COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON ASSASSINATION, OSWALD, GARRISON ET AL

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• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
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104-10418-10300 ChIN '�\ (r) SHAW, From Al Saturday's court session may isclose whether District At-1 lrney Jim Garrison and his {ides can re-establish theiri vitness or must suffer a major )low to their claim of solving he assassination. Defense At- orney Fi Irvine Dymond said le has not finished cross-ex- irnination of Spiesel. Garrison, who was not in ourt when Spiesel,. testified, as been accused by some for wo years of accepting and aolding incredible evidence in n attempt to prove a con- piracy and, a high-level cover- p. The District Attorney' 'has ienounced most of the charge s the work of conspirators, ncluding � the Central Intelli- ience Agency, the Johnson drninistration and the East- lea "Establishment." - k Weird.Day CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL itness Jars S chartrain seawall preparing to "shoot some heroin." In one of the day's more bizarre moments, Bundy de- clared that if Shaw, the de- fendant, would cooperate by walking up' and down the courtroom center aisle, he would give a "demonstration" of why he voas sure about his identification. , The tall, gray-haired defend- ant�a puzzled, expression on his face�cod:Tiled. Bundy then said it was Shaw's �gait, the way he "wa+ed his foot," that confirmed his opinion. Shaw, who 'sometimes walks with a slight limp because of a ,back condition, ,was heard in the corridorlate.r to say, "I 'should get !Actors tquity pay for this performance." Shaw is a playwright, a 'prominent New Orleans ctiltural figure and former mahaging director of the port city' S International Trade Mari: Spiesel's appearance follow- Never losing his pois e, Bundy at one point said to td a weird second day of the rial in which the prosecution Dymond, after a lawyers' argu- igain offered the testimony . ment over his testimony, "As I )f Vernon Bundy, a 30-year-old was saying before you inter- rupted ," He went on to ex- aarcotics addict, who said he lain that he was not a convict- aw Shaw � and Oswald to. P ed burglar, but had pleaded ;ether in the summer of 1963, � guilty to attempted theft in months before the assas Unation. .. � 1966. He is under a five-year probationary sentence. Other-i�vritnesses today J laced Oswald and Shaw to- Bundy first denied, then ad- ether in Clinton, La., during mitted, stealing to support his drug habit, but added that he the late. summer and placed Oswald, at a nearby hospital only took things "if nobody seeking employment. Still wasn't watching" and was not other witnesses, mostly police- a professional thief. men, recalled some of Os- Bundy vigorously denied ever telling fellow-prisoners, wald's known activities as a as reported by newsmen, that pamphleteer for Castro's Cu- he really knew nothing about ban Government. the Shaw case, but was testi- Assistant District Attorney James L. Alcock announced� fying for reasons of his own or that he was undecided out of the jury's presence� whether to place Shaw on the that �testimony from police- lakefront or somewhere else men about Oswald passing out in New Orleans. "Fair Play for Cuba" litera- ture \was designed to bolster 'Never Said Boo'- Bun-dy's testimony. Bundy "I never said boo to John swore that he saw Oswald the Baptist," said Bundy; re- drop a Citba leaflet on the ferring to former fellow-in- New Orleans lakefront while mate John (The Baptist) Can- stuffing his pocket with a roll cler. -� of bills Shaw gave Oswald. The witness stuck to his Bundy, whose testimony two testimony that he had over- years ago helped bind over heard Oswald telling Shaw in Shaw for trial, held to his an animated manner, "What story despite � Dymond's it- am I -going to: tell her?" an tempt .to-impeach it. He was unexplained remark that neatly-dressed and, according might have pertained to Os- to observers, much cleaner weld's 'stormy home life. than he was in March, 1967, Bundy concluded by saying when he came from Orleans that, after the two men had Parish. Prison to give his testi- departed in different direc- mony. � tions, he .wrapped his nar- Admitting that he has ;been cotes "outfit" in one of Os- taking ,a heroin substitute at weld's dropped leaflets. a clinic to kick his habit, Bun- Earlier, the State apparent- dy insisted that he witnessed ly completed a phase of its the Shaw-Oswald meeting case dealing with� Oswald's al- while seated at the Lake Pon- ......., .77. e,",,....,77...�.....�,... aw. 1 trips to Clinton and Jackson, La., near Baton Rouge. A voting-drive worker for the Congress of Racial Equali- ty, William Dunn Sr., recited testimony similar to that of five witnesses Thursday who had placed Shaw and Oswald in the small town of Clinton in August, 1963.. He identified Shaw as the driver of a black Cadillac con- spicuously parked near the voting registrar's office. From a picture he identified Oswald as a man who was trying to register to vote in rural East Feliciana Parish. , Bobbie Dedon, a former re- ceptionist in a state: hospital in Jackson, said Oswald came in asking directions. to-the em- ployment office..She -could not recall 'his clothing or whether he appeared neatly- dressed, as other witnesses had testified. � "Did he have a beard?" Dy- mond asked on cross-examina- tion. don't remember," said Mrs. Dedon. ','You don't?" "That's all," said Dymond, and the attractive blonde wit- ness stepped down. ' The next witness, 'hospital secretary Maxine Kemp, sup- plied a short-lived element of mystery. She said that after starting work at the. hospital in September, 1964, more than a year after Oswald's alleged job application, she ran across an application form for "Os- wald Harvey" and returned it to the file. She looked for it again after Garrison began his investigation but, she said, it was gone. Under cross-examination, Mrs. Kemp said hospital prac- tice was to go through the files every three months and discard any application older than a year. � - 7 Her answer suggested that, instead of returning the ap- plication form to the file, Mrs. Kemp should have thrown it away and that, in any event, it would have been standard practice to discard a 1963 ap- plication before early. 1967, when. Garrison started investi- gating. � , I Associate prosecutor -An- drew ' Sciambra came -back with a question, eoDo .theY have some applications on file longer than one year?" Mrs. Kemp replied "yes" and step- ped down, . Overtones of Charges. The entire Clinton-Jackson phase of the case carried over- tones of Garrison's � charges of inadequate Federal investi- gation of Oswald's past. The Warren Commission, which determined that Oswald was leged attempt to find a job on the lone assassin of President : 'Kennedy, said nothing about such episodes in Oswald's life. Critics hace faulted the Warren Commission for fail- ing to pursue more clues to Oswald's personality. Garri- son's prosecutors stressed that the FBI never interviewed their witnesses, while' defense counsel chided all but one witness for failing to come forward earlier. . The day was. marked iw a shouting match between cock and Dymond and a chal- lenge by Dymond to Jiidge .Edward A-Haggerty Jr.'s man� ner of conducting, the trial.... : :Dymond, .apparentlY trying.,_ to;..datch a. 'policeman on the... stand in a contradiction, was:' interrupted . by: JUdge;',.Plag- 'gertz. who. said. -the witness ���-�- was "confuseci"Sand the- eines- tion, needed"L'Objeat- to:-Your Honor teetif Ylug," said.Dyinond, mow- ing for e mistrial. The Judge rejected the motion and told Dymond the-trial "was not a, game. of tricks." -- � The testimony of Splesel, the . New York accountant,- was vague about the -location of the June, 1969 French Quarter . party, but quite:- specific -about- � .� what was said. �L. � Spiesel testified that- he met ..;.