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Saturday Noll 24 1973

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THE WASHINGTON POST

iAss_assination Probers Gather Here

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By John Hanrahan several of the polltlcal assas- nedy from the window of and coroner for the city of

~ ~ t o n Post stnf Writer sinati ons of the last decade. the Texas School Book De- Pittsburg, told the confer-

A former CIA employee More than 300 persons at· pository building, and sev- ence of his privileged view-

asserted yesterday that his tended the initial session eral Dallas officials w h o ing of one .of the assassinaprellminary use of methodsor determining psycholog- yesterday, held in Gaston were involved in the initial tion bullets in the closedical stress indicates to him H ~ l l investigation of . the shoot- files of the National Ar·

that President John F. Ken- Although the confer ence ing. He emphasized that the chives in August, 1972. The

nedy was killed not by Lee yesterday heard speakers appearance of stress does bullet, which the Warren

Harvey Oswald but by con- contend that the assassina- not necessarily indicate that Commission says ·p·assell

George O'Toole, a fo rmer t ions of Sen. Robert F. Ken· the pe rson whose voice is through Mr. Kennedy's neckspirators.CIA comp uter specialist, nedy Dr. Martin Luther being studied is not telling and also wounded then·who uses a device for de - King, Jr . and American Nazi the truth. Texas Gov. John Connally,teeting psycbolo' cal stress ·•could not have done whal

b y analysis of v oice record- tt 1s sa1 to have done,... · leader George Lincoln Rock- O'Toole said Brennan · · ·d

ing told a mee ting of assassi- well are still unsolved , the showed great stress when wecht said.nation researchers that his emphasis was on President asked on t he CBS broadcast Both the alleged angle ofinitial studies o£ recot·ded Kennedy's assassination. whether he was sure Oswald the shot, plus the smallintci-views with 40 key fig· O'Toole, in hi s pre se nta- was the man he saw. Wa r- loss of substance by the

ures in the assassination in- tion, said t hat newly devel- ren, he said, showed stress bullet in passing through

vestigation indicate to him oped techniques such as psy- in answer.ing th at there was two bodies, destroy the so-that many of them showed chological stress evaluation no evidence of any kind called ''single-bullet theory

h ld b l i d· that there was a conspir h~ e a t psychological stress. s ou e app e m a new · of t e Warren Commission

acy.Be said that might mean investigation of President and its conclusion that Os-they were not telling the Kennedy's assassination. O'Toole said he would wald was the lone assassin,truth. The device O'Toole uses, complete his studies, which we cht said.

which he sa id is 9 per cent have been going on for aaccurat e in the hands of an year , in 1974 and at thatexpert, operates in a fashion time will turn over his findanalogous to a lie detector, ings to the Justice Depart

but gauges stress only from ment and members of Conrecorded statements. gress. In emphasizing that

O'Toole said he could not

Identify at th is time personsInvolved in th e. alleged conspiracy. But he said he believed he could soon offerpersuasive evidence about

t is an action not span·sored bY the conference yesterday, a group of about 20Youth International Party(YIP) organizers callingthemselves The Committeeto Open the Archives ledsparsely attended rallies atthe Capitol and National Ar-chives, accusing the government of covet·ing up evidence in the dea th of Presi

dent Kennedy and callingfor increased access to Kennedy files in the archivesfor reserchers.

it.O'Too'le was one of sev-

eral speakers at th e two·day conference that opened

yesterday at GeorgetownniversitY who assailed thelvarren Commission's re

~ r t s official version thatdlwald was the lone assasSin of President Kennedy.

~ J l e conference, scheduledto n c i d e with the lOth an-nlve ry of President Kenuedy's assassination on Nov.22; 1963, was sponsored bythe Committee to Investi

~ a t e Al88ssinations, a private. Washington-basedgroup that has investigated

Using a slide projector to

show the graphs based onapplication of th e st ress de·

vice to interviews held byCBS Television News in

1967, O'Toole said he detected varying degrees ofstress in some of the answet·s of former Chief .Justice Earl Warren, whoheaded the assassinationcommlSSion; James E.Humes. chief autopsy surgeon for the late President'sautopsy at Be thesda NavalHospital ; .floward Brennan,the man who told t he Warren Commission he had seenOswald shooting at Mr. Ken-

the appearance of stressdoes not necessarily indicatea lie, he said some persons

show st ress even when answering truthfully, whileothe rs show stress because

they have doubts abouttheir answers, said.

One of the themessounded in the conferenceyesterday was the frustration of students of the killing over their inability toobtain materials relating tothe assassination from theNational Archives.

Dr . Cyril Wecht, professor

of law and forensic medicine at Duquesne University

No More Cover Ups,Dump Fm·d, said a largeplacard carried by demonst rators in r e f e r ~ n e to vicepresidential nominee GeraldFord's public adherence tothe 1one-as5assin theory as amember of the Warren Commission in the 1960s.



