NEWS ARTICLES: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

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104-10195-10420 CIAAPPROVED FOR REZEILSE 1994 HISTORICAL REviriv PROCZT one Of Doctors Who Performed Autopsy J.F. Kennedy Says Bullets Came From Rear � By PRESTON MeGRAW NEW oitt.EANS. (GPIL� one of the three doctors who performed the autopsy on President John F. Ken- nedy testified Monday the bullets which killed bins were fired from the rear. Army Col. Pierre F. Finck. testifying for the de- fense in the Cloy I.. Shaw assass ination conspiracy trial, said the shots which caused the neck wound found in the President'a body, and the huge, fatal, head wound hit from be- hind. Finrk said he did not have photographs and X- rays available from the au- topsy when he later testi- fied before the Warren Cot lllll 1.ssion although they would have been "helpful.' lie said he understood this was at the request of Rob- ert F. .ffeonedy, then at- torney general. Straw, charged with con: spiring to assassinate the President but not with the assIv-sination itscdf, was all but forgotten again Mon. day. The dofense turned to discrediting Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's theoi y that the fatal shot in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, came from the front. Garrison earlier present- ed as part of the prosecu- tion case his theory that the assassination ..vaa the result of a conspiracy, that more than one person fired at Kennedy in Draley and ttat Lee Harvey Os- '�Iiind and above the residential car in the hoot1 gook Depository Building, did not fire the fatal shot. None of this technically had anything to do with the actual charge against Shaw. who 14 aCCUS:.41 Of plotting with Oswald and David W: Ferrie in the summer and fall of 1%3. Defense attorneys said they hoped to wired up their ease by Wednesday so the jury could begin delib- eration late this week. 74(�.--r� r irsee20...�LA� � .7,, . � z-, ,. Defense Witness Army Col. Pierre A. Finck, a men.ber of the three-man t e Lin which performed the autopsy on President John F. Ken- nedy, took the stand as a defense witness in lb is Clay Shaw Conspi r a cy case in New Orleans. Finck said the neck wound "was definitely In- flicted by a shot from the rear" and the head wound shot "entered in the back of the head and exited at the right side of the top of the head." Finek is head of the De- tense Depa-tment's wound pathology branch. Flock. a slight and bald- ing roan, spoke with a Ger- man accent and spe11e4 out words that he %ante5 re membered. The News Tuesday, 25 February 1969 vArtist's Sketch Linki EK-King Murders A private investigating commission in �Washington �headed by llernard nmsterwald � said it had discover� eit a possible ilit between President Kennedy's as.Sas. sination and Dr. Martin Luther King's murder thanks to a sketch made by Sergio Jatibert, an artist nith tile Mex- ican ponce. Fcnstcrwald. former assistant to the ruticenimitice against monopolies in the United States, added that. the link had been found while comparing a picture ta�,:rn in Dallas of a suspect arrested after Kennedy had been shot. and the Mexican at�thit's sketch. A "great rescinb:ance" was noted. *nne-ilit.:KiC3r. artist drew the sketch through data sup- plied by the Fill when It was believed James Kart Ray --King's convicted assassin � had fled to Mexieo after the :Memphis murder. When Ray was sentenced to 99 years his case was not ordered closed because investigators believe there was r conspiracy to kill Dr. King. A member of the private commission said he found the photo of the suspect arrested in Dallas in 190 in the files of the "Dallas Herald." � 'The commission is investigating a "mys(erious" man, . believed to be a Canadian citizen, who, according no re.- � ' ports, was identified by several persons as Ray's acconk� %pike. 1446- 4-BG- Document Number --.---- for FOIA Reviow n DEC 1977 77/6- 106-14)S infiecii /9, 940 v./Garrison Charges Shaw With Peritn)>N-. NEW ORLEANS. tUPD.�Clay L Shaw. freed from a -nightmare" on charges of conspiring to murder President John r. Kennedy. was charged with two counts of pedury Monday by District Attorney Jim Careison. the man who dragged Shaw into coutt on the earlier charges. Sh3W was acquitted shortly after mid. night Saturday on the conspiracy charges. two years to the day after he was arrested and charged with plotting with Lee itarvey Oswald and David W. Ferrie to kill Ken- nedy. The nen charges state Shaw lied when he denied from the witness stand knowing or thing acquainted with Oswald and Fet- rie. The charges Were filed about the same time deny the Louisiana liar Associa- tion iJ as powerless to lauach an in. vesti:lalion or take disciplinary action agaiost Carrison . Althh Shaw. looking at pictures Of both Ferrie and Oswald, denied that he knew either man. several witnesses du' ing the trial testified that they saw Shaw with either Oswald or Ferric uring 11)61 The News Tuesday, 4 March 1969 � Garrison Said Using , � Unjust Legal Powers NEW ORLEANS. (UM� Clay L Ssw lived for two years with a -horrifying nightmare." but now that be has been acquitted on eliar...X5 he conspired to kill Fri.�sident John F. Kennedy, a bad dream of similar pro- � portions has begun for Dist. Attv. Jim Garrison. Garrison was accused Sunday both in New Orleans legal offices and by the eity's press of using his powers unjustly. Shaw himself stayed in seciusien Sunday, but he aPPearce. to have recovered from the long ordeal on -Sawed :ty when he held a news conference. was all smiles during the conference except when he speculated on what his chances for acquittal might have been had he not been financially able to afford a geed legal defense. -The thought has rarely teen aivwnt ri,An my mind during thetwo years what -.would have happened if I had been friendless. Alio- lutely poor�as I will be soon, but am not at this time�and not in a position to defend myself." S ha ur said. "And )ou can't help thinking that maybe this has happened more often than any of us realize." it)tos 14 OA JDA-Vj 3 4R 10 ME NEWS, Maloo aty. Sunday, March 2. 