat on both Humphrey. The man asked Cooper if he could SINCE LOUISIANA Gov. John J. use his intelligence contacts with the police to McKeithen was going to be with him at all sides. Two others sat down behind the man. Humphrey arrived in Baton Rouge and code find out how much security would be used for times on the Baton Rouge visit, Humphrey insisted on making the trip. with the governor in a limousine to the Humphrey's visit. "He told me the name of governor's mansion. Later they rode together the man who was to be his back-up man." The Secret Service sought the cooperation to the hotel. Security forces were everywhere Cooper immediately called his government of Victor Bussie, president of the State AFL- contact. CIO, a friend of Humphrey's. on the routes, covering the motorcade with Cooper had heard that an effort would also high-lowered rifles from the roofs of building. "This is Lyons Bucks," he said. "I need to Humphrey and McKeithen arrived at the meet with you." be made to assassinate Russia. Bussie's home hotel, entered the ballroom and walked onto Cooper met with the federal agent in an indeed was bombed two years later. the speaker's platform. auto near the campus of Louisiana State Cooper had been able to supply the FBI with - University. the names of only two men to be involved in THE GUNMAN THEN stood and reached Carrying out instructions, Cooper returned the' attempt on Humphrey's life. Agents, using miniature cameras, obtained for the pistol stuck in his belt under his coat. to his fellow Klansman and reported the The federal agents grabbed him and pulled security along the route of .the Mee pictures of the two men, but didn't arrest President's motorcade would be heavy. them before Humphrey's visit. him out a kitchen door. - The second man on the assassination team Cooper reported he didn't know how heavy Cooper said the Secret Service obviously feared others would be sent in their place. was also grabbed and pulled from the room. the security would be at the Jack Tar Capitol He had no gun on him, but there was a gun in House Hotel where Humphrey would speak. ON THE NIGHT OF the Humphrey ap- his car parked outside. The FBI instructed Cooper to stay away Froni the men, federal agents learned the from the hotel on the night Humphrey would pearance at the hotel, the ballroom was filled with FBI-Secret Service undercover spies and name of a third that was in on the scheme. He • • - - ,•••••• ..... had been in the convection ball, but backed out and left before Humphrey arrived. The men were questioned, but were never charged. Cooper said the FBI told bins there •was not sufficient evidence. "I know this guy 'would have killed Hum- phrey," Cooper said. "He was a crack shot. He could part your hair without touching your scalp." •- After the men were arrested, Humphrey went on with his speech. The agents handled everything so smoothly the others at the convention didn't even know there had been an assassination attempt. Cooper said the men had wanted to assassinate Humphrey because he was an

integrationiSt. Feelings about desegregation were still high in the Deep South in 1985.

NO WORD LEAKED out about the assassination plot until two years later when the New Orleans States Item printed part of the story. They described an attempt on FIVE DAYS AFTER Cooper testified before the grand jury Jim Garrison used to Humphrey's life by a "right-wing probe the Kennedy assassination, the steering post on Cooper's car came loose' and his organization" but did not mention the Klan. auto crashed into a culvert. Cooper's back was broken in three places, and his wife And, of course, there was no mention of Cooper's participation in the case. sustained serious injuries. Cooper went to his grave convinced it was no accident Within a few years, all three of the men picked up in the assassination plot were dead. One was shot to death by his wife. Another was killed when a metal door fell en him. The third, a young man, died of a heart attack. Cooper was paid an average of $200 a month as a federal informer. People close to Cooper knew of his efforts In the Humphrey case.

"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY no question in my mind that Joe saved Hubert Humphrey's me,- cooper's lawyer, Engle W. Weber, told me after Cooper's death. ..- cruise aboard the aircraft carrier Shangri La Four, months before Cooper's death, the ex- in August 1963 — three months before Ken- policeman, ex-government intelligence man, nedy's death — involved an Intelligence Private detectiVe, assassination researcher, operation. wrote to me with information about the Klan As a policeman in Florida, he began and similar right-wing organizations; making written inquiries to the Pentagon to "There are a few of these birds left in Baton find out the names of those aboard the Rouge and in Mississippi that would kill me," carrier. He received nine names, but two of he noted; "I have rode with some of the bad them turned out to be aliases. ones and know what they can and will do." He continued pressing the Navy Depart- Cooper explained how groups such as the ment for more information on the two KKK and the American Nazi Partylsave been mystery men. Meanwhile, he left Florida and infiltrated by the various governmental in- returned to Louisiana. telligence agencies. - "A Naval Intelligence agent followed me "The FBI, CIA, the IRS ,and the Secret from Florida to Batoh Rouge to find out how I Service may each have representatives in a got this information," he said. . single group — all the spies unknown to each The Shangri La cruise, billed as a pleasure other," he said. - junket, was sponsored by then Secretary of The disclosures since Watergate have the Navy Fred Korth of Fort Worth. proved that Cooper was not exaggerating. Korth knew Oswald's family before the youthful onetime Russian defector was AN EXAMPLE; The New York Times arrested for killing Kennedy and sub- disclosed on May 20,1973, that one of the most sequently was murdered himself by Jack militant . and outspoken members of . the Ruby. As an attorney, Korth had represented radical Weathermen .organization during its Edwin Ekdahl, former husband of Oswald's peak period of bombing and other violence - mother, Marguerite Oswald, in a divorce suit. Larry Grantwohl of . Cinclnnatti -- was an informer and agent provocateur of the FEL KORTH SUCCEEDED Kennedy-appointee In 1901, the year after the Humphrey affair John B. Connally, later wounded when the House Un-American' Activities Committee Kennedy was assassinated, as Secretary of in Ohio was hearing testimony that an Ohio the Navy. "grand empress", of the Ku Klux Klan, had After the assassination, the names of both plotted to kill both President: Keened* and. . Korth and Connally were found in Oswald's President Lyndon B. Johnsok. • address book. And the Warren CoMmission volumes were A month before the assassination, Korth revealint other bits and pieces of threats toy resigned his cabinet post during the political Klan membert against Kennedy that had controversy over the TFX aircraft, later to come into federal agencies shortly before become the F-111 fighter plane used in the Kennedy's death. Vietnam war. General Dynamics, in Korth's But Cooper, was. off on his own. Kennedy hometown, finally received the 36.5 billion conspiracy investigation by then and his TFX contract after Lyndon Johnson became efforts involved Naval • Intelligence; not President. necessarily the Far Right civilian groups. The seven Shangri La guests the Navy identified for Cooper were business or THE DETECTIVE started a project that political leaders in the New Orleans-Baton would last nine years — putting together huge. Rouge area. packets of strange coincidences he felt One had worked for the same insurance pointed to Naval Intelligence possibly being company with Lee Harvey Oswald's father. involved in the Kennedy assassination. Another was a close friend of Dallas law At the time Kennedy was President, Cooper enforcement officials who investigated was as against Kennedy's civil rights policies Kennedy's assassination. Another had family as any typical Southerner. But his political connectjons with a local Nazi Party leader. views were tempered by a strong sense of patriotism and an instinct as a top researcher OSWALD HAD SOME interest in the Nazis. and investigator. The names of George Lincoln Rockwell and Daniel Burros,' both Nazi Party leaders, were written in his address book. Both Rockwell "I love my country, but this was not the way and Burros were later shot to death — Rock- to change it —by killing a President," be said. well assassinated by an ex-Marine; Burros Cooper was convinced that Lee Harvey death ruled a suicide. Oswald, whom the Warren Commission said The two names on the Shangri La list alone was responsible for Kennedy's death, Cooper couldn't identify were Adolph Ver- was a Naval Intelligence agent. mont Jr. and William Craver Jr. After being Cooper was an ex-Navy man himself, receiving a Presidential Citation when his ship, the U.S.S. Smith, was rammed by a kamakaze pilot in 1942, killing 58 men. He picked up his investigatory knowledge as a Baton Rouge policeman for almost 10 years and later as a law enforcement officer in two Florida towns. • HE BECAME CONVINCED a week-long

