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t tt ladeeneetne neltXWMCNWCWOMile,GWeWineViNWO.., Fula ',;)olutions to the Assassination Question AIN.10".10. 448`416:7-00004NNIC.A.-VAXVOIMCSIMMILVICI . C3M0006:7MOCIOMIMMi by Craig liarpel ligN iVeliMMICMOMSKIPtilin% ' by Reginald Dunsany These p.1: reel,' lo have been vapor- by Steve Klinger ized."—/07: Garr New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison's cour- -iron, District Attorney. ageout probe of the Kennedy assassination "Mesa, Arizona—A laughing 18-year- Orleans Parish, .1,kuitiarta.;,.,:. -:::.1..., has confirmed the existence of a secret in- old boy who 'wanted to get known' On Thursday,. Mk 61 T temational terrorist ring more deadly than houseturned today a beauty when parlor he shot into four a slaughter. women opened the Idei#e YorIr .0011::.- to .the James Ochrana. GPU and Gestapo combined and a 3-year-old girl . . . (He said) Wechsleee nOldiret. litidnee.*' head.- —the Hornintern. line' "IFK & Cnetro: Jost that he had got the idea from recent . -: y7" Intelligence agencies of the East mass killings in Chicago and Austin..." f... rend: West have referred in hushed whispersand to In this !sinister camarilla of homosexual mili- —News item his anal days on earth ... In recent times, there has flowered in Kennedy was actively and tarns ever since its founding in Lausanne, WI , the United States a happy marriage of ly responding to overtures froin. Fidel-tilr- . beganSwitzerland his investigation, in 1931, but few until hard Garrison facts con- two initiative great AIngtican and.violenee. traditions, Not since individual the gang- Centro to" a detente with the United Smiled the lethal scope of its activities. —States, Insiders in New land massacre/8 of the 1920s and '301‘bas That i.,, the dramatice,treory enfolded (means now claire else' the nation been swept by such a bloody by Willi:ors '‘ttwood. a key intexme- derall were the major covert figures operatives in the of Kennedy the Horan- mur- taneous wave of andmultiple quasi-public: killings, and response the span- of diary in the negotiations, in a new tern's Western Hemisphere "Echelon 13" American citizens has been truly wipe- book called "Reds and Black*" (Harper network, serving under the direct control cedented. and Row) describing his experiences of David Ferric, a former Eastern Airlines as journalist-turned diplomat in the pilot cashiered/after his arrest on sodomy eons media, Dutiful evoked coverage reactions by the ranging tommenica- from Kennedy era, , charges in 1959. Sen. Robert Kennedy, reached in . sympathy for the victims to a half-ex- , Waithieetnn yesterday, continued the underGarrison suspicious characterizes circumstances on Feb- obliquelypressed expressed admiration by for such the expression.,killers, although as 'essence of Atterood's report. Ferric, who died amongst the citizenry the latter nary 22, as "the motit important person "Wow, what a nut!" and "That wasguy onlybad •The saga of the secret Castro initite of all time" and the. key not only to events some eye, didn't he!" tit* and the Kennedy Administration's in Dallas but also to the systematic liqui- cautious but affirmative, persistent probing belongs In any compilation of dation of eyewitnesses following in its spirit Still,festering one could about sense the land the competitiveas upstarts wake (at the latest count by Penn Jones, on every street corner began contemplet- the in.erutable "ifs" of history. It has special relevance at this moment ir Ir. and other assassination buffs, 23 dead, ing shooting their way into fame. Indeed, the light of lurid rumors be- including Dorothy Kilgallen). ing leaked in Washington of a CIA plot, reportedly"You can known understand Ferrie's motiva- (Continued on Page 2) to then Attorney Genera! Kennedy, to assaminate Castro— tion." Garrison said recently.. "Kennedy was a virile, hand- and the simultaneous tale that Oswald was Castro's agent some successful Man—everything Ferric was not. In addi- in a counterplot that led to John Kennedy's death. tion. there was the thrill of staging the perfect crime. Re- The story recorded by Attwood blasts this fantasy and member the Loeb and Leopold case in Chicago? It offers si wholly reverse version of the Washington-Havana same thing with Kennedy." was the relationship that seemed to be taking shape when John Writing in the • P. Kennedy was slain. Saturday Evening Post (May 6, 1967) The unfinished episode beg*n In September, 1063, when reporter Jam*,,Phelan summarized Garrison's thesis as Attwood, now editor of the Cowles publications, was seer- revealed in a series of exclusive interviews: "He claimed este as everini adviser for African that Oswald and Ruby were, both homosexuals and strafra at the II. S. mis- were (Continued on Page 5) both involved in the plot. He implied that Ruby--'his homo- (Continued on Page 3)

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poration. Publication office: 595 Broadway, New York, York, New Broadway, 595 office: Publication poration. But as Garrison is now discovering, the Homintern's great- Homintern's the discovering, now is Garrison as But

and July by The Realist Association, a non-profit non-profit a Association, Realist The by July and cor-

prominent in the Homintern literary hierarchy.) hierarchy.) literary Homintern the in prominent The Realist is published monthly except for January January for except monthly published is Realist The

belladonna and henbane to his food by a trusted aide now now aide trusted a by food his to henbane and belladonna

sanity through the introduction of progressive doses of of doses progressive of introduction the through sanity

a confidential consultant on Washington affairs. affairs. Washington on consultant confidential a rectly responsible for the destruction of Ernest Hemingway's Hemingway's Ernest of destruction the for responsible rectly

awarded a yearly pension of $100,000 and still serves as as serves still and $100,000 of pension yearly a awarded of Ezra Ezra of Pound in St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital and di- and Hospital Mental Elizabeth's St. in Pound

haps in recognition for his signal services in Dallas. he was was he Dallas. in services signal his for recognition in haps code code name Janus, and was instrumental in the imprisonment imprisonment the in instrumental was and Janus, name

the Homintern once his public usefulness was ended: per- ended: was usefulness public his once Homintern the was dominated by a prominent playwright known by the the by known playwright prominent a by dominated was

But "Alcibiades" was not cashiered or liquidated by by liquidated or cashiered not was "Alcibiades" But ("Scribe," the Woodstock Group's precursor organization organization precursor Group's Woodstock the ("Scribe,"

of exhaustion in dedicated service to his country.") country.") his to service dedicated in exhaustion of Capote, and Edward Albee. Albee. Edward and Vidal Gore Capote,

aching today for someone who had reached the end point point end the reached had who someone for today aching knit apparatus of artists led by a triumvirate of Truman Truman of triumvirate a by led artists of apparatus knit

a statement on October 15th declaring: "My heart is is heart "My declaring: 15th October on statement a the instrumentality of the "Woodstock Group," a closely closely a Group," "Woodstock the of instrumentality the

(In a poignant expression of grief, Mrs. Johnson issued issued Johnson Mrs. grief, of expression poignant a (In In the cultural field, the Homintern has worked through through worked has Homintern the field, cultural the In

Johnson was forced to accept Jenkins' resignation. resignation. Jenkins' accept to forced was Johnson in the theatre, Hollywood and fashion industry. industry. fashion and Hollywood theatre, the in

efforts failed when Goldwater forces broke the news and and news the broke forces Goldwater when failed efforts infiltration of Homintern agents into key control positions positions control key into agents Homintern of infiltration

ton newspaper editors into suppressing the story, but their their but story, the suppressing into editors newspaper ton tern cadres in the State and Justice Departments) and the the and Departments) Justice and State the in cadres tern

Court) and attorney Clark Clifford to pressure Washing- pressure to Clifford Clark attorney and Court) in government came dangerously close to exposing Homin- exposing to close dangerously came government in

