cotheic c-cL 1(1 7 ange County College To Teach JFK Conspiracies By Michael Granberry The course, scheduled Septem- Los Angeles Times ber 26-28 and advertised by district literature as a "high-quality com- Mission Viejo, Orange County munity education" offering, has The South Orange County Com- angered some faculty members munity College District has ap- and citizens who say the board's proved a course that teaches that a decision subjects the college to rid- conspiracy was behind the assassi- icule and endorses the agendas of nation of President John F. Kenne- political extremists. dy and has committed $5,000 to fly "All of this is out-and-out anti- in four guest speakers, one or Semitism," said Cheryl Altman, whom says the Israeli intelligence chairwoman of the department of agency, , masterminded the killing. JFK: Page All Col. 1 I From Page 1 sory board of , "the Frogue also said at the meeting reading at Saddleback Community most anti-Semitic publication in that no student will receive aca- College, which, along with Irvine America," according to the Anti- demic credit for the course. Valley Community College, is run Defamation League. Some faculty members fear by the district. Steven J. Frogue, the contro- that the course will harm the dis- The Anti-Defamation League, versial president of the communi- trict's reputation. ( which voiced its opposition to the ty college's seven-member Board "I am profoundly embarrassed r course at a trustees' meeting Mon- of Trustees, cast the tie-breaking that the president of our Board of d day night, accuses one of the vote to approve the course and will Trustees is a man who takes seri- speakers, Michael Collins Piper, of also teach the three-day seminar ously crackpots such as these," w being a proponent of Holocaust de- free of charge. Frogue said taxpay- said Roy Bauer, a philosophy in- al nial and labels his claim that Israe- er money won't be used to pay the structor at Irvine Valley Commu- tt lis killed Kennedy as ridiculous. $5,000 allocated to the speakers; in- nity College. r Another speaker, Sherman stead, it will come from the $99 Last November, Frogue re- Skolnick, is a member of the advi- course fees paid by students. ceived a bigger endorsement than

lieve Lee Harvey Oswald worked CIA, in collaboration with orga- for the ADL. That's right. ... I be- nized crime — and most specifical- lieve the ADL was behind it." ly, with direct and profound in- volvement by the Israeli intelli- any other candidate in the district, At the meeting Monday night, Frogue denied making the com- gence service, the Mossad." garnering 128,361 votes in a re- ment. Piper said 's motive election bid for a decisive 61 per- Piper, reached at the Spot- stemmed from a dispute between cent to 39 percent victory over his light's offices yesterday, said he is Kennedy and the late David Ben- opponent. excited about the course and his Gurion, the former Israeli prime Frogue did not return phone involvement in it. He commended minister. calls. Frogue, "a personal friend," for "They were involved in a heat- During an interview last fall, having offered it. The author of ed dispute just months before the Frogue said he believes the Anti- "Final Judgment: The Missing assassination," Piper said, "over Defamation League played a key Link in the JFK Assassination Con- Kennedy's refusal to support Isra- role in killing Kennedy. spiracy," Piper explained his el in its drive to build a nuclear Calling the Anti-Defamation views. weapon. Other authors have docu- League "a group of spies that ac- The assassination, he said, "was mented that this dispute, as much tively keeps files on people ... peo- a joint enterprise conducted on as anything, caused Ben-Gurion to ple like me," Frogue added, "I be- the highest levels of the American resign."