1969 Freed from Nightmare Shaw Feels Great After Acquittal Good News Clay Shaw is all smiles as he bolds up a New Or- leans newspaper during a press conference Saturday afternoon after being ac- quitted on a charge of conspiring to kill Presi- dent Kennedy. The jury found Shaw not guitly aft- er deliberating for 54 mitt- utcs. (AP.) By H. D. (Mita; NEV QIILLANS �Clay Leplaw, freed from 2i...two � yiYai----rriel. innare of having to defend himself against charges of plotting the death of President John F. Kennedy. said Saturday he felt "great! amply great!" � Shaw, 55-yearold former New Orleans businessman, had just been declared not guilty by t h e unanimous vote of an all�male jury which took only 54 minutes deliberation to deeider it did not believe the charges of Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison. The trial lasted 34 day,. The 6.foot-4, white-haired defendant, his face stretch- ed into a smile, strode over to the jury box and shook each juror's hand amid the applause and cheers of spec- taws who had spent snore titan 12 hours In the court- room the final day to hear' 'Fraud' Says Kohn Urges Garrison's Office, Probe NEW ORLEANS. Aaronitm managing di- rector of the Metropolitaii Ciie uninussion, Saturday labeled Dist. Any. aim Garrison's assassination probe "a fraud- and again cared for a state investigation of Garri- son's office. GarriSon had loNt his "case of the century" earlier in the day when a 12�ntan jury, after one Unanimous ballot. found Clay L. Skov innocent on charges of conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. "I would hate to believe that the case ended with the jury's decision because there's still another unresohed question anti that is !he truth or the falsity of the charges made against the district attorney." Kohn Said. "There were allegations of attempted bribery and of intimidation on the p.Nrt of the districa attorney and his staff in efforts to secure statements from witnesses in the JFK probe," he said. Garrison's probe as started to cover up his lack or prosecution of otga:died crime. said Kohn. "It was a process of fraud in order to divert tension away from the very embarrassing situation he found him- sell in over organized crime," said Kohn. "At the time he started this thing he was under treinendeus pressure rind criticism." Kohn, who had called for a similar investigation by the attorney general In 1967, said lie doubted that the Investigation would e'er be made. C-�-��:1 the 1:02 a.m. CST verdict � Shaw left through a baek door and departed in * car. protected from further ques- trotting by a phalanx of dep- uties. "We took one ballot, and It was unanimous." said Larry D. Morgan, 24, who was the seventh man chosen for the jury. "There was Just not enough conclusive evidenee to make me be- lieve Shaw was involved." Morgan said the jurors gave their attention to evi- dence directly concerning Shaw, rattier than the pro- tracted attack on the War, rest Commission Report presented by Garrison and his aides. '� Shaw's acquittal was W- hined Saturday by demands for Garrison's removal. The New Orleans States-item, a one time supporter of the district attorney. published a front page editoriat call- ing for Garrison's resigna- tion. -He has shown himseif un- fit to hold the office of dis- trict attorney or any other office." the newspaper said. "Garrison has abused the vast powers of his office. Ito has perverted the law rather than prosecuted it... "Garrison's c o it5 p iraey case was built upon the - quicksands a unreliability and in the end it did not stand up." The newspaper said Gar- rison himself "should now. be brought to the bar to 'an- swer for his conduct" Rut Shaw's acquittal did not quiet critics who do not believe Oswald acted alone. as (he Warren Commission asserts, in the 1%3 kill- ing of the President in Dal- las' Dealey Plaza. Sen. Russell Long. said to he the man wholirst encouraged Garrison to in- vestigate the assassination, said the Shaw acquittal did not prove the Warren Cam- mission correct. Thd.- N6'WS iiSotiuDAy- .214AR1161 r /Clay Shaw\, Acquitted NEW ORLEANS, (AP). A Enitans jury here has acquitted Clay Shaw of charges of conspiring to , assassinate President Kennedy. The jury re- � turned its verdict after. � deliberating a b o iit 511 minutes. If The News Saturday, 1 March 1969 D.A. Calls. Shaw A 'Lk' Asks Jury To Return 'Just Verdict' Of Guilty By PRESTON hfct:RAW. NEW ORLEANS. (UM.� Asst. Dist. Atty, James Al- cook. calling Clay L Shaw a "liar" in his final argu- ments. urged a 13-member all-male jury Friday to re- turn a "just verdict" of guilty on char the re- - New Orleans business- ;mai) ',lotto,' to kill Presi- dent John F. Kennedy. DWI the state and de- 1 lease .1,iresepte0 final argil- nients Fri d iv afternoon, and the case was expected to go to the jury later in the day after more than a month of testimony and at, gument. Alcoek, in an hour and 30 minute summation, did not even mention the hours of testimony the state pre- seated to yiispute the War. ren t'onunission's conclu- sion that Lee Harvey Os- wald acted alone to shoot Kennedy fexim the Total once accused Or New York �';'hool nook D.po alto r y posze of hypnotizing hint Building :in Dallas Nov. 3, night and 44. 1063. But as if anticipatinN the later defense stintmatioN� Alcoa said he had no apology" for the prx�seett- Hen witnesses, whiz!: in- chided Vernon Bundy, a New Orleans IIIINV:iCS ad- dict, and a New York ac- countant who before his in- volvement in the Shaw casa.. / 06: 5 5 .41VR 1)/9yi //111-AD - Testifies on Own Behalf Shaw Denies Everything NEW ORLEANS. tt:Pf,, Lo oking straight at the jury and alissmd spitting out the .words� Clay L. Shaw denied Thursday that he ever conspired to a,..:;00;inate Prex, talent John F. Kennedy or even knew. the two Men he is accuaed of com.piring wdb. The defense then rested its case, and a 32 day trial which put the Warren lie port and the credibility of tbe federal ;.�iv. ernmon under prosecution along U Ii Shaw appeared nearing an end. Only state rehuttal witrie.sses, final an and the charge. to the all�male jury by Dist Judge Edward A. itaztetty remained. The case was expeIN testified: --Shaw was not the man who called Andrews the day after the Nov. 22. Kennedy assassination and suggested he defend Lee Harvey Oswald. �Vilma he reported the incident. lie gave the I'M the name "ftertrand" in stearl of the caller's real s,7424_ D. co G name because it would "bring a lot of heat and trouble to somebody who didn't deserve it." �The name was actually an alias used by a third person he met at a "tag's wedding" In the French quarter of New Orleans in the �lie would not identify 'Err:rand- lx,eause it might further Incriminate him in the developments which have used him te be cow- victA.-d of perjury. One Of. Doctors Who Performed Autopsy On J.F. Kennedy Says Bullets Came From Rear were fired from the rear. with Oswald and David W. Arinv Col. Pierre F. Mock, testifying for the de- fense in the Clay L. Shaw assass in at ion conspiracy trial. said the idiots which caused the neck wound found in the President's body. ,and the huge, fatal, head Wound hit front be- hind. Finck said he did not e photography and X- rays available (ruin the au- topsy when he later testi- fied before the Warren Commission although they would have been "helpful." lie said he understood this was at the request of Rob- ert F. Kennedy, then at- torney general. Shaw. charged with con- spring to assassinate the President but not with the assa,sination itself. was all but forgotten again Mon- day. The defense turned to discrediting Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's theory that the fatal shot in Dallas Nov. 22; Wed. came from the front. Army Col. Pierre A. Garrison oarlier present- Pinck, 3 member of the e.1 as part of the prosecu- three-man team which tin case his theory that the performed the autopsy assassination was the result on President John F. Ken- of a conspiracy, that mere nedv. took the stand as a than one person fired at - . defense witness in t h e Kennedy in [leaky Plaza. and that Lee Harvey Os- CI ,Ay Shaw Corepi racy watt!. behind and above the . case in New &t-Leans.. . � ... . � prrcrov. meatAw crest dentist car In the NEW tnti.F.ANS. (MT.