Abe Fortes (a recent LBJ adornment of the Supreme the of adornment LBJ recent (a Fortes Abe McCarthy i whose blunderbuss attacks on "security risks" risks" "security on attacks blunderbuss whose i McCarthy

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in the YMCA lavatory in 1959, and quickly dispatched dispatched quickly and 1959, in lavatory YMCA the in General Douglas MacArthur, the censure of Senator Joseph Joseph Senator of censure the MacArthur, Douglas General

The Homintern had covered up Jenkins' pervious arrest arrest pervious Jenkins' up covered had Homintern The Circle, the Homintern's Women's Auxiliary), the firing of of firing the Auxiliary), Women's Homintern's the Circle,

his discovery of Eleanor's membership in the Androgyne Androgyne the in membership Eleanor's of discovery his Division). Division).

poison death of Franklin Roosevelt (following closely on on closely (following Roosevelt Franklin of death poison Foreign Trade in the Commerce Department's European European Department's Commerce the in Trade Foreign

(viewed as a dangerously virile symbol of Empire), the the Empire), of symbol virile dangerously a as (viewed diary of powerful friends, as Deputy Undeiaecretary for for Undeiaecretary Deputy as friends, powerful of diary

ern in 1935), the abdication of the Duke of Windsor Windsor of Duke the of abdication the 1935), in ern (Choka now serves, apparently through the interme- the through apparently serves, now (Choka

a bi-sexual coprohiliac who threw in his lot with the Homin- the with lot his in threw who coprohiliac bi-sexual a resident of the Soldiers' Home for Disabled Veterans. Veterans. Disabled for Home Soldiers' the of resident

. in Marseilles in 1936 (his successor was Prince Regent Paul, Paul, Regent Prince was successor (his 1936 in Marseilles in . gaging in indecent acts with Andy Choka. a 60-year-old 60-year-old a Choka. Andy with acts indecent in gaging

cluded the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia of I Alexander King of assassination the cluded room of the Washington YMCA and charged with en- with charged and YMCA Washington the of room

'Homintern successes in the succeeding years have in- have years succeeding the in successes 'Homintern tober 7, 1964 when he was arrested in the public men's men's public the in arrested was he when 1964 7, tober

sion to the Cluinceliorship. Cluinceliorship. the to sion Jenkins' value to the Homintern was destroyed on Oc- on destroyed was Homintern the to value Jenkins'

Master Master we can't get .anywhere near him." him." near .anywhere get can't we - Olen. to assess/late Hitler and insure Roehm's acces- Roehm's insure and Hitler assess/late to Olen.

urge only Weeks befOtt"ainplementation of the Homintern's Homintern's the of befOtt"ainplementation Weeks only urge insists on anonymity told me. "But he's still too big - big too still he's "But me. told anonymity on insists

the Nazi SA..lwas SA..lwas Nazi the lid off this entire country," one Garrison investigator who who investigator Garrison one country," entire this off lid tear in the bloody June 30, 1934 1934 30, June bloody the in tear

"lf we could grill Jenkins on the stand we'd blow the the blow we'd stand the on Jenkins grill could we "lf in Gerinariy, Ernes' Ernes' Gerinariy, in 1 1 notorious invert who headed headed who invert notorious 1 1,. the the 1,.

The group's first major seihack occurred when its man man its when occurred seihack major first group's The transferring his allegiance from the Homintern to the Mafia. Mafia. the to Homintern the from allegiance his transferring

fluence in all the governments of the world. world. the of governments the all in fluence mysterious plane crash in Mexico in 1964 shortly after after shortly 1964 in Mexico in crash plane mysterious

to infiltrate its operatives into positions of power and in- and power of positions into operatives its infiltrate to New Orleans Mayor De Lesseps Morrison, who died in a a in died who Morrison, Lesseps De Mayor Orleans New

resentatives of heterosexual values and a concomitant effort effort concomitant a and values heterosexual of resentatives the intermediary between "Alcibiades" and Shaw was former former was Shaw and "Alcibiades" between intermediary the

tion shifted its emphasis to violent attacks on leading rep- leading on attacks violent to emphasis its shifted tion at Kennedy from the grassy knoll, but there is no doubt doubt no is there but knoll, grassy the from Kennedy at

trialists and Eastern 'potentates, but by 1933 the organiza- the 1933 by but 'potentates, Eastern and trialists bag man for Oswald. Ruby and the "gay Latinos" who fired fired who Latinos" "gay the and Ruby Oswald. for man bag

ganda, receiving large sums from certain European indus- European certain from sums large receiving ganda, Clay Shaw, the black-leather cum whips freak who was the the was who freak whips cum black-leather the Shaw, Clay

stricted its activities to legitimate fund-raising and propa- and fund-raising legitimate to activities its stricted extent and intimacy of the relationship between Jenkins and and Jenkins between relationship the of intimacy and extent

There is some evidence that the Homintern initially re- initially Homintern the that evidence some is There Sources close to DA Garrison are hesitant to reveal the the reveal to hesitant are Garrison DA to close Sources

authority.) authority.)

the evening . . ." ." . . evening the house house in in (Italics added.) added.) (Italics

now occupying an honorary post without administrative administrative without post honorary an occupying now

also his official confidant, confidant, official his also the last man to leave the White White the leave to man last the

(Of the initial triumvirate, only the Persian is still alive. alive. still is Persian the only triumvirate, initial the (Of Wilson Jenkins was his personal friend. but that he was was he that but friend. personal his was Jenkins Wilson

around the world " " world the around

Times Times of October 15, 1964: "It was not only that Walter Walter that only not was "It 1964: 15, October of

legal and extra-legal, to advance the fortunes of homophiles homophiles of fortunes the advance to extra-legal, and legal

Texas was described by James Reston in the the in Reston James by described was Texas New York York New

names are not known—who pledged to "employ all means. means. all "employ to pledged known—who not are names Homintern at the age of 26 in his home town of Jolly, Jolly, of town home his in 26 of age the at Homintern the the

men, a German. an Indian and a Persian—to this day their their day this Persian—to a and Indian an German. a men, Johnson's relationship with Jenkins, who was recruited by by recruited was who Jenkins, with relationship Johnson's

Homintern was founded in Switzerland in 1931 by three three by 1931 in Switzerland in founded was Homintern , in 1946 amidst a shroud of scandal. scandal. of shroud a amidst 1946 in ,

curity officer with a major Eastern aviation company, the the company, aviation Eastern major a with officer curity tivities ever since Cordell Hull resigned as Secretary of State State of Secretary as resigned Hull Cordell since ever tivities

cording to a former CIA agent currently employed as se- as employed currently agent CIA former a to cording the near-legendary Washington director of Homintern ac- Homintern of director Washington near-legendary the

Giant would dare to openly challenge the Homintern. Ac- Homintern. the challenge openly to dare would Giant been identified by unimpeachable sources as "Alcibiades"— as sources unimpeachable by identified been

Only a man with the cast-iron guts of the Jolly Green Green Jolly the of guts cast-iron the with man a Only Walter Jenkins, Johnson's right-hand man since 1939, has has 1939, since man right-hand Johnson's Jenkins, Walter

sexual conspiracy . . ." ." . . conspiracy sexual

political supporters in the the in supporters political FBI FBI CIA. CIA. and and

nedy assassination made it out to be the result of a homo- a of result the be to out it made assassination nedy aide with she Hamintern is now accepted even by Johnson's Johnson's by even accepted now is Hamintern she with aide

from telling all . . . Boiled down, his version of the Ken- the of version his down, Boiled . . . all telling from at the very least—but the association of his most trusted trusted most his of association the least—but very the at

sexual name was Pinkie'—executed Oswald to prevent him him prevent to Oswald Pinkie'—executed was name sexual House correspondent Marianne Means indicates bi-sexuality bi-sexuality indicates Means Marianne correspondent House

it is generally assumed his torrid affair with Hearst White White Hearst with affair torrid his assumed generally is it (Continued from Cover) Cover) from (Continued

tent of Lyndon Johnson's connection with the Homintern- the with connection Johnson's Lyndon of tent