referred from one department to another, . they felt it was lime* to the assassination. finally the Pentagon told him the information couldn't be found in the files and there was no ANOTHER COINCIDENCE: Kemp was married in 1963 to Maxine Kemp, an employe way to track it down. Of the Louisiana State Mental Hospital at In his research — the significance of which Jackson.. may never be determined without an official probe — time and time again Cooper ran Mrs. Kemp was a witness 3n Garrison's across the word "Vermont." He wrote to me: investigation. She said Lee Harvey. Oswald "When the records are opened in the year 2039 you. will see the 'Vermont' project was involved in killing Kennedy."

. - went to the hospital and filled out a job ap- BILLY KEMP (left) discusses the plication — which has since disappeared — in $25k000 offer he had to fly two mys- August of 1963. terious men out of Deltas the day Both Kemp, a decorated World War II Kennedy was shot. with Special Proj- fighter pilot, and his former partner told TATTLER the name of the man, also an LTV ects Editor John Moulder. employe, who made the offer. Kemp said they were never told the In 1968, when Cooper was chasing the Naval destination of the proposed flight "but only, Intelligence theory, he got in touch with D.A. that it was in some South American country." Jim Garrison's staff probing the Kennedy He feared the occupants of the plane might assassination. On July 9,1968, he was asked to be arrested on the spot if they attempted an. testify before the Orleans Parish grand jury. unscheduled landing in a Latin American Five days later, the steering post came country loose on his auto and it crashed into a advert. The detective's back was broken in three KEMP'S PARTNER said the fee for the places. His wife had a serious head injury. flight was to be $25,000. He told TATTLER Cooper said he never believed it was an that he concluded Kennedy might be mur- accident. dered after reading in a newspaper the OFFICER William H. (Joe) Cooper President would be in Dallas Nov. 22, the day THEN LAST YEAR, Cooper and I located of the proposed flight. A congressional committee with subpoena two men in the Baton Rouge area who had "I said, 'Billy, do you know what they want power could check out that end of the in- once been friends but hadn't seen each other for $25,000? I said, Kennedy ain't gonna' get vestigation, unless it determined that a in several years. They had worked together at out of Dallas. They're gonna' kill him." proposed high-priced mystery flight from the sprawling Ling-Temco-Vought defense Kimp's partner would agree to an in- Dallas to South America on Nov. 22, 1963, is plant in Dallas in November 1963. terview only after TATTLER promised not to inconsequential. Both men, in separate interviews, said they put his name in print. TATTLER carried two In a packet of notes I received in the mail had been offered a large sum of money to pilot stories in two issues last August. Two months from Cooper the day before his death, he a small aircraft with two passengers to South later. Cooper was found shot to death in his noted that the TATTLER stories about the America on Nov. 22. Both men said they bedroom. Louisiana connection had some people in turned down the offer because the flight After Cooper's death, I went back to the Baton Rouge "stirred up." would be on a no-questions-asked basis and Baton Rouge businessman who wanted to Then his death reminded me of all the other they feared it involved, something illegal. remain anonymous. mystery deaths concerning scores of wit- The proposed pilot, Billy Kemp, 52, told nesses and others involved in some way with TATTLER: 'THE BUSINESSMAN held me to my the JFK assassination, and of what Cooper "After the assassination, I was glad I didn't commitment to still not print his name. wrote me in a letter last summer: have anything to do with it," though he indicated he would tell his. story to "I am convinced everyone involved will be Both men said that since Kennedy was any official investigation. killed if this thing Is not exposed quickly." killed in Dallas the day. . of the proposed flight, BETWEEN AND BEHIND President Kennedy and Defense Sec. Robert McNamara is Navy Sec. Fred Korth. A month before the assassination, Korth resigned his post in • cloud of charges concerning what eventually became the F-111 fighter Jet. Korth's name was one of those listed in Lee Harvey Doveid's address book. Garrison Is Vindicated: Clay Shaw, David Ferrie Were Working for the CIA