� two couples,,including Ferrie, at a bar and struck-up, a con- versation ibased on Spiesel's notion that Ferrie was a World War II ;lying buddy: .Ferrie invited .hinf to a party at an- apartment,.. where Shaw was the host, said SPiesel. The 7- - witness said that after being Introduced to Shaw by Ferric.; he joined them and others in conversation that-turned to sharp criticism of the late- President. Spiesel: said that someone said, "Someone ought to kill the es.o.b." Says Shaw 'Seemed Amused'. - According to : Spiesel, Shaw "seemed amused" as the talk turned to the need for a high- powered rifle With telescopic Sight and Shaw. then discussed ,with Ferriei: an" experienced pilot; the feasibility of escape by airplane... � � Since Oswald; the.alleged third co-conspirator, : ,was not identified.. as 'a -party guest, Spiesel's testimony 'did not Purport to prove the three- way conispiracy�charge or any overt act in the indictment. But it explicitlY contradicted Shaw's contention that he never knew either man., , '- Dymond asked Judge Hag- gerty to order Spiesel to show the court and jury where the party was held. Spiesel's des- cription of the apartment did 4 ' ,411. - � ; Charles I. Sr fore entering 'Yas a proseent , not match Shav Judge withheld. Then, ref errin ords in'New I asked the .witni ever claimed in police. "hypnoti tined you and 1 of business.' S "Not in that ter Why had he cnted Spiesel s know; but that done "undercoi the FBI" dealin Spiesel said did not charge hypnotic spel 1962 and 1964 a: Dymond, .but oz acy" to hypnot time to time." Bid for Nei To Get D.0 Washington Mons Court Jud rl 10 Shaw. riat Clinton and Jackson,1 r Baton Rouge. ing-drive worker for ;Tess of Racial Equali- am Dunn Sr., recited y similar to that of nesses Thursday who Pd Shaw and Oswald mall town of Clinton 5Y, 1963. - entified Shaw as the � a black Cadillac con- ly parked near the gistrar's office. From he identified Oswald n who was trying to to vote in rural East Parish. Dedon, a former re- in a state hospital on, said Oswald came ; directions to the em- office.. She could not s clothing or whether ared neatly dressed, as tnesses had testified. le have a beard?" Dy- ked on cross-exarnina- I don't rem,ember," Dedon. ion't?", all," said Dymond, attractive blonde wit- ?ped down. ext witness, hospital I Maxine Kemp, sup- short-lived element of She said that after work �at the hospital rnber, 1964, more than tfter Oswald's alleged ication, she ran across cation form for "Os- rvey" and returned it le. She looked for it er Garrison began his tion but, she said, it r cross-examination, np said hospital prac- , to go through the Ty three months and ,any application older ear. iswer suggested that, of returning the ap- form to the file, Mrs. lould have thrown it I that, in any event, it lave been standard to discard a 1963 ap- before early 1967, rrison started investi- ite prosecutor An- qambra came back question, .-'Do they ie applications on file �'Ian one year?" Mrs. plied "yes" and step- n. .s of Charges ntire Clinton-Jackson the case carried over- Garrison's charges plate Federal investi- E Oswald's past. The Commission, which ed that Oswald was assassin of President Kennedy, said nothing about such episodes in Oswald's life. Critics have faulted the Warren Commission for fail- ing to pursue more clues to Oswald's personality. Garri- son's prosecutors stressed that the FBI never interviewed their witnesses, while defense counsel chided all but one witness for failing to come forward earlier. The day was marked by a shouting match between Al. cock and Dymond and a chal- lenge by Dymond to Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr.'s man- ner of conducting the triaL Dymond, apparently trying to 'catch a policeman on the stand in a. contradiction, was interrupted by Judge Hag- gerty, who said the witness was "confused", and the ques- tion needed clarification. "I� object to Your Honor testifying," said Dymond, mov- ing for a mistrial. The Judge rejected the motion and told Dymond the trial "was not a game of tricks." The testimony of Spiesel, the New York accountant, was vague about the location of the June, 1969 French Quarter party, but.quite specific about what was said. � Spiesel testified that he met two couples, including Ferrie, at a bar and struck up a con- versation ,based on Spiesel's notion that Ferrie was a World War II flying buddy. Ferrie Invited .him to a party at an apartment, where Shaw was the host, said Spiesel The witness said that after being Introduced to Shaw by Ferrie, he joined them and others in conversation that � turned to sharp criticism of the late President. Spiesel said that someone said, "Someone ought to kill the 'sob." Says Shaw 'Seemed Amused' According to Spiesel, Shaw "seemed amused" as the- talk turned to the need for a high- powered rifle with telescopic sight and Shaw then discussed with Ferrie,. an experienced pilot, the feasibility of escape by airplane. Since Oswald, the alleged third co-conspirator, 'was not identified as a party guest, Spiesel's testimony did not purport to prove the three- way conspiracy charge or any overt act in the indictment. But it explicitly contradicted Shaw's contention that he never knew either man. Dymond asked Judge Hag- gerty to order Spiesel to show the court and jury where the party was held. Spiesel's des- cription of the /apartment did .sociated Presik:i� Charles I. Spiesel, a New.rkaccountant,. pauses- be-.: - fore entering the conrthoUSer,'iniNew Orleans to testify as a prosecution wiOleSs In the Shaw. conspiracy trial � �,. not match Shaw's home. T'nel.Hilleck yesterday ordered the Judge withheld a ruling. 7, k:'`-'01TationaVArchivist to explain Then, referring to court rec4why he-should not be ordered ords in New York; DymondfioCippear in New Orleans with asked the witness if he ' � � hadf'j0j Warren Commission ever claimed in law suits tha police "hypnotized and torle,"�"'"�� -,- tured you and forced you otttt The - items involved are of business." Spiesel repliedAiddition ta.the autopsy X-ray I "Not in that terminology.":' Alms and'photographs Garri- Why had he been perse.son had previously requested- cuted Spiesel said he did not. � :- know, but that his father had' Both requests will be taken done "undercover work f Or up. at &hearing in Washington the FBI" dealing with RusSiaquz Feb;.14-.. � � -; , Spiesel said his corriplaintL Garrison asked that Jame did not charge a continoust � ill. Rhoads, the Archivist; be hypnotic spelling between iorderect to testify and bring 1962 and 1964 as suggested by,: Dymond,but only a "conspir- 'with him the rifle Lee Harvey acy" to hypnotize him "from loswald fired; a. bullet -re- time to time." � cciVered from President Ken- .tnedy's body; the shirt, coat Bid for New Exhibits and. tie Kennedy wore when he was shot; two bullet frag- To Get D.C. Hearing 'ments; a camera used to film Washington General Ses-1 the assassination, and the sions Court Judge Charles W. death certificate. I lay be preparing to abandon is 30-month long investigation I the assassination of Presi- ent Kennedy. The speculation sprang up fter Mr. Garrison's staff had 31-zed for an indefinite- delay 1 the trial of retired New Heans businessman Clay L. haw, who was accused by the naw irial. Seffoday in JFK Case Pm' /).k.."1-4"-i NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 0 (AP) � District Attorney im Garrison did an about- ace today and agreed to pro- eed without further delay in he trial of Clay Shaw, ac- used nearly two years ago of onspiring to kill President ;ennedy. A Ga rris on assistant, �arries Alcock, told Judge Ed- yard J. Haggerty in Criminal )istrict Court the state would ie ready to go ahead as sched- tied Tuesday. Alcock with- irew a state motion for a lelay based on the claim that he Federal Government was vithholding vital evidence. � The state had asked for a �ontinuance last Friday after fudge Charles Halleck of the :ourt of General Sessions in rison has kept almost com- pletely out of public view. The statement on Friday that Mr. Shaw might not be tried wag isued by Mr. Garrison's chiew assistant, James L. Al- cock. The annouricement that the not ready for trial caught most of New Orleans by sur- � killed" could stop the Shaw trial. He added that the trial would proceed even if the Na- tional Archives continued to shield the X-rays and photog- raphs made during the autopsy of President Kenedy. But yesterday, Mr. Alcock said that it was "absolutely necessary" to have the