REGINALD DUNSANY DUNSANY REGINALD Sources in in Sources New New Orleans are studiously silent on the ex- the on silent studiously are Orleans

April 1965 1965 April

TV soap-opera, soap-opera, TV . Night. of Edge The be be ended ended if Castro stopped taking orders from Moscow and and Moscow from orders taking stopped Castro if

and in a a in and Pity She's She's Pity a a Whore, Whore, Broadway production of 'Tis 'Tis of production Broadway dress Stevenson said that the U.$.-Cuban cold war could could war cold U.$.-Cuban the that said Stevenson dress

Stevenson had raised in a UN speech on Oct. 7. In that.ad- In 7. Oct. on speech UN a in raised had Stevenson appeared in a few summer stock productions, in an off- an in productions, stock summer few a in appeared

Castro was "seriously interested" in discussing the point:, point:, the discussing in interested" "seriously was Castro Oxford, Ohio at the age of 16, quit after a year to act. She She act. to year a after quit 16, of age the at Ohio Oxford,

the UN to ascertain whether whether ascertain to UN the

preliminary private talks at at talks private preliminary Cambridge. Ohio in 1926. She entered Miami University in in University Miami entered She 1926. in Ohio Cambridge.

Bundy told Attwood that President Kennedy still favored favored still Kennedy President that Attwood told Bundy

Lisa Howard was born Dorothy Jean Guggenheim in in Guggenheim Jean Dorothy born was Howard Lisa

be. be. would not not would and and specifically stated that Guevara Guevara that stated specifically

interest. interest.

present-- be be posed. He also said that Castro alone would would alone Castro that said also He posed.

reading. It was Attwood's omission of them that renewed my my renewed that them of omission Attwood's was It reading.

arrangements we pro- we arrangements secrecy secrecy

Cubans would accept any any accept would Cubans

ference to them only barely registered with me on the first first the on me with registered barely only them to ference Vallejo called 1Viliii-Howard again to emphasize that the the that emphasize to again 1Viliii-Howard called Vallejo

Both facts were so well known to me that Wechsler's re- Wechsler's that me to known well so were facts Both

Castro wanted to disepAtbefore going into a meeting." meeting." a into going disepAtbefore to wanted Castro

relations. relations. TO should now find out just what what just out find now should TO . . overture but thought but overture

personal attempt to secure the rationalization of U. S.-Cuban S.-Cuban U. of rationalization the secure to attempt personal than the State Dept. was inted in exploring this this exploring in inted was Dept. State the than more more

in in a a resident resident had been exploiting her hard-won contact with Castro Castro with contact hard-won her exploiting been had ; Bundy, he repos 4;41*d "t "t 4;41*d repos he Bundy, House; White

ge ge y at the the at y On Nov. 5 Attwood met with with met Attwood 5 Nov. On have known that for some time before October, 1963 she she 1963 October, before time some for that known have

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t t i visit from U. S. offic S. U. from visit welcome an unpublicised unpublicised an welcome to note Lisa Howard's death in the summer of 1965, or to to or 1965, of summer the in death Howard's Lisa note to

- - On Oct On 31 Vallejo told Miss Howard that Castro would would Castro that Howard Miss told Vallejo 31 have failed failed have one in New York's journalistic community could could community journalistic York's New in one

munication with Maj. Rene Vallejo, Castro's personal aide. aide. personal Castro's Vallejo, Rene Maj. with munication Neither of these facts could have escaped Attwood. No No Attwood. escaped have could facts these of Neither

of Attwood's talks with Lechuga and was in telephone com- telephone in was and Lechuga with talks Attwood's of

involvement in October, 1963. 1963. October, in involvement

long months a dream of U. S.-Cuban reconciliation, learned learned reconciliation, S.-Cuban U. of dream a months long

Howard's interest in our relations with antedated her her antedated Cuba with relations our in interest Howard's

who knew Castro well and tenaciously pursued for many many for pursued tenaciously and well Castro knew who

Second, only Wechsler thought it interesting that Lisa Lisa that interesting it thought Wechsler only Second,

The late Lisa Howard, the spirited TV correspondent correspondent TV spirited the Howard, Lisa late The

the company of John Kennedy she had been murdered. murdered. been had she Kennedy John of company the

Mexico. Mexico.

a year after he ran into Washington painter Mary Meyer in in Meyer Mary painter Washington into ran he after year a outside Cuba, possibly in in possibly Cuba, outside such a private session were held held were session private a such

tuitously ten pages earlier in the book to the fact that within within that fact the to book the in earlier pages ten tuitously Robert Robert Kennedy said he thought it would be preferable if if preferable be would it thought he said Kennedy

of her subsequent death, although the refers quite gra- quite refers the although death, subsequent her of was a strong chance that Castro would invite him to Cuba. Cuba. to him invite would Castro that chance strong a was

a a later Lechuga told Attwood there there Attwood told Lechuga later At At party a few days days few a party was no longer alive. Attwood didn't mention the fact fact the mention didn't Attwood alive. longer no was ard ard

discussions." discussions." How- First, Wechsler had felt called upon to note that Lisa Lisa that note to upon called felt had Wechsler First,

delegate, "so long as I made it clear we were not soliciting soliciting not were we clear it made I as long "so delegate, Two things struck me. . . me. struck things Two

spells it "Lechunga" throughout the piece], the chief Cuban Cuban chief the piece], the throughout "Lechunga" it spells

. . Vallejo." Vallejo."

Attwood conferring with Dr. Carlos Lechuga [Wechsler [Wechsler Lechuga Carlos Dr. with conferring Attwood

touch by phone with Castro's personal aide. Major Rene Rene Major aide. personal Castro's with phone by touch with President Kennedy, who approved the notion of of notion the approved who Kennedy, President with

been briefed on my UN talks with Lechuga, had been in in been had Lechuga, with talks UN my on briefed been plications." Meanwhile Stevenson discussed the matter matter the discussed Stevenson Meanwhile plications."

a television television a correspondent who knew Castro well and had had and well Castro knew who correspondent plore it with Robert Kennedy "because of its political im- political its of "because Kennedy Robert with it plore

Howard. Howard. Harriman favored the idea but advised Attwood to ex- to Attwood advised but idea the favored Harriman "Meanwhile," Attwood wrote fp. 143), "Lisa "Lisa 143), fp. wrote Attwood "Meanwhile,"

Castro did want to talk on our terms." terms." our on talk to want did Castro Vallejo, Castro's personal aide." aide." personal Castro's Vallejo,

the Cuban delegation at the UN to find out "if in fact fact in "if out find to UN the at delegation Cuban the chuga and was in telephone communication with Maj. Rene Rene Maj. with communication telephone in was and chuga

and Averell Harriman that quiet contact be made with with made be contact quiet that Harriman Averell and

Cuban reconciliation, learned of Attwood's talks with Le- with talks Attwood's of learned reconciliation, Cuban

Attwood suggested to UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson Stevenson Adlai Ambassador UN to suggested Attwood

U. U. &- &-

ciously pursued for many long months a dream of of dream a months long many for pursued ciously

to be swayed by Communist advisers." advisers." Communist by swayed be to

spirited TV correspondent who knew Castro well and tena- and well Castro knew who correspondent TV spirited

tional to be a disciplined Communist, though naive enough enough naive though Communist, disciplined a be to tional

late Lisa Howard," Wechsler had written, "the "the written, had Wechsler Howard," Lisa late

