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YEAR-OLD MURDER, JFK

ASSASSINOLOGISTS GO TO Conspiracy COURT TO SILENCE ONE ANOTHER.

BY REBECCA SHERMAN

ttomey-at-law Brad Kinks is hardly able to contain himself. Punching his phone to put the caller on hold—in mid-conversa- tion—he sputters excitedly to a visitor in his office:•Do you know who this is?' "The Mark Lane.' A'It's Mark Lane ICixa blurts, unable to await a guess, When the name elicits only a blank stare. the stocky, rust.haired barris ter twirls his executive chair around_ 'Over there on the bookshelf!' he exclaims, wagging an index finger at the overstuffed rows, a veritable library of such IFK-assassination classics as High Treason, JFK Breaking E the Silence, and On the Trail of the Assassins—one of the two books on which Oliver Stone based his movie, JFK. Among the many esteemed Rash to Judgment, published in 1966 by, of g tomes: an autographed copy of course. Mark Lane. the dean of "assassinologists'—and the very same

DALLAS ATTORNEY BRAD KIZZIA

(OPPOSITE PAGE) IS REPRESENTING JFi(

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS GARY SHAW (RELO,)

AND DR. C CRENSHAW (BELOW RIGHT)

IN A ION SUIT AGAINST SOME Jr THEIR CRITICS.

they thought they were doing man who is now dangling on Interminable bold. their country a service by avoid- Lane is calling Kuria, a 39:year-old insurance and per- leg World War III.' sonal-injury litigator at the conservative downtown Dallas Though he admits he firm of Strasburger & Price. to announce his plan• n file a snatched up the law office with lawsuit. Not about an accident or malpractice el inn, but the assassination vista when the because /Ostia shares Lane's passion: proving ,aat the opportunity presented itself, assassination of America's 35th president was the product Kizzia insists. don't spend of a sinister, and as yet unearthed, conspiracy. hours looking out the window. It is no accident that this lawyer has pinned a poster-sized wondering." Likewise, be says diagram of Dealey Plaza on the wall of his 44th-floor office. he resists the temptation of a lunchtime stroll two blocks away to the which offers a clear view of the assassination acme. inclu ing Dealey scene of the mine—including the Sixth Floor exhibit_ featuring more than Plaza, the former Texas School Book Depositorv, and the edge of the 406 photos and an inside view of the sniper's perch. "I've only been there grassy knoll. mice since it opened. Really. And it is noacrident that Kizzia is at the ceeteref the latest twisted wave "I'm not obsessed,' he declares, before pausing to contemplate his of the 30-year-old controversy surrounding the Martyred president: he words. 'Of course, obsessed people weld deny that they are obsessed.' represents conspiracy theorists who are suing other conspiracy theorists Rhetorical characterizations aside, Kizzia is clearly part of the passion for defamation—andwho allege that the attacks awn them are part of yet that keeps the Kennedy assassination controversy alive. another conspiracy. Jokes KMtia: "You could colt ,that I'm doing, 'Oahe "I've been thinking for a long time about writing an open letter to Trail of the Character Assassins.' District Attorney Vance," Kizzia announces brightly. *and asking him to The as,welowion of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas reopen the investigation of the case. I know he lost the Ratley case, and has inspired more than 250 books—and at least as many theories. maybe he wouldn't want to take on something as controversial as this dur- Dissatisfied with the Warren Commission corn:lie:ion that Lee Harvey ing reelection, but there were three murders in Dallas County—Kennedy, Oswald acted alone, serious researchers, buffs, ar...1 assorted flakes have Officer TIPPet and Oswald. Ruby was prosecuted for murdering Oswald, made their various cases for the involvement of the CIA the FBI, Soviet but there is no statute of limitations for the other murders." intelligence agents, anti-Castro Cubans, the Mafia, and extraterrestrial 'People have written books claiming they participated in conspiracies to beings. murder the president They either need to be exposed as frauds or they ICazia himself blames the Cubans. He believes exiles sent to overthrow deserve to be prosecuted." a Castro during the Bay of figs fiasco were angry at Kennedy for abandon- just a third-grader when the president was shot, Brad }Gizia became - ing them—and conspired to kill IF1c to provoke a war against Cuba. 'It 'totally fascinated' by the assassination—"as a murder mystery and as a didn't work," Maria explains. "Because the CIA and ihe FBI covered it up. cover-up'—while a political science Continued on pogo Is I think a lot of well intentioned people participated in the cover-up because