X-rays vtAil,i lot who were said to have exam- ined the X-rays and photo- graphs secretly early last year said that the X-rays and photo- graphs showed that the Presi- dent was struck only by bul- lets_ _fired from behind and above him. Attorney General Ramsay Clark reported on Thursday night. nnaw nal upellea; I. Defendant to Testify By John P. MacKenzie NILIIA_qgg.2!taff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 21 � he long-awaited trial of Clay Shaw began- today as the -efense announced it will put he retired businessman on he stand to deny plotting the .ssassination of President ennedy. )allas. The Warren Commission aid Lee Harvey Oswald, a Alcock asserted than that if pner and a misfit, killed Mr. ;he Federal government(ennedy without help from 'blocks OUT attempts to pres- nyone. Garrison, who did not ?.rit all of the evidence, this 2.ase cannot be brought to trial." The autopsy reports were turned over to the National Archives by the Kennedy fam- ily with the stipulation that they be withheld from the public. U.S. Attorney General Ram'. sey Clark released last week a report by four experts who checked the autopsy material and agreed with the Warren Commission that President Kennedy was shot from the rear. Garrison has insisted there were other shots from the front. Alcock declined to discuss the reason for withdrawal of the continuance motion but complained that Clark had "tried to interfere in the case with public statements." Prosecution and defense at- orneys spent the day outlin- ng key elements of the case n the course of questioning otential jurors. After six ours they were able to agree at two jurors were qualified. It appeared that many more ays might be needed to select panel of 12 New Orleans citi- ens who had not yet formed trong opinions about District ttorney Jim Garrison's two. ear crusade to disprove the vVashington, D.C., declined to Warren Commission account nforce a Garrison subpoenal f the Nov. 22, 1963 tragedy in )f Kennedy autopsy photo- ;Taphs and X-rays taken after :he assassination in Dallas. ppear in the Orleans Parish courtroom today, charges that Shaw, 55, plotted the killing with Oswald and the late David Ferrie. a farmer pilot. Assistant District Attorney James L. Alcock told �jurors that he will prove a three-way criminal agreement and at least one of six overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Alcock stressed that under the State's theory it was not necessary to show that the plot succeeded or even that the President was. murdered, He listed these specific al- leged acts: � A meeting of Oswald, Fer- rie and Shaw in Ferries New Orleans apartment two months before the assassina- tion. � A discussion there of mur- der weapons, the need for more than one rifle and firing angle, and the means of es- cape. ' � A meeting of Shaw, Os- wald and the late Jack Ruby, the man who shot Oswald to death, in Baton Rouge, at which money was delivered. � Two trips away from the Dallas murder scene, Shaw to � V3W4.11U lit ell LUC 11 from the Texas Sz Depository in Dallas 22, 1963. Judge Charles W. the District of Colum General Sessions gave the New Orlean Attorney's offica two show that the X-rays tographs of the autop the West Coast and Ferrie to Houston. Alcock said the-evi- dence would definitely show that Shaw was not in Dallas on Nov. 22. � Oswald's carrying a high powered rile to the Texas School Book Depository, which Garrison claims was only one of the vantage points for assassins' bullets. Defense Attorney F. Irvin Dymond indicated that his plan to have Shaw testify was not a concession that the State's opening case can sur- vive a motion to dismiss. Shaw, gray-haired and gray- suited former managing direc- tor of the International Trade Mart here, sat through the day's session showing little emotion. Like many jurors and spectators, he occasionally showed restlessness at the extensive juror interrogation that is countenanced by Louis- iana practice. Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. announced a program of daily, nightly and possibly weekend sessions until the jury is chosen but he aban- doned the night sessions at the joint request of defense and prosecution. More than three dozen re- porters jammed the court-, room. Like the spectators, all were given credentials and were stopped and frisked be- fore each entrance to the trial chamber. Jurors were warned that they could be sequestered as long as two months and would see the Mardi Gras parades next month only on closely su- pervised television. The Judge said jurors would receive newspapers with trial stories excised but they could read "whatever is left." The best known name on the prosecution witness list was that of Perry Russo, a 26- year-old insurance salesman from Baton Rouge, who test- ified at a 1967 preliminary hearing that he overheard Shaw discussing assassination plans. An important defense wit- ness, former Garrison investi- gator William Gurvich, was re- ported _ill. Judge Haggerty granted a defense subpoena for Marina Oswald Porter, widow of Oswald who ne.�,4., lives in Irving, Tex. Jurors wsre asked 'if they would be influenced by the m u c h-publicized controversy over Garrison's attempts to compel production of autopsy . . Jan. )rney bout- pro- ay in , ac- go of ident ;tant, !, Ed- ninal ,ould ched- with- or a that . was for a afcer f the as in !d to ,oena hoto- after tat if ment pres- Xi ILA all L Lk, .11_ Vi By John P. MacKenzie courtroom today, charges that wastiost Star! Writer � Shaw, 55, plotted the killing NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 21 with Oswald and the late a former pilot. he long-awaited trial of Clay David Ferrie. � - � .. a . rte Attorney . Shaw began today as the James - . L. Alcock told jurors ciefense announced it will put that he will prove a three-way criminal agreement and at least one of six overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy. Alcock stressed that under the State's theory it was not necessary to show that the plot succeeded or even that the President was. murderedv He listed these specific al- leged acts: � A meeting of Oswald, Fer- rie and Shaw in Ferries New Orleans apartment two months before the assassina- tion. � A discussion there of mur- der weapons, the need for more than one rifle and firing angle, and the means of es- cape. � A meeting of Shaw,. Os- wald and the late Jack Ruby, the man who shot Oswald to death, in Baton Rouge, at which money was delivered. � Two trips away from the this appear in the Orleans Parish Dallas murder scene, Shaw to tt to were tonal f am- that the he retired businessman on the stand to deny plotting the ssassination of President ennedy. Prosecution, and defense at- orneys spent the day outlin- ng key elements of the case the course of questioning otential jurors. After six ours they were able to agree at two jurors were qualified. It appeared that many more ays might be needed to select panel of 12 New Orleans citi- ens who had not yet formed trong opinions about District ttorney Jim Garrison's two- 'ear crusade to disprove the Warren Commission account Of the Nov. 22, 1963, tragedy in Dallas. . The Warren. Commission said Lee Harvey Oswald, a oner and a misfit, killed Mr. Kennedy without help from anyone. Garrison, who did not Earn- eek a who terial arreni ident the jsted, from scuss al of but had case k..M L11_ j � the West Coast and Ferrie to Houston. Alcock said the-evi- dence would definitely show that Shaw was not in Dallas on Nov. 22. � Oswald's carrying a high powered rifle to the Texas School Book Depository, which Garrison claims was only one of the vantage points for assassins' bullets. Defense Attorney F. Irvin Dymond indicated that his plan to have Shaw testify was not a concession that the State's opening case can sur- vive a motion to dismiss. Shaw, gray-haired and gray- suited former managing direc-- tor of the International Trade Mart here, sat through the day's session showing little emotion. Like many jurors and spectators, he occasionally showed; restlessness at the extensive juror interrogation that is countenanced by Louis- iana practice. Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. announced a program of daily, nightly and possibly weekend sessions until the jury is chosen but he aban- doned the night sessions at the joint request of defense and prosecution. More than three dozen re- porters jammed the court-4 room. Like the spec-bators, all were given credentials and were stopped and frisked be- fore each entrance to the trial chamber. Jurors were warned that they could be sequestered as long as two months and would see the Mardi Gras parades next month only on closely su- pervised television. The Judge said jurors would receive newspapers with trial stories excised but they could read "whatever is left." The best known name on the prosecution witness list was that of Perry Russo, a 26- year-old insurance salesman from Baton Rouge, who testi- fied at a 1967 preliminary hearing that he overheard Shaw discussing assassination plans. An important defense wit- ness, former Garrison imtesti- gator William Gurvich, was re- ported . ill. Judge Haggerty granted a defense subpoena for Marina Oswald Porter, widow of Oswald who now lives in Irving, Tex. Jurors were asked 'if they would be influenced by the m u c h-publicized controversyl over Garrison's attempts to compel production of autopsy pictures and reports locked in the National Archives. Irvin Mason, the first juror to he sworn, said he thought the data should be made public but that his opinion would not affect his vote. JAY, JANLMRY 19, 1969 27 - vestigation of Presi '.nt Kennedy's Assi sinatior !z� panel that investigated:have been shielded by the Na- assassination, headed byitional Archives at the request f Justice Earl Warren,of the Kennedy family, were ,1 that Lee Harvey Oswald,needed in a trial. the sole assassin, and that: In charging Mr ,Shaw on id fired the rifle shotsMarch 1, 1967, Mr. Garrison the Texas Schoolbook'said that Mr. Shaw, the former Htory in Dallas on Nov.Hirector of the New Orleans 263. 1Trade Mart, Lee Harvey Os- a;,e charles w. Halleck. ofHald and a one-time airline )iitritt of Columbia Courtipilot, David W. Ferrie, con- al Sessions yesterdapspired in New Orleans in Sep. the New Orleans DistricOember and October of 1963 to .ney's office two weeks toiassassinate Mr. Kennedy. that the X-rays and pho-1 Mr. Ferrie died shortly be- phs of the autopsy, which :fore Mr. Shaw's arrest, leaving what appeared to be a suicide note, but authorities ruled that his death was from natural causes. In the months after Mr Shaw's arrest, Mr. Garrison said on several occasions that the conspirators included agents or former agents of the United States Central Intelli- gence Agency. The Shaw trial has been sub.- jected to numerous delays as Mr. Shaw's lawyers have sought unsuccessfully to have the charges dismissed or to have the case transferred from New Or-leans to another Louisian4 city. The charges against Mil Shaw, who has been fret1 under S10,000 bond, are unc_iel Louisiana laws. Temple U. Given an Estate PHILAMLPHIA, Jan. 17 (AP)i �Temple University announced! Friday that it has been givenl "Sugarloaf," the 30-acre Chest-i, nut Hill estate of the late Alberti M. Greenfield, real estate ina.n and financier who died Jan.4 5, 1967. Igures By Hugh Aynesworth N�wtirsek Feature &orrice DALLAS�The assassina- tion of John F. Kennedy brought unearned fame to as varied a collection of human beings as were ever engulfed in a national tragedy. Five years later, these fig- ures from history's periph- ery remain in or near Dal- las, five years after the ter- rible 'events of Nov. 22, 1963. Pretty Marina Oswald, the 27-yew-old widow of the as- sassin, has lost her image as the poor little Russian girl�mainly because she's gotten rich. Pitying well- wishers from all over the world have sent her more than $70,000, and she has grossed at least $60,000 more by sales of pictures, inter- views, her husband's diary and the rifle- with which he shot the President Writing, a Book Currently, she is seing to make the Government pay her $500,000 for Oswald's clothes., books and other personal trivia. And she is writing a book Which�if ever finished�should be- come an automatic world best-seller. Still, Marina seems not to have found happiness. Her second marriage � to a bartender named Ken- neth Jess Porter�has been stormy.. On one occasion she took her husband to court, charging he. had threatened to shoot her. His defense was an attack: � he did it, he said, because She left the children�Oswald's two girls and their own baby boy�and was drink- ing beer at a neighbor's house. i That quarrel was straight- ened out, but other rather public ones followed, princi- pally over barmaids at the tavern she purchased for her huSband. The police no longer keep track of the callers at her $25,000 three-bedroom house, but this hasn't made her relations with neighbors much easier. "She doesn't mix much," says one who occasionally has coffee- with Marina. "She acts like she doesn't trust anybody and I guess you'd say the feeling was mutual." Mother of Assassin In nearby Fort Worth, Marguerite Oswald, mother of the assassin, lives in cir- cumstances considerably im- proved since her son's death. Better dressed and hous- ed, noticeably slimmer, she , recently summoned a press \ conference to announce that what she always calls "the 1. ' "'Kennedy-Oswald case" now , elongs to Richard Nixon nd that she expects more /rogress than was forth- 'ring from his predeces- JFK Tra'gedy Still MRS. J. D. TIPPIT . . . widow remarried. sor in proving her son's in- nocence. Still a formidable sales- woman, Marguerite has aim, tioned off letters, clothes, school pictures and many a. other possessions of her; son's, but always, she saysv. to finance her investigations. Some day she may sell the very tombstone of Lee's grave. "If it was necessary to sell the stone to continue my work, then I'd do it," she says. "After all, I have to survive." 'It Belongs to Me' "I've just had an offer for it," she calmly explained, "and the way I figure, it be- longs to me, not to that tramp." Even for a mother4n-law, even for a former mother- in-law, Marguerite's view of Marina seems harsh. Once she turned up at the office of Marina's lawyer to de- mand the beat Oswald was wearing when captured. No happy endings seem in sight, either, for the third widow in the ease, Marie Tippit, whose husband was the Dallas police officer shot to death while question- ing Oswald. She, too, has be- come a wealthy woman since the tragedy. Some $700,000 was sent to her by sympathetic Amer- icans, and it has been split among her three children and herself and invested in trust funds now worth more than $1 million. But the Tippit house re- mains as modest as ever, with the furniture as shab- by as it was five years ago. She still goes to the same beauty shop, where she and her teen-aged daughter get their hair washed and then go home to apply a Toni. And the Dallas police, who rallied to her after the assassination, were miffed when she contributed only about $4000 to the Police and Firemen's Fund. Dissension in Rome Marie Tippit, 40, is now married to Harry Dean Thomas, a Dallas police lieu. tenant, but there has been dissension in the home, prin- cipally on account of her weight-lifting oldest son, Alan. Reportedly, he has beaten up his stepfather, and Marie had one rather un- pleasant meeting with still another widow in the case� Helen Markham who wit- nessed the shooting of Tip- pit, was first to his side and cradled the dying of- ficer's head in her arms. "She acted like she thought she was better than me," says Helen. "Guess that's what money does to some people. She got real snotty once and asked me if I knew her husband be- fore. That really teed me off�and I told her so." Married to Blind Man Helen Markham is one key peripheral figure in the assassination who has not improved herself finan- cially. Now married to a blind man who operates a concession stand in a Dallas Poet ofilce,. .lia's still al :�. chances to sell HELEN MARKHAIVI � . no better off. lunchroom waitress, still struggling to bring up her five children, still without a phone or an automobile. Yet he has refused several MARINA OSWALD AND HUSBAND Q. What has happened to Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald? Where is she living? What is she doing? Are her children with her?