"The "The with Castro in 1959 "convinced me that he was too emo- too was he that me "convinced 1959 in Castro with

to bring to Turner's attention. attention. Turner's to bring to The reports seemed plausible to Attwood: a long session session long a Attwood: to plausible seemed reports The

any errors in Wechsler's version that I ought ought I that version Wechsler's in errors any been been there had had there Castro as "dangerously unreliable." unreliable." "dangerously as Castro

if if I could see see could I so so vara, the hard-line Commisar who was said to regard regard to said was who Commisar hard-line the vara, The Reds and The Blacks Blacks The and Reds The I bought bought I

dications of a deepening rift between Castro and Che Gue- Che and Castro between rift deepening a of dications

death. death. U. U. S. There were in- were There S. to achieve an accomodation with the the with accomodation an achieve to

indeed, whose imminence may have helped bring about his his about bring helped have may imminence whose indeed, sures and was prepared to make "substantial concessions" concessions" "substantial make to prepared was and sures

and, and, have taken place had Kennedy lived lived Kennedy had place taken have that Castro was growing restive under Communist pres- Communist under restive growing was Castro that policy that might might that policy

Attwood says he had received hints from other sources sources other from hints received had he says Attwood as evidence of the dramatic changes in American foreign foreign American in changes dramatic the of evidence as

of a Cuban-U.S. rapprochement. rapprochement. Cuban-U.S. a of offering it it offering Ramparts, Ramparts, tioned Attwood's account in the June June the in account Attwood's tioned

ambaisador who first broached to Attwood the possibility possibility the Attwood to broached first who ambaisador

so I clipped the column and sent it off. Turner men- Turner off. it sent and column the clipped I so parts parts

retrospect of his African assignment). It was the Guinean Guinean the was It assignment). African his of retrospect

Ram- investigating the assassination for for assassination the investigating Agent who is is who Agent cial cial

Guinea (and (and Guinea much of his book is a lively, unconventional unconventional lively, a is book his of much

FBI Spe- FBI - ex

might interest Bill Turner, the the Turner, Bill interest might I thought this this thought I

as a New Frontiersman in the role of ambassador to to ambassador of role the in Frontiersman New a as

sion to the United Nations. He had initially been enlisted enlisted been initially had He Nations. United the to sion If ...? ...? If

been ever since." Attwood writes, writes, Attwood since." ever been it has has it where where

(Continued from Cover) Cover) from (Continued

was and and was exercise would be put on ice for a while—which it it while—which a for ice on put be would exercise

"... I informed Bundy and later was told that the Cuban Cuban the that told was later and Bundy informed I "... CRAIG KARPEL KARPEL CRAIG

23 to begin "formal discussions" with him. him. with discussions" "formal begin to 23

covered he's straight!" straight!" he's covered chugs, who said he had been instructed by Castro on Nov. Nov. on Castro by instructed been had he said who chugs,

Soon after the assassination Attwood encountered Le- encountered Attwood assassination the after Soon bower, crying: "Call off the invasion, boys! We just dis- just We boys! invasion, the off "Call crying: bower,

"a brief trip to Dallas." Dallas." to trip brief "a by Lord Thorneycroft, rushes up to Montgomery and Eisen Eisen and Montgomery to up rushes Thorneycroft, Lord by

The President, Bundy added, would be available except for for except available be would added, Bundy President, The Headquarters, London, June 3, 1944: Churchill, followed followed Churchill, 1944: 3, June London, Headquarters,

wanted to see him immediately after he met with Lechuga. Lechuga. with met he after immediately him see to wanted

we may be permitted a fantasy— Supreme Allied Command Command Allied Supreme fantasy— a permitted be may we

On Nov. 19 Bundy told Attwood that the President President the that Attwood told Bundy 19 Nov. On

, without throwing their sex lives into question. Imagine —if —if Imagine question. into lives sex their throwing without ,

the conversation. conversation. the

and his ideological heirs cannot be adequately condemned condemned adequately be cannot heirs ideological his and

said Castro would tell Lechuga to discuss an agenda for for agenda an discuss to Lechuga tell would Castro said

Again, what troubles us is the belief that Adolf Hitler Hitler Adolf that belief the is us troubles what Again,

ber ber and confirmed our readiness to listen to Castro. Vallejo Vallejo Castro. to listen to readiness our confirmed and

heterosexual. heterosexual. num- Attwood telephoned Vallejo at a private Havana Havana private a at Vallejo telephoned Attwood

a scintilla of evidence that Rockwell was anything but but anything was Rockwell that evidence of scintilla a revolution, revolution, the democratic promises of his his of promises democratic the

infiltrating other Latin American states, and returned to to returned and states, American Latin other infiltrating life, thoroughly "normal" if unimaginative, and there isn't isn't there and unimaginative, if "normal" thoroughly life,

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of himself and Lisa with a Polaroid camera given him by by him given camera Polaroid a with Lisa and himself of

the Czechoslovakian Czechoslovakian the

Castro appeared to enjoy it all. He had pictures taken taken pictures had He all. it enjoy to appeared Castro Embassy, Embassy,

which represents Cuba in in Cuba represents which

in Havana, which handles United States affairs there, or or there, affairs States United handles which Havana, in

words of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson." Jefferson." Thomas and Paine Thomas of words

tions, why doesn't doesn't why tions,

he he address himself to the Swiss Embassy Embassy Swiss the to himself address

sacraments of democracy—free elections; free press, the the press, free elections; democracy—free of sacraments

Fidel Castro is4enuinely interested in meaningful negotia- meaningful in interested is4enuinely Castro Fidel

opliy-- -Kant and Canvas— and of what Lisa later called"the called"the later Lisa what of and Canvas— and -Kant

2 However, tl4p question may reasonably be raised: If If raised: be reasonably may question tl4p However,

night club. They talked for hours about literature, philos- literature, about hours for talked They club. night quarters can hardly be ignored. ignored. be hardly can quarters

of the Interior and Lisa Howard proceeded to the hotel hotel the to proceeded Howard Lisa and Interior the of on his mind. An overture iepeated so often, and in so many many so in and often, so iepeated overture An mind. his on

Then Castro, his interpreter, the ambassador, the Minister Minister the ambassador, the interpreter, his Castro, Then • • now be evident that has something serious serious something has Castro Fidel that evident be now

to the most most the to

said, "Lisa Howard, how do you do?" do?" you do how Howard, "Lisa said,

casual observer observer casual

of the the of

Cuban Cuban

scene scene it must must it by by

Surely these are not mere propaganda utterings. Even Even utterings. propaganda mere not are these Surely Five minutes later, Castro drove up, walked over to her and and her to over walked up, drove Castro later, minutes Five

three years. years. three down to the lobby, and was taken out to the hotel steps. steps. hotel the to out taken was and lobby, the to down

formal gathering of the Western diplomatic corps in over over in corps diplomatic Western the of gathering formal Lisa leaped into a low-cut brown cocktail dress, went went dress, cocktail brown low-cut a into leaped Lisa

incidentally, marked the first time Castro bad attended .a .a attended bad Castro time first the marked incidentally,

sador. sador.

amicable relations, with the United States. This luncheon, luncheon, This States. United the with relations, amicable

"Get dressed and come downstairs," said the ambas- the said downstairs," come and dressed "Get

.continually referred to the subject of his desire for more more for desire his of subject the to referred .continually

"I'm in bed," said Lisa. Lisa. said bed," in "I'm

attended by all all by attended

the the Western ambassadors to Cuba, Castro Castro Cuba, to ambassadors Western

bassador. "Come downstairs," he said. said. he downstairs," "Come bassador.

of •June •June of at the home of the Czech ambassador to Cuba Cuba to ambassador Czech the of home the at

April 21, she received a telephone call from the Swiss am- am- Swiss the from call telephone a received she 21, April and and

tions with the United United the with tions

States. At a luncheon held at the end end the at held luncheon a At States.