15 "Eyewitnesses," and "New Leads and A InologIsts the fence.'"I'm not going to say I know who did it or why,' Wilson says. "But It Revelations." Continued from 15 Although most speakers had been allot- Being there major at Austin College in Sherman. was proof there was a conspiracy,' Wilson felt certain he had cracked the ted but a single hour. Wilson's 1991 talk An interview with JFK- That's when he wrote a term paper on the lasted more than two hours. "I was going case and invited Mark Lane—the Mark case that had stumped the nation's top the- criminal investigators. But there was a to pull the plug on him," remembers an more or loss Lane—to speak on campus about his ASK organizer, 'but I was told if I did, the problem: Wilson couldn't find anyone who Since the public seems ready to accept ory of CIA involvement crowd would riot. They were completely believed him—or would even listen to his Oliver Some'squirky eastern of November That's also when Mena, who picked up mesmerized by what he was saying.' claims. Adamant that he would not profit events as histery, we figured there was Lane from the airport. recognized that net A Dallas Times Herold reporter named from his discovery. nor allow its exploita- no me better to discuss assassination lb& all his peers shared all his passion. 'The Mark Potok, himself an assassination buff, tumota was disappointing," Kazin renter's- tion, Wilson says he turned down offers by uxy with than the man who aditalty phyed tabloid TV shows that wanted to break the covered Wilson's talk and wrote an article John F. Kennedy In the movie JFX. Not hers. "I guess not that snoop people at that about it published in the Times Herald on story. Instead, he solicited the attention of credible enough for you? OK, he also time were as interested in the assassina- November 16,1991. In the story, Dr, Cyril Dan Rather and The New York Times, eleeedleXin esee. tion as I was." lh'echl. a noted forensic pathologist and among others. "I had this hard evidence," Fast,; elcourse, the metal disclaimer ke4 Undaunted. Kizzia through the years former president of the American he says. "I tried to cell. to write letters. I sot admen, an gas:striated president; he became an avid student of JFK conspiracy Academy of Forensic Sciences, was theories. In 1991, he noticed a newspaper didn't hear hack." „employe ow onAhrs. Despite the rebuffs, Wilson continued quoted calling Wilson's work 'beautiful." Russ Yandeveardonk. a Dallas copier- ad for the first annual 'Assassination But others were less generous. Their his research. But now, there were other machine salesman and sometime actor, Symposium on Kennedy,' or "ASK,' being statements. as quoted in the Herald, would held in Dallas. problems. Measurements and pho• says he abhors the `morbid" schemes to tographs he had taken at Dealey Plaza in Incite a lawsuit piggyback onto the put:Slaty of the assassi It is there Brad Kizia made the contact 'It's a series of massive lies,' declared November 1990 didn't match his other nation's 10th analyeraary. Sell, he wasn't bons that would make him the man for David Belin, counsel to the Warren data So on the morning of December 17. hard to track down: he sera out a press unhappy conspiracy theorists to call. It is Commission, according to the Herald there that he met Tom Wilson—and heard 1990. Wilson commandeered his wife release announcing his availability to dis- Mercelyn, several of her metal pie parts— story. 'The man is basically making an cuss amassinaeo&telated events. He says about what we shall call "The Second- outrageous claim." The Warren Gunman-Detecting Machine.' to which he had affixed various sizes of hems incensed by initial reports that as fabric and glass 'targets"—and jumped on Commission had, of course, concluded part of the dedication of the site as a as.alssino ion was the work of Lee a plane hack to Dallas. that the national lauding& the may had planned to 111 hen Tom Wilson invented his Harvey Oswald, acting alone. Like every- Once at Dealey Plaza, Wilson, a heavy- Invite Kennedy family to a ribbon cut device, officially called "Image one else with an opinion on the subject, Ibe Processing with Computer set man with thinning gray hair, instructed ting—somethingNanderveerdonk finds his wife to stand holding the pie pans in Bella had offered his point of view In tasteless. It [the dedicationl should be Analyses Systems,' he harbored print—with two books that supported the only