SLAIN RIGHTS WORKERS CALLED 'COCKROACHES'

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January 29, 1999
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August 25, 1964
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,TUCSON C TIZENSM-zed - Approved For Relea e. 49,916 Front Edit Other Pepe Pepe Pepe Date: ,6 AUG 251064 By ERIC CAVALIERO '[he three civil rights wor rs killed in the Deep South thi ummer were "cockroaches wh rawled into the State of Mis issippi to incite violence," D evilo P. Oliver said here las ight. The professor of. classics a he University of Illinois and n tonal council member of th Tohn Birch Society told a Tue on Press Club forum: "Pm truly astonished at th mount of excitement this ha ecasioned. I noticed 'in Wash ntton a white woman was rape. bile praying in her horn .porch, but t don't hear on eep of indignation from th iherals. "Pm: not , sure who kille .hose people _'in Mississippi," h idded. "I strongly suspect tha the murder may have followe r coinnion Communist' patter hey either do the work the elves or get someone else to d t for them. "THOSE PEOPLE are no ntitled to one-tenth of the con ideration or sympathy the rave a roused." He described the John Bire society as "a patriotic organs ration whose principal funct.iu s to educate the American pe le , . . we are trying to dis ribute information that is no etting out in other channels. "We are trying to call peo de's attention to significan vents of which they have neve heard," he added, "as well a - hose they have heard but for otten." I Oliver quoted a newspaper r CPYRGHT FOIAb3b Day. Revilo OLiver port which suggested that Dal- las police were ready to arrest Lee Haivey Oswald and Jack Ruby at the time.- that an as- sassination attempt was made on Mai. Gen. Edwin Walker. . "THE STORY says they did not carry it out, as they had been told by a high official in the Justice Department they must not do so because it was a matter of national interest," orkers roaches' CPYRGH, this official in such a way that it could only be Bobby Sox Ken- nedy." . In a talk last night at Doolen Junior High School, Oliver sug- gested that if Communist plans had not gone astray, we would have had "a national Saturnalia of legalized violence under cov- er of which the -international conspiracy could have gained control of the whole nation." -He received a standing ova- tion from a near-capacity crowd as he added: "You may owe your life or at least your liberty to the vigi- la"rce and sagacity of . Officer .1. D. Tippit, the policeman who stopped Lee 'Harvey Oswald on the street and was murdered by the conspiracy's well-trained but not infallible agent. "It's easy to see what could have happened had everything ;one smoothly in Dallas," he ;+dded. ';There could have been. it complete breakdown of law ,urd order everywhere. "The numerous vermin that have been living for years in ill-concealed anticipation of the glorious day when they will be able to hack Americans to pieces could have started loot- ing, burning and murdering." OLIVER SAID Oswald had been trained in Moscow and assigned to Dallas. He would have made his-escape after the Perry Mason in "the television series. He was able to recite quite convincingly the lines writ- ten by Salinger, Schlesinger and other word twisters whom the. taxpayers hire to confuse them.'. "At times he sounded Ameri can and made sense, and her. seemed entirely credible untill you realized how his achieve ments differed from his an- nounced intentions." He said Kennedy's "well-re- hearsed" funeral was "up to. the technical standards of Cleopatra and Ben Hur." Oliver said a "Kennedy cult" has grown up since the `assassi- nation. "I've received ? letters from people who wanted to know how it was possible for anyone to be so debased as to criticize the greatest man who ever lived," he said. .He quoted a letter from a man who called Oliver a "hate- monger" and then threatened to squash his eyes out. "That one's, from a love monger," Oliver said. "The adoration of a semi-di-~ vine leader is an example of; the socialist mentality," het added. "L I B E R A L intellectuals stand on their heads 'and tell you that the world is -upside] down," he said. "Not one of tkletl ever proposed or approved' assassination, but for T.ippit'i anything that would bring $1 of ' "adoration" for the late' Presi- dent, Oliver said: "Jack Ken- +' He cited the Central Intelli- i.gence Agency as "a body t'frfik`"!1dn' the_work of_ the So- viet secret police for years." Oliver's appearance here was) sponsored by the American., b.Qpiuion Bookstore, 1695 N. Mag- noli"R R - r -- - -- 3 savage to wor`tt." :.CIA-R-D t'3 OTUM-8 profit to the American people.. '11T too stupid, too lazy or too