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kAUidoscqpE milwaukee, Wisconsin member: underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news service (l.n.s.) DL. 1 NO. 15 MAY 24 - JUNE 6, 1968 25 KALEIDOSCOPE BUST p.2 SERVICE OF CONSCIENCE P.3 KENNETH PATHEN P.IO LeCHRONIC Stokely Carmichaeh "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE AND MAXIMUM RETALIATION Page 2 May 24 - June 6, 1968 KALEIDOSCOPE1 Manufactured and printed in U.S.A. SB© JL 0 ML J mj'79: LINKING JAfTxl ASSASS INATIONS THE GALT-RAY PHOTO A picture of a dead man? A possible link between the assassinations of Pres ident Kennedy and Dr0 Martin Luther King is being investigated by William Turner, a former FBI agent. Turner, 41, now a free-lance writer living in Mill Valley, California, says, "I'm not drawing any con clusions,, I'm just saying the similarities are striking enough that they should be investigatedq" Turner be lieves the possibility of a relationship is strong enough to warrant a Congressional investigation0 Briefly, Turner's case rests on the following facts: * Mexican authorities, under the direction of the FBI, prepared a sketch of Dr0 King's assassin, who was then believed to be hiding in Mexico. The finished sketch bears a close resemblance to a man arrested in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, after President Kennedy was shoto Kenneth Patchen, HALLELUJAH ANYWAY. Copyright 1966 by * A photograph released by the FBI of James Earl Kenneth Patchen. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Pub Ray, the prime suspect in the King assassination, looks lishing Corporation, New York. like the picture of a dead man. For more by, and a discussion of, Kenneth Patchen, see pages 10-11, * A rifle with a telescopic sight was "conveniently left at the crime scene" after both assassinations. * Authorities in both assassinations had little trouble KALEIDOSCOPE BUST by John Kois badly enough that they didn't want to lose the case before it began on some technicality. Being busted for publishing obscenity brings back a There were times in the Safety Building when some lot of scenes you thought were forgotten, scenes that one in the faceless procession of clerks, officers and happened too many years ago. The television programs officials gave evidence of having something approaching that ended with thanks to the FBI and the local poli.ce human feelings, but it didn't happen often. department for their cooperation; the bulletin board Officer Champagne, the arresting officer and the posters in grade school telling us what friends we had one who, according to the warrant, was offended by in the police department; the books stolen from the Kaleidoscope *14, was polite, even friendly. He was public library showing nude sketches that were hidden anxious to know what I'd say about him when I wrote under the mattress; the speeches at high school assem up the bust, and was afraid I'd accuse him and his blies by local police officials, warning of the dangers partner, who accompanied us from office to office, of waiting just off the school grounds, the friendly strangers being brutal. He wasn't. Just another decent man anxious to peddle their smut and drugs; the time your doing what he's told and hot really caring to ask why. mother cancelled a subscription to Life magazine be A detective who looked at the evidence said he cause reproductions of Grecian sculpture displayed more hadn't seen the paper before, but "why do you have THE DALLAS SUSPECT THE MEXICAN SKETCH marble flesh than she thought was healthy for her chil to print this shit?" Ex-FBI agent found the similarities striking dren; the constant attempts of parents, teachers, and A uniformed policeman, watching the mug shot being finding an "abundance of physical evidence," including everyone else charged with the health of your mind taken, said "Say 'pussy'." city maps with significant points circled. to avoid associating sex with anything really human The assistant District Attorney, who argued in Judge No one knows, Turner says, what happened to the and good. Duffy's court for $500 bail, said that all Kaleidoscope man arrested in Dealey Plaza after Kennedy's murder. 