mundane industrial ambi- front of her face while he photographed done quietly," the man-who-wauld-be- single assassin theory, November 22: You died. tions. Wilson, after all, was a her in three critical spots: the pedestal Kennedy says. les where someone next to the grassy knoll where Henry Are The Jury, and Final Disclosure.. Tke Err Chrhsake—a presides?' retired engineer living in Murrysville, Full Truth About the Assassination of Pennsylvania—about as far from the 20th Zapruder filmed the fatal shots: the site True. But Me part of the press release across trots there where Mary Moorman President Kennedy. that got our anentkin woo 'Of particular century's foremost murder mystery as ore The Times Herald reporter also sought can gel. photographoe the grassy knoll; and smack interest is the haligiing feelings he mperi- comment from Robert Blakey, chief coun- first take' and ha He had been tinkering with his machine in the midiee of Elm Street land busy traf- tweed when a nos the fic)—the location where Kennedy's head sel and staff director of the House Select ..was the actual**. rasa !Salm Flom.' for eight years by 1988, when a revelation Comntinee on Assassinetionts the commit- evening, as surety as would have taken the fatal shot as he What seltirspectingjounialint faring the struck hint one crisp tee had concluded that Oswald most likely passed by me grassy knoll. asamainatioces Bath annisersary wouldn1 a befell Archimedes vatting in his bathtub. did not act alone. Blakey, who has offered A bewildered Oliver bite? Harmed Stern Chatmda 4 and S, and his own conspiracy theory in a book titled Stone, at work on JFK, Japanese television certainly did. Prot to Kill the Presides: (later reissued "I'M NOT OBSESSED. OF watched this odd cou- liandeveerdonle however. turned the under the title Fatal Hour: Tke ple from the safety of Stern show down. "I was afraid they just A.esassinalion of President Kennedy by COURSE, OBSESSED the sidewalk in front of wanted to do something funny with it,' he Organized Crime), was quoted saying the old School Book explains • Depository. "Do you about Wilson's theory. "You know the say Japanese television, we have to admit. PEOPLE WOULD DENY THAT ing among computer people, 'garbage in, mind If I ask you what has already grabbed the best line on the garbage uut?This is garbage.' . . you're doing" a mem- Yanderreerdonk story, branding him "the THEY ARE OBSESSED." Wilson, who previously had no standing ' . ber of Stone's crew only mot to wails in Kennedy's footsteps in the world of assassination theorists, was ' asked Mareelyn as she the day of the amassination." (Actually, unwilling to let these attacks un his new. 1 was in my office doing repetitive tests scurried to find her 'next cue. there were two JFK stunt doubles in the found stature go unchallenged. "You don't on the machine I had invented for my "I can't tell you," the inventor's wife fern. but why spud It for theJapanesee have to take this, you know,' Wilson says work in the metals industry,' Wilson, now responded. Eventually, Wdson recognized But we've got the real scoop. a friend told him after he'd returned home 61, recalled in a recent telephone inter- Stone and approached hips. And soon, Varideveertionk who patiently sat through to Murrysville. A short time later, Wilson view with the Observer. 'it could detect according EL Wilson, the couple and the more than takes of the ill-fated motor- received a letter from Brad Kizzia. who bare metal, or flasysein metal products. filmmaker were sharing hot dogs and ode—takes that Included all the most [op had heard him speak and had read the When that happened; the monitor would Swapping opinions about Use precise loca- War shooting scenarios—Is willing to make newspaper criticism of Wilson's presenta- register a flash, or sparkle. But I had to tion of the presumptive assassin (ur asses- argil on the assassination theories. tion. After mulling over the matter, he had run it over and over again. I was bored." sins) who fired from behind the wooden Like the press release says. _..1960, hopped an a plane back to Dallas and was Wdson ejected the metals lest tape and fence. deemed saws cheering, the ride in the inn. sitting in Bead Islz:da's office. popped in a video of a TV documentary Weeks leer in Murrysville, Wilson dow, Aggrmay knoll, and du Stone's movie, JFK, had just come out about the 25th anniversary of JF1Cs assas- received art Ater from Stone to consult on Short of a paranormal hookup with IFK. it amid a storm of controversy, and Kizzia sination. This moment of boredom would his moviteLeorogrese Wilson worked, for