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WHAT S THE TRUTH ABOUT JFK S ASSASSINATION? The pe ople of Amerika

have been asking this que s t ion f or ten yea r s and s t i l l haven t r eceived at

a daqua t e answe r . Many have grown i mpatien t waiting for the i r e l ected r ep

resenta t ives t o f orce the powe r s t r c t u r e to object ively inves t iga te i t

se l f and have de c ieded t o personal ly pe t i t ion the gove r nment t ) r e-open

t he case. They l l be gather ing i n f ront of t he Na t i ona l Archives i n w a ~ hington D. C. on Nov. 23,1973 a t lPM to demand The Archives be open to re-

searche r s of a l l persuasions who want to see i f the evidence in it backs

up t he conclusions of the Warren Commission . The demonstrator s wil l also

d e m a n d t h a t a l l evidence being held by the Kennedy Clan and by Bethesda

Navel Hospital be re turned t o the Archives immediatly.

The ra l ley wil l be addressed by the f ollowing people:

Mae Brussel l - whose extensive research has unc overed l inks be tween Water·gate and Dal l as and whose. West Coast Radio Program and wid1

reprinted a r t i c le s have enlightened many. Mae is the ul timlassass inat i onologis t .

Don Freed

Carl Oglesby

Mar k I.ane

- author ·) f EXECUTIVE ACTION (Movd.e : Book), co-au t hor of THJ

GLASSHOUSE TAPES in which ex-Red Squader Loui s Tackwood l i lMcCord and Hunt t o a plan f or a Nixon coup d e ta t . G r ~ a tes ·investigative radical wri ter in Amerika.

- ex-President of SDS , Vangua rd r e cording s t a r and radica ltheor is t responsi ble f or the Y a n ~ e e s C o w b o y s Double Agenttheory of Watergate which has received wide accevtance inradical ci rc les .

- former New York Ci t y Councilman, Margue r i t e Oswald ' s lawyea t Warren Commis s i on Hea r i ngs, au thor of RUSH TO JUDGEMENT( Mov ie Book a bout Warren Comm . Cover up) and current ly a torne y f or Indians arre s ted a t Wounded Knee.

Sherman Sko l nick - i n d e p n d n t r e s e a r c h r ·whose work l e ~ t o the conv i c t innof Otto Kerner , former Gove rner of I l l ino i s . Sherman alsodi s covered l inks be t ween N i x n n the death of DorothyHunt and others in a suspicious plane crash. He ll rapabout Albert Bolden, black Secret Service agent impris Jned f or t rying to t e l l tha t r uth about the J FK-ki l l ing t o.a-1.- - t . ___ ..... _, __



Theodore Cha r a ch - - wri te r 0f movie SECOND GUN wil l t alk about l i nks b e t ~ e e nRFK -k i l l ing & JFK-ki l l ing

The main theme of t he even t wi l l be WHERE I S KENNEDY' S BRAIN . . . . it s ms

that ~ t l h e n Dr . Cyr i l c h t ... , one of the coun t r ies l eadl:ng exper t s on violent

death, . was f i na l l y a l l owed to e xami ne t he au t op sy ev ide nce ( the Warren Re

por t o w s spec i a l i s t s t o examine s ome Jf t he ma t e r ia l s t a r t ing i n 1972

-everyone e l se must wai t · 100 yea r s because of Nat iona l Secu r i t y r eas ons

we ···know wha t th ose words r ea l l y mea n f r .)m Wa t erga te ) th e Doc t or d i s covered

tha t one of t he X ~ r a y s revealed a bulle t f r agmen t l odged in JFK s bra in.

This conf i r med what many pe ople have seen in th e Zapr ude r film ; Ke nnedy

ge t t ing his brains blown o ~ t f r om a bul l e t f i red in f r ont : df him which prove

the re we r e severa l people inv ·)lved in th e mu rder.(The Zapruder f 1 ~ m wi l l

be projected on th e wa l l s of the Archives by The Assassinat ion Inf0rmation

Bur eau of Boston and th ey ' l l be special h o w i n ~ s ~ f r e e ~ of EXECUTIVE ACTION

and THE SEC OND GUN- : location ill be announced a t demo) But when the good

Doctor t r ied to find JFK s brain he found it was missing . .... .

When I heard the bra in was missing I i mmed i a t ly thought of Nixon who

i s suspec t ed of ·ta mpering with the Whitehou s e Tapes and f i gured he had the

brain in his den, in between his stuffed moose & f ish . Actual ly , the brain

i s pr·> bably in Bethesda, whe re it s his by f ia t , since he s c·Jmmander

chief .) f the Arme d Forces. No matte r , we want it re tu rned and plan to make

our feelings known afterwhich we l l march to Congress where we ' l l demand

GERALD FORD CONFIRMATION BE HELD UP unt i l we f ind ou t i f the Warren m m ~i ss ion, whdQh he was a leading member of wa s a cover-up . . . . . . .