� School Donk Depository Ituildimz. did not fire the One of the three doctors fatal shot. who performed the autopy None of this technically `17' 1."Pn1 "lin K. had anything to do with the nedy testified Monday the actual charge against Shaw, bullets which killed hint who is accused of plotting Ferric in the summer and fall of 1961 Defense attorneys said (hev hoped to wind tip their case by Wednesday so the jury could begin delib- eration late this week. Defense Witness Flock said the neck wound "%as definitely In Dieted by a shot from the rear- arid the head wound sEs..it "entered In the back of the bead and exited at the sight ,sidc of the top of the head?' }Ina Is head of the De- fense Department's wound pathology branch. Mirk, a slight and bald- ing man, spoke with a Ger- mail mid spelled out words that he wanted re� membered. :1-k -71 FBI Arms Expert Defends Warren Report, Says JR( Killed By 3 Shots NEW ORLEANS 4131)� anyone who heard more pert told the Clay I.. Shaw persideut mut F Kennedy than three shots was the tnal Saturday. was killed by rifle shots victim of "sonic booms" The testimony by Robert (bred from a sixth-floor caused by the whiz of but- A. Frazier runt radio t e d window behind him, st n d lets, an FBI firearms es: Dist. Ally. Jim Garrison's claim that Kennedy w as killed by a "triangulation of fire" � including bullets fired from the front. Defense attorney F. Ir.in Itzanond asked Frazier the key question Saturday: -Atm all the evidence yoo ha'rts examinNt !ir.d any evidence that the shots came from any place ether than the sixth-no-1r window of the depositoy?" No. sir," Frazier repli- ed. Frazier, chief of the fire - !MIS identification unit of the FIll Liboratory in Wash- im:ton, said it was -a relatively easy shot" with the 6.S mm Italian military ri;:le chit was found '.n the to the point 2ti5. feet. away to the slow moe- 4 lug limousine Nor. 22. )9133. c i-� Clay Shaw Judge Rejects Warren� Report Evidence Testimony As Trial (Coinpilcd Frvm Cable Oiattatebes) NEIV Judge Edward .1. refused a motion to 1.7.:,-..�e all %Var. rim Coitimisa:...,n testimony concerning the assassination of Presiden: .1...s.tr: F. Ken- ned,y into esi.ten,:e at the Clay Shaw cccsracy trial Friday. thizcerta's rulinz c313 durhz Cf03,3eN3riltr..31:4"7:,Ot Marina Oswald Porter. on of [AT flarve Osair.at the man naniad War- reit ConimiSSion as Kers- nedy's lone 3N5333i13. is charged with coatt. ta kill Kennedy. Chief defew,e ltsN 1,)nvind 3,.ac4 to tsat the 1Vatren COMMiSVIC`I tea till101ly placed into esaience vi hen Asst. Dist. Atty. Ja=es I. Alcock quoted her leaz- mons. to the conim isstoct aiiit asked if she had :Led once about not knowingof an Oswald trip to MeVgo. "1 didn't lie to the War- ren Commission the f lime. the second Ii3 ar t.1-se third Ii e.�� she of her three appeariinces bef:re the commission. The commiasion, found a.. credible es izlecN:o of a conspiracy. bas 1*,:en on trial. ia effeet. a:or_cs:aft Shaw. In its official t....es tigation. the COMM 11,3.1,yi by Chief Justi:t Fart Warren, took tos:.11::.sqty front 552 WiZ(1.-A3C,S� 1..amond's first TA 27.�?.<1;$ Mrs. Porter. 27. she was born in Russia szlif tied Oswald there d�an..-s...it his stay in that cc unIzii from October Ift53 to ;gat 1962. She has reular.r.-e-.1 since Oawald'a murder two daas after the Kennedy as- sassination on Nov. 22. li.a;3, and now lives Ifi Richardson. Tex. During her examination. she deseribed Oswald as a friendless man who seldom aace her any money. She CoMmued on Page 3 Continued from Page I said the most he ever gave her at one time was it dol- lar. ' Mrs. Porter contradieted the testimony of star pros- ecution witness Perry Ray- mond RU3FO, who dracribed Oswald as i bearded beat- nik type who once shared an apartment with a New Orleans. horesasexital. David Ferrie. Russo, a book salesman, testified he knew Oswald as a **Leon Oswald" who plotted in September, 1963 wIth Shaw and Ferris., a former airline pilot now 'dead, to aasaaainato Ken- nedy. Oswald and his wife lived. In New Orleans until a few weeks before the assaasina- ton, when they left and %twit to Dallas. Mrs. Os- wald re.oved In with Mrs. Ruth . Paine, a friend, In the suburban city of Irving. Aluallata- defense witness, LtoTtl 1. Cobb, an attorney and president of the New Oritini International Trade Mart. said in the 90 days preeding Ot-t 8. 1953, he and Shrd worked constant- nleyw building.togeiet-, seven days a: week and at all ho u es, Shaw was managing direc- tor of the trade mart and Cobh said they were trying /0 got up enough leases to support a 12 million dol- lars bond Issue to build a The period would have been the one during which Rii.aso said he witnessed the conspiracy at a party at Ferric s French Quart Cr apartment. Goldie Naomi Moose, Shaw's secretary, testified that Shaw's trip to the west which put him in San Francisco on the day of the rm--..issination was taken at the request of the Colum- bia Basin Import Club In Portland, which had invited him to speak. The prosecution contends the west coast Dip was to establish an alibi The prosecution hammer- ed away on eross-examina- ' Lk:a of Mrs. Detter bout Oswald secretivenesu about his acthities. Shaw Case: The State Rests By PBEsTos 3frl;RAW oply_mcs the 26th day in court. the prosecution rested its assass Ina* I u flcmispiraey case against Clay 1.. Shaw Thursday. a n d Criminal Dist in:14e hlward A. Hag. gerty. Jr. said he would tube h-iday on a defense plea that the white-haired Shaw be freed forthwith. The defense claimed Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison failed in 12 days of testimony by 43 witnesses to trove Shaw plotted to kilt rresident John F. Kennedy. � Haggerty. sent tlw jury Mt to eat, promised to get the 12 MCA and two male alternates -a good .movie" � Thursday night and said he would do his homework en the defense motion that Shaw he ruled innocent. "We Cithut it to the court." said chief defense attorney F. Irvin Dymond, -that no agreement c.:� con- spiracy to commit 3 sped- tie crime has been proven." The 6-foot-6 Garrison charged the 6-foot-4 Shaw conspired with tee Harvey � Oswald and David W. Fee-- � rie to assassinate Kennedy with a "triangulation . of fire." Dymond said if his mo- lion for a directed verdict of acquittal is denied, his defense case on behalf of the � 53-yearold Shaw will take four days. Dymond's in a I n conten- tion was that Garrison's star witness in.his efforts to prove a conspiracy destroy- ed the case by saying he knew of no plot. The witness, Perry Ray- mond Russo, 27. a some- times taxi driver, insurance and book salesman, first testified he heard Shaw and Gswalci plot at Ferrie's apartment in September. 1963, to kit! Kennedy. But when Dymond ques- tioned him, Russo said the meeting could have been a session" and refused to call Shaw, Oswald Or Fel' rie "conspitators." Dymond recalled he had asked Russo in court: "You sat in and listened in on a conspiracy' meeting with a man you later saw repre- sented in the newspapers and on television and .you didn't report It?" 'No," replied Russo. "I never said anything about a conspiracy. 