doesn't get better than this for a conspiracy had written an opinion piece in The/Mks change his life forever. the mane r are authenticating pho- Morning News defending the film, for When the famous Mary Moorman pho- tographs. sever did see a movie star," So. take it horn the manwho was there which Wilson had served as a consultant tograph of the grassy knoll appeared on he complai. About the 'riflemen on the knoll' theory win That allied the lawyer with Wilson—and his screen. flashes and sparkles material- But the ;seine connection did help never happened_ The coniecture that a sec. against Belin, who bad aggressively ized behind the knoll's wooden fence. Wilson a t azure role before the first out gunman fired from the building across attacked Stone's film. 'Brat meant an object behind the fence annual Arsassination Symposium on the street from the Depository? No way. In most intellectual debates—particu- was metal,' explains Wilson. "But the area Kennedy, ie November 1991. Invited to For the man who's relived the moment larly the dicey business of unproven con- 1behind the fence was dark. Why would speak. he says he paid his own way. 'It more times than die Secret Service agents spiracy theories—proponents of various something shine if there is nothing was my first chance at a legitimate forum,' guarding the preakkad It's simple. 'Mite points of view attack one another freely therer Wilson explains. going through It so many times,' A. without fear of litigation. theorists, after s• To trod out, Wilson, a metals-industry The anneal symposium now attracts Vandeveerdonk says, btheve it's the one all, are supposed to offer sharply contrast- consultant, abandoned all his projects and thousands of assassination buffs to the gunman. Oswald wanting to get in the ing opinions about public controversy. concentrated on testing the Moorman Hyatt Hotel and Dealey Plaza. limelight T dome think it was anything But Wilson wasn't going to take it. Iphotograph. Months later, he emerged tee eAsemeinelegistse as ASK organizers say Angered by the published comments in umphams "Yes, there was a metal object their partici. eras prefer to he called, pay a Cut. Print the Times Herald article, in November behind the fence,' he recalled "isnd yes, $175 regiati lion fee nor four days of panel 1992 he filed a defamation suit against there was a person firing a weapon." discussioti, on such topics as "JFK 101: I both Blakey and Been. Brad Kizzia is han- Additional studies, he insists, proved An Assameeation Primer; 'Intelligence dling the litigation for Wilson. that another shooter was lurking behind Commanny . and Pelee tors; I tell! II iglf I 1111111 IC imittikulwa .2Ltaiivr. .1: ;,..,..t ,.- .1 , i •

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fldin could not be reached for comment_ lively shows there was a conspiracy,' the Blakey, reached at his office at Notre inventor of the "Second-Gunman- Open la 8 Itawin sad twat., Curd 'MD& Dame School of Law in South Bend, Detecting Machine' declares from his Indiana where he is a tenured professor, home in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. 'If WESTON'S declined to talk directly about the case. people want to do the same, we'll see But he noted the oddity—and potentially who's telling the truth.' chilling effect—of the litigation: 'The debate on the Kennedy Assassination rad Kozia holds an elegant black 0//f(II.DIl ought to be free and robust If people get and white book in his hands and • sued every time a reporter calls them on opens it from back to front. (009 Milker mph. *Eng or cram a A holt the phone, then that severely limits that Although the volume was a gift its loci — %olds forum and AffIS5OII5 has freedom,' from the author, it is the only B all the invitation wr, iced — It wdroot wits. On April 13, 1993, /Grata, suing one coo book in his collection that Ku' zia smracy theorist on behalf of another. flew hasn't read—and for good reason. The SOW 5695. sligh I-dram desk in deny uith to South Bend to depose Blakey. Though hook is written in Japanese. Its tide, how the deposition was ostensibly being taken ever, is in Enelish: JFK: Conspiracy of Quern haw kgs. ihapd plot to determine whether Blakey could be Silence, by Cha...es Crenshaw, M.D. and brie NHS Was 11623 sued in Texas Kizzia took the opportunity The English s.a-sion is a different mat- to quiz Blakey about CIA memos and ter. Kizzia has scrutinized every word of retouched Life Magazine photos of the Fort Worth doctor's book; after all, Dr. Oswald. -Tell me how that's related to Crenshaw is his client jurisdiction,' Blakey demanded, refusing The book was published last year with to answer the question. help from Cletarne-based assassination Kintia also quitted David Belin, in an researcher Gait, Shaw—who serves as April 7. 