11 One of the most maligned minorities in this country readers and subscribers were "morons. " Kaleidoscope "He was either released without booking or his record is the "pornographer," the man who attempts to deal attorney James She!low argued for no bail, and Duffy, has been vacuum-cleaned. It seems incredible to me with sex honestly and openly. The man who appeals the great compromiser, decided on $250* that the people arrested that day weren't accounted to the "prurient interest." I never understood it, and The real reason for the bust? No one knows, since for." was even radical enough to think that an appeal to this is the fourth time Kaleidoscope has published Yab- The FBI's photo of Ray shows a man with his eyes prurient interest was normal, healthy and often nec Yums. Perhaps some of the high-ranking enemies we've closed. The eyes were painted in later for better iden essary. Now that I'm officially charged by the State made in the past few months put pressure on the DA's tification. The face seems puffy, according to Turner, of Wisconsin as being such a man, maybe I'll begin office to take action, perhaps too many PTA's com as if in death. In addition, Ray's coat collar is riding to understand it. plained, perhaps the city is acting out of a sincere up over his neck, indicating Ray was lying down when The warrant reads, The State of Wisconsin vs. John concern for the moral welfare of the residents of Mil the picture was taken. Kois. There must be some way out of here. waukee, or perhaps it was because the male in the In both assassinations, the identity of the assumed The bust itself was done tasefully, if the police picture was black and the female white, as one vice assassin was discovered through fingerprints found on department and particularly the vice squad ever does squad officer suggested. Most probably it was a com rifles left near the murder sites. "The circumstances anything tastefully. Rather than the expected raid on bination of all or most of the above, but we suspect raise the possibility that both Oswald and Ray are the office, there was a phone call requesting my ap that the racial interpretation was the determining factor. scapegoats," Turner said. pearance at the vice squad office. And instead of Otherwise, why haven't the numerous downtown skin Turner did not want to speculate on how someone the petty hassling at the Safety Building that kept Jim shops, which are opened under the benevolent eyes of might profit from the assassination of both Kennedy and Bowers waiting six hours, the booking, the processing, DA Hugh O'Connell, been subject to the scrutiny and King, but he did point out that both the Vietnam war and court appearance was handled efficiently and I was harassment of our morality police? and the racial climate worsened considerably after out of the building less than two hours after entering The whole affair contained enough contemporary Kennedy's assassination, and that the racial climate it. Seems I was a special prisoner; they want me Con't. on P. 19 worsened even more after King's assassination. "The fact that there is a pattern between the two assassinations is firm and I think it should be explored," DA, WHY JUST US: Turner said. "Is this coincidence or is it not?11 KALEIDOSCOPE May 24 - June 6, 1968 Page 3 LI 0 G0D,WH0 IS SOLD FOR A LOUSY BUCK...HELP US9 9 by Linda Akin of resistance is not just an act of protest — but an to be duped into the same political game that was affirmation of the beliefs that America has taught us... pulled in 1964, when we voted for the "peace" can "Help us to get out....Help us to stop the war.... beliefs which America doesn't intend to work with." didate — Lyndon Johnson. O God, who is sold for a lousy buck as a sweet whore At this point Mike Cullen announced the "breaking in Saigon, and dies every night and hates her mur Resistance Is Saying YES of bread," the sharing with one another among the derers. ..unable to outrace destruction... we don't dis By severing himself from the Selective Service, peaceful people present. A statement of support was criminate when it comes to killing... Goldberg felt that he had affirmed his beliefs that passed among the audience so that those who would "O God, who is hung up, knowing the war is wrong "resistance is saying YES — to joy, to freedom — to support the Resistance movement could do so. We but we're there and can't see any way out, and the all things that are me—my thing...some of my friends have reprinted this statement below, and if you wish war grows and grows....O God, who hates the war, have been shot and killed...all we have to face is to aid the resistance movement, please sign it and its sickness, its immorality, the unjustness, the calamity possible confinement." He explained that although he mail it to Kaleidoscope. and folly, and is afraid to speak out and act out of could have flown directly from Vietnam to Canada, he "In the beginning..." was the beginning of the end. peace...Help us to change you.... returned to America because he feels committed to the Milwaukee's Underground Lift Society, a mixed media "O God, who is organizing to bring some sanity, "mess" in this country.