NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: BOOK CASTS DOUBT ON JUSTICE IN US

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00459836
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: August 15, 1971

04-10129-10319 ND:" YOH T I: n'S RUG 1971 1 r Enlir fl� pm-11)T � J�JL.D. fur f Trill? lit IT' Ji_e ItILt IJ UJ.iLj � They � 101:nd the judicial system so ir.cl:ing long-overdue rcform "that the �adininistra.- tion is in serious trisiiie and often, on a day-to- . _ j� ci-..y may dttually be more itv.dined to thwart. justice. c,t1,-.1:iiroll co Trials! or;lanizrd bar, vei haps thr: .'sg� 1;41- (,f Iivi ft;iyAnd ;;Ii hall it Lir. :;fr;�t hid/ r s�.�rtn-s, "has r.ei/s tt fe.eth.,:i in t::.s tioti has WA).:111(4i.1.(N� 1-4 (UN) directed the Its majpori .rc at �'three leporters .�vho (riveted lention to the 'free press vs. ' the trials of men charged In the fair trial question." assassinations of President Mr. Shaw, a New Orleans businessman, was acquitted Kennedy. the Rev. Dr. Martini after a sensational trial high- .Luther King Jr. and Senator' lighted by charges lime- out- Robert F. Kennedy have con-1 side the courtroom by the New eluded 'that "AmerieJn justice! Orleans District. Attorney, Jirn woiks a�cidtnially, if i�,t all.- I Garrison. The District Attorney was admonished hy the bar "the courts ate. -nosy hasid d � csrut conip!aints that . � cally com.tructecl to serve the.' conducted a circus wi he -had th t111Te; legal prof N;i0rt, not the liable, discredit ed wit nesses. people," a book, "A Search for The authors conclude. that Mr., � JuM ire," At�c1:11./.:.. Lad, of rhe Shaw."aliould never have been reporters. who st,v,�It.,1 triak for Tile NPlivilirt lennt-s� ) Unanswered Ow.;stIon reetion 1hr, In the case of Pii:,�, the jour- 1,,iiik. It v.as edited Ivy John naliLts came away convinced Sielyntlialer, the new;paTer's ISO ditd-rthat, despite his guilty pl;.�a, on "c�: V"11-1. ifwrote its con- clusion. i which he .received a 99-vear 1 Sierenthaler was an ad- prison sentence, the ovcraieling � I question of a -possible conspir- Kennedy when Mr. Kennedy ! ministrative assistant to Robert acy in the April 4, I96S, murder ; was Attorney General. of Dr. King was never an- . e.W. thr�"a reporters are; sered. � ; � � aniciies_r now a special! .administration of .jus- i, assig,nment reporter for The' tice succeedn punishing a guilty man," Mr. SiegenthIler' Tennessean;_rranl-- Ritter now the paper's city, editor, and' writes. "But it made no pre-. tense. of initiating a search for John 1-3_;;;11-:111, DOW an Wash- rcY etlitur th truth or putting der.vn What -n�-� in e ington of The Nt.../yo,k very well may have been a lie Times. by Ray." . 3 n 4.1(.1 int :It irtd, V A s of r�11441 ;.y 1. ti Itp� pat ht JOOr f. 194;g. In, 11111' VfriV Or inkoV V,1110 delft; hit' 1 t 111 cri Janii Earl for Dr. )Ie "'us ci,ii'Iieu1 "turd" and was sentenced to die: in the winder and Mr. Iteinphill thei as cha g mber. t : trial of Sirli;:o Itif.liara Sirban I. . . the only � ; for the as:�,ass:nation of Roberti . 'With his ' sanity Kennedy. [ issue, the authors contend-that . 1 'the 'Reach Same Conclusion � trial -prolonged, million-dollar-doliarnlY in � "a Afterward, Mr. Siegenthaleri .tence more severe than 'one' Which could. have been nego- writes, the three repf:trters' "each independently reached tiated before a jury was seated the conclusion that American' to try the case." justice works accidentally, if at soey contend that permitting all." � the tenuous findings of psychi- "None of them felt he would atrists and psychologists to be have much confidence in his' subjected "to the - sort �of bad- own chance to a,et a fzir vcr- gcring cross-examination that), clict were lie to he put on trial comas from the hostile afters- iii those sanic courts, before, ary envireninent of a criminal the sun.- iltpti..�..,..� Mr. ii,.,,..11. trial. niay rob the (-mist. Of i thaler wi hes. justlee...1 . Tne authors ennehule MAL Mr.. Shaw should never have been tried; that no attempt was mat!e to determine the truth after Ray pleaded guilty in return for a 99-year prison sentence, and that Sirhan's sanity trial was � a mockery. CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO. DECLASSIFICATION ANDOR RELEASE OF THIS-DOCUMENT �