Riviera. Finally, at a quarter past midnight cn Sunday, Sunday, cn midnight past quarter a at Finally, Riviera. television and said he hoped Cuba could normalize rela- normalize could Cuba hoped he said and television

For three weeks she cooled her heels at Havana's Hotel Hotel Havana's at heels her cooled she weeks three For On June 24th. Cuban President Dorticos spoke on Havana Havana on spoke Dorticos President Cuban 24th. June On

vagant notion of getting a TV interview with Castro. Castro. with interview TV a getting of notion vagant discussions with the United States. States. United the with discussions

ferred to our interview and again indicated his desire for for desire his indicated again and interview our to ferred By April Fool's Day, she was in Havana with the extra- the with Havana in was she Day, Fool's April By

return to Cuba, in a televised address to the people, he re- he people, the to address televised a in Cuba, to return

approved. approved.

States in a speech at Lenin Stadium in Moscow. Upon his his Upon Moscow. in Stadium Lenin at speech a in States

a trip to Cuba in February, 1963, her visa application was was application visa her 1963, February, in Cuba to trip a

He mentioned his desire for better relations with the United United the with relations better for desire his mentioned He

get her a visa. Shortly after Quaison-Sackey returned from from returned Quaison-Sackey after Shortly visa. a her get

about his about

. desire for negotiations with the United States. States. United the with negotiations for desire

the Ghanaian Ambassador to the UN, to use his influence to to influence his use to UN, the to Ambassador Ghanaian the a period of eight hours, Castro was even more emphatic emphatic more even was Castro hours, eight of period a

had Khrushchev. She' prevailed upon Alex Quaison-Sackey, Quaison-Sackey, Alex upon prevailed She' Khrushchev. had

During our private private our During

conversations, which continued over over continued which conversations,

was somehow to get to Cuba and buttonhole him as she she as him buttonhole and Cuba to get to somehow was and Cuba: Cuba: and

She decided that the only way to get to speak to Castro Castro to speak to get to way only the that decided She

points of contention that that contention of points

existed existed

between the United States States United the between

not reply. reply. not terview Castro had proclaimed his desire to discuss all all discuss to desire his proclaimed had Castro terview Mo. Mo. ;

Report. Report. There is evidence that Mikoyan complied, but Castro did did Castro but complied, Mikoyan that evidence is There In it Lisa Howard noted that during the filmed in- filmed the during that noted Howard Lisa it In

Overture" that appeared in Richard Hudson's Hudson's Richard in appeared that Overture" it.h Khrushchev.. She asked him to deliver it to Fidel Castro. Castro. Fidel to it deliver to him asked She Khrushchev.. it.h

War' Peace Peace War'

request for an interview and a transcript of her interview interview her of transcript a and interview an for request Meanwhile she had written an article titled "Castro's "Castro's titled article an written had she Meanwhile

Howard ran up and handed him an envelope containing a a containing envelope an him handed and up ran Howard show starring a woman in the history of broadcasting. broadcasting. of history the in woman a starring show

his New York-to-Havana plane in November, 1962, Lisa Lisa 1962, November, in plane York-to-Havana New his The five-minute afternoon show was the first network news news network first the was show afternoon five-minute The

sian First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan was boarding boarding was Mikoyan I. Anastas Premier Deputy First sian Woman's Touch". It went on the air September 9. 1963. 1963. 9. September air the on went It Touch". Woman's

Howard decided she had to speak to Fidel Castro. As Rus- As Castro. Fidel to speak to had she decided Howard "Purex Presents Lisa Howard and the News, with the the with News, the and Howard Lisa Presents "Purex

During the tense days of the Lisa Lisa crisis missile Cuban the of days tense the During ABC rewarded its lady reporter for her initiative with with initiative her for reporter lady its rewarded ABC

woman reporter. reporter. woman the dark" about any reconciliation. reconciliation. any about dark" the

American Broadcasting Company as the network's first first network's the as Company Broadcasting American spokesman in the Senate, said that Castro was "whistling in in "whistling was Castro that said Senate, the in spokesman

answer." In May, 1961 Lisa Howard was asked to join the the join to asked was Howard Lisa 1961 May, In answer." hunger for reconciliation." Humphrey, then Kennedy's Kennedy's then Humphrey, reconciliation." for hunger

tenacity or resourcefulness or refusing to take no for an an for no take to refusing or resourcefulness or tenacity the film. Keating said that Dr. Castro's remarks showed showed remarks Castro's Dr. that said Keating film. the

"a "a a woman," Miss Howard told the the told Howard Miss woman," a

Humphrey of Minnesota were interviewed immediately after after immediately interviewed were Minnesota of Humphrey

New York Times. Times. York New

"Call it it "Call

"1 don't think my success has anything to do with being being with do to anything has success my think don't "1 Senators Kenneth B. Keating of New York and Hubert H. H. Hubert and York New of Keating B. Kenneth Senators

exclusive interview. interview. exclusive

dared. dared.

an appointment. KhrushChev, astounded, granted her an an her granted astounded, KhrushChev, appointment. an

"I have looked at such steps with good eyes," he d,• d,• he eyes," good with steps such at looked have "I

limousine she came forward, took his hand and requested requested and hand his took forward, came she limousine

the right direction." direction." right the

joined the procession. As the Chairman stepped into his his into stepped Chairman the As procession. the joined

and "the stopping of piratical acts against Cuba" as "steps in in "steps as Cuba" against acts piratical of stopping "the and

As Khrushchev and his entourage left the building, she she building, the left entourage his and Khrushchev As

tioned the exchange of prisoners between the two nations nations two the between prisoners of exchange the tioned

She hid in the ladies' room for 3 hours. hours. 3 for room ladies' the in hid She

and that these might be the basis of better relation's. He men- He relation's. better of basis the be might these that and

the embassy. embassy. the

some steps in the way of peace" in its relations with Cuba Cuba with relations its in peace" of way the in steps some

"Gaol mornink." mornink." "Gaol

she tr she ,rowled ,rowled to the cops and marched into into marched and cops the to

Castro said that he believed that the United States had "taken "taken had States United the that believed he that said Castro

case, wearing an old hat and flat shoes and no makeup. makeup. no and shoes flat and hat old an wearing case,

ute interview in the can. It was aired on May 10, 1963. 1963. 10, May on aired was It can. the in interview ute

arrived one morning at the Soviet Embassy carrying a brief- a carrying Embassy Soviet the at morning one arrived

She came back from Havana triumphant, with a 45-min- a with triumphant, Havana from back came She

his heel, and Lisa Howard decided to nail him down. She She down. him nail to decided Howard Lisa and heel, his

more hours. hours. more

That November, Khrushchev was in New York to tighten tighten to York New in was Khrushchev November, That

drink." They went to the hotel bar and talked for three three for talked and bar hotel the to went They drink."

her. her.

was over, Lisa said. "Come on, I'll buy you two fellas a a fellas two you buy I'll on, "Come said. Lisa over, was

her down. They were too flabbergasted to keep from hiring hiring from keep to flabbergasted too were They down. her

they went upstairs and Lisa intervieWed Castro. When it it When Castro. intervieWed Lisa and upstairs went they

to Los Angeles to surprise the executives who had turned turned had who executives the surprise to Angeles Los to

for an hour—about life, the revolution," she recalled. Then Then recalled. she revolution," the life, hour—about an for

turned down. She decided she had nothing to lose and flew flew and lose to nothing had she decided She down. turned

showed up at Lisa's room an hour early. "We sat and talked talked and sat "We early. hour an room Lisa's at up showed

She applied to Mutual Broadcasting in New York and was was and York New in Broadcasting Mutual to applied She

floor penthouse suite at the hotel. Castro and his interpreter interpreter his and Castro hotel. the at suite penthouse floor

side of politics" and "really get in the middle—reporting." middle—reporting." the in get "really and politics" of side