1993 deposition taken to help director of !I:L. JFK Assassination determine proper jurisdiction, about pho- Information / c...tter—and writer Jens tographs of the grassy knoll and Dealey Hansen. The ` .ok Is mostly a personal Plaza. "Do you feel that all persona who account of win r, Dr..Crenshaw, then a take issue with the Warren report are third-year real at Parkland Memorial NOW $298. liars?' Kizzia asked. Belin's attorney Hospital. says himpened on November 22, apal ken horded meal end advised him not to answer because the 1963. e, Kt round glass top 13% MejiL,W1 question had nothing to do with jurisdic- Crenshaw was one of 15 doctors who tion. lcuxia pressed on. "...Did you come played a role in attempting to save the NOW 5470. into possession of or did it come to your president's life—he helped insert and drip Queen headband is Rai wrought attention that there was, I believe, a CIA an TV into the ',resident's leg. Two days wrtal, dirt punk aunts Wo WS. memo in 1967 that was distributed later, he says, S. assisted is resuscitating instructing and encouraging agents on Lee Harvey Oswald after Jack Ruby shot how to counteract critics of the Warren him. Ask ism Rama Char kraal 4451 Alpis Joni 111-415 Commission?' he asked. Bello again Crenshaw, saw 60 and the semi-retired ad .0...lay nnisnoica. nun ai lie Ulm, declined to answer. head of surge' at Tarrant County's John Ikm Iloilo Through an April 17, 1993 affidavit. even 'Peter Smith I.ospital in Fort Worth, Oliver Stone makes a cameo appearance claims severe! .ontroversial facts in his 111ETall'Sliff11111111 &alein0011(5 in Wilson's lawsuit The affidavit reads, in book. First, he maintains that two bullem part. "John W. Belin has made speeches, struck Kennedy from the front—a critical given public appearances (including point for conspiracy theorists, since appearances on network television), and Oswald could have only shot Kennedy has written letters and articles that were from the rear. According to Crenshaw, published in newspapers and magazines one bullet hit Kennedy in the neck and If you're still hoping to meet the penon of year around the country which have attacked another in the temple near the hairline, dreams by chance it a bar, supermarket. gym or me. the movie JFK, and people associated creating a massivc wound at the back of catwalk, ahem keep dreaming. At GREAT EXPECTATIONS we provide a. exclusive with the movie. He has unjustly called us the head. Cronah.v, not only claims to evareameni where you am meet handrail of eli liars and profiteers...Mr. ftelin has appar- gible have seen the wound himself, he says the angles who shore router., goal. Not staying single. ently undertaken a nationwide campaign autopsy photographs have been altered to Mat we do beat is take thr guto•ork .d the to strike back at those who voice opinions disguise the evidence. awk•sniners oat of dalag. Through up-close ad different from his own in connection with White one other physician who treated pennon! videos. yon lease an opportunity to get to the JFK assassination. Kennedy backs Crenshaw's published know the WWII before you Mr mid fare 10 fare. "I. like most Americans, want to know account, several other doctors who cared the truth regarding the assassination of for the president oave said they do not President Kennedy, but the process of recall such a hurl wound. Much of the determining the truth through public dis- harshest criticism of Crenshaw's book— ATIONS , mission is undermined when people are and the words that would spur hint to sue discouraged from disputing the so-called for defamation, according to Kizzia- government versions of the truth appeared in the May 27, 1992 Issue of because of fear that their reputations and MMA, the Journal of the American integrity will be smeared by influential Medical Asocial's:on. People," David Breo, the author of one of the Stone was not available to address the JAMA articles, interviewed the two doc- issue of how Wilson's decision to sue crit- tors who performed the autopsy and four ics—including a prominent Stone critic— doctors who treated Kennedy at Parkland might promote -the process of determio on November 12. 