New York City YIP-Z ippie · i s sponsoring th is act ion along with The Comm-

i t t ee To Open The Archives and we hope tha t YIPSTERS around ·the DC-Ba 1t imore-Pennsylvnia area wil l help l eaf le t put - up posters f or the even t . I f y·

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c an d ~ s o ..p l ease write us a t 6 Bleecke r St . tNC 10012 . · .~ e Inte l l igence Community i s a ser i ous t hreat the remnan t s or Democra cy in A m r i ~ a .. Anyone who pose s a threa t t o t hem i s at tacked or discred- ·i te d. Ther e have been severa l a t temp t s on Mae Brusse l ls l i f e & her daughterwas k i l ~ e d i n a mys ter ious car accident - - -but she refused t o be in t imidatedand ? ~ t i n u e d he r inv es t i ga t ion . . . . so a f te r s tu f f i ng your faces on Thanksgiv1

ge t Y ;D J. r asses ·Ju t i n t the s t ree ts l e t s show her we dig he r courage andRhow the world tha t not evP. r yone swall :> ws the Gov e rnmen t s Bullshi t There sn h ~ n ~ ~ V ~ v ~ O n ~ m ~ h n ~ r ~ ~ m r ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ H R R .



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RfEPORT S s t ··W S ·

Ell r T l Y· sA team of private inves tigators ·

says it will prese nt a report toLos Angeles officials ned week--a report which alleges that L.A:,police may have intentiona . y wiped out s ix members of the Symbionese· Liberation Army last

month without giving them are?sonable opportunity to s u r ~ e n o e r ..

The investigators were hired by· the families of s la in SLA members Willie Wolfe and Angel l' Atwood. The team is being led by

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private investi gator Lake Headley tcilVe by the ba ck door, but wereand Attorney Leonard Weinglas , knocked back into the burningone of the lawyers in the Pentagon structure by po li ce bullets.Papers Case. . Coroner Thomas Noguchi is said· report alleges, among oth- to be "deeply disturbed" by qucs

er h m g ~ , that m e f b ~ ; of. L.A. tions concerning the policepollee 'SWAT um.ty · which at - handI ng of the shoo tout. Doctortacked the ~ L A h1deout. on May Noguchi will make the final dcci

·l?th were given f a ~ s e Inf?rma- sion as to whether or not a publicJon about the SLA JUSt pr'10r to il'lques t will be hcld .- - - (ZNS)

the attack. The report charges . . , . . . = = = = = = = - - - = = = = = : : : : : = ~that SWAT members werP. told

FIFTH EST TEthat the SLA had executed a LosAnge les po liceman just a few daysbefore the attack, and that SWA'Ijmembers were shown pictures ofthe . dead policeman just beforebeing dispatched to the SLA hide- PENS B KSout .

A Los Angeles policeman was 1-----------------'·killed ncar the hideout about a week Memo to the underground press,

Dear Barb: prior to the shootout--but Los and concerned individua ls:This is, an I Bet You Don't Angeles· police have since stated It has come to ourattention, that

Print This .letter, to those noodle- that the killing had nothing to do the Organizing Committee for a

brains who-think -that the SLA Is with the SLA . Fiflh Estate and individua ls in. it,the best th'ing since Jesus Christ. . Th e ·families of Angela Atwood have been accused of being agentsLike Jesus, the SLA died for other and William Wolfe hope to use the of one sort or another.people's fantasies . As a matter of · report to convince Mayor T m We understnnd that A. J. Weberfact, if 'I were li member. of the Bradley ami Los Angeles County man of l Le X'Ppic/Zipp cOrgani ruling class, I'd .really think that . Coroner Thomas Noguchi .to open z t.on, has accused us of fj e 1 n_gthe SLA was the best .thing since a coroner's · public inquest into 1si)me sort of a:t£Q:nt for military

Jesus Christ. . the May 17th fiery shootout. t ~ N e . , We have als_o llc roThe moronic politics. and. ~ n d . . The report ·iilso alleges that tha e at10nal Caucus of Labor ·