The interview was set for 3 p.m. Wednesday in a 20th 20th a in Wednesday p.m. 3 for set was interview The

ing, she decided she wanted to leave acting and the "active "active the and acting leave to wanted she decided she ing,

Castro Castro

suddenly agreed to to agreed suddenly active side of politics." In 1960, with the conventions com- conventions the with 1960, In politics." of side active be interviewed. interviewed. be

Lisa said, "but he never glanced at the stage." At 5:15 a.m.. a.m.. 5:15 At stage." the at glanced never he "but said, Lisa

City and energetically began to pursue what she called "the "the called she what pursue to began energetically and City

and-soda but hardly touched it. "There was a floor show." show." floor a was "There it. touched hardly but and-soda

She joined the Lexington Democratic Club in New York York New in Club Democratic Lexington the joined She American attorney James Donovan. He ordered one Scotch- one ordered He Donovan. James attorney American

satemeseses. satemeseses. 'efasia'st' : :

sets ,

April 1968 1968 April

Shakespeare, Camus, the Greek philosophers, Thomas Paine. Paine. Thomas philosophers, Greek the Camus, Shakespeare, tract tract through the following September. She insisted that that insisted She September. following the through

"We talked and talked and talked," Lisa Said. "He's read read "He's Said. Lisa talked," and talked and talked "We

Shortly before her suspension ABC had renewed her con- her renewed had ABC suspension her before Shortly

leader on five occasions. occasions. five on leader 1962 and 1963. 1963. and 1962

operatives and agricultural schools. She was with the Cuban Cuban the with was She schools. agricultural and operatives just as actively in politics during the campaigns of 1961. 1961. of campaigns the during politics in actively as just

spent 10 days inspecting bull farms„ villages, housing co- housing villages, farms„ bull inspecting days 10 spent reflect her political position. She had, she said, participated participated said, she had, She position. political her reflect

Lisa went to Ctil to went Lisa a again in the Spring of 1964. 1964. of Spring the in again a , vate citizen and that her television broadcasts would not not would broadcasts television her that and citizen vate

death." death." that she was working in behalf of Senator Keating as a pri- a as Keating Senator of behalf in working was she that

.ward us, us, .ward Lisa replied that she had notified ABC on September 19th 19th September on ABC notified had she that replied Lisa of of course we are really sorry about his tragic tragic his about sorry really are we course

of the fact that President Kennedy was haid personally to- personally haid was Kennedy President that fact the of

policy." policy." - -

I want to say to the people of the United States United the of people the to say to want I political activity contrary to long-established ABC News News ABC long-established to contrary activity political . . that in spite spite in that

cause she has chosen to participate publicly in partisan partisan in publicly participate to chosen has she cause are ready to speit.k. but it does not depend only upon us ...... us upon only depend not does it but speit.k. to ready are

revolutionary Ci revolutionary assignments for the duration of the political campaign be- campaign political the of duration the for assignments , , - -.'ernment and so you see' that sincerely. we we sincerely. that see' you so and -.'ernment

dernnification of American property nationalized by the the by nationalized property American of dernnification "Miss Lisa Howard has been relieved from all ABC News News ABC all from relieved been has Howard Lisa "Miss

swer swer what we can do . . We are ready to speak about in- about speak to ready are We . . do can we what ment: ment:

step to help that normalization because it is difficult to an- to difficult is it because normalization that help to step into her news slot. ABC News released the following state- following the released News ABC slot. news her into

belongs to the United States Government to take the next next the take to Government States United the to belongs ABC suspended Lisa Howard and plugged Marlene Sanders Sanders Marlene plugged and Howard Lisa suspended ABC

is to normalize that relationship. But now it is it now But relationship. that normalize to is held the evening of September 25th. The following day day following The 25th. September of evening the held . . not for us: it it us: for not

"We have spoken," he said, "and we repeat that our wish wish our that repeat we "and said, he spoken," have "We The first public meeting of Democrats for Keating was was Keating for Democrats of meeting public first The

ously authoritarian. We feel he must he stopped now." now." stopped he must he feel We authoritarian. ously nedy Administration was possible." possible." was Administration nedy

the late President. He is ruthless, reactionary and danger- and reactionary ruthless, is He President. late the that "an eventual normalization of relations with the. Ken- the. with relations of normalization eventual "an that

meeting said, "Bobby is the very antithesis of his brother. brother. his of antithesis very the is "Bobby said, meeting that until President Kennedy's "tragic death" he believed believed he death" "tragic Kennedy's President until that

and stand up and be counted." One of those attending the the attending those of One counted." be and up stand and relation.s with the United States might be restored that year. year. that restored be might States United the with relation.s

like this you can't remain silent—you have to show courage courage show to have silent—you remain can't you this like ,10SiYork Times. Times. ,10SiYork He said that he was hopeful that good good that hopeful was he that said He

organized because "if you feel strongly about something something about strongly feel you "if because organized

of of ..the conversation were quoted in the next day's day's next the in quoted were conversation ..the 1 3 44 44

Times Times She told the the told She three days later that the group was was group the that later days three ' '

;for ;for : a half-hour. half-hour. a :

Howard's home. home. Howard's • •

rite rite neXt day's celebrations. the Cuban Premier spoke in in spoke Premier Cuban the celebrations. day's neXt

the "Bobby Kennedy power grab." The meeting was at Lisa Lisa at was meeting The grab." power Kennedy "Bobby the

Castro and and Castro Khi'Ll:ii;c;leV Khi'Ll:ii;c;leV decked the streets of Havana for for Havana of streets the decked

their support to his campaign, to forestall what they called called they what forestall to campaign, his to support their

gencioBatats. While thousands of red flags and pictures of of pictures and flags red of thousands While gencioBatats.

ocratic reform movement—met with Keating to pledge pledge to Keating with movement—met reform ocratic

eve of the 5tit 5tit the of eve er.:•iry of ha seizure of power from Ful- Ful- from power of seizure ha of er.:•iry

both known as prominent figures in 's Dem- City's York New in figures prominent as known both

Castro called:Lisa. Howard on New Year's Day 1964, the the 1964, Day Year's New on Howard called:Lisa. Castro

Keating. On September 10th, Lisa Howard and Gore Vidal---- Gore and Howard Lisa 10th, September On Keating.

picked up the tune, and Lisa Howard danced between them. them. between danced Howard Lisa and tune, the up picked

that he would run for the New York Senate seat held by by held seat Senate York New the for run would he that

about Low oseesediation. Now John F. Kennedy had had Kennedy F. John Now oseesediation. Low about

In the late summer of 1964 Bobby Kennedy announced announced Kennedy Bobby 1964 of summer late the In

Humphrey had said that Castro was "whistling in the the in "whistling was Castro that said had Humphrey

scoop. scoop.

man himself. himself. man called because he was anxious to give his blonde friend the the friend blonde his give to anxious was he because called

that could run Castro Castro run could that a eaerference and get through to the the to through get and eaerference a tions was of course free free course of was tions make the invitation public. Castro Castro public. invitation the make to to

she was the only piels.. only the was she w. in the United States of America America of States United the in w. 26th of July celebrations in Cuba. Any one of the 25 publica- 25 the of one Any Cuba. in celebrations July of 26th -

istration's interest in arranging talks with Castro: because because Castro: with talks arranging in interest istration's publications inviting them to send reporters to cover the the cover to reporters send to them inviting publications

This is why Lisa Howard was informed of the Admin- the of informed was Howard Lisa why is This to inform her her inform to sent telegrams to 25 American American 25 to telegrams sent that he had had he that