191 Writes Bre.). "...no ing the truth through public discussion." one can say with certainty what some sus- Stone's publicist, Mark PogacheLsky, says pect—Crenshaw was not even in the the s.mmaker has no comment. "I think trauma room; none of the four (doctors] well just let the affidavit speak for itself.' C recalls ever seeing lint in the rooni." Breo 6 he says. quoted Dr. Charles Baxter, a surgeon who Wilson's suit was recently dismissed for treated Kennedy s! Parkland. as saying lack of personal jurisdiction; federal judge "I've known ICr, • shawl since he was Barefoot Sanders ruled that none of the three years old. 1". claims are iidiculous. defendants had sufficient ties to Texas. The only motive I can see is a desire for But Wilson is appealing the decisinn. And personal recognitio.. and monetary gain' he says he intends to refile in On April 9, 1992, the Dallas Morning Pennsylvania if the appeal isn't successful News published an opinion column by "I am willing to stand up under oath and free-lance writer Lawrence Sutherland, say exactly what I have found that posi- . CoNtl•mod on Page la 75100 7 A Inolgagietta requests for an interview about this m, Continued trout 1.7 tor. who attended a press conference Gory Shaw, a 55-year-old Cleburne archi- Crenshaw called in Dallas. Sutherland's tect and well-koown assassinologist, MetroCel insists be and Crenshaw filed suit as a last column repeated SOME of the statements in. Breo'sJAMA report and included souse resort after the News and JAMA declined of Sutherland's own choice rhetoric: to publish their rebuttal's and letters to the Sets You Free! "Conspiracy of Silence is peddling lies: editor. The critiques of the book focus on Although Crenshaw's book stayed on Crenshaw, He says; -We have nu problem bestseller list for with anyone who has a different approach Warehouse today r1d mein a • the New Yank Times ACItelite with Celli& months, Crenshaw claims that the JAMA In the assassination case. What we have a Apex* Flip Pivot with battery, desktop ,..1.arser & saki) tails article and the Sutherland column problem with is personal attacks." Shaw, who grew up in Cleburne, Bays he let al your local airtime and yvte access charge defamed him. He had been carved up by many of the same critics who attacked made frequent trips to Dallas before , for the month of January FRE,f1 Now the Largest ham Oliver Stone. Kennedy wan killed to drink in Jack Ruby's Carouse! Club. I heard the scuttle- .9fW tate plans to choose front. In March 1993, Crenshaw and Shaw : .;•Pcn'efalAl Al filed a defamation suit against the butt that Ruby was Mafia and to be careful "Sea 1l Do P•ppb, aforaiagNrias and Sutherland. (The other around him,' he says. Shaw, who was 25 author, Jens Hansen, did not file suit He years old when Kennedy was killed, says told the Observer, "l didn't sue because he doesn't know who killed Kennedy. 'I'm Ii117.0157• 1.7 1134$9.1 • OW., Ili NM- t, L7.11,111.1 • 11..416-ini • V/ didn't feel like I had been damaged.} certain that if Lee Harvey Oswald was 111-3275.150 .11.114.15 I • Le kap 11111 Two months later, Crenshaw and Shaw given a trial he would have been found 0.7n Pffirr..71,:m Su! Sun 11 ci added four more defendants to the suit: probably nor guilty. We've really not been the American Medical Association, which told die truth by the government There fib MErROCEL CEWIAR publishes JAM; /AMA's editor, George has been a cover-up.' ( f.1I! I IC 111 CHHII Lundberg-, writer David Breit; and, finally, rad Kizzia's call from Mark Glass Tinting 50% OFF • Viper Auto Alarms 10% OFF • avers low es $1.74 per week Oliver Stone's archnemesis, David Belin. Belin was named ,becau se of interview Lane —la r Mark Lane—who excerpts published in the News on May makes his living as a 17, 1092. according to Maria. In part. the Washington attorney, concerned story quoted Bolin as saying: I think that B a suit Lane wants to file against THEY DON'T LOOK PRETTY. the press should demand of the De. the hottest JFK author of them Crenshaws of the world, of the Oliver all: Gerald Posner, whose bestselling Stones of the world, or the Mark Lanes of 1993 book, Case Closed, made the. August THEY DON'T SME1.1.0000. the world, full financial disclosure. 