-1. R. W., Silver Spring, Md. ta A. Marina Oswald married a divorced electronics worker, Kenneth J. Porter, in June, 1965. Porter now operates a tavern in Dallas, Tex., where he lives with Marina, Oswald's two, daughters, -and7art infant son born July 3, 1966. ^ longings--includ poena that ord Washington. "I've always n est living for nn God willing, tb. it'll continue," "I don't want nc kind of money. Oswald was police in a n First to reach trolman N. M who was subse moted to detec ary has increasi to $812 per mi otherwise he b rewarded�exce lifetime membe local Playboy ( But McDonal ficers, who i wrestle Oswald sion, still rese other of _9Twaj.4 Seeks 25 Million in 5 Suits P . RT WORTH, Tex., Jan.; )�Five libel suits for $51 on each were filed yester-1 by the mother of accused idential assassin Lee ey Oswald against a ressman and several rs and publishers. the Federal court suits � uerite Oswald claims the dants made false and ading statements about and her son, who was d by the Warren Corn- on as the rifleman who President John F. Ken- e petition names Rep. d R. Ford (R-Mich.), with Johns R. Stiles and & Schuster, Inc. Ford member of the Warren ission and wrote a book its probe of the Ken. assassination Nov. 22, n Dallas. other four libel suits Za-dYN are against these persons and groups associated with books or magazine articles about the assassination: Jim Bishop and Funk & Wagnall Co.; Ste- phen White, the McMillan Publishing Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System; Jimmy Breslin and the New York Magazine Co.; William Man- chester, Harper & Row, Pub- lishers, Inc., and Cowles Com- munications, Inc. Mrs. Oswald's suits assert some of the publications ex- posed her "to hatred, con- tempt and ridicule." -Ivan . h.enneclY brought unearned fame to as varied a collection of human beings as were ever engulfed in a national tragedy. Five years later, these fig- tares from history's periph- ery remain in or near Dal- las, five years after the ter- rible events of Nov. 22, 1963. Pretty Marina Oswald, the 27-year-old widow of the as- sassin, has lost her image as the Dccr Uttle Russian girl�mainly because she's gotten rich. Pitying well- wishers from all over the world have sent her more than $70,000, and she has grossed at least $60,000 more by sales of pictures, Inter- views, her husband's diary and the rifle with which he shot the President Writing a Book Currently, she is suing to make the Government pay her $500,000 for Oswald's clothes, books and other personal trivia. And she is writing a book which�if ever finished�should be- come an automatic world best-seller. Still, Marina seems not to have found happiness. Her second marriage � to a bartender named Ken- neth Jess Porter�has been stormy. On one occasion she took her husband to court, charging he had threatened to shoot her. His defense was an attack: he did it, he said, because she left the children�Oswald's two girls and their own baby boy�and was drink- ing beer at a neighbor's house. , That quarrel was straight- ened out, but other rather public ones followed, princi- pally over barmaids at the tavern she purchased for her 'husband. The police no longer keep track of the callers at her $25,000 three-bedroom house, but this hasn't made her relations with neighbors much easier. She doesn't mix much," says one who occasionally has coffee with Marina. "She acts like she doesn't trust anybody and I guess you'd say the feeling was mutual." Mother of Assassin In nearby Fart Worth, Marguerite Oswald, mother of the assassin, lives in cir- cumstances considerably Im- proved since her son's death. Better dressed and hous- ed, noticeably slimmer, she recently summoned a press :conference to announce that what she always calls "the ;Kennedy-Oswald case" now belongs to Richard Nixon Ind that she expects more ,rogress than was forth- iming from his predeces- , MRS. J. D. TIPPrr . . . widow remarried. sor in proving her son's in- nocence. Still a formidable sales- woman, Marguerite has auc- tioned off letters, clothes, school pictures and menY other possessions of her son's, but always, she says, to finance her investigations. Some day she may sell the very tombstone of Lee's grave. "If it was necessary to sell the stone to continue my work, then I'd do it," she says. "After all, I have to survive." 'It Belongs to Me' "I've just had an offer for it," she calmly explained, "and the way I figure, it be- longs to me, not to that tramp." Even for a mother-in-law, even for a former mother- in-law, Marguerite's view of Marina seems harsh. Once she turned up at the office of Marina's lawyer to de- mand the belt Oswald was wearing when captured. No happy endings seem in sight, either, for the third widow in the case, Marie Tippit, whose husband was the Dallas police officer shot to death while question- ing Oswald. She, too, has be- come a wealthy woman since the tragedy. Some $700,000 was sent to her by sympathetic Amer- icans, and it has been split among her three children and herself and Invested in trust funds now worth more than $1 million. But the Tippit house re- mains as modest as ever, with the furniture as shab- by as it was five years ago. She still goes to the same beauty shop, where she and her teen-aged daughter get their hair washed and then go home to apply a Toni. And the Dallas police, who rallied to her after the assassination, were miffed when she contributed only about $4000 to the Police and Firemen's Fund. Dissension in Home Marie Tippit, 40, is now married to Harry Dean Thomas, a Dallas police lieu- tenant, but there has been dissension in the home, prin- cipally on account of her weight-lifting oldest son, Alan. Reportedly, he has beaten up his stepfather, and not long ago he was in- volved in an attempted rob- bery in which a companion was shot to death. On election night, Marie Tipp it's second husband suf- fered a stroke and has been hospitalized ever since. The A .trir..iated Press reported there was speculation that his near-fatal condition was brought on by "a fight." r� n Helen Markham who wit- nessed the shooting of Ti"- pit, was first to his s and cradled the dying ficer's head in her arms. "She acted like she thought she was better than me," says Helen. "Guess that's what money does to some people. She got real snotty once and asked me if I knew her husband be- fore. That really teed me off�and I toll her so." Married to Blind Man.. Helen Markham is one key peripheral figure in the assassination who has not improved herself finan- cially. Now married to a blind man who operates a concession stand in a Dallas post office, she's still a HELEN MARKHAM . no better off. lunchroom waitress, still struggling to bring up her five children, still without a phone or an automobile. Yet she has refused several poena Washington "I've alwi est living fc God willing it'll contin "I don't war kind of me Oswald u police in z First to rea trolman N. who was su ;noted to de ary has incr to $812 per otherwise in rewarded�e lifetime men local Playbo: But McDor ficers, who wrestle OSW2 SiOrt, still ri MARINA OSWALD AND HUSBAND Q. What has happened to Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald? Where is she living? What is she doing? Are her children with her?-1. R. W., Silver Spring, Md. .?. c.,\; Ls ES A. Marina Oswald married a divorced electronics worker, Kenneth J. Porter, in June, 19155. Porter now operates a tavern in Dallas, Tex., where he lives with Marina, Oswald's two daughters, �ancran infant son born July 3,1966.