· jnflated utterances pf the .self- . the police and SWAT units em - Committees (NCLC) has accusedstyled generals, was ~ m l y out- ployed a special type of tear gas us of being a CIA front.grossed by their acts and ,c,vent- grenade that was re sponsbile ·for We believe it is important toual suicide. The only effect of all setting the SLA house afire. In- understand where these se riousthat can be .to set back the cause vestigators say that Po lice us.ed ·charges come from. The Organizof social justice another hundred. what are known as " speedy heat ing Committee for a Fir th Es tateyears. Everybody who disagreed jumbo" grenades during that at - and its members, have se riouswith them, was either a "pig" tack--a type of grenade which political differences with both theor a "fascist" and slated for death often causes structures to catch Yippies and NCLC. e v e ~without trial or explanation. There fire. their accusa tions rc12rcsent an a{-ls no doubt_that SLA haz become Investigator Headley says that iPm Pt t o . . R 9 J l i g 1 J ~ r r u s .like the pigs they hated. · the "speedy heat Jumbo" gre- These sorts of tactics , we llwik,

Their extreme carelessness and nadc is generally used outside, are politically "below the belt",exhibitionism .brought their doom. rather than ins ide structures, bp:: and on a p r with the "DirtyTheir deaths mi ght truly be said to cause of its incendiery potenti,ill. tricks" engaged in by the variousbe suicides, but what the hell for? The report also charges that capitalist po litica l parties.We might have hoped that the LA- although firemen were on the scene Given these fc e I in g s, it isPD would have given the SLA a more than an hour befor e the tempting · to s imply ignore thesebetter chance than the SLA gave house caught fire, members ofthe charges . But, just ·so . tha t thereMarcus Foster, but, at least th e fire ' .department were threatened can be no mi s und e rstanding, wepigs have an excuse: they arc pigs, with arrest by police a s they at - ca ll you r attention to one of th eand we didn't expect better of tempted to advance to the house b s ic principles of the F i f ththem. · . · · to extinguish the bla ze. · Es ta le: "We encourage all citizens

Romantics are a dime a dozen. The Headley-Weinglas report to investigate our activiti es. OurBerkeley politics are so divorced s ta tes that several hostages in:.. org<J,nizational hi stories , andotherfrom reality th ese days, that any- s ide the house·, who escaped during records are open for public in

body jerking off in public will be the gun fire, told investigators spection." Furthermore, we entaken for a true revolutionary' j that the bullhorn· warning g iven by courage interested individuals tohe shouts , "Power to the People," police prior to the shootout · was bring ·an accountant or lawyer, ofwhile he's doing it. Maybe it 's be - not hea rd by anyone inside the · their choice, with them. ·cause people confuse rage with structure. . And finall y, we think that it ishaving one's shit together. But *tn a related matter, television important tor people to notice , thatrage is useless . Enraged people newswoman Marilyn Baker of s ta- our accusers have never offeredare powerless. Rage makes clear lion K.Q.E.D.; in San Francisco to let the public inspect their orthinking and clear tatics imposs i- reported ~ w o weeks ago that at g ~ ' i . ~ l a l . r.cc.ords. In fact they -blc. least three SLA members attemr.t .-n r c very sec r ctJ vc about thc tr f i-

Check it out, if you don't believe ed to escape from the house d9t - nancial and organizational rc -me. · ing the height of the blaze. Baf cr cord s . We invite the Yippies and

Yours truly, quotes "reliab le sources ' as ay - \NCLC to make the same offer ofBrian Gruber ing that the th ree attcmpte to ·proof that we hav<: made.

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Like the Vietnam war and Watergate,of American political fig·

produced a myriad of unansweredIn the ten years since the

of John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plamurder and cover-up reminiscent of

'Banana Republics' coups hasaccepted fact within the Amer

political process.At Georgetown University over Thanks·

weekend, 200 authors, researchers,investigators held a two

symposium on American political

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ideas on 'why' and their evion 'how' political fJ gUres have

m this country.

The conference, the first of its kindorganized by the Committee to In

Assassinations, was chair ed bythe current lawyer

conspirator James McCord.Fensterwald told the opening session that

CTIA was only four years old, buthat the effort to fmd the truth behind

he Kennedy assassination had begun on

he day he was killed.Fensterwald was followed by Norman

ailer, who spoke briefly for the need of

a 'Fifth Estate' to force the truth fromthe government. After the opening remarks, the conference began to hear panel discussions on the status of prominent assassination cases, research methodology, medical and physical evidence supporting conspiracy theories, and how themedia has covered poJitiE:al assassinations.

While the bulk of information and discussion was centered on the murder ofohn F. Kennedy , there was some atten

tion given to the murders of other political figures. James Lesar, the attorney forames Earl Ray, told the symposium that

his client had not killed Martin LutherKing, but rather had been framed whenthe Justice Department and the FBI'wn>ngly solved' the King Murder. Lesarpointed out that the pattern for politicalassassinations is for the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation to seize control of the casefrom the local police department. The

FBI and the Justice Department, he concluded, are the only organizations withthe resources to follow the leads that proveJames Earl Ray's innocence, and it is highly unlikely that they will •ever do so.