1 didn't sit In on any conspiracy." Shaw (Jives Testimony, Denies Using Alias INF:W ORLEANS. (UPD.--Clay I. Shaw testiLed 20 minutes Wednesday at his con- spiracy trial and afterwards Dist. Judge Edward A. ilaggerty Jr., saying he did not believe the testimony of a state witness, refused to let the prosecution enter a fingerprint card listing Shaw as "Clay Bertrand." "Clay Bertrand" Is an alias Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison said Shaw ut,et1 while plot tine, to 2Ssasthiate President John F. Ken. nedy. The fingerprint car listing Shaw's alias as "Ciay Bertrand" was wade up March 1. 1947 shortly after Shaw's arrest. The jury was out of the courtroom during the afternoon and did not hear Shaw's testimony or ilaggerty's order. Tx ruling came after Garrison abrupt- ly cancelled testimony by former Texas Gov, John Connally. A prosecutor said Connally was now considered a "hostile witness." Connally, who was riding In the car with Kennedy and was badly wounded, had been subpoenaed by Garrison to tes- tify Monday. Garrison switched signals, however, and when the trial resnmed Wednesday after 'a one-day recess for Mardi Gras, Asst. Dist. Atty. Alvin Otter said the state did not want Connally as a witness. - .� _ r�LL, "I understand Gov, Connally has been giving Interviews to television stations, changing testimony he. gave the Warren Commission," Oser said: "We must now regard him as a hostile witness," � . � In his testimony Shaw flatly dented he told policeman Alovsium J. liabighorst, who fingerprinted him, that "Clay Bert- rand" was his alias. "Did you ever tell anybody in the cen- tral lockup that you hail an alias?" Chief defense attorney F. Jilin Dymond asked Shaw. -I did not," Shaw said in a flat clipped .voire. Under cross examination by Alcoa. Shaw said the fingerprint card was "blank" when he signed it. nirthermote. Shaw said, It was the only card he signed and it did not Include fingerprints or oth- er Information. Alcock had brought out that Habig- hoist had said Shaw read the card before he signed it. Shaw said while his finger- prints were bring matte, that the lawyer with him at the time tEilward Wegmann) was nut allowed to enter the bureau of Identtheation with him, Ilabighorst had said Weginann was stentlin" in the door "part .01 the time." But:police Capt. Louis J.. Curule testi- fied he ordered Weginann out. Shaw Jury Spend Day Watching Mardi Gras During Trial Reces � fly PRFSTON McGRAW NEw ottl.FANS. WPM� Jurors in the Clay 1. Shaw conspiracy t r tat watched The trial has become I � trial of the Warren Report, with chief defense lawyer F. Irvin Dymond thrust Into the role of defending the report. Shaw's name has been mentioned only three times in the last three days S and them by the Judge, tell- ing him he remained free Mardi Gras parades front , the one-day recess in the in his original 10,000 doh, the home of a friend of trial, called because of the 'ar bend' Judge Edward A. liag.gerty carnival. The state had hoped .to and ate bus lunches during Tho trial, which began rest Its east" WeilllesdaY� five weeks ago, will resume Judge Charles W. Hallett at 10 a.m. EST Wednesday, of the District of Columbia Dr. John Nichols. associate. Court of General SessionS professor of pathology at the University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kan., was to be in the witness chair. Nichols was on the stand Monday when two jurors had wounds, the rifle Oswald to leave the courtroom one used, a spent bullet and because .he � felt the onset fragments of a bullet. of high blood pressure and The government Inure. the other because of au diately appealed the ruling. IIPSet stomach. which indefinitely delayed Haggerty announced later delivery of the items, and that both recovered, but he the state's conclusion of the recessed court anyway be- prosecution, fore the state had finished examining Nichols. Nichols. musing the Abra- ham Zapruder film of Pres- ident John F. Kennedy's as- sassination as basis for his Opinion, said he believed separate s I; o t s wounded Kennedy and former Texas , Gov. John Connally and the - shot that killed Kennedy was fired from the front. ed the report of the War- His testimony contradit- reit Commission on two points. The commission said one shot passed through the neck from behind, then �relLe ( 1 9 lower part of Kennedy's pierced the body of Connal- ly. who was sitting in front -�" of the President. The commission also found the fatal se,-ond shot that hit Kennedy in the head was fired by Lee Har- vey Oswald from a sixth floor window of the Texas Boek Depository, be- hind and to the right of the President. - The "commission reported that there was no credible evidence of a conspiracy. Shaw, 55, a white-haired re- tired businessman. is being tried on a charge of con- spiring with -Leon" Oswald and the late David W. Fer- . tie, a flier, to assassinate tennedy. . Monday ordered the Nation- al Archives to release to Dist. Atty, Jim Garrison for evidence K�rays and pho- tographs of time Kennedy autopsy. and of Connally's SiSera President Kennedy Was Shot From Front Says Pathologist By PBY-STON MeGRAW NEW ORLEANS. WM-- A pathologist called upon liv the prosecution in the Clay L Shaw assassination eonspl racy trial. testified Ithinday that the shot which killed President John F. Kennedy in l9t13 was fired from tile front. Dr. John N. Nichols of �Kansas City. Mo.. contradict- ed the Warren Cominission It eport after seeing the Abraham Zaproder film. It was the Mb showing-of the film in four days at the trial. . The defense objected bit- terly to Nichols' answer to imarly every auestion the state asked. r After -looking at thc Za- pruder (din and slides Nichols, holding prints of the slides in his lap, said that iii pietures were Ken- nedy is rt acting to pain, former Texas Gov. John Connally does not appear to be. This also was a contra- diction of the tVarren Com- mission. which sstitt Keeintsly and Connally were both hit by the first bullet�t he bul- let poi:sing through Ken- nedy's back Into Connally's back. - Asst. Dist. Atty. Alvin V. Oser asked Niehols f r o iii what direction did lie think the fatal shot was fired at the -President. Dr. Nichols had said the President ap- peared to be falling back- ward. "I woo hi say this Is com- patible with a gunshot front the front." Dr. Nichols said. Earlier in the clay the prosecution was forced to get f ederal permission Irons Washington to ask a former FIR agent Regis I.. Kenncd y, two questions about "Clay Bertrand," a mystery name Shaw is ac- cused of suing la an alleged plot I.) kill -Kennedy. Permission was granted. the questions were asked and the witness answered "yes" one time and "no" another. � The 'FM agent said the prosecution questions wt.4-e outside the area In Which the U.S. Attorney General's office had lust nutted him to answer. Court was adjourn- ed for one hour and 40 min utes while a Ganizson assts. Lint telephoned Atty. Gen. John P. Mitchell in Wash- ington for permission to let the agent answer. When the recess was over, Asst. Dist. James I- Alcock questioned Kennedy. "Prior to the interview of Mr. Den Andrews, the at- torney, were you engaged In an