The mysterious death last year of Washington to testify before the for 14 years before resigning in 1969, Clay Shaw perhaps put the final seal Warren Commission probing revealed that Shaw had indeed been on former New Orleans District Kennedy's death. Otherwise, Ruby a CIA contract employe. Attorney Jim Garrison's chapter in made it clear, he would not live to A year before Marchetti left the the John Kennedy conspiracy epic. tell his story. Commission critics CIA, he has confirmed for TAT- Already dead were the three other believe Ruby was injected with TIER, he learned of Shaw's con- key people Garrison contended were cancer cells to hasten his death. - nections with the CIA. At that time, part of a conspiraCy to kill President Oswald, the Russian defector and in 1968, Garrison's probe was being Kennedy on the streets of Dallas on probable government intelligence publicized worldwide. Nov. 22, 1963.. agent, was murdered while MARCHETTI ATTENDED Garrison figured they were all surrounded by policemen — not long morning briefing sessions with top part of a plot involving government after he declared he was a "patsy" CIA officials. The officials voiced intelligence. and "didn't shoot anybody, no, sir." their worry that Garrison might be And Shaw's death came only a few able to prove Shaw's CIA contacts months after a former veteran of the GARRISON TRIED SHAW for and make them public. Central Intelligence Agency conspiracy to kill the President in Then CIA director Richard Helms revealed that Shaw was indeed a 1969 and Shaw was acquitted. personally was among the officials CIA operative. Already smothered by a wave of who determined that Shaw's CIA criticism in the nation's con- involvement should be kept secret, MYSTERIOUS circumstances ventional press, Garrison's political said Marchetti. surround Shaw's death, not unlike career was in shambles. Ferrie was also a CIA operative, the many questions that have Strangely enough, some of the Marchetti confirmed, but there bad surrounded the life and death of the nation's top reporters proclaimed never been much' doubt about that. other key figures involved in the that Garrison had proved a con- Ferrie, a former airlines pilot, bad abortive Garrison probe. spiracy, but had not proved that participated in numerous CIA- - David Ferrie, gun-runner, Shaw was involved. related activities, including the probable CIA operative and right- abortive effort to overthrow Fidel hand man to Mafia boss -Carlos Even then Attorney General Castro's government at the Hay of Marcella, was found dead under Ramsey Clark denounced Garrison Pigs. strange circumstances a month publicly as destroying a "fine man" Marchetti said Shaw and. Ferrie after Garrison's probe became in prosecuting Shaw. bad participated with Watergate public. He had told reporters, -ram a Shaw died last August in New figures E. Howard Hunt, Frank dead man." Orleans. He had first been Sturgis and Bernard Barker in the Jack Ruby, the slayer of accused hospitalized in February, then planning of the Bay of Pigs Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey released. operation. Oswald, died of cancer in early 1986 The February "seizure" came Hunt was political coordinator of soon after begging Chief Justice about a month after Victor Mar- the entire Bay of Pigs operation. He Earl Warren to take him to chetti, who had been a CIA official recently went to prison to finish out more of his time on his conviction in the Nixon Administration scandals. Sturgis and Barker are'also former CIA men.

GUARDED AFTER HIS arrest, Clay Shaw fright) denied he was in- DAVID FERRIE died mys- volved with the CIA. Since then a former CIA man revealed that teriously, as he said he would. Shaw was a contract employe. He also worked for the CIA. FORMER DISTRICT ATTY. Jim Garrison and his attorney, Lou Motive Gatti Ire elated when Garrison was found innocent of chore- , es of public bribery. He told a reporter from this paper that he was tried on those charges as an attempt to get back at him for his JFK investigation.

MARCHETTI CLAIMS that top Shaw's home about 1 a.m.; a few CIA officials, at the time Shaw was hours before the body was found. being prosecuted by Garrison, She said she saw attendants carry talked about the need to "give help" a stretcher into the house. A white to Shaw's defense on the conspiracy sheet was covering what was op charges. parently a body on the stretcher. Last August 15, the 60-year-old The official time of Shaw's death Shaiv was found dead in his New was listed as about 12:40 a.m. Orleans home, five and a half years Warren Commission critic. Penn after he was charged with con- Jones Jr., who has made it his spiracy by Garrison. specialty to chronicle the deaths Shaw's personal physician ruled from various causes of people that Shaw, who was suffering from connected with the assassination, cancer, died of natural causes. told TATTLER: Though Parish Coroner Frank "Considering the bizarre cir- Minyard requested a police in- cumstances surrounding Shaw's vestigation — customary procedure - death, we must list It as another in - none was held. the long line of deaths which surround the Kennedy Declaring, "we're in charge of assassination." everyone's death in this city," Minyard at first said his office or the JOHN MOULDER police department should have been called when the body_ was found. Later Minyard let the matter drop. "I would be worried about somebody helping him along," the coroner at first said. "This mercy killing bit is a very real reality in terminal cancer patients. It happens all the time..." But Shaw's lawyer and friend, Edward F. Wegmann, took Issue with Minyard and other critics and said: "To suggest that Clay Shaw committed suicide, was murdered or was given a mercy killing shot borders on the ridiculous." JACK RUBY took to his grave BUT SKEPTICS refused to take information he wanted the Clay Shaw's natural causes death at Warren Commission to have. face value. The commission wouldn't A woman, saying she was a neigh- bring Ruby to Washington, bor of Shaw's, telephoned a even though he said he would broadcast reporter and said she had seen an ambulance pull up in front of be a dead man unless they did. I Man Who Wasn 't Surprised Was Garrison I Former New Orleans District so soon." spiracy, but that elemenbrwithin the sistent earmarks of the involvement "Now the climate is different," Attorney Jim Garrison is not sur- In the late 1980s, Garrison con- superspy agency were involved. of governMent intelligence Garrison said. "People are prised by recent disclosures of ducted an abortive investigation in He suspects now that government operations or men somehow prepared to deal with what was once illegal intrigue involving the CIA an attempt to link Clay Shaw, David intelligence was involved not only in associated with government in- dismissed as outrageous." and other intelligence, agencies. Ferrie and Lee. Harvey Oswald in a the JFK murder, but the telligence activities," Garrilion said. "Nothing has surprised me," conspiracy to murder President assassinations of -Sen. Robert Once considered a crackpot, the- In the intelligence scenario, be Garrison told the Washington Star in John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther man On the street is now stopping says, the public seeks "a a recent interview. "I felt ultimately Garrison didn't say the CIA as an . King as well Garrison and saying: "You're right. scapegoat...before he's snatched it would come to the surface, but not agency was involved in the con- -"EACH OF THEM bears con- You said it first." away forever." THE NATIONAL TATTLER Juno 5, toss Pap 32