Newsman Ronald Van Doren spoke about the attempt to kill Gov. George Wallace. Van Doren said 'There is no doubtthat Arthur Bremer pulled the trigger onGeorge Wallace. The question is 'Whopulled the trigger on Arthur Bremer?'Van Doren outlined Bremer's behaviorami attacked his 'diary' as being a contrived document. The motivation forthe Wallace assassination attempt waslaid to expectations that Wallace wouldrun as an independent and take votes a-way from President Nixon's 'mandate.'

The most nteresting and also the mostdisappointing, panel discussion took placeat the close of the conference. A panel ontheories of conspiracy was presented, and

its participants included Victor Marchetti

(former CIA official), Fletcher Prouty (former Defense Department laison to the CIA),Earl Golz (investiptive reporter for the Dallas Morning News), Richard Popkin (author

of The econd Osw ald), Robert Brown

(former Army Special Forces officer), and

Peter Dale Scott (political scientist and author of The ar Conspiracy).

Scott was the only panel participant tostate the fetilings of many in the conferenceaudience. Scott charged that John Kennedywas murdered as a result of a conspiracybetween anti-Kennedy corporate powersusing the Federal government intelligenceapparatus, the Special Services Bureau ofthe Dallas Police Department, and elementsof organized rime as resources for theirmurder plan.

Other members of the panel talked ofpossible complicity between the SecretService and organized crime, but their theories were weak in motivation for the murder - only Scott's charges of corporate in

volvement provided a believable motlvefor the assasination.There were small problems at the con

ference . Members of the Zippie/Yippiecrew from New York came down to raisehell at the meeting. Yip/Zip leader TomForcade, in an unbelievable display rif violent sexism , upturned a table on a womanCTIA worker who had told him not to passout leaflets for a Zippie demonstration.

The next day , A.j. Weberman began to

bait Fletcher Prouty about his job with theAmtrak Corp., charging that Amtrak wasa government organization. Weberman andother Zippies present were promoting Sherman Scolnick, a Chicago-based researcherwho claims Mrs. E. Howard Hunt was mur dered in order to silence her. Scolnick, whos known to be a publicity hound, was overshadowed by the presence of more capable

ruearchers, and his affiliation with the Zippies was an excercise in ''who-was-usingwho. While their diruptions were minor,they did serve to distract and use time that

was needed for more discussion of the issues.

The Zips decided to hold a demonstra

tion during the meeting, and about 15 ofthem attracted a• small crowd of 60 out

side the National Archives. The demonstration was called to draw attention to thefact that J FK s brain is missing from theArchives-a point that was brought out and

thoroughly discussed at the symposium byPittsburgh coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht.

The Decade of Assassinations conferenceended on Saturday night with the showingof the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination. While no single theory of conspiracy was adopted by the conference,those studying assassinations finally hada chance to meet and exchange information. For many, the showing of the Z.,ruder film was the first opportunity theyhad ever had to view the suppressed pieceof evidence.

. ..

While the views on conspiracy dif.

fer, the rum brought out the important

concept shared by all: in slow motion.JFK's head is split by a bullet from thefront. T he contention of the Warren Com

mission that one lone sniper killedJack

Kennedy from the back is totally disprovedby the film, and the search for the truth ·continues. It will only come from those

who are independent and unafraid like

those who attended the CTIA conference.



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ast coast conspiracy freaks gathered

in front of the National Archives inThanksgiving to demand the release

of John F. Kennedy's brain and aconsiderable portion of his head, class-

ified Top Secret since his death, re leased to the public domain for in

vestigation into the assassination. Thegroup also called for the immediate

resignations of G ~ r a l d Ford and Leonard

Jaworski .

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within 4 hours of her husband's arrest.Ford and Jaworski , this theory goes,

long known the truth and were.. .. into government to keep the

the bag when Watergate investi

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Conspiracy:

Brain, Brain,Who s Got the Brain?by ethany Weidner

Some conspiracies are dirty little secrets,like Watergate. Some are open t o the public,

like the radical conspiracies of the sixties.Then there are conspiracies whose purpose

is-to cover up, and the conspiracy of sil-.ence that surrounds the death of John Kennedy seems to many the most sinister con spiracy of all.

Some who believe this plan to meet atthe National Archives November 23rd todemand access to assassination evidencethat has been denied to independent researchers.

