OSWALDS NEVER SPOKE OF GUILT, LAWYER SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: February 23, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Oswalds clever Spoke
Of Guilt, Lawyer Says
By MIRIAM OTTENBERG
Star Staff' W i'Icor
On November 23, 1963-the day atter?Prestaent Nenneay was
assassinated and the day before his suspected assassin was slain
--the Oswald brothers saw each other for the last time in a.
Dallas cellblock.
On that occasion, Lee Harvey Oswald neither admitted nor
denied to his older brother, Robert, that he had killed the Presi-
dent. Robert didn't ask him and -- -~
Lee didn't volunteer a statement. Robert told the commission that
In fact, the question of his in- he thought his brother may`
nocence or guilt didn't come up. have been trained as an agent
That was the version of the in the Soviet Union.
brothers' final meeting given
newsmen yesterday by Robert "That was not in the testi-
Oswald's attorney, William A. mony," Mr. ? Dulles said. "I
McKenzie of Dallas. deny that statement was ever'
Mr. McKenzie steadfastly de- made."
clined to divulge any part of Neither Mr. Dulles nor Mr:
Robert's three days of testimony
before the presidential commis- McKenzie Robert's ie sshsed much nor
light on testimony con-
nati investtgating the assassi- sumed three full days in the
nation. light of the fact that the broth
Attacks News Story ers were separated for much of
When Robert. finished his tes- their young lives.
timony late yesterday, however, Mr. Dulles said only that
Mr. McKenzie broke his silence Robert covered his brother's
by reading a lengthy statement life and his own relationships
.to newsmen attacking the "ir- with Lee, and was "very forth-
responsible inaccuracies" In a right, very responsive."
story about Robert's testimony Divulged No Information
printed yesterday by the New
York Times. Mr. McKenzie said Robert,
He cited a paragraph of the "in his respect for the com-'
story relating that Robert vis- mission, its work and its in-
ited his =brother at a Dallas tegrity, has sought to assist the
Jail and asked him if he had commission in every way." He
killed the President. The story emphasized that neither he nor
reported that Lee denied the Mr. Oswald had divulged any
assassination and that Robert of the closed door testimony to
told the commission he believed any member of the press.
the denial. "I submit," he said, "that it
Mr. McKenzie called that is reprehensible and completely
"grossly untrue" and "just unfair to the Commission, to
false". the President of the United
"There was 'no denial by Lee States and to the people of this
nor was it even mentioned," nation as a whole to divulge or
Mr. McKenzie said as Robert print any purported testimony
stood by his side. "Lee made given to the commission with-
no such statement.'.' out commission approval, par-
At that point in Mr. Mc- ticularly while the witness is
Kenzie, s. impromptu press con- under oath, whereby any group
ference, Robert had a whispered might use such purported tests-
conference with his'attorney. mony to further its own pur-
Dulles Refutes Reporter pose or bias ..."
The interruption, however, did "I just say that misleading,
not change Mr. McKenzie's ac- careless and inaccurate print-
count because he went on to ing of the news by any respon-
sible news media violates in my
say, "Lee did not deny .si- to mind every principle of a free
Robert that he killed th Pre
dent. It didn't come up." pTess.
Former CIA Director Allen With the completion of testi,
Dulles, commission member mony by the three persons
who presided over most of the closest to Lee Oswald-his.
questioning of\ Robert Oswald, widow, his mother and. his.
denied angther element of the brother-the commission will
Times story. meet tomorrow afternoon to
The Times . reported that consider Its next move. ..'
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