30 cover of U.S. News and World Report. Because hundreds of thousands of dollars Penis his law office. Lane declared he have been made out of the assassination." plans tosue Random House, Inc., pub- Not exactly a vicious example of charao lisher of Posner's book Case Closed, "for EVERYBODY HISTORY V. ter assassination. But enough for minions and millions of dollars" this week Crenshaw and Shaw, whose suit accuses in U.S. district court. The basis for the all the defendants at Individually and/or suit according to Lane: a promotional ad BUT YOU GOTTA HAVE 'EM! in cancer! and/or conspiracy* making published in the August 24.1993 New York defamatory comments, Times that shows Lane in a photograph Mali] says the publiahed criticism of with other conspiracy theorists, including Coospiracy t1jsiirswe in JAMA and the Oliver Stone. The photo's caption reads: New damaged book sales as well as "Guilty of misleading the American pub- TIRES Crenshaw's reputation. lo the JAMA arti- lic." Lane says he is preparing a suit cle, it suggests that Dr. Crenshaw wasn't against Gerald Posner far 'the incredible even there,- declares ICazzia. `There is no errors in his book.' Discount Prices • Bigger Selector* question Ire was there and participated I'm not settling the case, either," lane Fastest Service with the resuscitation efforts.' says at fever pitch. 'Not unless Random On that issue, Maria has a point. In fact House wants to give me the publishing transcripts of the 1964 Warren house no we can publish books by eyewit- We've got all the Cunamission hearings show two witnesses nesses to the assassination whose books identified Crenshaw as having partici- can't get published." name brands pated in the attempt to save Kennedy's Lane, who says he will handle his own life. The New Ford Times and Columbia case with help from another Washington you want! Jormoolisors Review also have both criti- attorney, was calling Brad Kaaba because GRIND cized the JAMA article for its sloppy the Dallas lawyer has already fired his first research. It foiled to note that several doc- legal salvo as Posner—on behalf of Dr. Michelin • Goodyear • B.F. Goodrich tors had changed their stories over the Charles Crenshaw. Case Closed quotes 'a OPENING years since the assassination; writer Brea senior Dallas doctor who is a close Bfidgestone . . Dunlop Yokohama The Largest Multi-Line even interviewed his own editor, Coll-g lion of Men's IL George Crenshaw friend" in distinctly unflattering ...and many, many more. Woman's Slue J•ans Lundberg. terms: you spend time with Lluder One Roof Maria complains that Dr. Crenshaw was (Crenshaw], he starts to confabulate, or a not interviewed for the JAMA article. But plot or plan, and that sort of thing. We are when asked if Crenshaw would comment not dealing with a normal individuaL.He fur this story, Kizzia said his client was has had a stroke and can't operate any unavailable. -I think Dr. Crenshaw was more. I think it is a bag of worms of ego, really shacked by the responses to the going over the hill, the last hurrah.' In ALL BRANDS CUSTOM WHEELS book: Kizzia says. "I know it really hurt September, Kizzia fired off a letter to him personally and emotionally." Posner and Random House demanding an Ktzizia notes that the AMA called a press Immediate retraction and apology' for WE STOCK USED conference to promote the Breit article. 'the outrageously defamatory comments' "Was there a conspiracy to silence Dr. about Crenshaw in Case Closed. PERFORMANCE TIRES Agnelli Big Star • Fa/ .10•40, Rime I Fork. • Paratueeo Crenshaw?' he asks rhetorically. I don't Pesner's book attempts to dismantle the know. lido know that there are SAVE SSSSSS Ellg 78 11 Silver • Frw•I • Ed ■•• ■ • groups and conspiracy theories set up by Lane, organizations that have an agenda, and Crenshaw, and others over the last 30 Preston Center Dr. Crenshaw is certainly a threat to that years; much to the dismay of many active ADVANTAGE TIRE & WHEEL 5964 W. Northwest Hwy. agenda." The AMA is one such group, assassinologists, he concludes that Lee 2500 Oak Lawn • 522-5255 or Pears naiamaintams; he declines to list others. Harvey Oswald acted alone, Through their attorneys, Lundberg and It is a book filled with errors,' Lane 7 Day Tire Store = p141 691-7894 fires declined to comment on the suit. says. Then, dishing out the most stinging Wo oprn :Mon-Sot David Belie also did not respond to insult a conspiracy theorist Ma offer, he . • ti kwigyaivottaroto at sostanSriw. rn , • • 1: • • • • : • • • • •• rrr% r., I I • I • • ..... •••• •■ 0.1..• • • adds: It's very possibly the worst thing 05 since the Warren Commission published their report" vigoitoka iTramalifeet5tie eon Stiviiired Posner, resting for a few minutes ORTE anomie Tree, iinevi 7res. between endless rounds of radio and tek- caltanig. Wairues-Sdiiieresei vision interviews to promote Case Cased, 11011S Saitia, Designer Cietawa Laughs when he hears that lane intends to SALE Amularnersa sad min • sue him. 'lie's been saying that for two 40%-75% OFF %rule they Lurr months now Every time I turn on the RETAIL Dallas' at Christmas Store radio, he's saying it, You won't believe me 'let me guesx. Did he say my book was selerton' worse than the Warren report?' Posner, saying that 'truth is the absolute defense," insist. he wasn't prepared for Seasonal- Speciais 'eautiful Anilficoed the response to Lis book. 