In particular , the group wants to see

Kennedy 's brain which they believe is pre served somewhere with a crucial c l u ~ Dr.Cyril Wecht , a lawyer and pathologist (heheads th e Institute of Forensic Sciencesat Duquesne University) says microscope

slides show the presence of an obj ect at

the front of the brain. But without thebrain itself, no one can determine what theobject may have been . f it was a bullet,there would necessarily have been another

gunman besides swald , shooting from a

different angle.But the brain has disappeared. The New

York Times inquired momentarily into itswhereabouts in an August 1972 article,speculating that it was returned to agentsof the Kennedy family. Those agents saythey never had possession of it. The group

which wants to get hold of it thinks it maybe .at the Bethesda Naval Laboratory .

of political figures than madness alone. LeeJ anor interviewed Lyndon johnsen for aJu ly 1973 article in Atlantic Monthly and

quoted the former president as saying, Inever believed Oswald acted alone, althoughI can accept that he pulled the trigger. Several resolutions to reopen the investigationhave been introduced in Congress, but nonehave been adopted.

The most famous film of all - a bootleg-ged version of the footage taken by Abraham

Zapruder on that fateful day in Dallas (count-

less copies of which were made and spread

around New Orleans by pistrict Attorney•

Jim Garrison in his heyday) will have in ef-fect its world premier at the November 23rd

rally . The Committee to Open the Archivesand Examine the Evidence will project thefilm on th e wall of the Archives that afternoon.

The Committee to Open the •ArchivesinCludes several well-known critics of theofficial single-assassination theory:

- Mae Russell , the grandmother of assassination buffs publishes a conspiracy newsletter. She began digging into contradic

tions in the official theory ten years ago.- Mark Lane, who wrote Rush to Judge-ment a best-selling book about Kennedy'sassassination . ·- Carl Oglesby, the principal proponent of aconspiracy theory that begins with J FK ,goes through RFK, King, Malcolm X, George Wallace and beyond Watergate . t in-

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eludes the Cowboys-Yankees theory (loosely: post World War II new money vs. eastem elite liberal interests).

- Sherman Skolnick, a maverick researcherlately of the Otto Kerner investigations in

I.Tf CI IPIVELL

Illinois.- Don Freed who, with Lane, wrote an assassination film appearing in neighborhoodtheaters, Executive Action starring Burt

Lancaster and rated PG.



~ y r a t e they want t back in the ArchivesWith .the rest of the evidence. 1

The Archives Rally coim::ides with se-·veral ?ther attempts to debunk the single- Iassassm story the Warren Commission

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. In an open letter to Ted Kennedy, Real-t t editor Paul assner suggests the Senator

should insist that vice-presidential nominee

Gerald Ford open the National Archivesevidence on assassination. Krassner is cer-tain former Warren Commission memberFord is just another CIA dupe, and saysas well that Teddy has privately expresseddoubts that his brother's murderers were

just a couple of maniacs with guns. Krassner .thinks Teddy should at least own upto that opinion.

~ a r o l d Weisberg, the author of theWhttewash series is suing for access to the

archives under the Freedom of InformationAct. Judge Sirica denied the suit when itwas f'rrst brought in 1970, but his decision

was overturned by the Court of Appeals.

The case is now pending assignment on the

Court of Appeals for DC calendar. It must

be h ~ a r ~ at the.govemment's request, byall rune JUdges Sitting together. The DCClerk's office• savs the date should be setby ovember 29.

. Even men in .high places reportedly believe that there 1s more to the murdering

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As the tenth anniversary of the J FKassassination approaches next month -November 22 - two groups will mark theevent in Washington with rallies qnd a

symposium, agitating for the release ofinformation about the assassination nowlocked up in the National Archives.

On ovember 23 , the Committee to Openthe Archives and Examine the Evidence willrally in front of the National Archives at I:00pm. Organized by A.J. We berman. who gain-

ed notoriety a few years ago by goingthrough Bob Dylan's garbage and organizing the Dylan Liberation Front. the groupwill foC us their energies on opening up theArchives. Reached in ew York. Webermansaid that his committee was intere ·ted in

investigating the deaths of both Kennedys.Martin Luther King. Dag Hammerskold .Hale Boggs. and Walter Reuther. and theshooting of George Wallace. \Veberman sa idthat the Committee was interested in findingout wha t happened to John Kenned y's brain . •which. according to The ew York Times.mysteriously disappeared fro.m the Archiveslast year. Speakers will include Sherman

Skolnick, Mae Brussell . Mark Lane, DonaldFreed. and Carl Oglesby. In addition, theworld premier of Executive Action, a filmabout the Kennedy assassination, will beheld . The group will also march to Congressand demand that Gerald Ford not be confirmed as Vice-President because of his

position on the Warren Commission.While all thi s is going on the Committee to

Investigate As ass ination s will be sc hedulinga speakers' series at Georgetown University.Admission will be $15 .do for the two-daysy mposium . The Co mmittee. which includespeo ple who bl a me the Kennedy assassination on members of the C IA and the Mafia.has been trying to use the co urts to open upthe eviden ce in the Archives for public view.



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of a group of individuals which with Mr.Liss has chosen to aligh himself with.