Castro." Castro." that year. On July 6th. the Cuban premier telephoned her her telephoned premier Cuban the 6th. July On year. that

through the Foreign Office, had apparently not reached reached not apparently had Office, Foreign the through Lisa Howard kept up her contact with Castro through through Castro with contact her up kept Howard Lisa

But Attwo. But ,1 notes that "Lechuga's message. which went went which message. "Lechuga's that notes ,1 , network was second guessing." guessing." second was network

UN." UN." content and its placement on the air as to suggest that the the that suggest to as air the on placement its and content

or a personal emissary at some convenient place like the the like place convenient some at emissary personal a or Howard's program. The announcement was so pointed in its its in pointed so was announcement The program. Howard's

Casttp 'wanted to talk to us we were prepared to meet him him meet to prepared were we us to talk to 'wanted Casttp ably should have been incorporated in the body of Miss Miss of body the in incorporated been have should ably

Lech110 that he "couldn't very well well very "couldn't he that Lech110 tims of 'Castro tyranny.' The matter of the refugees prefer- refugees the of matter The tyranny.' 'Castro of tims go go to Cuba but that if if that but Cuba to

O. O. nedy. nedy. the Attorney General's instruction, Attwood told told Attwood instruction, General's Attorney the were asked to contribute money to aid the thousands of vic- of thousands the aid to money contribute to asked were

into the picture- at this stage. Most likely it was Bobby Ken- Bobby was it likely Most stage. this at picture- the into support of the International Rescue Committee. Viewers Viewers Committee. Rescue International the of support

Attwood does n‘ does Attwood . 1: mention who brought Lisa Howard Howard Lisa brought who mention 1: had finished, the. network offered a spot announcement in in announcement spot a offered network the. finished, had

started the ball rolling. rolling. ball the started Howard rather oddly in one respect. After her program program her After respect. one in oddly rather Howard

the topic of of topic the

Cuban rapprochement to Attwood--who Attwood--who to rapprochement Cuban "But." he added, "the A. A. "the added, he "But." B. B. C. news department did treat treat did department news C.

—the Guinean ambassador to Havana who first broached broached first who Havana to ambassador Guinean —the criticized the interview as "vague." "vague." as interview the criticized

ministration. It was instead one of the "allied ambassadors" ambassadors" "allied the of one instead was It ministration.

Jack Gould, television critic of the the of critic television Gould, Jack next day day next Times, the the Times,

Cuban side, she 'A/3 linable to make contact with the Ad- the with contact make to linable 'A/3 she side, Cuban to speak about." about." speak to

Althou0i Althou0i to to - I:. S. S. I:. journalist" had connections on the the on connections had journalist" . a new situation . .. and we had evidence I do not want want not do I evidence had we and .. . situation new a .

the other side e;t1 repord to the suggestion: suggestion: the to repord e;t1 side other the place in the mind of the Government of the United States States United the of Government the of mind the in place

lic speeches, allied ambassadors—hoping that someone on on someone that ambassadors—hoping allied speeches, lic

Cuba. I had some evidence that some change was taking taking was change some that evidence some had I Cuba.

proaches to impart his message: a U. S. journalist, pub- journalist, S. U. a message: his impart to proaches

President was "persuading himself of his mistakes about about mistakes his of himself "persuading was President

beseech us. So he has turned to other, more subtle ap- subtle more other, to turned has he So us. beseech

said that at the time of Kennedy's death he believed the the believed he death Kennedy's of time the at that said

United United

State and now he simply cannot bring himself to to himself bring cannot simply he now and ., ., - ,

It wasn't. The interview was aired on April 19th. Castro Castro 19th. April on aired was interview The wasn't. It

Castro has spent spent has Castro stood part of his career defying the the defying career his of part stood it it

he great for your career." career." your for great he is concerned. concerned. is

is going to do a thing for me." he joked, "but it's going to to going it's "but joked, he me." for thing a do to going is jected out of haad--partieularly where the United States States United the where haad--partieularly of out jected

her to film another interview. "I don't believe this interview interview this believe don't "I interview. another film to her precise and formal hid for negotiations that might be re- be might that negotiations for hid formal and precise

tensely proud man and, therefore, hesitant about making a a making about hesitant therefore, and, man proud tensely The admiration was apparently mutual. Castro allowed allowed Castro mutual. apparently was admiration The

this country? country? this answer answer is a simple orte..Castro is an in- an is orte..Castro simple a is The The He is an intellectual who also has a sense of humor." humor." of sense a has also who intellectual an is He

a film ex- day, July 2nd. Her husband, Walter Lowendahl. there was nothing in this contract that prohibited political ecutive, drove her to•their summer home in East Hampton. activity on her part. The network admitted that this was Long Island. so, but that she we suspended nonetheless. Shortly after noon on Fourth of July Sunday she was Saturday evening. October 17th saw the debut of a series observed "acting strangely" in the parking lot of a phar- of debates called ''The Controversy" at the Strollers Club,. Tile Establishment, the English satirical macy by "two friends," who helped her into their car and once the home Of. then called the police for assistance. revue and now the site of Arthur's, a discotheque. It was Patrolman William Brockman, who responded to the call. a panel show with food, drink and audience participation. later told the Times that Miss Howard appeared dazed and moderated by Betty Furness. glassy-eyed and was almdst incoherent. Lisa Howard and Stephen May, a lawyer and Keating par- "She kept mumbling something about a miscarriage." tisan, debated two pro-Bobby attorneys. Robert H. Clampitt the patrolman said. He escorted the friends' car to the East and Justin Feldman. Edwin Guthman, a top Kennedy aide, Hampton Medical Center, but "she collapsed before we got sat silently in the rear of the audience. l.isa dropped the her inside." the evening. "Brothers are not necessarily the bomb of The doctor at the clinic performed a tracheotomy to clear same," she told the audience. "There was Cain and Abel." an airway and gave her oxygen. She never regained con- There was loud applause and a woman's voice that said, sciousness. At 12:15 p.m. Lisa Howard was pronounced "That's disgusting." Betty Furness rapidly closed the refrig- dead. Dr. Mary Johnson, assistant Suffolk County medicalan erator door on that salient of discussion. As Lisa walked examiner, tentatively ruled the death a suicide pending into the foyer and saw Feldman talking to Ed Guthman, the autopsy. The police said that a prescription Miss Howard ob- must have realized that her days in broadcasting were num- tained Saturday for ten sleeping pills had been altered to bered. 100 before she had it filled. Election Day came, but Purex was still Presenting Mar- The Times reported that "according to a close friend, lene Sanders. The day after Robby was elected the net- Miss Howard had been depressed since the loss of her un- work informe.ci Lisa that her particular woman's touch was born child, Speaking from her home at 63 Spring Close no longer in demand at ABC News. They allowed as how Highway, he said 'Lisa had taken a normal prescription last she wasn't in violation of her contract and that they would night to counter the depression. But she woke up and reciprocate by continuing to mail her the $500 minimum wandered into town seeking more barbiturates. She got them. weekly paycheck to which she was entitled until she re- resign. Then she felt sick and asked two friends for help. They signed—and would she please- drove her to the East Hampton clinic. with a police escort, "She's being canned." an unnamed ABC executive told where she lost consciousness.' " on November..8th. "She doesn't fit. She's a mys- Two weeks later, Dr. Sidney Wenberg, Suffolk County tery gir! Jost don't want her on our staff." medical examiner, ruled the death a suicide. Lisa Howard. On December 15th,, she filed suit- against American Broad- he said, had taken enough barbiturates to kill five persons. .easting-1- •,:r: .:TI.,.mnt Theatres, Inc..for $2.008,000 in damages. I first met Lisa Howard the last week in October 1962. . 'Shi•-aakea court:order- requiring the company to show :he week the Russians were hauling missiles towards Cuba cat*, wey sit should not -be--- reinstated immediately, and I was contact man for the UPI film crew and we set up on 'prevent ABC. from asked for a temporary injunction to a balcony overlooking the ballroom. The cameraman shot an using her format on the program- dwing her absence. establisher over the balustrade and when he was through he "The exercise of a sacred right and citizenship," her affi- pointed to a knot of people on the floor. davit stated, "by participation in a -public election campaign ' "There's Stevenson, in the middle," he said. "Watch he is. she'll cannot possibly constitute a legitimate justification for per- when she comes through—she doesn't care who manently rernovine, me from ABC 'television," strong-arm him out of there like he was her little boy " At a hearing the following week,' Clarence Fried, ABC's And indeed within a few minutes Lisa Howard came lawyer, replied that the company had suspended Miss How- through a door and made a beeline through the people and ard because she had ignored directives to desist from partic- politely, one hand tables to where Stevenson was nodding ipating in partisan politics and had "sabotaged" network in his coat pocket, his head tilted toward the floor. She programs. Moreover, he said, she had been insubordinate to stood in the group for perhaps half a minute before the lost her superiors on several occasions. , of the sandbox. her motherly patience and pulled Adlai out Capozzoli thought arm. Stevenson State Supreme Court Justice Louis J. They came out of the elevator arm in. actual restoration to the air would be "an extraordinary ac- looked quite pink as people whom we are used to seeing tion" and reserved decision. On January 18. 1965, Justice in the grisaille of the media tend to look in the flesh. Lisa Capozzoli denied her requests for damages, reinstatement Howard had Clairol blond hair pulled back in a bun and and an injunction. a pretty, heavily made-up face. She conducted a business-gentle- With the possibility of returning, to ABC nil, Lisa didn't like interview, after which Stevenson good-evening- bother making the rounds of other broadcasters. She was menned us and walked out alone down the hall. convinced that she was blacklisted. "ABC," she lamented, "I've seen him better." she said, shaking her head "They "has, in effect, created a blacklist on which they've placed want this for the 11 o'clock," she said to me. my name." Instead she exploited some of her contacts in "There's a rider downstairs waiting," I said. the reform movement and landed the job of Publicity Direc- "They said the same thing two weeks ago and the stuff They put it on over tor of New York City's anti-poverty program. didn't come through till the next day. She would begin her new job on July 6. 1965., night by mistake." rrl Slightly more than three weeks before she was supposed The sound man rolled his eyes and stuck his tongue to go to work, Lisa Howard suffered what was deseribed as his cheek. a miscarriage and was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital.Fri- "I'll call the lab myself," I offered. She staved there for 3 weeks, and was discharged on The Realist

