WHY PSYCHIATRIST BELIEVES OSWALD WAS A LONE WOLF

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 20, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK WORLD JOURNAL TRIUNE d
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00
CPYRGHT November 20, 1966
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By MIKE PEARL
world Journal Trlbunt Sta//
Lee Harvey aswaia never
would have taken part in an
conspiracy, according to the
psychiatrist who examined
him 13 years ago In New
York.
"Oswald never would hay
shared with anyone the pres'tige of being the assassin o
the president," Dr. Renatu
Hartogs, chief psychiatrist a
the Bronx Youth House, sal
'in an Interview yesterday.. '
In 1053, 'Oswald was living
,with his mother in the Bronx
and because of his chronic
truancy in school, the mental
examination was ordered b
the Bronx Children's Court
The controversy ove
whether Oswald was in fac r
the lone killer, of Presiden
Kennedy on Nov. 22. 1963
was dismissed by Hartogs a
the work of "soft-minded
tender - hearted, rumor-,
mongers."
"Paranolacs like Oswald
are loners," said Hartogs,
witness before the Warre
Commission. "They neithe
need nor want an conspira-
tor to share or dilute the re-
sponsibility for their crimes."
'FILIGIITENED MINDS'
"Agitated and frightened
minds all over the world
quickly had to write articles
and books in an attempt. to
spread thin the responsibility
of Oswald's act by means of
inventing or suspecting. the
existence of conspirators,"
he said.
The very singlemindedness'
of Oswald's crime, Hartogs,,
feels, has caused many people
to seek reassurance in a con-
spira'?or theory.
"They wA.nt to believe in
order, no matter how evil or
w!despread it may be," Ea.r-
t""s said. "They are afraid
and want to believe in an or-
ganization behind all the
inconsls {~~qpp1~#ri~~8sta ~l' l#
and the tI t ? P a one -t O~~ld
have taken place since tine did not want to ,hare with
assassination." anyone," he said.
DR. RENATUS HARTOGS
Treated Oswald
Hartogs? who called Os-
wald potentially dangerous
when he appeared before
our Judges in Bronx Child-,
ren's Court in 1953, lead not
een him since that time.
Some theorists believe that
Oswalds' personality could
have changed in those years.-
The doctor comparrd Ken-
nedy's assassin with the
three young men who co-n-
mitted mass murders this
year.
"The 'man in the tower in
Texas, the one ll ho killed
the nurses In Ch1ca.,o and
the boy who killed t.h wom-
"Yet no one came orwa:
with far fetched theories of
conspiracy iii these crimes"
Hartogs added. "But a presi-
dentisl a~sasslnatlon stag-
gers the Imagination. There
is a need for order, a need
to understand, to piaster the
contradictions and to make
reasonable and rational that
which is caused by 'mental
illness or personal ineffi-
ciency or outright stupidity."
Hartogs pointed out that
he Warren Commission's re-
ort, rather than acting as a
'26 volume sedative to the
nicrican people, had in-
lead mobilized extreme dis-
onifort and anxiety among'
11 t.he; a people who tremble
n their boots."
RASII OF DISBELI:F
Poorly controlled emotions
re. responsible for the rash
f disbelief in the commis-
lon's report, Hartogs feels.
"In my opinion." Hartogs
aid. "after reading all the
onks and the report. Itself,
Kennedy's death was not -a
iolitical assassination de-
lancd by a, group of con-
pirn tars but a brutal murder
ncciv; d, planned and per-
etrated by the morbid in-
cr-world forces of a single
nsanely destructive power-
perator." .
E rtogs also doubts that
Jack Ruby, Oswald's killer,
ould have been involved in
any conspiracy.
"Ruby was upset and over-
i-ought by the idea that his
ero, a man whose family he
-cry much identified, was re-q
moved all of a sudden," the
doctor said.. ;
taartogs has written a book
with Lucy, Freeman called
"The Two .. ~ Assassins." i
which the.psyGhdlogical
makeup of Oswald and Ruby
are compared;":and'~l found
aimilax. t ' ' ,
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