EXPERTS ANALYZE A DECADE OF SLAYINGS

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November 24, 1973
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1',=7 Approved For Relea WASHINGTON STAID 2 4 NOV 1973. 2004/10/13 : O1A-RDP88-01315 000200200008-6 E.~ 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 - . 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 A s f'17 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 counts or to Not 11i11 111 ed ft rRele~see,2004/i10/f13 i:t All~D13j8'> Uq 'P3h5` #(Il" 200200008-6 minds the possibi i 1 ?i oil M;iy 15, 1972. ."The long- said. flit ?bu le was u?e, they could be wrong. When