hetr,:t that." she snapped. "This wouldn't be something about a miscarriage. Does this niag true if her • the iirst gi.,s balled things up." She gathered her death was a suicide? Do people who attempt to commit • thines andv,,:ilkuci out the door. suicide ramble on about the substantive cause of their at- '• f.iirro: on the wall must have not:told _ tempt? if at this point Lisa Howard was in fact demented. eareal one of all tonight;7 said tNt sound: why such extraordinary lucidity? More likely, she would watt. . • be mumbling about how she was tired, or how the midday Poward ,truck me as the sott of person who took sun was hurting her eyes. out h rvods on fl■Caet'A, not on heeself.' - Assuming Patrolman Brockman s memory was not af- aee inheeti ha ie tllcd herself; her self-poseession fected by what he later was told about the case by those nee e iieee reerely so much veneht over a care of pure. • eicee to Lisa Howard—by others with a more sinister in- mush quality of the evidence that ahe did kill terest in her death—what could Lisa have been trying to herseif oteke. toe suicide less than plausible. EVitlenee is say? Could she have been trying to say that there had been oftert i.g SW,ss --it is the holes, in it, that nuke it no miscarriage? That the "miscarriage" was a ruse she interesting., ea . • , , , used to find sanctuary in the hospital? Or that she had been poisoned aR4 they were now going to say she had done it .isa Hoe ...ed ufferej a:"miacarriage",and-7w*:h4spital-. beet-mac of a Miscarriage? for 'file period, of ehospitaliAtionl.fge a," 11-e. Times reported that the police said she had altered ifl-CO [t ' " days.;40n4W her.prescription "from 10 to 100." The Times style book :H-re dictates that the word "tee- be written out in the Lext--i :r aerdi qiot.! are used starting with H By quoting the police this She';, - usibility of such an (14 ' lie reader is itssured of the pl toss ofOf , I ti4 " alteratargi rota thelj-teh2, 4 ,1.• 1.7 in fct, .however, it would be impossible. bituraiesi b ngbi as well Thre Is Jw inNew York State that prescriptions for gun. , • bqbt*, ampe4tanines and narcotics he written out eaie , tthe t; onored practice of using X for thel • la e • not permitted in prescriptions Aill-r0'1.1. ■ ist.'whohffileda'a prescription for tu.ro, At • 14 {\ ujj tsopurrittjne,a. misclerdea- 19i414.. ,- itiaigtr0..=„ter dispense "100" t c. tilo•iig these tbe --ic.ture of the lady news- Wt/tie mad druggist : to chew down. 04,4t 4.4bleti In :an esmirban. rark-' there •01. t you found a of youts WI SUiPiaZ • .t • 4 that at • t.; zOtgtlng "!"'•ter, life y parkirtg-_,:lot74Fting -jeir4S4 • • •■L prefer not to die mumbling ineoliet:entlywia.ii,.-yo 4 111, MaSfitig . arrive be,fore'talOnijter.,:. 1(.1.".. INW ill;t. "Un- ,iiiwY';bad..,.thaf. _74 Mee r4lorithilorilljtc'yfpw us, I w —it you b4 Just''pisord An. - was in .i...016;, • orAiy who was . •, rOne to 'Witness. the. suisulated.',,reffOOti:n '1".'1-14?:::liked coiant 0.1411aueticts.tion. with Fidel Castro whether, in the .iog be-fore tii I ricnd passed 011‘ or-4*OfdT*1-giel cW041'' YOU call? • Fdl of:4961,1?r,- later had any intimationsthat forces 40 been Plotting his death, or that Patrolman k3racitruan said that Mis Hardha.plfeeigedt'in the united Sta*:: finding their plans truncated by presidential I :::':When 11:103i!- force, dazed, glassy-eyd and -altriotin443nerent,' -detente spleen on our rived at the scene he Was told that- sioi' or4eL^, decided to vent their anti ing around the pharmacy parking- lot, fit physician who young amid beautiftl President. Perhaps she. could have told in whether, as she found heard these fazes assumed .that 'the patient wigi. auffemi 4 from barbiturate poisoning,„ starrdard procedure would be herself moving within earshot of the titans, she had reason to remove the contents -of - the stomatht by inducing vomit- to believe that there were among the honorable men of this ing or puhapiag the stomach and to- administer Large ricrac& land those who viewed political questions through the re- licule of a gunsight. of a.mehetemines and an adrenalin 30111tiCa None of these procedures was attempted Perhaps she could have told us the root of her percep- s Physicians in resort towns are exposed to the symptoms tion of Robert Kennedy as Cain and John Kennedy as Abel. M'ystery girl.ta; 7 • C of •barbiturate poisoning daily. Why didn't the doctor who lapv "A C treated Lisa Howard take routine action? (Lee Bowers, the railroad terminal employee who stood in a 1 4400t tower directly behind the Grassy Knoll was e fatally injured on August 9, 1966 when his braud, new com- pany car veered from the road at SO miles an hour and hit a bridge abutment. The doctor who rode in the ambulance with Bowers noticed something strange about the victim.

"He was in a strange state of shock," the old doctor said. U "e. different kind of shock than an accident victim experi- tl ences. i can't explain it. I've never seen anything like it.") Patrolman Brockman said Lisa Howard kept mumbling 10