Vol. 4, No. 6 September-October, 1997 Probe is published by CTKA Pq 3E Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination Magazine. The truth is in here. fl.)1997 All Rights Reserved $5.00 Mew Trial For lames Earl Ray, Or New judge For Shelby County? By Jim DiEugenio league on the bench, John Colton, has ordered the transcripts from an On August 11th. Shelby County INSIDE THIS ISSUE April administrative hearing deliv- Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown ered CO his office. That hearing and stated that, due to the District a subsequent appeal decided that Attorney's reluctance, he may seek Brown's court (Division 9) could the appointment of a special pros- Harvey and Lee: hear Ray's appeal even though ecutor in the James Earl Ray case. Ray's original plea in 1969 was in In an order setting August 19th as The Case for nvo Oswalds Colton's court (Division 3). This is the next hearing date. the judge an issue that the DA's office has wrote that the state seems opposed John Armstrong on the evidence of two Oswalds also raised in the press. to discovering the "true facts" of the Campbell seems CO have an ally matter and because of this obsti- that can't be explained away in the local newspaper. The Mem- nacy, "The patience of this court has phis Commercial Appeal has tried to been very sorely tried." Further, make an issue of who should be Judge Brown added. "The state ap- The. Posthumous made CO pay for the costs of the test pears singularly opposed CO vigor- firings done by Ray's defense team. ously proceeding to ascertain the Assassination of JFK This issue made the top of the front true facts of this case." He charac- page on July 18th. The next day, the terized the prosecutors as being Jim DiEugenio on the ongoing Commercial Appeal ran an editorial "further opposed to recognizing let character assassination of John F. Kennedy which quoted the DA's office and alone protecting the interests of the their witnesses calling the whole family of the victim, the late Dr. proceeding a waste of time. That Martin Luther King Jr." viously fired test bullets shot by the FBI in editorial is typified by its opening statements: There seems CO be enough evidence to in- 1968 and the House Select Committee on "More than one person may be milking the dicate that Brown is correct about the reluc- Assassinations in 1978. On July 18th, pros- James Earl Ray case. Possible motives include tance of the Memphis DAs office to vigorously ecutors announced to the press that the FBI continued on page 36 pursue Brown's evidentiary proceeding to its could not find the original 1968 test bullets. ■MilL fullest. Brown has been trying to refine the Lee Coffee, an assistant DA, said he had been process of testing the alleged rifle that James In This Issue... told, "They have been able to locate copies of Earl Ray had in Memphis and which was sup- the lab notes only. They have not been able to Letter from the Chairman 2 posedly used to kill King there in 1968. The find the bullets." Later in the month, the Bu- Gerald Ford: Accessory after the Fact .. 3 first round of tests came back inconclusive in reau said they had found the bullets. Camp- July. There was a marking on 12 of the 18 Ministry of Truth 4 bell then told the Associated Press: bullets rest fired which was not on the 1968 The Posthumous Assassination of cIFK 5 death slug. But this may have been caused by To think that now. al of a sudden, were going to be Long and Kennedy: either a build up of residue in the barrel from able to 10 something with these bullets is really push- Targets of the Establishment 12 ing rtAs much as people may want this gun to tell them the test fires or from a metal defect in the rifle Specters from the Past 16 barrel itself. Brown suggested cleaning the something, there's just a limit to how much you can ex- pod it to do. Brad Ayers to Jack Anderson: 'Fess Up! 17 barrel to determine the origin of the marking. That state attorneys, led by John Camp- After Brown's comments about a possible Harvey & Lee: bell, objected to this procedure. Campbell ar- special prosecutor, Campbell again fired a shot The Case for Two Oswalds 18 gued that cleaning the rifle with brushes at Brown: "This is going completely out of The World According to Ron 28 would alter the identifying markings left on control. He basically wants to conduct his own Ben & Jack: Not a Love Story 30 any subsequent bullets fired. He then added: Warren Commission land] that's going coo Navel & Company: All you're