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the interruption with questions not germaine to the agenda, and activity thatlent itself to retarding the free flow ofinformation was a major factor in pro

ducing the " r i p p e d - o f f ~ ' feeling ~ L e s sdescribed. f he feels npped off, 1t 1sonly because he chose to be.

The conduct of AJ. Weberman, TomForcade and others with whom Mr. Lissa s s o c i a t ~ s himself bordered on the brinkof open sabotage. While many people in

the New Left feel that Forcade t l maybe agents of the Committee to Re-electthe President Oack Anderson has even

presented this concept in one column),I am not prepared to make that chargeor support that claim with evidence.However, as Paul Krassner has said,

"You can't tell the agents from the

assholes without a scorecard."I would like to mention a little about

the financial arrangements made for the

convention. Approximately 150 people

paid $15 to attend the c-onference: approximately another 50 were admittedfor free. I have talked to Bob Smith ofthe Committee to Investigate Assassinations, and he informed me that whileGaston Ha ll was free , the Committeedid spe nd mon ey for videotaping th e

conference, printing, rental of a public

address system, travel for panel participants staff salaries, postage, and otherexpenses. At this point, the ~ T I A is

over i3,000 in debt for the conference,Anyone who has ever been inv?lved

with producing any sort of maJOr con

ference knows that you never "make"

money on the events, ?ut you l o ? ~ forsomething money can t buy-polit1cal

understanding, solidarity, and ideas forthe future.

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as the CTIA conference in less than athousand words, but the Rag has Sf-acelimitations that must be recognized andworked within. I would have preferreda longer and better piece. Even withspace limitations, I thought that the article should be written to let people know

that there is still activity in this country,

that people ar t" not passively sittin_g around· while multi-national corporation,American monopolies, and the NixonMafia people tramp over our lives and

flood our communities with their lies.I am sorry that Mr. Liss considers my

article to be ' 'bullshit" . I wrote from myperspective a s .a researcher who hadattended the conference to .Iec.rn newconcepts of research methodology, andtheories and evidence of conspiracies.The article was written from a political

·standpoint that I developed from seeingdeath in Vietnam while I was in the AirForce, from the loss of a friend to the

National Guard when I was a Kent State

student, and from several years of work

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of a group of individuals which with Mr.Uss has chosen to aligh himself with.The "agent-baiting" of panel participants,the interruption with questions not germaine to the agenda, and activity thatlent itself to retarding the free flow ofinformation was a major factor in pro

ducing the ''ripped-off:' f e e l i n g ~ · .Lessdescribed. I f he feels npped off, It IS

only because he chose to be.The conduct of AJ. Weberman, Tom

Forcade and others with whom Mr. Lissa s s o c i a t ~ s himself bordered on the brinkof open sabotage. While many people inthe New Left feel that Forcade t l maybe agents of the Committee to Re-electthe President Qack Anderson has evenpresented this concept in one column),I am not prepared to make that chargeor support that claim with evidence.However, as Paul Krassner has said,"You can't tell the agents from theassholes without a scorecard ."

would like to mention a little aboutthe financial arrangements made for theconvention. Approximately 150 people

paid $15 to attend the c-onference: approximately another 50 were admittedfor free . I have talked to Bob Smith ofthe Committee to Investigate Assassinations , and he informed me that whileGaston Hall was fre e , the Committeedid spend money for video taping th e

conference, printing , rental of a publicaddress system, travel for panel participants staff salaries, postage, and otherexpenses. At this poin-t, the ~ T I is

over i3,000 in debt for the conference.Anyone who has ever been inv?lvedwith producing any sort of maJOr conference knows that you never "make"money on the events, but you l o ? ~ forsomething money can't bu y - political

understanding, solidarity, and ideas forthe future .

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that people are not passively sittin.g around· while multi-national corporation,American monopolies, and the NixonMafia people tramp ever our lives ll:lld

flood our communities with their lies.I am sorry that Mr. Liss considers my

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·standpoint that I developed from seeingdeath in Vietnam while I was in the AirForce, from the loss of a friend to theNational Guard when I was a Kent Statestudent , and from several years of work

ing in th e an ti-war movement.

T im Butz. ·



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forum held several weeks ago at Georgetown U's Gaston Hall. I am a student atGWU who attended the conference withabsolutely no affliations with any panelists, The Committee to Investigate Assassinations (TCIA), or other parties, andas a result must take issue with the b u l lshit appearing in Mr. Butz's article.

Mr. Butz is correctin implying thatminute items of relevant and new information appeared. -side froJ l my

elf. I found that a great many of the

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participants were chagrin? Ut payiiig$15 to hear panelists talk ~bility,'' "ambivalency" or how muchalcohol was consumed the previous night.

