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THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, . LA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1968 amliNIMI■• Cuban Criticizes Writer on Kennedy Assassination Exile Speaks on Lane's He said that Texas Gov. John B. Connally told the commission Book at Tulane that the shots came from the back, over his right shoulder. A Cuban exile leader strongly Dr. Bringuier charged that suggested Thursday night that the driver of the death car was author Mark Lane cited only not quoted in Lane's book or witnesses who reinforced his mentioned in the index. theory on the Kennedy assassi- The driver, Dr. Bringuier nation when writing his book said, told the Warren Commis- and neglected to cite others sion that the shots came from who might have refuted his find- behind him, to the right rear ings. of him. The driver also stated, Dr. Carlos Bringuier, ilead of the Cuban leader said, that he the New Orleans Delef.,Taticn of did not believe the shots came the Cuban Student Directorate, from the front. spoke at the University Center Dr. Bringuier also read testi- at Tulane University. Dr. Brin- mony of a 16-year-old Negro guier had demanded equal time youth who was standing at to refute statements made by Houston and Elm in Dallas at Lane who spoke at McAlister the time of the assassination. Auditorium on the Tulane cam- The Negro, Dr. Bringuier said, pus on Dec. 7. told the commission that he had The 33-year-old Havana na- seen what appeared to be some tive. who fled in 1960, sort of pipe in an upper story charged that the Warren Com- window of the book depository. mission report "shows that 99 The Cuban leader warned per cent of what Lane said is that "forces are trying to bring inaccurate and a distortion of about a revolution in this coun- the facts." try. They are saying that anti- Lane, the author of "Rush to Castro Cubans were involved in Judgment," a book critical of the Warren Report, maintained the assassination. in his speech Dec. 7 and in his "They know as long as the book that President Kennedy people of the United States be- was killed in a conspiracy and lieve in the institutions of the that federal agencies are ig- nation, such as the FBI, they noring or concealing the truth. cannot take over. When you be- Relying heavily on extracts gin to doubt your institutions— from the that's when they will try to report during his almost two- take over." hour talk, Dr. Bringuier said He termed charges that right that he believed the former wing extremists killed Presi- president was shot and kil'ed dent Kennedy as "ridiculous." by Lee Harvey Oswa'd from the, He reaffirmed that Oswald did Texas School Book Depository the deed and that he was a Building in Dallas, Tex. Trotskyite extremist and for- "If, as Lane claims, a shot mer chairman of the Fair Play from the front knocked fleso for Cuba Committee in New and brain tissue forward in the Orleans. automobile, this is a new law of Dr. Bringuier received a long physics," the Cuban said. ovation following his talk. 1 Extra copies of this page may be ordered from.: CUBAN STUDENT DIRECTORATE P. O. BOx 2506 New Orleans, La. 70116 - (Our cost is $5.00 per 100 postpaid) LAWYER - AUTHOR Lane, war on poverty worker from Advertiser, Lafayette, La., Sunday, Jan. 14, 19G8 3 who wasn't present in Dallas, New Orleans identified here as ..ausowwwwwwwww, claimed there were five shots a Communist foe trying to re- fired. A total of 150 out of 172 cruit an undercover agent in The Assassination of President persons who were present said the Red "Spartacist League" Kennedy. Lane gained a brief there were three. worked for SCEF. cdotes bit of notoriety as a self-ap- pointed defender of Oswald. WHAT ABOUT GARRISON'S THE SUBVERSIVE organ He was also among a group motivation: Bringuier was of SCEF is "The Southern Pa- and identified in a "public inquest complimentary of the district triot" and a representative of into the mass murders in In- attorney's action in the begin- that publication was in Lafa- donesia," which sought to coun- ning, now he . feels that the yette the first day of the hear- ter recent anti - Communist only difference between Mr. ing. His boss is Anne Braden, successes in that country. He Gafrison and is a well identified Communist; has also been a speaker at Col- the beard. He called Garrison and Anne's husband is Carl umbia University on a program the "White Stokely Carmich- Braden, another well-identified sponsored by a New Left or- ael" and drew a parallel be- Communist. The Louisiana ganization called "Y outh tween Garrison's attacks on the committee, in a report dated Against War and Fascism." FBI, the CIA and other U.S. in- April 13, 1964, (Page 17) repro- By stitutions with what happened in duces a letterhead showing Carl FACULTY, STUDENTS and Cuba when Castro's sympath- Braden as an honorary co-chair- others attending the public izers were undermining pub- man of the Fair Play For Cu- BOB meeting the other day heard lic confidence in Cuban institu- ba Committee. Dr. Bringuier say that he was tions by repeated attacks, and ANGERS there for the purpose of "re- then moved in to take over af- THIS IS NOT to say that futing Lane's distortion of the ter they had