tTr ---743-7wf----4 ,ailas illtayor of the Assassination BLASTS Book on JFK's Death By LLOYD WATSON "The book isn't accurate. It isn't history," declared Repre- sentative Earle Cabe], former mayor of Dallas and an eyewitness to events the day President Kennedy died. He was talking about William Manchester's hotly disputed book, The Death of a President," which has ken serialized in Look magazine. "It doesn't have any indication of objectivity. or of meeting the requirements of a true historian." Cabell, as mayor of Dallas on the day that the President was murdered, was part of the fatal motorcade and sew for himself what happened at Parkland Hospital where the dying Kennedy was rushed, He is now in Congress as a representative from Texas and on January 28, this ENQUIRER reporter interviewed him exclusively at his Washington, D.C., office. Congressman Cabell, 58, angrily made these points: • Mrs. Kennedy "graciously and promptly" signed a hospital form for the release of her husband's body. • Manchester says the removal of the President's body from the hospital was delayed because of a Dallas ordinance prohibiting the transportation of a casket in an ambulance. No such ordinance ever existed. • As it was, Dallas officials "stretched" the law in letting the DEATH RIDE: President Kennedy in motorcade moments before he died. no longer body out of the state of Texas. The whole legal process took the State Attor- to do this and I immediately got on the than 31) minutes. ney General or af- police radio, and Justice of the Peace • The book gives the readers the idea local Dallas officials prac- ter a coroner's In- Theron Ward was at the hospital with- tically had to be "manhan- quest- In ten minutes. dled" before they would "The signatures "That's the story," Congressman Ca- release the body. were obviously bell said, leaning back in his chair. •Manchester never took impossible to ob- "The whole thing couldn't have taken the trouble to interview any tain within a rea- 30 minutes." sonable time be- Asked about implied criticism In of the officials involved, in- cause Governor cluding Cabell. Manchester's hook of Parkland Hospital Connally was in personnel who stuck to established prac- "I want to set the record critical condition straight and clear those pub- tice and made out the usual emergency and undergoing card on the dying President, Cabell tic officials who were only do- surgery for his ing their sworn duty," Cabell MANCHESTER said. "That to me falls into the realm wounds. of nitpicking. said. "Both the Lieutenant Governor and me "It is an indication of a very sordid "Et is inconceivable to the Attorney General were in Austin type of mind that would criticize a that such irresponsible state- awaiting the arrival of the President ments would be made unless proper record being made of anything who was scheduled to go there that that significance. it was deliberate. of evening "If such records weren't kept, there "Unless it was an attempt "Dr. Earl Rose, the Dallas County would have been charges of sloppy to belittle everyone Involved Medical Examiner. raised this legal point handling of a very serious matter. who was not a member of and properly so. That was his duty. "1 don't know why Manchester wrote the Kennedy entourage that what he did. I can only take the work day "I asked Dr. Rose it he could stand aide and let the responsibility for re- as it has been published. "State law prohibits the re- 'There is only one implication — the moval of a body from the leasing the body he with a Justice of man doesn't know what he's talking state where death was due the Peace. to violent causes without a "I told him I would assume ha re- about," EX-MAYOR Ea.. -aloe!' says that the release signed by the Gover- sponsibility for making this request as . Manchester book rs not accurate. ner, the Lieutenant Governor, the mayor of Dallas. Dr. Rose agreed rrAtarel AillALLA/ViAkA Page 3

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