invetttigation of the eessassination of Kennedy?" asked :Skits*. -Yes," replied the form- er FBI agent. "Were you seeking Clay Bertrand in the overall in- vestigation of the assassina. Bon?" asked Alcock. "No." replied the former FBI agent. , F. Irvin Dymond. Shaw's attorney, asked Kennedy one question In cross exami- nation: "Did you ever lo- cate Clay Bertrand?" "No." Kennedy sald. Although It has not been mentioned during the trial. Andrews has been quoted by the Warren Commission as saving a "Clay Bertrand" telephoned and suggested he go to Dallas to repre- sent Oswalt' in the assassi- nation case. The prosecution was ex- pected tu rest Its Case Wednesday. Court will not be held Tuesday because it will by Mardi Gras lit New Orleans, Former Texas Guy, John It. Connally and his wife Nellie had liven subpoenaed to testify Monday but were asked not to come to New Orleans from Houston. Con- nally said there was some doubt if they would testify at all. Connally, wounded seri- ously by the same man. who sssassi na ed Kennedy, has disagreed with the 'Warren Contmission about whether It was the assassin's first or second bullet that hit him. But he also has said those who try to "nitpick" the commission report a'-'e "scavengers." Court was recessed 22 minutes early Monday when Jurors Herbert Kenison, 28, and Irving Mason, 50, rcoorted they were ill. Judge Edward A. Haggerty. Jr., said Kenisun had an up- set stomach anti Mason said Ile had high blood pressure. The judge said an assist- ant coroner looked at both inen and said they wore not lit serious condition. Haggerty advised the ju- rors he had made arrange- ments fur them to sit on a front porch to watch Carni- val parades Tuesday. front 9:30 a.m, to about 2-30 p.m., accompanied by seven or eight deputies. -Please don't make this a mockery or joke," the judge said. "Don't let anybody talk to you." ife also told them they could not have a Mardi Gras drink. lit-0-714('"7) Three Shots Fired, Say Two At Clay Shaw Trial By PRESTON McGRAW NEW ORLEANS. ORD. � A former Dallas railroad man testified Saturday in the Clay 1- Shaw conspiracy trial he saw puff of smoke rise from a cray knoll area in front of the preiadentia. metorvade moments after President John V' Kennedy was shot. '41 heard three shots and 1 looked to see where the shots calm. from." James 1.. Simmons a Mesquite. Tex., said. 'Under- neath the trees I detected what appeared I,) be a puff or whiff of smoke." Kennedy's motereade was traveling to. ward the trees %heti 11e was slain Nov. 3r. 1963 in Dallas Th... Warren Report said Kennedy was shot from the rear t.% lee Harvey Oswald. sitting at a s...xtt-ttoor indow in the TC,C3A S4:11001 Book ry. Shaw. 5. is charged with conspiring with Oswald and David W. Ferric to as. the President. 'There is a row of trees alortg this fence and toward the end a the fence 3 small building. and just this mde ef it 1 saw this smoke." Stnimons said Simmons, who worked for the Pallas Union Terminal Railroad Co, at t!!e time, said he found footprints in � the mud in the area where he sZIW 11I0 Snsote_ coder cross examination. however, Simmoas at the footprints May have been tcf b rer- sons who had stood there just to usteh the motorcade. Tne trial was recessed 1111111 Monday when Dist. Atty, Jim Carrisoo s.si.i lie mould call fernier Texas Gov, ,le!tn Con- nally 1.nd his wife to the stand. Connally was wounded in the gunfire. %Olen killed Kennedy. Roth he and his wife were rid- ing In the presidential car. Asst. Dist. Atty. Andrew St':iantbra said the stnte.will complete its case next week. Besides Sinunons. Mrs. Ehrsteth Gayle Newman and Mrs. Mary Meormsn. tuth of Dallas. testified Saturday. A film of the assassination taken by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham. ZaprOrter was shown for the INA tune at the trial. An assistant district attorney $et -up the screen in coon again. Spwiators leap- ed ins from the right side of .the court- room and crowded the aisle anti left wall to watch it. A photograph taken by Mrs. Moorman 10 feet (ruin the President's car aroused more interest from Shaw than others the state had presented When the picture was � handed 10 S113%%ss attorney for inspection, the defendant. dressed In -a black suit. walk..d to the Opposite end of the table and looked at it carefully. pieture Mrs. Moorman took show; eJ Kennedy slumping over In the seat of his ear after the fatal stun. Mrs. Moorman said rhe was on the south side of Elm Street, directly across from Zapruder. "1 heard three shots." Mrs. Newman said. "I thought they wet e firecrackers. The first two shots we heard were fe31 close together... Throwing 1101h P31(113 up to her chin level to show ve hat the President d!d, Mrs. Newman said. -at (i.e first noise he threw his hands up and sort of turned his head. 'Al the sound of the second shot, Gov. Connally clutched his stomach, his ' eyes got real MI; and he sort of slumped in Ids seat. - "What happened uith the third shot'?" Asst. Dist. Atty. Alvin V. User asked. "liis head seemed is, explode. It just flew in the air and he telt to one side." .MIN. Newman said. "We tshe and her hush:null both had 3 child and we get down and 4:meted the� children with our bodies." le cross examination by d.fense at- torney i. Li in Dymond. � Mrs. Newman slapped the judge's desk "Map�slap ...pause... slap- � show how she heard the three shots In this she cornea- dieted other state witnesses who said they heard the shots as 'slap� pause...slap ...s114.11:"slap... pause .. slap... slap" de- scription better fits Garrison's ihucors there were three men in the assassination plot, that one fired to attract attention of police and the oil,er two fired sum:Bane- ously for the "kin: While court still be held Monday. it will be recessed Tuesday. which is Mardi Gras in New Or-kolas. Cc-- � /-4 - G.1 At Shaw Trial Dallas Ex-Sheriff Contradicts Warren Commission Report fly PRESTON ateGRAW NEW ORLEANS. let',. former Dallas deputy sheril I -uiitradicted t h e Warren Commission re- po, t in the Clay 1. Shaw conspiracy trial Friday and said Lee Harvey Oswald left firma the front of the (C. c--ItCy-cr, Texas School Rook � Depo:i. tory and fled in a station Shaw is on trial charges of conspiracy with Ovaiald and David W. Vet. rie to assassinate President Julio F. Kennedy in Paha. The testimony of thiger Dean Craig, who quit the Dallas sheriff's department on July 4, 1907, followed . the ninth viewing of a film cur II, e assassination and.I te�iniony by an FDI agent C9fItr adieting Dist. Atty. Jan Garrison's contention Kennedy was shot from the front. Craig disagreed with the . Warren Report, which said - rjawala fled from the sr:I:riot book depository by taxi and bus. ''/ heard a shrill whistle, heard a man running &own the grass toward a light groen station wagon wi'.11 s chrome luggage rack out top.- said Craig. "The ear continued running as t he man ran towards the curb a-. the station wagon stop- arid the man jumped in. It had oil! .01.5(410 plates on it. -I tried to stop the 'sta- tion wagon but it went W.'