y n the late 1950s, a young man was Iarrested for driving through a small The Decoy Game Ohio town without slowing down in a school zone. Taken to the combination fire-police station and told he would have to post a $50 bond, the young man fell to the floor, pounded his fists Oswalds Everywhere and blurted: "I hate the United States. I hate every inch became the fourth American President to be didn't have a car. He didn't know how to of it. I'll tell you one thing, officer. I've got one assassinated. " drive. thing to do in this life. I'm going to get me a Frank reported the threat against. the More inconsistencies in history's strangest President." President, made by the man Lee Harvey assassination mystery that Warren Com- Oswald, to the FBI, the 69-year-old retired mission critics claim is the biggest and most The young man's name: Lee Harvey chief told the Dayton Daily News recently. comprehensive cover-up of all time? Oswald. But the FBI, Frank said, brushed off the They are just the beginning of the strange But the interesting item here: The Lee report with "...he just got mad and was facts that indicate a small army of Lee Harvey Oswald shot down by Jack Ruby in blowing off." Harvey Oswald. Dallas, the Lee Harvey Oswald the Warren But undoubtedly an FBI agent filled out a FBI. director J. Edgar Hoover in 1960 Commission said was the sole assassin of report of the threat — which could be the subscribed to the two-Oswald theory, it was President John F. Kennedy, did not know how earliest entry concerning Oswald to go into recently revealed after Hoover's death. A to drive. the government intelligence files. This and private researcher, prowling through other remarks by the hot-headed, embittered routinely declassified documents in the THE OHIO STORY, told recently by retired youth who was to become a U. S. Marine, a National Archives, found a memo Hoover had Donnelsville, Ohio, Police Chief John Frank, turncoat to Russia ready to reveal military sent to the State Dept. suggesting an imposter appears to be another significant piece of secrets and an accused presidential assassin, might be using Oswald's credentials In evidence there was more than one — possibly could have been the start of a file to lead to Russia. several — men who were passing themselves Oswald becoming a patsy in Dallas. Oswald had defected to Russia after off as Lee Harvey Oswald during the years Oswald, according to Frank, finally paid a gaining a strangely-expedited "hardship" before. Nov. 22, 1963, when John F. Kennedy $10 fine in Donnelsville and drove away. His discharge from the Marines because his. mother was unable to work and support 4. • • t • herself. Medical evidence later showed this wer • • " 1 *Ns WO uer am. .."., sr e no■tmg IN - not to be true.

APPLICATION POE EMPLOYMENT HOOVER'S MEMO and two follow-up • TILT memos from the State Dept. were not given to .1-10 the Warren Commission. The Hoover memo, dated June 3, 1960, referred to a Foreign Service dispatch dated ST AT It L. ' Oct. 31, 1959. That dispatch noted Oswald II5 declared he had renounced his U. S. BOARD citizenship and had surrendered his passport. ■ • ; '11VA. if4:1,,7s, mother and a girlfriend were with him, the A Dallas FBI agent, Hoover noted, reported retired chief said. on May 12, 1960, that Oswald's mother stated Other motorists had stopped in the school her son had taken his birth certificate with ,e- zone, but Oswald almost struck a little girl, ,srei" him. Frank recalled. He flagged a passing y , Mrs. Oswald was apprehensive, the agent motorist's car and chased Oswald down. noted, because three letters she had written Unfortunately, Frank said, the records of her son had been returned undelivered. the Oswald incident have been misplaced in (Incidentally, two of those retirned are still the police files. unopened. The letters were purchased by Switch to Oct. 14, 1963, when Lee Harvey •- Joseph C. BoUlder of Ellicott City, Md., 10 Oswald applied for a $230 a month office job at years ago at a New York auction. He plans to Wiener Lumber Co. at Inwood and Mape in keep them unopened for another 10 years.) Dallas. On the job application, filled out by a "Since there is a possibility that an im- A Lee Harvey Oswald applied for a job company official from an interview with poster is using Oswald's birth certificate, any with the Wiener Lumber Co. in Dallas. Oswald, is the notation: "Has auto." current information the Dept. of State may have concerning subject, will be ap- The first page of the application (as BUT A FRIEND drove Lee Harvey Oswald preciated," Hoover wrote in the memo. shown in blow up at the'right) had the from Irving, a Dallas suburb, to the Texas notation "has auto." Oswald didn't School Book Depository in Dallas on the day On June 10, 1960, the State Dept. sent a memo to ' the department's Soviet desk. have a car and couldn't drive. Kennedy was killed. Lee Harvey Oswald Three recently declassified photos Oswald in 1963. This. Oswald, much Cuba. He applied at the Soviet Em- far right is of the real Lee Harvey Os- (marked 1 through 3 above) were tak- heavier than the one Jack Ruby gun- bassy, which is why the CIA was snap- wald. en by the CIA of another Lee Harvey ned down, applied for a visa to visit ping pictures there. The photo at the Another State Dept. memo was circulated in the passport office March 31, 1961.

THE LAST ONE called for a re-validated •passport for Oswald's June 1962 return to America to be hand-delivered to Oswald so the embassy in Moscow could be satisfied It was dealing with the real Lee Harvey Oswald. Switch now to late September and early October of 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Rusdian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City —.reportedly to seek permission

to get passage inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. • The CIA, asthg hidden cameras, snapped three pictures of Lee Harvey Oswald just outside the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. • The pictures have been de-classified by the National Archives. Warren Commission 'documents describe the man as-about 35 years old, with an athletic •build, about 6 feet tall, and with a receding • hairline. • • This man obviously was not the Lee Harvey Oswald who was executed before millions of television viewers in the basement of the Dallas City Hall by strip joint owner Jack Ruby.

