Balloon Crash Kills 5

^4 - THE HERALD. Mon., Aug. 17,1961 Balloon Is another man crash buried in tomb 'Ht marked 'Oswald'? Pleasant today Manchester, Conn. Tues(jay, Aug. 18, 1961 kills 5 DALLAS (UPI) -.Controversy Worth, also said the picture was not and Wednesday of the man he prepared for burial over a photograph purporting to 25 Cents BARRINGTON HILLS, HI. (UPI) show accused presidential assassin after Oswald was shot in the base —* See page 2 — Ilte balloon pilot was one of the ment of the DalUs police station turn H rralh Lee Harvey Oraald in a casket has most experienced In the Midwest deepened the mystery over who, if days after the assassination bl and two of the passengers were apyone, is buried in a grave marked President John Kennedy. championship parachutists. “(Jswald.” “I cannot believe that’s him," It wa^a sublime setting for an air Both Oswald’s widow and Paul Grudy said of the picture. “It borne bIrUiday party. It became Grudy, the mortician who prepared doesn’t look like the body that 1 put what mays]M the worst balloon the body for burial, said Sunday the in the casket. It does not look like tragedy in US. history. black-and-white snapshot is not of the man I embalmed and that I used The brightly colored hot air Oswald and the grave should be cosmetic cover on to conceal a black halloon was thrown into power lines opened to learn the truth. eye. 1 think the picture is of Saturday, moments after pilot Marina Oswald Porter said she someone else, sold by someone James Bicket, 26, Bloomington, 111., fi:; plans this week to go to court to seek looking for a little glbry.” realized a storm was approaching. * permission to open Oswald’s grave The mortician also denied r Five of the six men aboard were ■ Vi- at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort patrolman . Rocky Stone’s claims kiUed in the fiery crash. The only Worth, Texas. that he h e lp ^ embalm Oswald’s ( survivor, Rocco Evans, 29, Deland, Mrs. Porter has said the man body and guarded it until burial. Fla., jumped out of the gondola buried 18 years ago was her husband During the weekend. Stone, who when Bicket turned on the craft’s but she fears government officials has been wil|l the Fort Worth Police t-r propane burner to gain altitude, have since removed the body. Department for over 30 years, said pushing the balloon into 34,000-volt British author Michael Ekidowes, his eyes never left Oswald’s body delivery *1. Taking it easy ' power lines. who has attempted unsuccessfully from the time it arrived at a Fort "That’s when I got the hell out of Scott Gray, of 199 Woodbridge St., has a smoke and takes a rest after a ride on his motorcycle, to have the Oswald grave opened, Worth funeral home from Dallas un there,” Evans told the Ciiicago Sun- til it was lowered into the ground. just before’heading off to work. contends the accused presi«ntial Times. assassin actually was a Soviet “’That guy Stone said he didn’t let Evans, who fell 40 feet and landed his eyes off the body,” said Grudy. secret agent who assumed Oswald’s i ! on a grassy highway median, was in ’> Identity after his defection to Russia “Well, no one except my assistant serious condition Sunday with bums Scientist warns in 1059. and I were in the preparation room. over 25 percent of his body. Mrs. Porter’s efforts so far to He (Stone) was not in any authority. “They all should have jumped have the grave opened have been op I WflS.** when I did, as soon as we hit the posed by Oswald’s older brother, Grudy said the mysterious wires and I saw we were on fire,” he Robert, of Wichita Falls, Texas'. photograph underscored the need to said. War seems tempting Mrs. Porter said the photograph open the grave Quickly to find out Bicket, who had leased the balloon released publicly Saturday is not of who, if anyone, was inside. and flew it professionally, had in the man she buried Nov. 25, 1963. “I think it’s an important thing to Organization and the Soviet Union "With the possibility of saving the Europe to spend more time, money Ft’ vited two friends, Evans and ERICE, Sicily (UFl) — American ’The photograph snowed a man settle this issue,” said Grudy. “’This protested the decision today. S; great majority of its population and and scientific effort on defense and Kenneth Coleman, 35, Kissimee, nuclear scientist Edward Teller who appeared to be in his late 30s, is a part of history. Let’s dig him up In a dispatch from Washington, t . - destroying about 60 percent of that warned the United States and its PLO and Fla., for a ride. The three other men warned current Soviet superiority in dressed in a dark suit and tie. The and make sure he’s there.” the Soviet’s Tass news agency said of its