? fi,,r traffic and disappeared. There Was Orle person In the wagon, very dark coin- plexioniA, Latin looking. with dark hair, muScular, bolf�neeked, a strong face." Craig said he heard later that an officer had been killed in the Pak Cliff sec- tion of Dallas and lie called Capt. Will Fritz, head of the Dallas homicide division. Craig said he told Fritz lie r suspected the man who fled down the grass may have Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page I killed the officer. J D. Tip. pit. � Craig raid he went to Fritz office and saw Oswald .here. lie said Os- wald was the Saille man lie saw running down the grass arid getting into the station wagon. Under croas.exa minat ion, Craig said be came to New - Orleans in December. 19117 and worked for Willard ItoberOun. an 20011101,11e dealer who %as a member of a group called Truth or C4/11,11:flisenres that .helped finance Garrison's investiga- tion. , Earlier, Lynda' I. Shanev- fell, an Yin 1)119tOgraphie 4,1� pc-it %limn Garrison hail subpoenaed. disagreed with the it 1St riet attorney's theory that Kennedy had been shot front the front as well as the hack. 'lfave you found any photographic evidence that Ill', shot:: which lilt the President came front any- . lucre e S ce lit his right rear?' chief defense attor- ney r. Irvin Dreind asked."I did not, SlIaneyfelt said. Shaneyfeil. of Alexandria. V3., did a detailed analysis of the home movie film tak- en by Abraham Zatiraider of Dallas. which showed the moment when the fatal shot Nov. 24 1961. struck Ken- nedy in the head. The film was shown four more times iti the court. room F'riday. making a to- tal tel nine showings in two days. Still photograplus. tak: en by Phillip Willis of ()A- LM W.,!/"C also presented in court. Most of the photographs. *bowed people running around the street in front of the Texas :school Gook .Dfor)tiltory. Shaw is not accused of in- volvement in the assassina- tion itself. ltut Garrison Thursday turned the trial of Shaw in- to a trial of the tt'arren Rg- port by going into the. events in Dallas. Garrison has contended the fatal shin eame front the front, that there was a conspiracy, more than one person fired, and Oswald did not fire the bullet which killed Kennedy. The War- ren Report said Oswald alone did the killing, firing three shots from the rear.. A Washington judge Fri. day gave Garrison's case a boost when lie ruled a po- tential Witness in the Shaw trial may examine the au- topsy photographs and X- rays of John F. Kennedy now ill the National Ar- chives. Judge Charles Halleck of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions ordered a Pittsburgh path- Fle Cr 'It..., � be allowed to .see the att- /tipsy material before,1 p.m. Monday. Wecht, who has pub/Isbed repoiti critical of the War- ren Iteport. said the ar- C13IVeS evidence was rele- vant to . the Shaw case- lie is expected to be called as a witness by Garrison. Olore details, page 9) Halleck also directed the CS. archivist. Dr. Ja m es Ittinada, to take the rifle al. iezc4ly used by Oswald and a bullet and bullet frag- ments which struck Kenne- dy to New Orleans, along with certified copies of (he autopsy report, doctor's statements at the t line of Kennedy's death and photos of Kennedy's shirt, coat and tie. The autopsy itself and the X�raya will not be entered as evidence. Silkneyfell testified about the Zapoider film: In frame 313. the explo- sion of his luc,etl, the (rag- ments poi see. at CO 3kIng through the air are going in a l'erte,rd direction from the vertical. "As an cape-it in examin- ing Photographa. my im- pression is that the shot ranee from the rear." The prosecution contends that frame 315 shows 'F:en- nedy's head snapping back wit II I )i#! fatal rifle shot. in. (heating it came from the front. Shaneyfelt also testified the firil shot hit Kennedy at the base of his neck. Cal�C (chit Ihraagil his chest and list former Tex: Gov. John Connally in the back. Connally and his wife were riding in jump at'stsss front of the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Shaneyfelt also testified about a detailed re-en.ict- inent of the assassination staged by the for the Warren OMIIIIiSSiOn. Ile said the FM agent taking the part of Connally, i� a man of the saint. size and build, wore the coat that Connally had worn with a bullet hole in the back. He said the coat the agent who stood in for Kennedy wore was riot Kennedy's coat but it had a bullet hole marked and calculated from the bul- let sound in the President's !Kt .. didn't you use ennedy's coat?" Asst. Pres- Inst. Atty. Alvin Oser asked him.. � "I don't know that," ShaneVfelt -Why didn't you use a skin hole in Governor Con- nally?" "I don't knew that el- Hier." the witness said. Among the items Garrison wants from the National Archives are the clothes Kennedy was wearing -when he was killed. Garrison alau wants photographs and X-. JFK Murder Film Horrifies Shaw Jury NEW ORLEANS. WIN1.�Dist Atty. Jim Garrison turn- ing the Clay h tqtaW trial to the actual assassination of President John E. Kennedy, showed for Dm first time pub- lk-ly Thursday a one-minute film of the killing while jU- rors and spectators moaned and gasped. -Oh. my Godr' said one of the audience as the film by DaIla.s dresi manufacturer Abraham Zapruder showed Kennedy fall forward, appear to pitch, and then his head exploding as the fatal shot struck. "I was running 211-01111d saying, 'they shot him, they ". shot him they killed him!" Zaproder testified after the film was shown, lie sold it to Life Ntagazine after the as- sassination and Garrison subpoenaed it for Shaw's trial on charges of conspiring to kill Kennedy. Garrison made another of his rare courtroom appear- ances�his second of the Shaw trial� to personally call the turn as the proseention finished its testimony about SIR alleged plot involving Shaw in New Orleans and switch- ed to the Nov. 22, assassinallon In Dallas. The defense objected strenuously. Prosecutors also put Dallas County Surveyer Robert 11. West on the stand. Ile testified he heard four explo- sions�not three-when Kennedy was shot. - West said he thought the first two were' mototcyclo backfires, recognized the third as a gunshot and located the fourth as coming (ruin the "northwest quadrant" of Dealey Plaza. Both the Texas school book depository building, where the Warren Commission says three shots.came front, and the famous "grassy knoll" which some police originally thought was the source of the firing, are in the northwest quadrant. liaggerty ruled the film would have to be shown first With the jury out a the room so Zaprinier could deter- mine if It was all there, and again to the *jury and spec- tators. lie said afterward he couldn't tell whether the film was complete. Eighteen frames had been defective, he said, and might have been removed without his knowing IL NciLes 7 - . A'sistant . A. T Assistant D utiif- .Witnes's In Shaw Trial By BILL (AMER NEV ORLEANS. tA11. � An assisiant prosecutor Virednesday beeline s witness at Clay Shais's conspiracy trial as the stste again moved to explain omissions-and errors in thet;:�..isrribra memorandum. i Andrew Ji`kts:nbra. a trim. dark assistant district at. c. .c .tortir.t. who Cias 3-&-aer In college, testified his report was "hastil% done. incomplete. with errors ifl.a1, omissions In it, and does not t�cfleet all that Peres _us::o Witt me." Seiantlira wrote his 3.54)Ossciril .ictoOtROU41111 to piSt. Ci Atty, Jim Carlson atter the first official interview.of Ras- so, the star %tee aitnem Russo. a ?..:oearetist New Oticatirs book saksman, tes- tified lie attetidZ\I a party at David W. Ferries apartmert in September. 