going to do is increase the contro- far," Phillips, Banister, Arcacha and Ferrie 32 versy in this case." Ignoring that remark, Judge It seems that the powers that be in Mem- Notebook 35 Brown also told attorneys to acquire the pre- phis are siding with Campbell. Brown's col- 11 From the Chairman's Desk: can CTKA What is going on in Memphis? On one hand, we have an apparently honest judge, Joe Brown, who wants to proceed with a thorough investigation of the rifle chat allegedly killed Dr. tht CITIZENS FOR TRUTH King. He has even suggested appointing a special prosecutor. The DA. no Jim Garrison. objects ern ABOUT THE to the idea. Then, the judge whom the DA apparently favors. John Colton. does appoint a special Br( KENNEDY ASSASSINATION prosecutor. Yet, he was not the judge presiding over the rifle hearing. These latest occurrences the just happened as we were going to press. Is Colton for real? Why has he attempted to take over the case? We bring you up to date on these and other Memphis matters in our cover story and doi www.webcom.com/ctka outline even more of the problems Brown is having. if you wish to support Brown in his struggles, WI visit our Internet site and we will let you know who to get in contact with. In other current news, the Review Board garnered an exceptional amount of publicity over cot Chairman its press release revealing some of Gerald Ford's last minute medical maneuverings to get a fro Jim DiEugenio majority of the Warren Commission to go along with the single bullet theory. As we explore the Bit story, we show that the "majority" was manufactured for public consumption. John McCloy Dr Executive Board didn't really buy it. But this ultimate establishment figure always knew which side his bread he: Jim DiEugenio, Chuck Marler, was buttered on. The title of Sylvia Meagher's wonderful book, Accessories After the Fart„. has Wa Lisa Pease never seemed so apt. Travis Kelley polishes off Ford with another panel from his "Ministry of rot Truth" series. We also alert you to the news that the Board got its extension. On the research front. John Armstrong begins his long awaited two-part series on Lee Harvey Board of Directors Oswald. John has presented hisnew Oswald findings at conferences before, but this is the first Gary Aguilar, M.D. time it has been in print. We welcome the opportunity to present his utterly fascinating re- Doug Carlson search. As 1 wrote before (Vol. 4 No.3, p.3), the riddle of Let Harvey Oswald has gained an unanticipated complexity. Armstrong lays in another panel and raises the mystery to another Kathleen Cunningham level in what is certainly a key element to the case. Gaeton Fonzi Professor Donald Gibson completes his two-parser on the assassination of Huey Long and Edwin Lopez Soto, J.D. unearths more about the substratum of New Orleans. In part one he showed some of the simi- larities in the policies of Kennedy and Long. This new installment shows that at least some of Inc David Mantlk, M.D., Ph.D. the network opposed tO Long was still around in the sixties opposing Kennedy, i.e. Alton Ochsner yet Jim Marrs and the Butler family. Gibson shows further that these local forces were tied into the Wall Street pu Wayne Smith, Ph.D. power elite. Lisa Pease provides more on the New Orleans scene from Gordon Novel's amazing ha; William Turner 1969 Playboy deposition. Garrison didn't know how dose he was. EIV Cyril Wecht. M.D., J.D. This year began a recycling of a subtle but clear campaign to smear the legacy ofJohn Kennedy and, to a lesser extent, to Jack White his brother Robert- It began with Liz Smith in Vanity Fair in January, will ter continue with Sy Hersh's book in the fall, and will spread over into 1998 with a book by John Davis. This all concerns the ongoing saga of the triumvirate of Judith Exner-Mary Meyer-Marilyn Monroe and their alleged associations with the Kennedys. It struck me as odd that all this PROBE STAFF should be recycled in what would have been the Board's final year. So I decided to take a look ar some of these stories that hacr'been so readily accepted by ABC, Barbara Walters, the New York Co-Editors Times, etc. Was it a coincidence that the same people who never had any questions about Kennedy's Jim DiEugenio (99 Lisa Pease assassination also never dug deeply into this posthumous mugging? The investigation was chi interesting, twisting, and, at last, unexpected. It led back to the man who helped cover up the stt CIA's role with Oswald, and Kennedy's dubious pal at the Washington Post.