EXPERTS ANALYZE A DECADE OF SLAYINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200200008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 24, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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a nation decides to alienate er question is who polled
By John Mathews itself from its history, what the trigger on Arthur Bre-
Star?`ew'sStaff Writer we have got is a condition of mer," an Doren said.
The experts and buffs du- apathy . . . known as those The chief witness against
tifully extend their hands to years before totalitarian-. Breiher, he added, was his
an aide at the registration ism," lie said. own diary, which appears to
desk who brands them with Lawyers now represent- be more a fabricated work
an inked stamp reading: ing Sirhan and Ray both than an actual record of his
"Committee to Investigate . maintained that : earlier activities. Van Doren indi-
Assassinations." ? courtroom defenses were cated that Brener was
Then, they move to seats inadequate and that ballls_ probably manipulated by
in cavernous Gaston Hall at tics evidence indicated they others. )Ie questioned why
Georgetown University to were not the killers of Rob- the Watergate investiga-
hear the lawyers, research- ert Kennedy and Martin Lions have not disclosed any
ers and writers dispute the Luther King. evidence of "dirty tricks"
official versions of t! c !:ill against Wallace, who ap-
ings of John F. Kennedy, Robert Hanson contended peared to be the leading
Robert F. Kennedy, Martin that Sirhan was physically candidtite for the Demo
Luther King Jr:, George not in a position to shoot cratic presidential nomina-
Lincoln Rockwell and the Kennedy, although he did Lion at the time of the
attempt on the life of Gov. shoot bystanders. Someone shooting.
George C. Wallace. else killed Kennedy, lie
Yesterday, the proceed- said. VAN DOREN provided
ings at the Conference on a . one of the. few moments of
Decade of Assassinations JA.MES LESA.R, who npw comic relief at the confer-
were low-key. Lawyers represents Ray, the convict-? ence when lie said Bremer
spoke, of new attempts to ed killer of D. King, said -had a "spook me.ntality,"
reopen the cases of Sirhan he was "framed" and that then added, "I apologize to
Sirhan and James Earl tiiil:nown conspirators re- any spooks who may be
Ray. A forensic pathologist sPonsible for the actual here."
and medical examiner dis- slaying are still at large., Much of the talk at the
puted the autopsy report on The 6th U.S. Court of Ap- opening session dealt with
John Kennedy. And, a for- peals is expected to rule disputing the "single-bullet
mer CIA agent described. soon on w hetlier Ray is deli- theory" of the assassination
how the Psychological tied to a new hearing on of President Kennedy: the
Stress Evaluator can give evidence which was not in. official \'rarren Report ver-
some indication whether a traduced previously, Lesar sion that the same bullet
recorded voice is telling the added. . struck both Kennedy and
The convicted killer of then Texas Gov. John Con-
George George Lincoln Rockwell, nally. Dr. Cyril H. \\'echt,
TODAY, the final sessions the American Nazi Party the coroner of Pittsburgh
of the conference should leader, Was defended by a and Allegheny County, Pa.,
perk up as the tall: goes non-lawyer, Meredith Rode, said the scientific evidence
beyond disputing the find- an art professor at Federal supports the critics who
ings of the Warren Commis- City College here. Former dispute the theory.
sion and past trials and Nazi John Patter, who was ? In August 1972, Wecht
delves into the scores of sentenced to 20 years for was allowed to view medi-,
conspiracy theories for the. the Aug. 25, 1967 killing by cal evidence at the National
political assassinations of Arlington Circuit Court, Archives, but did not see
the last decade. Should be given a new trial, the preserved brain of IKen-
In a keynote talk, author Rode said, because of nu- nedy, microscopic slides of
Norman hailer gave a phil- merous contradictions in tissue removed from bullet
osophical rationale for hold- the. evidence. ' wounds and some photos.
ing the conference deliber- Rode, %' ho taught a class \Vecht said lie does not
atcly timed to coincide with ill which 1'atler was en know whether the Kennedy
the 10th anniversary of the rolled while free on b:.iil and family has withheld the evi-
.Dallas assassination of became convinced of his dence hurt thinks it is in tlit;
President Kennedy, innocence, said his case at- Archives. .
tracts virtually no inte:-est. '.pie bullet recovered at
Assassinations have
"I11:1d1C OllC history Ohsc's Ronald Van Doren, a Parkland hospital in Dallas
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sive," Mailer said, le~iding Journalist, acknowledi:ed and purported to have
that the evidence was "fair- passed tlu?oughi both Kenne-
people to either spend years I}r de'll'" that Arthur },re- dy and Connally could not
disputing the otliciirl ac iiior h ;d shot Guv. Wallace have hit both victims since
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with the rifle Lee Harvey
Oswald allegedly used, but
\Vecht said lie considers it a
"plant." lie would not spec-
ulatc on its on gin.
AS HE has in the past,
\Vecht severely criticized
the official autopsy
performed by military doc-
tors at Bethesda Naval
Hospital. The military pa-
tholog;ists "did what their
superior' officers told there
to do," he said, including
failing to track the path of
the other bullets through
Kennedy's brain.
Conference sponsors, in-
cluding Bernard Fenster- .
Wald Jr., the lawyer-for
Watergate conspirator
James . McCord (Fen-
sterwald heads the corn.
mittee To Investigate Assas-
sinations) dissociated them-
selves from a demonstration
at the Archives to demand
release of all evidence, in-
cluding the bate Presidelit's
brain.
"The demonstration has-
notliin g to do with us; we
stick to scientific and legal
evidence," FensterwaId
said. Only a handful gath-
ered to demonstrate. They
left after the announced
speakers did not appear
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