built up Castro. Braden was part of the Com- truth." He also "laid the wood The Cuban exile also charged munist conspiracy to kill Pre- to Garrison" and acknowledg- that the New Orleans district sident Kennedy, but it is to ed that many Cubans had ask- attorney is following a Castro point up that a known Com- ed him not to appear as he munist who held a key position •-• JIM GARRISON, Louisi- tactic when he says he doesn't did in public for fear that mea- want anything for himself and in a cited Communist front ana's best-known investigator, sures would be taken against has no ambition for higher of- organization also held an im- was challenged at Tulane Uni- him. His answer was that if a fice. portant post on the Fair Play versity Thursday a week ago person sees a crime being com- For Cuba Committee. Another THE EXTREME LEFT co-chairman was Robert F. Wil- to prove his good faith by mitted and kept silent he be- will came an actomplicee talk integration but actually liams, the Negro revolutionary Checking out the Communist won't accept a Negro leader, wanted for kidnapping in North and Communist - front ties of A SMEAR CAMPAIGN was according to Bringuier, so he Carolina, and who has been that ori- being waged by Garrison speculates that Garrison might preaching (via radio and print- against the Cuban colony in ginated in New Orleans and be the figurehead they're build- ed word) Communist revolution New Orleans, claimed Bringui- ing up. The Cuban also charg- in the USA from Cuba. extended into Cuba, Mexico er, and he said that even some and Russia. ed that one of Garrison's star public officials were playing the witnesses has threatened a Cu- DR. BRINGUIER also said HIS CHALLENGER was Dr. game of the enemy of the Unit- ban who tried to provide the at the Tulane meeting the oth- Carlos Bringuier, New Orleans ed States. district attorney with evidence. er day that a report from the delegate of the Cuban Student Secret Service (or some other Directorate, and one of the THE " INVESTIGATION h a s U. S. agency) establishes the three Cuban exiles who first BRINGUIER, who -himself taken many turns, but Bringu- fact that another key SCEF fig- uncovered Oswald's Marxism has testified under oath before ier wondered out loud why Mr. ure from New Orleans has been and his identity with the "Fair Garrison had not investigated allegedly making trips to Mexi- the President's Commission, the Communist angle. Oswald co to pick up money, presu- Play For Cuba Committee." It sometimes called "The Warren all happened on the streets of was a member of a known Com- mably sent from Cuba. Commission," reminded the munist front, the Fair Play For New Orleans when Dr. Brin- MYSTERIOUS? MAYBE! The guier and two other anti-Castro Tulane audience of the people Cuba Committee. He had lived who have testified under oath in Russia, was married to the District Attorney of New Or- Cubans confronted Pres. Ken- leans may have uncovered a nedy's assassin while he was before the commission in re- relative of a colonel in Russian gard to Oswald's murder of intelligence, was a great ad- plot, but not THE plot, is what handing out FPCC literature Bringuier is implying. Truth is and parading signs extolling President Kennedy and the fact mirer of Castro's and tried to that the shots came from the enter (and may have enter- stranger than fiction. Why fish the Cuban Red dictator. They Texas Book DepOsitory Build- ed) Cuba through.Mexico. Brin- for perch when you might catch cursed Oswald in. English and a whale? Those Red lines out Spanish, tore up his signs, got ing and from the back of the guier alleges that Jack Ruby presidential car. They have in- of New Orleans don't stop at arrested with him in the pro- killed Oswald so that Commu- the Mississippi. cluded Gov. Connally of Tex- nism could not be placed on cess and Bringuier later de- as, several Secret Ser vice bated Oswald on a New Orleans Agents who were there, FBI trial in the United States. radio station. officials, the elriver of the pre- ACADIANA RESIDENTS will sidential car, newsmen, eyewit- MARK LANE, the left-wing recall that during the LOUi3l- lawyer who authored "Rush To nesses who saw the gun bar- Judgment,".spoke before a Tu- rel, men who were one story ' ana Joint Legislative Commit- lane audience some mouths ago beneath Oswald during t h e tee on UnAmerican Activities and Dr. Bringuier challenged shooting, and others. The fact hearing in Lafayette the "South- many of his claims. He was that Oswald was owner of the ern Conference Educational given equal time to answer gun and killed President Ken- Lane and did so Thursday, Jan. nedy was established beyond Fund" was prominent in the 4. Lane has been in cousulta- any reasonable doubt by top law news. This is a well-identified tion with Garrison and has been enforcement agencies in t h e Communist front organization attacking the credibility of wit- country, according to Bringu- that operated in New Orleans nesses who appeared before ier. It's all in the official re- for many years before moving the President's Commission On cord. to Louisville. Kentucky. T h e L (c]z 0.5 iSPLAVii• 1) t'n.EIDial Clam ) My was nomad NH 3) t'Jiln ©ita fiVET21111 .

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