Collection of Assorted Newspaper and Magazine Clippings: Jfk Assassination, Conspiracy Theories, Etc

Warren Commission, 1964. Rep. Gerald.Ford [R-Mich.] on left.

# KENNEDY SHOOTING STILL HAUNTS RULING CIRCLES

By JOSE TORRES

In the wake of the Watergate and CIA exposures, another "skeleton" in the ruling class"closet" is being exposed to the light of day.

These exposures, together with the current crisis of imperialism, have undermined the government's credibility to

such an extent that the American people no longer take anything for granted. The most recent victim of the credibility gap is the Warren Commission's "official" version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas almost 12 years ago.

According to a recent Gallup Poll, a majority of Americans no longer believe the Warren Commission's report which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin.

The disbelief, combined with charges that the CIA was responsible for the assassination, has even led the Rockefeller Commission on the CIA to take up the question of the agency's role in the assassination.

Political activist Dick Gregory, who says he has evidence linking the CIA to Kennedy's death, has testified before the commission headed by Vice President Rockefeller.

Gregory claims that E. Howard Hunt was caught by Dallas police at the site of the assassination minutes after it happened. Hunt, convicted two years ago in connection with the Watergate bugging, was a CLA agent at the time Kennedy was killed.

Gregory's case rests on a photograph published last year in underground newspapers which allegedly shows Hunt and Frank A. Sturgis, also convicted in connection with Watergate and believed to have been a CIA employee, being led away by Dallas policemen from a grassy knoll across the street from the Texas school book depository. Oswald allegedly shot the president from the depository, as the presidential motorcade had passed by. Many

who challenge the Warne Commission account contend that the total costs were actually fired from the grassy wood area somewhat to the side and a third of the approaching presidential motorcade.

film footage taken by an amateur photographer of the assassination, and shown recently over national television, shows the president's head piercing back violently, suggesting that at least one shot came from in front of the macecade, not behind.

Many different pieces of "evidence" have been put together by individuals over the years. The latest "proof" is based on analysis of tape recordings of Oswald's voice by a new device, used to a certain extent by some law enforcement agencies, that can determine the truth or falsehood or a person's statements much like a polygraph (lie detector). Oswald's statements to television and radio reporters after he was in custody of police that he was not responsible for the Kennedy assassination were analyzed and the results showed that he was telling the truth.

The assassinations of not only John Kennedy but also Robert Kennedy and leaders of the people's movements Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King-was the subject of a conference on the "Politics of Conspiracy" held in Boston early this year. The conference brought together over 1500 people from every section of the country and was sponsored by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Assassinations Investigations Bureau (AIB). Though generally united on purpose, the conference reflected a difference in views between those who put forward a conspiracy theory of history and those with an anti-imperialist perspective.