'It's created a lot liennanne w eli mud stand Chnstmas rues more commie.: sy than I hoped. This 7 th. 129.95 • Bye 13995 3 fr. to 15,0. Mare Man attrojal go Maws front shows you haw `sr our country has come. ftted fainsernas '141eipped Thirty years age, Lane was considered the '2 Tap iggaiGiy. Loom Prica. waif Sow 1499 0 pen skeptic. Novo, v'nen I'm the one who's Claim C6ruerna Now Sigllowers 9funind5 of5tykr backing the Warren report, I'm consid- 15/aka goer 04.0. arrangeennts. ered the skeptic.' °Cashew Crete/pug 519 95 Thru Posner muses for a moment about the licagetr Ribisoni 10 yard Solis Dec. Over 300 typo of Ornaments prospect of one author trying to silence 14.99 in S23.95 le 494' son up another by going to court. "What is it about Case paced? It's almost as if he doesn't want anybody to read it." 1242 REGAL ROW Brookhopow Industrial District: between 1-35 and Hwy. 183 his week. Brad Kizzia—appropri- Leave F at Re al Row Es-i: Mon-frl 10-6 Sat 9-6 slaty i sough—will moderate a panel A .cussion of doctors and lawyer . during the third annual SURE Assass.nation Symposium on s is Go ` `1 Kenns,:y. Norman Mailer, who of 0,0 His writing a book about Oswald, will I'LL GIVE deliver the keynote speech at the Hyatt Dallas t - Hotel. YOU • It is clear that, within this gathering of conspiracy theorists. Gerald Posner has GRANd assunied the status of the assassanologists' MY PHONE antichrist.' OPENING Tom Wilson, lee example. whose Inven- SAE NUMBER . tion caused ouch a Stir in Dallas two years ago, is devastated that a story Newsweei planned in write about hint was replaced 30% OFF •• • NOT.. by a story on Posner's new book. "Everything Posner says is black. I say Is All CloiliiNci You want to 'see and be seen.' white. Ws very dickult to take.' by Tom Jolla You want to meet, socialize and Wilson suspect, the decision to pull the lorry relationships. You warn to be Luny about him might have been, yes, part 3307 in touch. But giving out your home of an effort to conceal the truth. `I have a number is not safe. Remember feeling certain ir terests don't want thifi McKINNEy the last "wrong parson" you gave [Information] to come forward,' Wilson DAllAs your number to/ And don't even says. Then, in a moment of self-insight, consider the office number. he adds: 'You can get so paranoid with 954-0014 this,' Wm-Seen-7 THE SAFE An employee wit:i the symposium, who Sue 12-5 didn't wont her rLane used, says Posner ALTERNATIVE IS A has been invited to speak this year but may not come because Norman Mailer, VOICE MAILBOX. who is writing a book about Oswald, will be speaking. Posner confirms that he It cornea with a private telephone won't be coming and that Mailer's pres- number, answered 24 hours a day ence—as well as the ASK group's hostility by our computers with YOUR - toward his book—ere among the reasons. VOICE. Your callers don't need lo The symposium staffer says Lane is not know its not your home number . welcome. 'He came to the first one to Your messages are passcodo speak and stood up and told all of us we protected for security and were exploiting '-..ennedy's death and try- confidentiality and can be picked ing to make mc.,ey off of the assassina- up only by you. tion." Ironically. Lane's 1966 bestseller, The number Is untraceable, Rush To fiedgnsc•t is considered the first For the highest quality unembarrassable and commercial stag -ss for a conspiracy theo- and best prices an unharassable. You have total rist. Hundreds a Alter books about con- domestic wood control over your callers. You spiracy theories have followed. Hundreds furniture male control if. when and with whom more are surely ' a eome. right here in you choose to talk and meet. So the gathering known as "ASK"—dedi- Texas, visit /li • Futons and Coven • Congo I End Tables • Pow*l and Art Display The total price. including a new rated to airing ,:l-ergent views about the Austin Futons. e1 a Local On •Sala Moon a Ittolkorn beds • Financing Available private phone number is only assassination of ''resident Kennedy—will $9,95/month (+lax). Cal today take place withee, the presence of several a Start today No credit check. No key figures on oath sides of one of 114,4. I /1 war M-Sai 10-7 Sun. 12.7 hassles. America's longest-running historical debates. 12:1: 82-FUTON American Voice Mail "Some days.' says the symposium (823-8866) 214-262-7711 • 817-284-2232 staffer, '1 think tltey are all Way." MB 1!7. --- 0011Greenville Ava. Li ' FkixiCtited h TexriS Ice 14e9 —actairTiorrs 'now roods 11