Newspaper Article: a Reporter at Large

l.:tton;t tmtt-if, they arr uinall_\' tli-(ern-
ihle unit‘ on highlr pnlithrd .w_rfaci'.\.
\\'h.tt Garrison does not say it ihat a
pahnprint was discovered on the under-
sidr of the harrttl nf the rifle in qtt.-stitm
and that three ditfcrent experts prisi-
tivt-ly itlvittificrl it as U.\walrl'.\. '
-Cnrriu-n'| nnertinn that the nitrate
tests’ "e>.um-rat¢cause it harbors‘
a motive nf its own in c_nncealing the:
truth ahnut the :tss:tssinatiotr, and he
has levelletl his accns.'itin|; in no un-
et-r.t.1in terms: “. . . the United SK-'|fL‘5i
government--—mt'aning the present;
.’l(i"li|Ii\U’;|lil!|l| L)'ndon J:-l|n.snn'a arl-_l
ministr:|tinn——is nhstifnctittg the iuvevf
tigatinn-——:|ny investigatinn. l: has con-’
cealed the true facts-~—tn he blunt about
|'t——i-tin protect the itttlivitlttialt irivolvctl
in the awtssinatinn nf Inhn Kennedy”;
in other words, he is charging that tltc:
gnvt-rntnent knows’ the truth and, in‘
concealing it, is itself enn-
spiring tn prntect the enn-
.~ptr;ttrit'5.
Sn far, Garrison has of-
fered nnly twn specific items
of “cvidt-nct-" tn support
tltis_cl|:trgi:. The first item
is the phntngraph nf the as-
s.1ssinatinn site showing :t -
man with a clnscd fist} which by Cat?
risnn's surmise cnnceals the bullet that
ltilled tllt: l're.le, after tinting that part nf
the \Varrt-n C-tttitttissit-it's dncutut-ntit
are clztssilitil in the National Archives,
Garrison claitnetl nu a '|'t-xas lt'lt'\!i\il|tl
shnw last l)t't"v:ttther, “ililtt-y tlestrinyt-d
evitlentw: in evv:r_t' possible way. The
l're\itlt-nt of the United States, the man
who has the ltltlst tn gain, the man whn
gained mm't' than any nther huutatt
frnm the asstssittatinn, ix the man whu
issuctl the e.'\'t‘t'uti\'t' order concealing’
vital evidence fur st-vent_t'-five years so
that we can't lnolt at it, sn that ymt
can't lonlt at it, sn that nn Ann-.-rit-an
fl ‘e.-tn see it fut"$et'¢'t|t_\'-five
years. t\'nw, this was an
ext-t't|ti\'e nrder hy Lytttlon
jnlntsnn, the man who
gained the mnst frnm the'
asu_~.~inatit-u."
Nu such t‘\t‘t‘uti$’i.' order
has ever been i_\<ut~tl. .\l.'m)'
i|t\‘t'stig;|ti\'i: tiles :|_rt- with-'
held frum use by law fnr st-\_'e|tt_t'-live.
ye.1rs—a ntnuht-r arl\itraril\' selected tn
exct-etl the life-.<|\an i-f persotts lilo.-l_\' tn
he int-ntinned in tht" reports-—in nrder
to Srtfcgttartl \'nttl’itlt‘l\ti;tl infurmatinn
(such as tax returns), tn prntt-ft (mt.
fitlential infu!tt‘|Cl’$, and to aw-id em-‘
harrassing innocent lk'l"§~lI\S- tnentinned
incidentall_t'. llut in the case nf the
H’.-trren Cntnmi.\sinn's dncuments Me-
Genrge Blind)", acting on behalf of
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