THE BODY OF THE Lee Harvey Oswald killed in Dallas was identified by his mother and through fingerprints. Who, then, were the • other Oswalds. The theory of several Oswalds is not a new one, but • the recent disclosures make the theory more plausible. More than one Oswald could explain various eyewitness reports that have put Lee Harvey Oswald In more than one place at the same time — such as being on the first, second and sixth floor of the Book Depository Building within a matter of seconds the day President Kennedy was • killed. The multi-Oswald theory could also explain the incredible variances in his height. Lee Harvey Oswald's height in 1955 was listed as 5 foot, five Inches when he was a student at the Beuregard High School in New Orleans. In 1962, an official post record showed his height at 5-6. A 1956 Marine Corps medical examination showed his height at 5-8. Eight sources, including passport records, military medical examinations and draft registration records, show his height at 5-11. And 11 sources, including the report of the autopsy performed on the Lee Harvey Oswald killed in Dallas, show his height at 5-9. As one Warren Commission critic put it, if Lee Harvey Oswald was able to perform these physical changes, Lon Chaney would have envied him. J.M.

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• • any any For an extended period of time, TATTLER has made tended from the start that her son was probably a govern- comprehensive investigation into whether the intelligence . ment agent. community could have been involved in a conspiracy to She renewed these views in an interview published recently eliminate national leaders through assassination. in the Fort Worth Press. The conclusion is: "Who can prove he is not a CIA agent?" she asked. "He More than enough evidence exists for a government isn't going to say he's a CIA agent, and the government isn't agency with subpoena power to reopen the John Kennedy going to' say he is. I have as much circumstantial evidence assassination investigation and seriously — and publicly - that he was as the Dallas police have that he was the assasin. settle the issue once and far all. "When f said CIA, I meant Government intelligence, like At the same time, Congress should thoroughly probe — and • the internal Revenue or FBI." - set to rest once and for all — the. strong Indication that Mrs. Oswald, now living on a "meager income in Fort government intelligence was Involved in the Bobby Kennedy slaying, the gunning down of Gov. Wallace and the snuffing (Continued on page 24) out of the non-violence preaching Dr King.

COULD OSWALD have been a representative of more than one intelligence agency? This is far from being In the realm of comprhhension. "It has been shown that they are all virtually the same thing .. their activities run _together," Los Angeles assassination researcher Donald Freed told TATTLER about the activities of various intelligence agencies. Recent disclosures show this to be tare. The CIA, chartered to carry out its activities abroad; has been exposed as having condutited thousands of in vestigations on citizens within the United States. This disclosure of domestic spying led to President Gerald Ford's appointment of a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to investigate. One former government Intelligence official says he believes the CIA was involved in President Kennedy's assassination. He is Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, who was the Pentagon's liaison with the CIA before he retired In 1963. • • ANOTHER FORMER CIA official, Victor Marchetti, has said flatly that the late Clay Shaw, the man former New Orleans District Atterney Jim Garrison tried to convict for the JFK death conspiracy, was a CIA agent. This was what Garrison always contended, but the confirmation didn't come until after Shaw was fried and acquitted. Not long after Mar cheat's disclosure, Shaw was found dead under mysteriouS circumstances. It's been revealed that the Post Office Intelligence system cooperated with the CIA in illegally opening and monitoring the first class letters mailed by law-abiding citizens in the United States. LEE HARVEY OSWALD in his Civil Air Patrol Cadet It's also interesting to remember that postal inspectors uniform at which time he first came in contact with were among the legions of various federal agents who in- those who would later be allegedly implicated in a terfered with the questioning of Oswald in Dallas and conspiracy to assassinate the President perhaps thwarted famed Dallas homicide Capt. Will Fritz front eliciting a statement or confession from the youthful suspect. Oswald was shot dead by Jack Ruby two days after (Continued from page. 23) the assassination — silencing him forever. One Louisiana private detective ardently pursued an in- orth, believes Oswald went to Russia in serivce of his vestigation on a theory that Naval Intelligence was involved -euntry in the Kennedy assassination. The detective and a TATTLER Now, a onetime Texas journalist, has revealed to TAT- reporter tracked down fascinating; never-beforoslisctosed TLER a secret he has kept for nine years — he has met the evidence in the ease. The detective was found shot to death man who claims to be a CIA agent and that Oswald