When I stated my concern in a question and answer period about the lack ofhard core information, relevance, and theimportance of relating the current political climate (i.e., the Wallace shooting,

Watergate activities etc.)I

received noresponse from any one on stage. WhenI asked in light of rumors stating thatGaston Hall was given for free to theTCIA, how the $15 admission fee ( anoutrage in itself) was being used by TCIA,

I was answered by Barry Fensterwald thatI "should organize my own conference."Fensterwald, head of TCIA, was responding to my query in a tone reminiscent ofNixon toward anti-war demonstrators. Inother words, he was saying it is none ofyour goddamn business.

I also resent the fact that Butz (remember him?) felt it necessary to lump myselfand other audience members concernedwith the scope that the conference was

taking with Sherman Scolnick and thenon-existent Yippie "group." We formed -a faction that was justifiably pissed off atFensterwald and his committed for providing the conference with seeming littlereturn on our $15 . Why was so little factual, pertinent information evident? Whywere persons with valuable testimony in

the audience, instead of on the stagespeaking from microphones ? As a resultwe met over lunch and decided to present

a petition to the conference to give al ternative speakers an opportunity to voicetheir views.

Where were-the facts? Where were •panelists who had something to say inspecific-terms? Where was Fensterwald

g to ·appear on stage toanswer any and all qu estions " concerningserious allegations pertaining to his organization and his role in the planning of thisconvention at Georgetown ? Why did henever app ear?

No t only did Mr. Butz fail to perceive Ithis in an unbiased way but he presented· \an unfair description to your readership.As a regular reader of the Daily Rag I \don't expect objec tive reporting, but Iam used to a sense of quality and a con-cern for representing dissident views. •

Mr. Butz presented us with a "white- Iwash." He wrote erroneous, maliciousstatements. Again, I, as a participant, object to others trying to protest in a peace-ful and ''l;ational" way, being depicted asan irrational, arrogant group of publicityseekers. I am personally insulted and outraged by it. Perhaps Mr. Butz will respond.

The Rag and its readers might be interested in reading different accounts presentedin the ost and the Star-News or even talking with WLIRR, WGTB (in DC) or Pacificareporters covering the event. I think thatthey seemed to be far more objective thanMr. Butz, in realizing what was coming downat the conference.

I hope you11 print this so your readership will realize that what went on at Gaston Hall was more than a daring attempt ofa ' 'bunch of Yippies, paranoids, and publicity seekers trying to disrupt an infonilativemeeting". Possibly others who attended willrespond to this letter. Many thanks foryour time and space. Stay well.

Most specifically, David Liss.

DRESS PO Box 21026Washington, DC 20009





- And some or tne conveners orthe conference immediately began to round up Bil l Turner andothers to throw him out . And Iimmediately said, Do not throw

him out Ask him what his problem is, if he s being denied somecourtesy by the conference . Ifhe is an agent p r o v o c a t ~ u r youare playing directly into his handsby physically throwing him out .The media will cover that andnothing else . And if he' s not anagent provocateur, perhaps hehas some legitimate complamt.

NThere s another example of

the pitfalls of elitism . That' s not

news. But what would have beennews would have been for theparty to be cancelled and a general party for everyone had beengiven.

NThe next day there were anumber of peopie who wer e gomgto leave because they c la medthat since it was bemg held atGeorgetown Unive rsity, wh h s

one of the homes of the CIA itwas nothing but a CIA conferencetp pick everyone s brains . I urged

them to draw up a petition,which

I would fight for, to demandalternative speakers, instead of

leaving the conference.MPeter Dale Scott gave a fasci-

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nat ng speech te I i ng how the Russian translation of Marina Oswald totally distorted what shesaid and set the pattern forevidence that then became thestandard reference .

HSherman Skolnick headed up aspecial session on the crash ofUnited Airlines Flight 553 thecrash that killed several people

who were involved in Watergatebut can t talk now.HEarl Golz read some of H.L.

Hunt s inter-office memos. Hegot them from the former ~ h i fof security- Hunt has a pnvatearmy of FBI-like organizations

watching his interests, full of

former intelligence agents. Andthe memos say there s going to

be an assassination attempt onthe president when he comes to

Dallas and i t s going to be madeto look like right wingers were

involved and we have to be pre

paredHWhat it sounds I ke is a cover

up in preparation for the assass

ination- that is to say, we knowthat the opposite happened, that

it was done by right wingers whotried to make it look like theleft did it. But this is an attempt

to say that if that s penetrated bythe media, any attempt to say i t sright wing must be discredited

because of course, Oswald and all

of his confreres reveal Minute

man connections, as well as CIAcontract agents. M,en like Ferrie,Bannister, Sturgis and others,all

·nvolved in Lake Ponchatrair

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Minuteman activities, and in Dallas, men l ike De Morenschieldt

and the men at the Russian church

who later became interpreters.That church is funded by theTolsto i Foundation whichtheNewYo · identifi

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