The Oswald Case Should Be Reopened!
P., S.
No matter what one thinks about the criticisms now circulating in regard to the Warren Commission Report, one thing is clear: the assassination of President Kennedy has not been satisfactorily...
...Many of us recall the effective work done by the International Corn mission headed by John Dewey, which investigated the slanders advanced against Leon Trotsky at the Moscow Trials...
...The various questions they have raised--e.g., how many shots were actually fired, how the shots could have been fired so rapidly from Oswald's inefficient gun, why the Commission accepted without further checking J. Edgar Hoover's assertion that Oswald had iso links with the FBI— all demand clarification...
...qty 1 Ftun1i — like Lea sauvage and Edward Epst@in have, it now seems, shot wide gaping holes into the official version...
...No matter what one thinks about the criticisms now circulating in regard to the Warren Commission Report, one thing is clear: the assassination of President Kennedy has not been satisfactorily explained...
...For enough doubt has already been cast upon both the methods and conclusions of the Warren Commission to justify tho rlomrmrl flint tip meta hp Yasf^esau...
...This commission should consist not only of U.S...
...their only concern is with uncovering the truth...
...Nor need the prevalent feeling that something is still rotten in both Dallas and Washington necessarily commit one to elaborate conspiracy theories...
...We reach this conclusion without judging the theories advanced in opposition to the official version, including the seemingly far-fetched one which claims the existence of a "second Oswald...
...If it is not, there will only be a magnification of rumors and conjectures, some in good faith and others malicious...
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...legal experts, but should also be given an international complexion by adding a number of international jurists, perhaps selected by the World Court or the United Nations...
...Only trcutcir dous pressure can get the case reopened— and here Senator Robert Kennedy is a key man...
...Reopening the case would obviously be an act of great political significance...
...Yet reopened the case must be...
...These critics seek no political advantage, they serve no suspect interest...
...And in a country where every triviality is given intense journalistic examination, it is nothing less than a scandal that the killing of a much-admired President should have been so poorly investigated and, in turn, the investigation so little scrutinized...
...The President and all those whose power depends at least in part on a complacent acceptance of the uv.^t rrn cutntulsalon Ruput t. rouuuld surely resist such a step...
...In line with the suggestion made by Richard Goodwin, a former assistant to President Kennedy, we propose that an act of Congress establish a commission with full powers to examine all —we repeat, all—aspects of the case...
...If a tiny harrassed political group and a few courageous intellectuals could speak for the truth then, surely an assassination which concerns the life of the entire nation deserves at least as careful scrutiny and critical examination...
Vol. 13 • September 1966 • No. 5