was a CIA soon afterward under extremely mysterious circumstances agent. - the death officially ruled a suicide. Domestic spying is not uncommon in other intelligence THE SOURCE, W.R. MORRIS, now living in Tennessee, branches of government agencies. Even the Internal said he is still in contact with the former CIA "spook," who Revenue Service hires women to engage in sex acts with now is a lawyer living in California. • prominent citizens to gather intelligence information, it has Morris told TATTLER he is willing to reveal the agent's been revealed. identity to a proper government investigating agency. He has In 1964, the Warren Commission — and perhaps the general kept the information confidential since he met the.agent at public — was willing to take the word of the CIA and the FBI Oswald's grave in Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth in 1966. that Oswald was not connected with either agency. But The author of "The Twelfth of August," the life story of today, with the flood of revelations of the misdeeds, half- Buford Pusser, the "Walking Tall" hero, Morris is planning truths and outright lies of the intelligence networks, its a to write a book about Oswald. different story A representative of the Rockefeller Commission, which is investigating domestic spying by the CIA, has contacted _ _ 08W AID'S MOTHER, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, con- Morris, he told "TATTLER. The author said he is willing to reveal details of Oswald's services to the CIA, as well as the long investigation to the Rockefeller Commission, told identity of Oswald's CIA contact, if subpoenaed to testify hi a TATTLER he is convinced the CIA was involved in a con- elosed-door session. spiracy to kill the President. , Critics of the Warren Commission express doubt that any "There is a common theme uniting Watergate, the Bay of serious investigation will be made by the Rockefeller Pigs and the assassination of President Kennedy," Shoen- Commission. man said. "That is the CIA. Rockefeller has reportedly said that an aggressive in- "The CIA was set up to conceal, rather than to disclose." vestigation of the CIA "could destroy two former "This was never made clearer than the cynical testimony Presidents." of the Warren Commission in a closed-door meeting Jan. 27, , . 1964 when the commission members discussed reports that THE ROCKEFELLER Commission chose as its executive Oswald was an , intelligence agent. director David Belin, who was a junior counsel to the much- Commission member Allen Dulles, former director of the criticized Warren Commission. CIA, said flatly that Oswald could have been a CIA agent and Belin has been accused by at least one commission witness even he would not have known about it. of changing the witness'- testimony for the record published in the Warren Commission volumes. And Sylvia Meagher, a DULLES SAID IT would be-"terribly hard" for the FBI or prominent New York assassination researcher and author, CIA to prove that any individual was not an agent. . has accused Belin of getting a key assassination witness to "Hon do you disprove a fellow was not your agent? How do change his testimony to fit the commission's findings. you disprove it?" asked Dulles. After joining the Rockefeller Commission, Belin was quick Despite this cynicism and skepticism, the Warren Com- to discount any efforts to link the CIA or anybody except mission chose to accept the word of the CIA and the FBI that Oswald to the assassination. Oswald was not in their service or employ. "There is no hard evidence that has come to my attention that in any way diminishes the veracity of the conclusion that AT ANOTHER session, Oswald's movements in Russia Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin and the sole assassin of were discussed. . President Kennedy," Belin said. "I would like to get that material into the hands of the CIA Despite this, a three-man team of Warren Commission as soon as possible to explain the Russian parts," said Dulles critics has presented evidence to the Rockefeller Com- at, the June 6 meeting. mission that a conspiracy indeed existed in the Kennedy "I think you've got more faith in them than I have,". Sen. assassination and that the-CIA was involved, Richard Russell, conservative Democrat from Georgia, This team is made up of Dick. Gregory, a comedian and replied. "I think they'll doctor anything they hand to us." civil rights activist; Robert Groden, a New York These were among documents the Warren Commission photographer; and Ralph Schoenman, a writer-researcher, kept "top secret" for "national security reasons" for a former secretary to Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell decade before assassination researchers, through court and an associate of-former New Orleans District Attorney battles, forced their disclosure. Jim Garrison during Garrison's 1967-68 probe of the Kennedy assassination. RUSSELL, NOW DEAD, told author-researcher Harold GRODER HAS SPENT nine years researching the famous Weisberg he did not believe the commission majority who film of the Kennedy assassination taken by Dallas dress said Oswald alone was responsible for the assassination. manufacturer. Abraham Zapruder, now dead. The Zapruder film clearly shows Kennedy's head ex-

