filthy, March ii, nu SCARLET AND BLACK Grinneii's ACLU Head Presents Lane's Opinions on Assassination To the Editor: A shadow of secrecy clouds the investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination While public and world opinion com» pelled President Johnson to ap- point the present commission headed by Justice Warren, its original intent, to Conduct a full public investigation of the assassination, has been trans- formed into a supercsecret probe. Warren himself has stated “some of the facts in this case will never be known In your lifetime” The Warren Commission is restricting its in- yestigation only to evidence submitted by the Dallas Police, FBI, and the Secret Service Before public protest, led by Mark Lane, was voiced, the Commission refused to have counsel appointed for Oswald, and denied the right of cross« examination; they still refuse the right of presentation of new evidence, and have maintained their secrecyr , Under these circumstances Mark Lane, a prominent New ’ .York lawyer and former as- selnblyman, decided to submit to the Warren Commission a lawyer's brief evaluating the evldence leaked to the public. Lane was astonished to discov- er numerous contradictlons in the government’s case. startled by his findings. he determined to conduct his own investiga- tion by going to Dallas and in- terviewing witnesses. He has obtained interviews, photostats of police affidavits, and other information directly Contradict- ing the government‘s contenr tioiis. ' Some of his been: findings have (l) The murder weapon was transformed from a German Mauser to an Italian Carbine after the FBI discovered that Oswald had ordered an Italian rifle from a mail order house. (2) The manufacturer of the Italian Carbine Stated that in his opinion the weapon was in- capable of the accuracy needed to shoot the-President from the sixth floor ’of the Book Deposi- tory Building, (3) The authorities claim that three shots were fired, yet five bullets were found. (4) The opinion of four doc- tors auending Kennedy at Park— land Hospital that the wound in the neck was an entrance wound has changed after the FBI presented the doctors with a felt accompli. ‘ (5) The witness to Tippitt's murder swore the murderer was “short, stocky, with curly hair"; Oswald was medium height, and thin with sparse hair. (6) The paraffin test by an em pert determined that Oswald probably did not fire a rifle on November 22‘ (7) According to the District Attorney’s own report, Oswald walked out of the surrounded Dallas Book Depository Build- ing unmolested, walked three- quarters of a mile, took a bus back to where he had walked from, took a taxi with a non- existent taxiedrlver threerquar— ters of a mile past his house, and then went back home to get a coat on a warm day, leaving $150 in his roomr Mr. Lahe, based on his inves- tiagtion, raises other ques- tions; he makes no claim to Peter Miller Sanity of Stones A great deal of money has been made recently since the death of President Kennedy “Memorial books" selling for $2 each have been printed by both the AP and UPI and have sold in the millions of copies. Other- mementoes of the late Presi- dent include a 97c JFK salt and pepper set; a candy bar named “Vig'ah”; an “Eternal Flame of Light to Remember" selling for 31 which is advertised to burn for 50,000 hours; JFK phonographs, records, photo‘- graphs, busts, desk weights, etc. Newsweek recently called it a “memorial boom" and has quoted a Washington. D. c., novelty manufacturer as say- ing: “People are always hun- gry for the buck." “Togetherness” it appears, according to the Burlington County (N. J,) Department of Civil Defense, is just one more virtue of nuclear war. If you're one of those stubborn people who is unable to realize how "close" family members get to each other while cramped to- gether inside a fallout shelter, then you obviously haven't heard about “Operation Togeth- erness” — the latest thing in modern family livingiconducte ed January 18 and 19 in Marl- ton, N. J. in order to prove that even under the minor stresses of a nuclear war life can be wonder- ful, more than 200 Volunteers emiombed themselves for 24 hours “under exactly the same conditions as might be expect- ed in any public shelter in the event of a nuclear attack," During the 24 hours the volun- teers slept on cuts and ate “sur- vival biscuitsr" Realism was provided by a tape recording public address system which simulated the warning period followed by the attack, with simulated radio messages re-l porting conditions in the area and across the United States. All the volunteers, as far as it is known, appear to have sur- vived the experience Of course, there are always a few malcontents who don't believe in such things as “to» getherness." TWO hundred local residents picketed the shelter while “Operation Together- ne‘s's'VWas being conduCtédl' knowledge of the assassin (5) he does maintain that if we are to accept the news leaks, Oswald could not have been the assassin, Of course it may logically be argued that the government has not divulged pertinent information which might contradict Lane's as- sumptions. Hence what is need- ed is an open public hearing where all the facts can be weighed before a commission which is representative of the American public, not a former CIA Chief, a former FBI agent, two Dixiercrats, a Republican Senator, and on influencial businessman, who presently constitute the Commission. The petition which is being circulated this week calls for an "open public hearing," and requests “that some counsel representing the interests of the late Lee Harvey Oswald be permitted the right of cruss~ex— aminau‘on and the right of pre- sentation of evidence bearing upon (Oswald's) role, if any, in the assassination. r . ." A nation-wide organization has been formed on this basis. Groups are springing up on numerous campuses. The pres- sure which these groups have generated has already con- vinced the Warren Commission to appoint a lawyer for Oswald and to allow Mark Lane to tes~ tify. Public opinion can also influence the government to call an open public hearing. Dan Friedlander President of the Grinnell Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union n, Shown above during his debit! on the Pioneer baskelbuli court was Iowa Governor Harold Hughes, with Coach John Pfiiseh and Dave Sellemren. 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