- * /other of Oswald Seeks " 25 Million in. 5 Suits - , 61. ORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. I are against these persons and , $5 f groups associated with books ' (AP)�Five libel suits for or magazine articles about the lion each were filed yesterj assassination: Jim Bishop! by the mother of accused and Funk & Wagnall Co.; Ste- I ,inidential assassin Lee Phen White, the McMillan! rvey Oswald against a Publishing Co. and Columbia' Ingressman and several Broadcasting System; Jimmy ' Breslin and the New York ters and publishers. Magazine Co.; William Man- n the Federal court suits chester, Harper & Row, Pub- rquerite Oswald claims the endants made false and f leading statements about I and her son, who was ji ed by the Warren Corn- ! sion as the rifleman who t President John F. Ken- y. ne petition names Rep. ald R. Ford (R-Mich.), ng with Johns R. Stiles and on & Schuster, Inc. Ford a member of the Warren mission and wrote a book ut its probe of the Ken- y assassination Nov. 22, 3, in Dallas. he other four libel suits Ushers, Inc., and Cowles Com- munications, Inc. Mrs. Oswald's suits assert some of the publications ex- posed her "to hatred, con- tempt and ridicule." ofF Tra:ge IP PIT narried. r Marie had one rather un- pleasant meeting with still another widow in the case� Helen Markham who wit- nessed the shooting of Tip- pit, was first to his side and cradled the dying of- ficer's head in her arms. "She acted like she thought she was better than me," says Helen. "Guess that's what money does to some people. She got real snotty once and asked me if I knew her husband be- fore. That really teed me off�and I told her so." Married to Blind Man Helen Markham is one key peripheral figure in the assassination who has not improved herself finan- lunchroom waitress, still cially. Now married to a struggling to bring up her able sales- blind man who operates a _five children, still without to has me-- concessicaystan&in a Dallas" a phone or an automobile. s, clothes,' post office,,.. she's still al.'1,YekShe has refused several and many s of her , she saysi, ?stigations. ,ay sell the of Lee's son's in- essary to , continue 'd do it," I have offer for explained, ure, it be- to that ^ mother- 's view o rsh. One the offic er to d ,wald w tured. born July 3, 1966.- 3 seem 13 the t se, Mari band wa e office . questior )o, has be � womai __� MARINA OSWALD AND HUSBAND Q. What has happened to Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald? Where is she living? What is she doing? Are her children with her?�l. R. W., Silver Spring, Md. \,%. .?, t\ScAl to6 A. Marina Oswald married a divorced electronics worker, Kenneth J. Porter, in June, 1965. Porter now operates a tavern in Dallas, Tex., where he lives with Marina, Oswaidts two daughters, .and;an infant son HELEN MARKHAM ... no better off. other oiOald Seeks 25 Million in 5 Suits P. I\ -CtJ'A was sen FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. atic Ameal3 (AP)�Five libel suits for $5 been illion each were filed yester- childre: ivested taY by the mother of accused yrth mor residential . assassin Lee , larvey Oswald against a house reongressman and several as eve iters and publishers. as sha. rears ag In the Federal court suits the sam a she an ghter g and th a Toni.. s poll after e mdfi' [ter' o to Poll is no 7 De )lice lieledY assa:isinntion Nov. 22, has bet963, in Dallas. nne, pri The other four libel suits arquerite Oswald claims the fendants made false and asleading statements about r and her son, who was .med by the Warren Corn- ssion as the rifleman who ot President John F. Ken- dy. One petition names Rep. raid R. Ford (R-Mieh.), ong with Johns R. Stiles and mon & Schuster, Inc. Ford as a member of the Warren ommission and wrote a book out its probe of the Ken- are against these persons and groups associated with books ror magazine articles about the assassination: Jim Bishop and Funk & Wagnall Co.; Ste- phen White, the McMillan Publishing Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System; Jimmy Breslin and the New York Magazine Co.; William Man- chester, Harper & Row, Pub- lishers, Inc., and Cowles Com- munications, Inc. Mrs. Oswald's suits assert some of the publications ex- posed her "to hatred, con- tempt and ridicule." chances to sell personal be- longings�including the sub- poena that ordered her to Washington. "I've always made an hon- est living for my family and, God willing, that's the way continue," she says. "I don't want no part of that kind of money." Oswald was captured by police in a movie house. First to reach him was Pa- trolman N. M. McDonald, who was subsequently pro- moted to detective. His sal- ary has increased from $485 to $812 per month, though otherwise he has gone un, rewarded�except for a free lifetime membership in. the local Playboy Club. ' But McDonald's fellow o:!, ficers, who helped wrestle Oswald into submis�, sion, still resent the facj t of h , est son, he has ither, and r B-8 ** Atriements THE EVEKIN 74AR Washington, D. C., Thursday, Janary 71, 1968 A BOOK FOR TODAY 2 More on Kennedy Assassination By SHIRLEY ELDER SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS. By Josiah Thompson. Ber- nard Geis Associates. 321 pages. $8.95. c.fo� ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT: The Warren Com- mission, the Authorities and the Report. By Sylvia Meagher. The Bobbs-Merrill Co. ,Inc. 477 pages. $8.50. Evidently it will never end, this speculation over just what happened in Dallas that sunny November day more than four years ago. Did Lee Harvey Os- wald, acting alone, assassinate the President of the United States? The Dallas police said so. A special commission, named by the new President and headed by the Chief Jus- tice said so. CBS said so. An erratic nightclub owner named Jack Ruby apparently thought so�and wiped out the No. 1 witness, Lee Harvey Oswald himself. But many others have disa- greed and have spelled out their disagreement under such accusatory titles as "rush to judgment", "whitewash" and "inquest." These latest two studies of the Kennedy assassination do not, as their publishers claim, prove anything. But they do raise serious questions about the Warren �Commisson that should be answered, perhaps, as Miss Meagher suggests, with a new and thorough in- vestigation by the Federal government. Hard on the Report The most important distinc- tion between the Thompson- Meagher books and some earlier efforts by others to debunk the Warren Com- mission's finding is that these are, indeed, studies. Miss Meagher, unlike some 200 mil- lion other Americans, actually has read the 26-volume War- ren Report and corrected its first major ommission: she prepared an index that has served as an invaluable guide for other scholars. She is hard on the Warren Report. The observation is typical: "It must be said," Miss Meagher writes of the Report, " . . . that it resembles a tale told for fools, full of sophistry and deceit, signifying capitula- tion to compromise and the degradation of justice by its most eminent guardians. In very readable style, she goes on to support that charge in detail. There was no defense allowed Oswald, though dead; only witnesses supporting the preconceived conclusion that a single assassin fired the shots were heard with credibility; leads were not checked out; stories were not verified; preliminary investigations were not followed up�in short, it was a botched-up job. Miss Meagher examines the correlation, or lack of it, bet- ween the Warren Report and the volumes of hearings and exhibits and concludes there is a "powerful presumption of (Oswald's) complete innocence of all the crimes which he was accused." Thompson's Line Thompson, a young philoso- phy professor from Haverford College, took a different tack and arrived at very nearly the same conclusion. It is quite possible, Thompson said, that during the shooting Oswald was where he said he was, on the first floor of the Texas School Book Depository build- ing. Thompson studied all avail- able photographs of the assas- sination scene, not just the famed Zapruder film, but ev- er y thin g. Interestingly, he found that the Warren Com- mission's copy of the Zapruder film was blurry and shocking- ly inferior to Life magazine's original. But he found more. He found that there may have been two persons, neither of them Os- wald, in the book building's sixth floor window�where the shots came from. He found that there may have been four shots fired, not three, and that they could have come from three persons, not one. Thompson presents intri- guing bits of evidence never pursued by the Warren Com- mission, or brushed aside as irrelevant. Take, for instance, the Commission's "single bul- let theory." The Warren Corn- mission concluded that one bullet pierced the President's neck and then ricocheted through Gov. John Connally's body, smashing his forearm and wrist as it left. Tests show that much less resistance than a bone would crumple such a bull e t. But this