ploding backwards and to the left — conclusive enourh to a viewer that at least one of the two shots that struck the ' President was fired from the front of Kennedy's motorcade, not from the. Texas School Book Depository. The Warren Commission contends Oswald, described as "a poor shot" as a Marine„ fired three shots into the Kennedy motorcade 'from behind Kennedy" from a window on the sixth floor of the old brick depository building. Gregory viewed the Groder blow-ups of the Zapruder film - including spliced in portions of a film taken by another citizen — in Boston in February at a meeting of the newly- Before he signed the report, the senator told Weisberg formed Assassination Research Bureau. before his death, Russell received an assurance that a Gregory was then launched on what became a nation-wide footnote would be added in the report that Senator Russell lecture tour urging an official reopening of the investigation. dissented from the findings. Weisberg's investigation of Gregory has also been publicizing pictures of tramps declassified Warren Commission records showed that Chief arrested in Dealey Plaza soon after the assassination. He Justice Earl Warren, now dead, did not add the footnote. contends one of the "tramps" in the pictures is E. Howard Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, another member of the Hunt, the ex-CIA official who is serving a prison sentence for Warren Commission, told staff aides and friends in 1972 that his role in the Watergate scandals of the Richard Nixon he was convinced the commission conclusions were wrong Administration. and he felt the Kennedy assassination should be investigated Gregory says the Zapruder film "will change the fate and again. That was a few months before Boggs was killed in an destiny of the world" and will "save Teddy Kennedy's life." airplane crash in Alaska. President Lyndon Johnson, before his death in 1972, SCHOENMAN, after presenting the results of his decade- ,epeatedly expressed to many people that he was convinced agents went to high-ranking New York City police Officials a conspiracy existed in the assassination of President with a bizarre plot to assassinate the Cuban dictator Kennedy. A box of cigars, containing a bomb, would be placed in More evident now than early critics ever imagined is just CaStro's hotel room. But the CIA called off the plan, police how questionable the President's control of the CIA is. said. When Bobby Kennedy heard of the CIA plot to use the PRESIDENT KENNEDY bucked the CIA in 1961 by Mafia to assassinate Castro, Kennedy as attorney general refusing to send out the U.S. Air Force to strafe the Cuban angrily attacked the agency's plot. beaches, providing protection to CIA-trained Cuban freedom And when RFK made his snowballing campaign for the fighters trying to overthrow revolutionary Prime Minister Presidency, the CIA knew its days of power and autonomy Fidel Castro in the abortive "Bay of Pigs" invasion. were numbered. This act by Kennedy infuriorated many members of the This threat to the intelligence system ended June 5, 1968. CIA, especially E. Howard Hunt, who directed the Cuban when the youthful senator was shot down in the.pantry of the invasion, which resulted in all the invaders being killed or captured. E. Howard Hunt, in his book about the Bay of Pigs — "Give Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Us This Day," even discusses the Cuban situation as being the motive for the assassination. ANOTHER "LONE ASSASSIN" was seized. Sirhan .. Lee Harvey Oswald was a partisan of Fidel Castro and Bishara Sirhan was blamed for RFK's murder. No con- an admitted Marxist who made desperate efforts to join the spiracy, Los Angeles police officials'said. They maintain this Red Revolution in Havana," Hunt wrote. position despite almost overwhelming evidence from leading "In the end he was an activist for the Fair Play for Cuba criminologists that shots were fired from at least two guns into Kennedy and the crowd of well-wishers around him. Committee. the blame fell on "But for Castro and the Bay of Pigs disaster, there would In the case of John Kennedy's murder, have been no such 'committe." And perhaps no assassin Communists in general. In Sirhan's case, the motive was attributed to Kennedy's anti-Arab, pro-Israel position. Sirhanwas an Arab immigrant and had written in his diary, named Lee Harvey Oswald." "RFK Must Die." Kennedy had vetoed a plan by Hunt to assassinate Fidel Lyndon Johnson's first reaction after the assassination of Castro. But attempts were made on Castro's life. JFK was that it might have been the result of a•Communist This caused an irate Castro to tell the Cuban people: plot. Later, when he found out the U.S. was responsible for "If the United States can deal in' assassinations, so can the deaths of Trujillo and Diem, he felt the JFK murder may we." have represented a terrible retribution. THAT WAS SEPT. 8, 1963. Kennedy was killed two months BOTH TRUJILLO and Diem were killed in military coups. later. Diem's murder paved the way for the pro-U.S. Thieu regime. Kennedy was planning to break up the "invisible govern- President Richard Nixon in 1971 said there was U.S. ment" known as the CIA. He was killed before carrying out "complicity" in Diem's assassination. the plans. The disclosures spreading the cloak of suspicion over the When President Johnson succeeded Kennedy in the White ('IA have caused intelligence officials to react in the obviOus House he was shocked tt learn of the activities of the CIA. ways. "We have been operating a damned Murder Incorporated Through nationally-syndicated comunists, the CIA have in the Caribbean," LBJ snapped to an aide. leaked stories to the effect — so what if we deal in I.B.1 aides earlier this year revealed that Johnson held• the assassinations, other governments do. U.S. directly responsible for the assassination of Dominican One story leaked by the CIA was the report of a. Russian Republic dictator Rafael J. Trujillo and the assassination of KGB I the U.S.S.R.'s CIA) defector who revealed a plot by the South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Soviet Union to assassinate Richard Nixon, had he not been The CIA also made repeated efforts, according to syn- defeated by John 'Kennedy in 1960. dicated columnist Jack Anderson, to assassinate Francois Papa Doc) Duvalier, the dictator of Haiti. THE CIA LEAKED stories of the terrors of the Cold War of THE CIA WAS ALSO put out at President Kennedy because he planned in 1964 to deescalate the U.S. role in Vietnam. the 1950s with hero-CIA agenti going behind the Iron Curtain Robert Kennedy began stepping on CIA, toes even when he . only to be captured, tortured or killed. was attorney general when John was president. Bobby But more recent disclosures now show that the U.S. in- Kennedy prosecuted more Mafia gangsters than any other . telligence system cannot claim much different standards attorney general in history. Two former FBI officials revealed recently in The New York At the same time the CIA had a left hand-right hand Times that the FBI has engaged in a program of kidnapping relationship with the Mafia. The CIA used Mafia intelligence persons suspected of being foreign agents and even sources and recruited Mafia gunmen to carry out threatening them with death if they did not provide sought- assassination. after information. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the CIA had connections One agent of' the Cold War was Gary Powers. Powers, a CIA officer, was flying the U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia. 'President Dwight Eisenhower at first denied that with Sam Giancana, the dread boss of all Mafia activity in Powers was an American spy. Later he was forced to admit the Chicago area. that Powers was CIA. The Chicago Sun Times reported an interesting swapout Which gets us back to the deranged, lone assassin named between the CIA and Gianeano. .Lee Harvey Oswald. The (;IA used Giancano to exploit the Mafia's former 'Much evidence exists that Oswald had a role in the downing gambling network in Cuba under Batista against Castro. . of the U-2 spy plane. In return, a detective agency front of the CIA bugged the Las Vegas hotel room of a singer-girlfriend of Giancano's at WHEN OSWALD DEFECTED to Russia, lie volunteered to his request. give American military secrets to the Russian government. He was in a position to have knowledge of the U-2 spy WHEN CASTRO visited the United Nations in 1960, CIA operation and perhaps was acquainted with Powers. The full details may lie on a still-classified document in the SIRHAN SIRHAN AND JAMES EARL RAY (right) ... lone assassins or patsies in conspiracies in deaths of RFK and Dr. King?