19:4. overhearii Shaw. Ferrie and Lee Harve),' Oswald plottine. to i,ssassissair Pregident John F. Kennedy. However. riOne of thL; silvan-11 In Sciambra's inemo- randum--which t!ev,':opet.I into a Inajur point fur those .skeptieal of Garrisons probe. Sciambra. 5214 he didn't make notes during the Feb. 23, VA7, talk with -- who lived In Baton Rouge at the time -- and 13.AS cotiantly interrupted white dietating It after the meeting. Russo, in his testimony. agreed lie was bothered at times, hut reinaine4 -IN percent sure" be heard the as- nation plotting. lie insisted that his expresidons of grave doubts made to various people befere the trial started vi+ri-e. 4,54.! 13 enormous mental l�ressures generated by the case-- which Garrison clams svill prove the Warren Commission wrong. � S Clay Shaw Trial Why Witness Didn't Report Plot In 1963 By PRIrICTON McGRAW NEW ORLEANS. (UPD. � A book .satesnian who is the prffne witness In DiA Alta Jun Garrison's conspiraey ease aaaitist Clay L Shaw admitted Timaday that III 19t3 he did not consider au ai-� leaed plot to kill President John F. Ken- nedy seriOUS enough to report to police. rhe turnabout testifinativ from Perry Raymond Russo seemed a illOW t Garri- aaa's ease agalaat Shaw. a55-year-old Sc. businessman charged with conspir- itia with Lee Harvey Oswald and pilot D. '.J W. Fe:Tie to assassinate Kennedy. "You didn't consider it italk about tIi Ketineilyi important enough to re- defense aitonies F. Irvin Dymond aaked Iluaso III cross-examination. -Right." replied Russo. The slim. dark-haired prosecution wit- ness admitted h.f never neard Shaw- or wald plat to kill Kennedy. But he said he atemd Ferre av at a part e in raid. aartember. "We'll kilt him." 1,1.1 he said lie heard talk of killing Fidel Castro durina the same conversation. -Would it be fair to say that aye did amisider this a serious threat:- asked iaa mond. -Well. 3011 didn't know how to take Ferrie ...add Russo. "R was the same 3$ ta invade Cuba � I couldn't say whether he intended to invade Cuba or net- Bin you did not know whether in that raeeting they were just shooting the breeze or having a boll session?" Dymond asked. -Right." replied .RLISSO. Dymond asked Russo if he was sure he dtd not go to police out of loaally to Fcrrie. al had no loyalty to Dave Ferrie: rtisSao aaid. tie said if he had just met Ferrie. the talk about kilhag the President with "a triangulation of rifle fire." sacrificing one man as a seapezoat and flying the oth-. er$ out to Cuba or Brazil, might have made him report it to police. But � he said he had known Ferrie for Amite tune and Ferrie talked so much it was itteaoasible to tell if what Ferrie said at the party was serious. Under intense cross examination. Rua- so said he had been under psychiatric care but had not seen the psyclustriat. Dr. Max E. Johnson since Jan. 31. 1965. Russo also admitted he told sa police officer in June 1967 after taking a he de- tector test that he was not sure whether F.shaw W15 31 the party where FetTie talk- ed ot kitting the President. But Ruioao said at the time he was a-under 1'reasure7" by a 111111/1biT of news- men to -split hairs" on his statements. The newsmen harassed him so much. Runara said, he hardly knew what he thought at the time, Ruaso also testified he had been hypnotized three times for Garrison and tranacripts mere made of the first two ses- Mons, Judge Edward A. Haggerty. Jr. retased to allow the transcripta to be In- troduced until direct evidence comes up later. . Rao. T. who speaks quickly and articulately and tosses around phrases like iny tocoretteal concept of justice" and "peripheral evidence." Was a State WitWSS Moniiaa. Ile pictured Ferrie as a t101110- SeNual and as the leader in the alleged toat to kilt Kennedy. Russo said Shaw at- tended the 1963 party at Ferric's apart- ment while using the name "Clem Herb rand---an alias Shaw has denied. Russo said he knew Oswald as �latain Oswald.", Da mond started his cross examination of Russo Monday and continued it Tues- day. Rus.so referred lathaday to Ferries Sala about ritlemen at the back and front of :tie "auditorium." It was the first time be had spoken 01 an auditorium Shaw's lav w ets did not preas Russo about it. -The witnis.s admitted he did not hear all of the alleged plotting. lie said he Was "iii and out" of Ferries apartment during the conversation. "Was there any actual agreement to kilt the President?" Dymond asked. Criminal Dist. Judge Edward A. Hag- gerty. Jr, told Itus$o net to answer, saying -it was up to the jury to decide thz ques- tion_ 1.),:nond handed Russo two rifles on the witness stand Tuesday. One was a ll ili:ary rifle with telescopic sight similar to the one Oswald used to kill Kennedy. The other Was a sporting type rifle that had been exhibited in a preliminary heats ing in the SilaW CaSi, in It67. � Russo said the military rifle much more closelY resembled. the 'one he saw 'Leon Dawaid" polishing at Ferrie's home. Dymond asked Russo if between the as- saasination and his writing to Garrison in Fehrturv. 1967, and offering to testify, ho had I....4d anybody he knew Oswald. "I told a 'couple of friends I'd known him." Russo said. I probably told sonic people at school but I'm not sore who they were." Damond asked Russo if he had told Lasten Martens, a friend of Ferric's. in lark that "Cm supposed to get 25.000 dallar.s for helping Garrison but all I've gotten is 3e0 dollars:- .Rus...ao replied that he was referring to . two rumors at that time ant said he had not been promised anything by Garrison. lie said C.arrison gave him 300 dollars one rime to pay expenses. 45 or 50 a a-N.0.nd Urns, 50 a third time and thew 65 to 70 dollars. a � ' --a al � - � I / _.C.aa� 10 �t ' � THE NEWS Mexico City, Tuesday, February 11. 1969 Plot or Bull Session? Star Witness Outline Conspiracy's Workings NEW ORLEANS. (DM- -Perry Raymond Russo, the state's star witness against Clay L. Shaw, Mon- day repeated his story ot hearing Shaw plot to kill President John F. Kennedy. but admitted under cross- examination it could have been "a bull session," RUSSO, pointing to the 55 year-old retired New Or Jeans husin CSSIII an. identi- fied him as the "Clem Ber- trand" he heard discussing how to assassinate Kennedy I n 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. ler. tie. 'Is it not true that the conversation could have been a bull session just as melt as something serious?" defense attorney F. Irvin Dymond asked him. Garrison has contended that the assassination was done by a conspiracy involv- ing the "paramilitary right" a a d Cuban exiles, some with ties to the Central In- telligence Agency, who were 1 n f uriated by Kennedy's policies toward Castro's Cu- Russo was the key ness at Shaw's preliminary hearing in 1967, when his testimony caused three judgel to order Shaw, a 55- year-old retired New Or. leans businessman, bound over foe Russo said that In �ScP- tember. 