one I emerged�if the Warren Com- mission is correct�nearly per- fect. Thompson, in a rare bow to sarcasm, calls it the Super- bullet. Some Questions But there's more: Who, for instance, was the man in the light coat seen leaving the book building shortly after the shooting? Not Oswald. Oswald was then get- ting into a cab some blocks away. The mystery man ran down an incline and got irto a car driven by someone with a dark complexion. A similar car, maybe the same one, was seen by other witnesses and described as slightly sus- picious. Also, there was the man pacing back and forth behind a fence who�Thompson specu- lates�could have been a third gunman who fired the fourth shot, the shot that ripped through the President's head. Then, there was the umbrella man. First his umbrella was open, then closed. A signal? A hidden gun? Admittedly, one could specu- late that all ThompEon's speculations are nonsense. But he raises too many questions to be dismissed so lightly. f;,:litRISON�Frotts Page A. -Garrison t Army as...tfri it ,licipoint of military duty 1 moderately incapacitated civilian adaptability. His ill- ..i existed long before his II to active duty July 24, 31, and is of the type that 11 require long-term psy- otherapeutic approach, lich is not feasible in a mili- :y hospital." The report said psychother- y for Garrison was begun in �tober 1950 by a psychiatrist the staff of the Louisiana ate University Medical hool in New Orleans. At at time Garrison was a civil- Later National Guard rec- :is show that Garrison's psy- iatric treatment continued a total of 41/2 years. Since last February, Garri- � has claimed that he has Lved the Kennedy assassina- ,n as done by a group of rsons working as part of a )1, with Leg Harvey. Oswald. Warren- Commission-eon- JIM GARRISON . . . discharge revealed eluded that Oswald acted alone. Garrison has arrested Clay Shaw, a retired New Orleans businessman, who he claims is Garrison's Effort. to Subpoena- - Kennedy Photos-Eacespiliurdles irchives,, Citing Proviso Set by Family, Opposes Use of Assassination Items Special to The ny..y...2.2matake WASHINGTON, Jan. 10�The irst. legal test of the Govern- lent's shield of secrecy sur- ounding the death photo- raphs of President Kennedy as begun in the courts here. Harry R. Van Cleve Jr., Gen- ral counsel of the General ervices Administration, parent gency of the National Archives, aid today that the Archives xpected to resist efforts by ,istrict Attorney Jim Garrison f New Orleans to subpoena le items. The 65 X-rays, black-and- tite photographs and color -ansparencies that were itaken uring the autopsy at Bethesda aval Hospital were not includ- i among the evidence present- i to the Warren Commission, .hich investigated the assassi- ation. Instead, the items were given y the Secret Service to the ennedy family, which donated tern to the Archives on the mdition that no one but Fed- -al investigators be permitted ) see them until Oct. 29, 1971. he family cited reasons of tas )r specifying that no one but edical experts and scholars permitted to see them after iat time. Ordered to Appear Yesterday an order was ?rved on James B. Rhoads, rchivist of the United States, ) appear in General Sessions ourt there to answer Mr. Gar- son's demand that the articles e made available as trial evi- ence. Mr. Garrison asked that ft. Rhoads be required to tes- fy in the trial of Clay L. haw, a New Orleans business- Ian, who is scheduled to go n trial on Jan. 21 on charges conspiring to assassinate resident Kennedy. In his petition, Mc. Garrison )r,tended that the X-rays and iotographs would show that le President had been struck r bullets from "at least two rections," and that the fatal ad wounds had been caused, ^ bullets fired from the front., he Warren Commission con-; uded that Lee Harvey Oswald, District Attorney Jim Gar- rison seeks use of photos. alone shot. at Mr. Kennedy, fir- ing from' the rear, when the assassination occurred in Dal- las on Nov. 22, 1963. Mr. Van Cleve said in an interview today that several writers and others interested in the, assassination had de- manded to be shown the items, despite the conditions in the agreement between the Archives and the Kennedy family. According to Mr. , Van Cleve, some of these individuals threatened court action, assert- ing that the Kennedy family had no legal right to restrict access to. the X-rays and photo- graphs since they were taken by Navy personnel, using Government equipment and film. The hearing on Mr. Garri- son's motion, which is set for Jan. 17, could produce the first court test of this question. However, one Government source hinted today that the Justice Department might as- sert that the reciprocal inter- state witness law under which Mr. Garrison is seeking the items applied only to witnesses and not to physical evidence. Mr. Van Cleve said that the United States Attorney's office here would determine trial strategy but that he expected the Government to resist the effort to undermine agreements between donors and the Ar- chives. David G. 13ress, Uniied Slates Attorney for the District of: Columbia, said his office has!, not yet decided what its re- sponse would be to Mr. Garri-1 son's demand. the mysterious "Clay Ber- trand" of the assassination probe. Earlier this week he is- sued a warrant for the arrest of Edgar Eugene Bradley, 49, a field representative for Carl McIntire, an East Coast evange- list. Both deny any connection with the case. Garrison served five years in the Army in World War II. In July 1951, after a short stint with the FBI he volun- teered for active duty for the Korean war. He states in his medical record that he became aware that he "just couldn't make it" after the first day of training and reported for sick call. He was confined to quar- ters for two weeks, then hospi- talized at Fort Sill, Okla. He was transferred to the Brooke Army Hospital on Sept. 16, 1951, and was given a medical discharge for physical disabil- ity in October. A physical evaluation board at Brooke recommended 10 per cent permanent disability. It said the cause of the incapa- city was "chronic anxiety reac- tion' manifested by hypocon- driasis; chronic exhaustion syndrome . . . and psycho- genic allergic manifestations." Of Mental Origin Psychogenic means having a mental origin. The Medical Board said Garrison then had "a rather bizarre allergic re- sponse to lint, especially wool lint." It said he could not wear undershirts or rough cloth. It said that if he did he choked up, had air hunger, and some- times suffered hives. ' The Medical Board listed details of Garrison's exhaus- tion syndrome. It said it started while he was in law school after the war. It said that even after Garrison started to work for a law firm he could only work half a day. Garrison's records in the National Guard Bureau in the Pentagon disclose that he was under the care of Dr. Robert Matthews after his 1951 dis- charge. Dr. Matthews then was a neuro-psychiatrist on the LSU staff. The records show the treatment continued until Garrison applied for re- entry into the National Guard in April 1955. On a form 89 in his National Guard records, Garrison, in his own handwriting, stated that the "psychiatric matter" had been cleared up. To a question asking whether he had ever been under the care of a physician, Garrison listed Dr. Matthews. The records also contain a letter from Dr. Matthews. Dr. Matthews, who left LSU shortly after Garrison re-en- tered the National Guard, was killed in an automobile acci- dent in 196:1. Garrison's army records do not show that he applied for disability pay. Discharged from Both National Guard records show that Garrison was re- lieved from active duty on Oct. 31, 1951, and was dis- charged from both the Na- tional Guard and the Army, effective Jan. 9, 1952. Garrison first entered the National Guard in 1939. He applied for re-entry in 1955 while he was an assistant district attorney. On April. 