NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: "WHO KILLED JOHN F. KENNEDY?"

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00457753
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: December 1, 1970

I 104-10115-1043* _ � Books of The Times � . L,TEE NEW YORK TIMES, T Who Killed John F. Kennedy? � By�JONN_J-F::_trvARD ) Isn't conclusive, not even in a book re- AMZRICAN G:10TESQCIFI. -Art Account of the " viewer's. court. Mr. KIrkwood's loyalty to Chty-Shewanes cc:fivers ettfetaot �1:4 City of � a friend la admirable; his taped Interviews _ - � :Vow Orfna. 73)c...77Z.;!' I r_rfr".fk?t7.1C61 ;CZ'- with all the principals In the first Shaw snotaa Schur. - � trial are fascinating; his attention to triyia HERITAGZ OP STONE. By\Jini Ccrr.iai. is In the best parajeurnalistic tradition- 253 pcce3. Putnam. $5.95. little boy who cried Tom Wolfe. But !e- � Bad vibrations. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Gar- rison arrested New Orleans businessman . Cay Shaw, charging that Mr. Shaw con- spired to. assassinate President John F. � Kennedy. Mr. Shaw was acquitted by a : Ja-y. Mr. Garrison :thin had Mr. Shaw re- ' arrested on two charges of perjury. Mr. gitirriate questions about John Kennedy's " assassination aren't answered according to - the buddy system. Which brings us to Jim Gyrison.'s ."A. _.. -Heritage of Stone." The District Attorney t of�Otleans Parish argues that Kennedy's. ' assassination Can only be explained by a ;. . "model" that pins the murder on the Can- Slaw is suing Mr. Gareiscn, and a host tra! Intelligence Agency.-The C.I.A. could . .. - of ethers. The judge at Mr. Shaw's trail r--5-7---31--"nr1:12173--bew eni,nct . 1n half of the - has ence been Arrested in a motel room �..military :T Intelligence. - Industrial complex ' i.. whfre stag movies and loose women are..::: tlult.--("red - tha.--.Preoltlent's disposition , *kVA CO. heve exhibited themselvea. The - �Wald i! detente with the Russians: Mr. - prineipal witness aaainst Mr. Shaw lute �-� Ilerriaon now.her, in his book. tuontions : 112144 heen arrested for burglary. itit_.% t_le,L2'� Clay Shaw, or the botch hie office made or � , . riann has since bten_eccu.,,ed_eie,eli� _ Shaw's prosecution; be Is, however, heavy I -o y at t e eze rili na on ell the other characteis who have be- k a --Athletic Club_ewhich Ls interesting because., come familiar to .us via late-night talk ...-1:-. Shaw�allegedly had links With the New '1'4 shows On television. - And he insists .that ,- :Orleans homosexual underground. - ----.`. ' " _.� the -.Warren .Commission, the executive ,-. _ :No. this is not a fiction by 'Gore Ida?. branch of the government, some members 2. It is a serialized novel on the front mei.' ... of - the :�Dallas. Police_ Department, the ' ..- 5 of our daily newspapers. Maybe that ex 2 ;.-, pathologists at Bethesda who performed . � -plain:5 why novelist James Kirkweaad.... - - the second Kennedy autopsy and many. - "Good Tirnes/Ead Times"�got . obsessed '.-:. many others must have known they were -;.--with the subject. Mr. Kirkwood met Mr. --.' lying to the American Public- - Shaw, and believed his story, and so wrote - 7.":- ". - ' ,-,.,' Mysterfes Persist - ��.:, _a sympathetic artcle before the trial (pub- - � lished by Esquire) and an Indignant article � after: the trial (te;ected by Playboy). and ;this tome-stone of a bock (troutling the . revicwe.r). Did Clay Shaw know David Ferric and Lee Harerty Oswald? Is Jim Gar- rison paranoiac about the Federal govern- ment' One wishes the whole buries- Were -a fee ered invention. Perjury' Atop 'Cri75pira,:�.:.' it ien't aia-anes 4'Areezei- can Groaesque" that Jim Garriscn used Clay Shaw to try the Warren Comenissicn report; that Garrison seir?eed the bottoei of the barrel for varicealy sick cad vs ii- ously intimidated witnes cs to smear that Garriscn's guerrillas sought a jury cf sub-par intelligence to bemuse with blc,:x.'y fants;. that, having empaneled such a Jury, they were so upset by the acquittal that they added the Insult of "perjury" chargea to the injury of "conspiracy" ac- cusatior.s. LEnfc7-ti)n,!1:f. m SO cr,:licienticti in his reeertage that one .wonders why so many pecple claimed ,to i;:haye' seen Mr. Shaw with Oswald and � Feerie. Were they all staken or lying? � .� To be sure. cer.epiracy wasn't proved; ad the state embar:asaed itielf with sur- real incompetence..But "conspiracy" is no. loiezer the charge aaainat Shaw; perjury is. We have only Mr. Kirkiand's emotional v.-erd en innocence to go by. Such k word Frankiy, I prefer to believe .that the .:Warren Commission did a poor job, rather than a dishonest one; I like to think that Mr. Garrison invents monsters to explain .incompetence. But until somebody explains - -why two autopsies came to two different a- conclusions about the President's wounds, why the limousine was washed out and re- built without Investigation, why certain witneases near the "grassy knoll" were never asked to testify before...0e Commis- sion, why'we were. all so eager to buy Oswald's brilliant MarkirnanshiP in .split seconds, why no one .Inquired Into Jack Ruby's relations with a staggering variety of strange people, why a ".loner" Eke Os- wald always had friends and could always g:-.t a pasenort--atnho can blame. the Car:f- eel -geeerillas for fantasizing? . Somethang 'stinks about this whole at- 'fair. "A Heritage of Stone" rehashes the smellinets; the recipe Is as unappetizing as co.7. Ao&Y..2 tb-^v.t ve-i.i::Ort what happened. (lInculd then-Atterney General Robert F. Kennedy have endured his brother's murder in silence? Was John .. Kennedy quite so liberated from cold war clichas as Mr. Garrison maintains?) But the stench is there, and .clings to each of us. Why were Keraely's neck organs not ex- amined at Bethesda for evidence of a fron- tal shot? Why was his body whisked away to Washington before the legally required Texas. inquest? Why? . � 09) rn user.. I r� =:# r- .r.2 7C3 ' c) �