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National Archives with the heading: "Lee Harvey Oswald's Access to Classified Information About the U-2." What is known is that Oswald had been stationed at an American base at Atsugi, Japan, as a Marine in 1958 and 1959. Atsugi is where the U-2 flights originated. A radar operator assigned to ground control work, Oswald was in a position to gather valuable information to turn ovei- to the RussianS The Reds had been trying to shoot down the high-flying U-2s, but lacked the technical knowledge until after Oswald's defection. Another yet-to-b-revealed Warren Commission document is headed: "Letter from Director, FBI with attached results of interview with Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko."

YURI NOSENKO had been a staff officer of the KGB who defected to the U.S. on Feb. 4, 1964, less than three months after JEK's assassination. Incidentally, the Warren Report has no mention of either Nosenko or the U-2 connection, even though the controversial comiiiissioners said their report and 26 volumes of testimony would "put to rest" any questions that could arise about the assassination.) Yuri Nosenko, the turncoat Russian "spook," knew Oswald in Russia. A commission "internal memo" routinely declassifed recently tells of Nosenko being interviewed about Oswald'S marksmanship. •...Oswald was an extremely poor shot and it was necessary for persons who accompanied him on hunts to provide him with game," was Nosenko's appraisal. At the .Japanese U-2 base, Oswald took up an interest in W.R. MORRIS ... he's willing to testify that he has Communism as he observed the takeoffs and landings of the concrete evidence that Oswald was a CIA agent. U-2s. His Marine Corps pals called him "Comrade 1 Oswaldovich." But still Oswald did not lose his top security clearance that gave him access to U-2 intelligence. At the base, Oswald was visited by a strange civilian and his attitude appeared to change. When the visitor asked for him, Oswald was released from guard duty and they disappeared for a private several-hours talk. IT WASN'T MUCH LATER that Oswald turned up at the learned of the omission, they envious*, took J. Edgar U.S. embassy in Russia, loudly denouncing his American Hoover's word when he informed them it was simply an citizenship and volunteering U.S. military secrets to the oversight. KGB. Could Oswald have been both a KGB agent and an agent of Even Powers, in his book "Operation Overflight," notes the FBI or the CIA? that Oswald might have passed on the information the At the time of the assassination, Kennedy had em- Russians needed to shoot down the U-2. barrassed the Russians by backing them down during the Was Oswald, then, a KGB agent? He and his Russian wife, blockade during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Castro was Marina, certainly had strong connections with the Russian secret, police. • Russia's ally and he was irked because of the CIA-backed Marina Nikolayevna Prithkeva was introduced to Oswald Bay of Pigs invasion and attempts on his life he believed at a party in Moscow by Col. NicOlav Aksenov. were staged by the U.S. government. Col. Aksenov was a high-ranking official in the KGB. This would give the KGB motive enough to assign the Aksenov was also Marina's uncle. Marxism-brainwashed young Oswald to murder the President of the United States. Did the CIA have a motive to THE INTRODUCTION was on March 17, 1961. On April 30, condone or participate in the assassination of the President? a little over a month later, Lee Oswald and Marina Pruskova Read the facts and judge for yourself. Perhaps only an were married. The KGB had cut through all the red tape extensive Congressional investigation can indict or exonerate including special-consent for the American to marry a Soviet American intelligence agencies in the JFK case - and citizen. perhaps not even then. Marina, although the Warren Commission didn't see fit to Quite a few other possible CIA operatives have turned up in pursue the matter, was a leader in the Komsomol Communist the various investigations of the, Kennedy assassination: Party organization. However, she lied about this in obtaining a passport to join CLAY SHAW - Shaw, now dead, was indicted, tried, and her-husband in returning to America. She entered the U.S. as acquitted of charges in New Orleans that he conspired to a simple European immigrant. murder John Kennedy. Shaw, who died under mysterious But while in Moscow, the turncoat American Marine and circumstances last year, was also a paid contact for the CIA his Communist bride lived in style and comfort. in the early 1960s. Apparently compliments of a grateful Kremlin, the Victor Marchetti, who worked for the CIA for 14 years newlyweds were given a nice rent-free apartment. before resigning in 1969, confirmed this to a TATTLER in- vestigator. OSWALD WAS GIVEN an adequate factory job. But the Russian government saw fit to supplement his salary by $70 a Marchetti learned of Shaw's CIA connections during Jim month. The subsidy came from the Soviet Red Cross, which Garrison's 1968 probe of Shaw. During briefing sessions that is actually a KGB intelligence front and is not connected-with Marchetti attended, high CIA officials often worried aloud the international charitable organization of the same name. that Shaw's CIA connections might be-revealed by Garrison. The KGB smoothed the way for the Oswald-Marina And Garrison, now practicing law in New Orleans, had marriage and-then greased the path for Marina to linthigrate always claimed Shaw was CIA; but couldn't prove it. to .America. The State Department appeared delighted to Marchetti said high CIA officials - including then Director expedite Oswald's return to America, apparently forgetting Richard Helms himself - often talked about the need to "give that only two years before Oswald had becoine a traitor to his help to" Shaw and his defense team. . country, had denounced his citizenship and had offered and The ex-operative said Shaw and David Ferric. were apparently provided aid and comfort to the enemy. working with the CIA operatives E. Howard Hunt, Frank Back in the United States, Oswald was interviewed three Sturgis and Bernard Barker all convicted in the. Watergate times by the FBI, according to FBI Director J. Edgar capers-on thetay of Pigs planning , operation. Hoover, now dead. "It is very possible that Shaw and the Watergate buggers But in one case, it was Oswald who arranged the "in-" terview." This was in 1963 in New Orleans, where during a remained in contact after the 1961 Cuban invasion failed," Fair Play-for Cuba demonstration, Oswald was arrested and said Marchetti. jailed on a misdemeanor disturbance charge. Ferrie's connections with Oswald and other figures in the assassination were many. TATTLER has interviewed wit- OSWALD TOLD THE jailer he wanted to see the FBI and nesses who saw Ferrie and Oswald together. Fettle was the two FBI agents came running. captain of the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol when Oswald was "What would happen if you or me was arrested on a pid- a cadet. dling thing and we asked to see the FBI?" scoffs Penn Jones In addition to providing services for the Mafia, Ferrie was Jr., Texas newspaper editor who has been investigating the in a position to provide valuable services to the CIA. Ferrie Kennedy assassination since 1963. "They'd laugh at us." was something of a soldier of fortune and- was involved in The FBI knew much about Oswald and his movements in gun-running to and from Latin American countries, for Dallas prior to his arrest for the assassination and his example. slaying two days later. Ferrie, if he held the information need& for Garrison to Dallas FBI special agent James Hosty was the man prove beyond doubt a conspiracy, took it to the grave. He assigned to keep tabs on Oswald. Betty had visited the home died under mysterious circumstances a month after of Ruth Paine in Irving, a Dallas, suburb, where Marina Garrison's probe hit the newspapers. Doctors said a single lived. Oswald was holing-up at the time alone to a room in the karate chop on the back of his neck could have killed him. Oak Cliff section of Dallas. After Oswald's arrest, police found Oswald's notebook GORDON NOVEL - Novel was a CIA operative and which contained, among other things, Hosty'a name, his perhaps may still be. He is now living in Dallas, where it all started. Novel was subpoenaed in the Garrison investigation. address, his phone number and his auto license plate. After he fled the subpoena, the Orleans Parish Grand Jury indicted him in connection with a-munitions burglary in WHEN THE FBI furnished the Warren Commission with a which David Ferrie also participated. list of the contents of Oswald's notebook, - the references to Novel fled from state to state to escape Garrison's Hosty were conspicuously omitted. When commissioners . . . . _ questions. Garrison could not find a governor of any state to which Novel fled who would extradite him. His lawyers denied, then confirmed after evidence sur- faced, that Novel was a CIA man. After Garrison's in- vestigation went under during a flood of criticism against the crusading DA, Novel dropped into obscurity, only to emerge years later in connection with plot — never carried out — to erase the controversial Nixon electronic tapes. GUY BANNISTER — According to TATTLER sources, Guy W. Bannister, a New Orleans private detective, former