19, 1955, based on a physical examination in New Orleans and details of his therapy, the Army Surgeon General ruled he was again physically qualified for the National Guard. On April 22, 1955, Garrison was given a waiver of Ins history of sepa- ration from the Army. The waiver was signed by the Army Surgeon of the National Guard and was based on the findings of the Army Surgeon General. National Guard officials in the Pentagon explained that Garrison had to have his case- reviewed by the Army Sur- geon General because of his'. illness. Garrison took his re-entry physical in New Orleans. It was given by the medical de- tachment of the 935th Field Artillery Battalion. Garrison re-entered the Guard as a cap- tain with the 935th Field Artil- lery in NEW Orleans. He be- came a major on July 14, 1959, and a lieutenant colonel on May 11. 1964. - On Feb. 13, 1967, shortly be- fore he resigned from the Guard, Garrison asked for a transfer to the Judge Advo- cate General's Corps in Wash- ington. Upon his resignation he asked in be placed in the army reserve with a mobiliza- tion position in the Advocate General's office. The Army Reserve refused to comment on the request. 11�����.���...�����114 an extremely poor shot and it was necessary for persons who accompanied him on hunts to provide-him with game." Wise said the titles of some documents still classified indi- cate that Oswald may have giv- en the Russians secret informa- tion-.orr Amertets,U m Zrecuia. sanili Planet': ,';'.'t � 11,4 Gam' sonT nedy assassination, according an article by David Wise in thei t) 411,. current issue of SaturadV'EVe-- NEW ORLEANS�Jillr'12 ning Post. Mail Sought By Garrison Ajcled Revolt COUNCIL tal5FF) Dee 31 (_V-',�Thomas Edward Beckham, 27, sought by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison as a material witness in his probe of President Ken- , : nedy's assassination, said today ' he had helped raise funds for :Cuban revolutionary forces in New Orleans in 1962. Beckham said he aided Sergio Arcacha y Smith of Dallas in raising funds by ob- taining collection cans and de- signing a label for the cans. Garrison issued a subpoena for Beckham Friday. Beckham said he is staying with friends here after mov- ing from Omaha Friday to avoid extradition to New Or- 'leans. Iowa is not a member lof an interstate, pact under which persons wanted for in- vestigation ma y be sub- poenaed. Beckham, who lists himself as a �bishop of the. Universal Life Church and entertains with western music under the name of Mark Evans, said the fund-raising took place while he was working as a "priest' .of tho1d Oirtiaodoak,Catholic Church of North.. America in 1-October, _1962. 77' R ussian- r- b _ )litat man Subpoenaed By Gerrison NEWORLEA5-Ni,'Ia6n 4 AP)�District Attorney Jim Garrison subpoenaed an Okla- homa man, James Hicks, today 'as his fourth recent "material Iwitness" in his controversial robe into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Garrison's office said Hicks is a civil service employe at yance Air Force Base, Enid, 10kla. - A spokesman for Garrison said the District Attorney had information that Hicks was present at the scene of Mr. Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. He added that the Warren Commission did not list Hicks as among those present. Hicks, according to Assist- ant District Attorney Richard V. Burnes, may have pertinent information about persons who may have been involved in a conspiracy to murder the President. Burnes added that Hicks also may have "pertintent in- formation about the planning and execution of the assassina- tion." � Last week, Garrison subpoe- naed three other men--Loran alled Oswald 'Extremely Poor Shot' Mcx.m:()% ,,T . Formerly classified tran- osenko said: "Oswald Was scripts of closed Warren Com- mission sessions have disclosed that Lee Harvey Oswald was such "an extremely poor shot" during his defection to Russia in 1959 that hunting companions had to give him game. The commission received this information from Yuri IvanoVfeh Nosenj. a Russian secretpbliCe agen w o defected to the United States 3 months after: the' Ken- to Quotes Archivist Transcripts of 11 closed com- mission sessions were declassi- fied for Wise's inspection in tine with the National Archives poli- cy of continuing declassificatlon. Wise quoted Robert Bahmer, the nation's chief archivist,, as saying he knows of nothing in the secret files on President John F. Kennedy's death to con- tradict the designation of Os- wald as the assassin. The declassified transcripts disclosed that Chief Justice Earl Warren, head of the commis- sion, and other members consid ered evidence concerning the bullets that hit the President as -totally unconclusive." Provided With Game They showed that the commis- sion tried and failed to inspect Kennedy autopsy photographs, which were in the possession of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in an effort to clarify "confusing" evi- dence about what bullets struck Kennedy and Gov. John Connal- i:,Ut The quote concerning Os- v,-ald's shoaling ability eam.i from a commission internal staif inerno deaiing with disclo- sures made by Nosenko, appar- ently to ;-it-! f (UPI)�District Attorney Jim Garrison said yesterday a "for- eign power on militarily friendly terms with the United States" has furnished him in- formation to show that Presi- dent John F. Kennedy was as- sassinated "by elements of the Central Intelligence Agency." Garrison, in an interview with the Times Picayune, re- fused to name the country, in- dicating only that it was in Europe. Osl'iltaid Buddy Is Summoned I) 4e- y %.)arrisont, t-- NEW ORLEANS l'I) � Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison has is- sued a perjury warrant for a Marine Corps buddy of Lee Harvey Oswald, accusing him of lying when he said he never saw Oswald after he left the Ma- rines. Kerry Thorniey of Tampa, Fla., a part-time author who once testified before the Warren Commission, appeared before the Orleans Parish (county) grand jury Feb. 8. The grand jury has been in- vestigating for months Garri- son's contentions that Kennedy was killed in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, as the result of a conspira- cy hatched in New Orleans the previous summer. "In September 1963 Kerry Thornley was closely associated with Lee Oswald at a number of locations in the city of New Or- leans," Garrison said. "To say Mr. Thornley failed to tell the whole truth and that there was not the slightest effort to elicit from him the. whole truth (be- fore the Warren Commission) is an understatement." Thornley told reporters after his appearance before the grand jury the last time he saw Oswald was in June 1959. Thornley is the second Warren Commission witness Garrison has charged with perjury. The first, attorney Dean Andrews of New Orleans, was convicted last year and is now appealing the conviction. es Foreign Power in JFK Case The District Attorney, who contends Lee Harvey Oswald never fired �a shot in Dallas, said he learned of the infor- mation from -an intermediary from another unnamed coun- try. He said a representative from his office spent about a month in the other country talking with "the top men of their intelligence agency." Garrison said the foreign country has unearthed the names of members of the Dal- las police force who allegedly participated in the assassina- tion, established contact with one of the assassins, and un: covered information about_ a trip David Ferrie made to Dal- las for an alleged pre-assassina- tic n meeting. Garrison said the agq-Assina- tion was initiated by both ele- ments of the CIA and by "a handful of extremely powerful individuals in the industrial complex of the Southwest." rriso4 NEW ORLEANS�A close Marine Corps friend of Lee Harvey Oswald was sub- poenaed yesterday by Dis- trict Attorney Jim Garrison in his probe into an alleged plot to assaSsinate President Kennedy. The subpoena was issued 'for Kerry Wendell Thornley, formerly of New Orleans and now living in Tampa, Fla., who had been ques- tioned closely by the War- ren Commission about his Marine Corps life with Os- wald, but not about their contact here in 1963. Garrison Said he wants to explore that period, and that his office had established that Thornley was seen with Oswald in the, French Quar- ter before Oswald's final de- parture in September, 1963. The Warr en Commission concluded that Oswald act- ing alone ',shot ,President Kennedy in November, 1963 The subpoena grants Thornley immunity from arr.. rest._ f. .L�p.pst_off '