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Show i Presidential Murder A Whisper Campaign The assassination of a President is an event colored by a bizzare glamour-, chaotic churning of accusations and suspicions. A grab bag of tales is now drifting back and forth between Washington and the West Coast, which are fanciful reconstructions of the Kennedy assassination. Among the conspiracy theories that are afloat is one from an ex-Communist American in Pans, Thomas Buchanan. He purports that Lee Harvey Oswald:wa$ merely an errand boy in a plot involving involv-ing several Dallas policemen. Oswald's only advocate is a New York lawyer, Mark Lane, who is fighting a rather lonely battle. When Marguerite Oswald, the accused assassins mother appointed Lane as defense counsel, the attorney at-torney wrote' a lengthy 'brief" published in the leftist National Guardian arguing Oswald's innocence. inno-cence. i The college lecture circuit now is playing audience to Lane's pleas. Even the Warren committee, commit-tee, appointed by Pres. Johnson to investigate the assassination, granted him a hearing. , A key argument boils down to, "Did all the shots fired at the Kennedy motorcade come from the sixth foor of the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald worked?" Some say bullets came from the grassy knoll directly ahead of the motorcade. This report has been verified by witnesses, but it might be added that they aren't quite sure of their report. Newsmen reported seeing a bullet hole in the Kennedy limousine's windshield, while press tallies report four instead of five shots fired. The ease -with which Oswald escaped from the , depository only to end in his eventual arrest and later murder at the hands of Jack Ruby has led other ob-j ob-j servers to believe that the assassination was born from s a conspiracy. A recent U.S. poll showed that 40 per !i cent of the American public believed Ruby was somehow some-how connected with the plot which ended in the President's Pres-ident's murder. With Oswald silenced forever, the rumor of a conspiracy may run on eternally. In fact it is almost j impossible to prove that even your next door neighbor j was not involved in a conspiracy ring. Anyone's ac- tions can be portrayed in a suspicious light. "Until the Warren committee's report on the Presidential Presi-dential murder is published, a whisper campaign is bound to flourish accusing a thousand public figures of the assassination. But since the evidence is sparse, witnesses are few, and testimonies still vague, we j can only depend on this presidential appointed body ! for the facts. The American public always enjoys a good Hollywood Holly-wood show, and unfortunately the assassination of their President is no exception. |