1963. he met "Ber- trand" and Oswald In Fcr- rie's apartment. "Ferrie w a s muttering about Kennedy," RUS..0 sal& "lie was walking up and down. telling how the as sassination could be done. "Ile told us about a Irian. gular cross- fire. Ile said two could escape. One would have to be captured as a seape?,oat or patsy. MI three would shoOt but one would fire a diversionary shot to draw the attenttoo of police. Tile other two would shoot to kill, firing almost simultaneously." Russo said Ferrie :Said the two members of the murder team supposed to escape could make it away ill a plane, flying directly to Cuba or to Mexico and then to Brazil. ShaW broke in, Russo said, to say that flying the escape plane to liraril would require a refueling stop and that the plane would have to get dangerously close to the scene of the assassin]. lion. *Slitit up!" Russo quoted Oswald as tel::ng Shaw. "Ferrie knows what he is doing. Ile is a pilot." � Led I rs To The Dear Sir: Beeause I sin considered by the mother Of LAC Os- wald to be an expert on the assassination of presj. dent John Kennedy and the others who died after him 1 proposed a revohr- tionary new class at San Francisco College dealing with the subject matter in a logical. academic, a politi- cal manner with full par- ticipation of students, my- self as a teaching, assistant or source of material, and a professer to be paid by Ford Foundation who has offered a large sum of money as a grant to a "qualified professor" to ex- amine the Warren Report and other evidence not re- ported h2.- the Warren Com- mission. The course is Intended as a psyehologicai analysis of Osw.ild to show motiva- tion for his actions and haw his tetions during the last 13 months of his life lieiititing with the Cuban Missile trisls motivated his final act. The 1Varren Com- niission. though it retied heavily on a psychological analysis of Oswald's ear:y relation with his mother and on 5eXt131 relations with his wife, avohl,n1 Os- wald's mental state at the time of the Missile Crisis to the extent of not locating his whereabouts during this memorable event. The fact of the matter is that Oswald ordered a pis- tol shortly after the Missile Crisis. %Nen crisis coincid- ed- with the State trial of Billie Sot Estes, with the rumor that the TFJC war- plane contract had been corruptly awarded to Gen- eral Dynamics, and with the date Oswald felt he should rereiie an honora- ble military discharge be- cause his 4,-rear obligation matured. Aside from .being angered over his bad mil- itary discharge, Oswald, if he really considered him- self a Marxist, was not ob- livious to these other sig- nificant events which af- :ivied most other people In one way or another. Further evidence that Oswald IV:IS angered by these events is that he re- acted by ordering, another weapon on atarch 10-12. 1 t-.33 hen three out of fur of the same events re- ceived substantial news coverage again. Subsequently, Os wald was aetive politically on dor the first anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, though he did not Actually shoot l'resident Kennedy until the anniversary of the date the TEX warplane con- tract was awarded: Novem- ber 22. This seems signifi- cant because Sirhan Sirban shot Bobby Kennedy on the first anniversary of the June 5, 1907 Middle East war. In attempting to publi- cize this theory 1 starlet, on June 12. 19m3 toward Cuba via Canada; which country jailed nit' 30 days and accused me of plotting to ai.sassinate their Prime Minister. If such nonsense on the part of Yankee Cap- itansts is not proof enough that the publication of my theory will thiMage Capital- ism then the Jan. 7 death of newspaper edition and harsh Vietnam war critic William Baggs of the M I a ni I NMS shmtiiitd be proof enough for anyone, as ilaggs knew of my theo- ry and probably knew, that I am now in Mexico trying to go to Cuba to get pub- licity for the atrilie at San Francisco State College and for the class I hope to par- ticipate ill th vie. Ylkl.)01Ains .1AL�c-vu:,,t,d_ c A44-. 0 i/(LU C_ Trial Witness Says: Saw tJ1iscussed Iays To Assassinate JFK By PRESTON MeGRAW NEW ORLEANS. (UPI/. � A New York accountant testified Friday he attended a party in June. Ititi3. where Clay I. Shaw and sevyti others sat around a kitchen tatde and talked about the best way to kill President John F. Kennedy. The witness. Charles f. Splesei, who later admitted he had once sued the city of New York fur puttiog him under "hypnotic spells." told Shw's trial that bee Harvey Oswald was not at the party but baid W. Ferric was. Shaw, the S5-year�ohl retired nianaginz director 4�1 the New Orleans international Trade Mari. is charzed with conspiring with Oswald and Fez lie to 'kill the President. Another prosecution witness, Vernon Bundy, 3 New Orleans natroties addict, testified he saw ..S?i:ie; meet Os- wald on the New Orleans watedrunt in June. 1983. thin- dy said he went there to Inject himself with heroin aint saw Shaw give Oswald "what looked to rite 1ke money." Spline! said Fettle introduced him by name to Shaw and that he listened as the group talked of genera: thinv, then started discussing murdering the President when a bearded" mall Said: -Sonietxhiy out to kill � -. I'd like to du it. but how de you do itr The trial was recessed after Spit-std.,: les,iniony -until Saturday. when Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's star wit- ness. Perry It Russia. Is to take the stand. Russo, a Paton Bongo, itz. insurance salesman. tes- tified at preliminary hearing In the Shaw case 'Imre than a year ago that he saw Shaw. Ferric and Oswald ptet� ting to kill Kennedy in the fall of Pj133. In a merciless crass-examination by chief defense at- torney F. Irvin Dymond, Spit-set admitted he nuke hied a damage suit against a doctor and the city of New York because "they used to hypnotize me." But he denied, in answer to another question by Dy- mond, that he told a Denham Springs. La., lawyer that Communists were ft:rowing him and threatening him. "Isn't it a fact you charged the New York police had hypnotized you and tortured you and forced you to get out of your business?" Dymond asked him. Spiesel said "they tried to hypnotize me." Dymond said although one of the suits filed in New York was dismissed, the other was still going on. Spiesel said the suit against Dr. Allen Roos was still active. Spieset said he Met Fettle in a.bar in June of I963, and the two went to the party, where he was introduced to Shaw About eight pi.1-,ops sat at the table, Spiesel said At first. "the conversation was rather generil." he said. but then it turned. to the possibility of murdermg Ken- nedy. Spiesel said a b'ond man with a heavy beard sitting across the table from Shaw said, "re like to do it but how do we do it!" "Then everybody at the table talked but five min- utes about how to kill the President.- Spicsel said. The consensus was that it would have to be done with a high- powered rifle from but a mile away. Somebody said whoever did it probsb! .would he killed. � Bundy said be was preparing to inject himself with 4c? d.1