adversary, this could be a allies against pacifism. aboard — Brian Baker, 38, nuclear weapons and bomb shelters man’s neck appeared puffy and his The photograph, reportedly taken the U.S. embargo was a could tempt Moscow to tell the West temptation to begin war,” the “In Europe too little time, too lit by an unidentified Fort Worth in McHenry, 111.; Tery Ritter, 38, tle attention and too little money is hair dark and relatively thick. “hypocritical farce.” EaSw I Cary, 111.; and William Keating, to surrender or face World War III. Hungarian-born Teller said. telligence officer after Oswald’s “We were not surprised by the Teller warned such a scenario going toward defense, while the "It’s not Lee. I don’t know who it Forest, Park, 111. — were paying Teller, known as the father of the is. It’s a strange man in a casket,” body was prepared for burial, was Soviets American decision, which en would probably begin in mid Soviet Union is making enormous passengers. H-bomb, told an atomic warfare Mrs. Porter said from her home in sold to the Associated Press for fSOO courages Israeli aggression and is a summer when winter conditions strides in this area. For Keating, it was a belated pre symposium Sunday that “the the Dallas suburb of Rockwall. by Jim Mbits, a former reporter for threat to the south Lebanon cease would not make evacuation of Soviet “Extreme pacifism leads to sent to celebrate his 24th birthday Soviets have 80 percent of all the “I saw Lee buried in the casket. the Fort Worth Star Telegram. fire,’’ said PLO spokesman citizens to distant bomb shelters and either war or surrender,” he said, last month. atomic bombs in the world and these He was just 24. The man in the picr Although the photograph was Mahmoud Labadi in Beirut. civil defense centers difficult. adding, “If the democracies protest Evans and Coleman, parachutists are certainly offensive arms.” iure looks between 35 and 40—Just published in I960, it attracted, vir But in Washington, Israeli am "Moreover, they possess a bomb He said that after the Soviet Union strengthen themselves, they will tually no public attention bwause of who were members of national and win 10 years of peace, and then look at the forehead. Lee was bassador Ephraim Evron told NBC shelter system that guarantees the was sure its citizens were safe, relatively limited distribution of the world championship teams, were another 10 and still again another 10 balding and this man had a very television today, "We are not not wearing parachutes on the survival of 95 percent of their pop Moscow would then begin book, “Conspiracy,” by Anthony By Helen Thomas years of peace.” heavy thick head of dark hair," she trigger-happy.” flight. But Evans said parachutes ulation,” the 73-year-old nuclear negotiations on its own terms with Summers. UPI White House Reporter He Indicated the lifting of the f said. would not have saved them because physicist said on the second day of Washington to avoid a nuclear war. suspension had nothing to do with Teller called on U.S. allies in Grudy, from his home in Fort LOS ANGELES - The ad- the balloon was too low. the meeting. ministniUoa is readying warplanes the shaky month-old ceasefire in •for delivery to Israel, lifting its two- Lebanon between Israel and the naohth embargo without ruling PLO. “One thing has nothing to do whether Israel’s strike on an IraQi with the other ... there was no deal ■X' nuclear plant broke agreements on whatsoever,” be said. m Experts doubt . use of U.S.-made weapons. Reagan first suspended deliveries Secretary of State Alexander Haig of F-16 fighter-bombers to Israel announced President Reagan’s decl- after the Jewish state used such ■ ■ V idan to lift the essiMBBO CO F-U dud pUnes in its. June 7 raid oh the s ‘'lftIive1ribs"Mdnday after OSriak nuclear reactor'-near ■ budget balance Reagan met with his National Bagdad, IraQ. i ■ Security Council in a Los Angeles ■nie United States joined in a U.N. H e a i ^ hotel suite, y, emdemnation of the attack, and the million in 1984. The planes will be delivered administration notified Congress WASHINGTON (UPI) - Several there may have been a "substantial hobby private economists doubt President The New York Times reported Sunday without an official finding on that Reagan’s own advisers are raising whether Israel violated terms of an violation” of U.S. law. Haig an Jim Kramer of Twin Hills Reagan will be able to balance the nounced a review to determine federal budget by 1984, a chore even their estimates of next year’s deficit by agreement forbidding use of Drive, Coventry, grimaces American-made weaponry for offen whether Israel had violated its.

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