European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                No by h. D. Quig United press International ten years have not changed the Opin ions of Many persons professionals Legal experts criminal investigators an otherwise who doubt that the full Story of the assassination of president John  has come out. The most persistent doubt of All is that just one  Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in the crime of the  the Warren commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in the slaying in Deal by Plaza Dallas on nov. 22,1963. Many of the doubters Are More con Vinced than Ever that the assassination was the work of at least two  there two persons using the name Oswald is the single Bullet theory its detractors say it had to be a magic bul let to go through two persons the Way the commission reported nonsense were some facts manipulated during the investigation Many books have been written and a great number of scientific papers Issue that argue against the Warren report conclusions. The More responsible of the doubters Are serious critics dedicated persons who fee frustrated because of what they regard As a general Public apathy about their  there has been some new information new assertions at least Bol stering those who say the commission went awry. The strongest of these Are the a decade later Here is a look at what has happened to some of the charac ters in the tragedy of nov. 22,1963 in Dallas Lyndon b. Johnson Kennedy successor died of a heart attack on Jan.22,1973.marina Oswald russian born wife of Lee Harvey Oswald mar ried Kenneth j. Porter a sewing machine company employee in 1964. They have a 7-year-old Sonand live in Rockwell a Rural area near Dallas with Oswald s two daughters june 12, and Rachel 10. Marguerite Oswald Lee har vey s Mother lives in fort Worth tex., and still asserts Thatcher son was innocent of the Ken Nedy  b. Connally then the Texas governor who was wounded in the assassination became Secretary of the Treasury an special adviser to president Nixon. He has switched to the re publican party and is considered a contender for the 1976 Nomi nation. Mrs. . Tippit widow of the Dallas policeman slain shortly after the assassination married Harry d. Thomas a Dallas police lieutenant in 1967. People from around the world donated Money to the Tippit family after the assassination and in 1964 the Dallas police department re ported the total at $656,391.58.there has been no further Public accounting. Sarah t. Hughes the District court judge who administered the oath of office to Johnson is 76and holds the same Federal judgeship. Or. Malcolm o. Perry the surgeon who attended the dying president still practices at Park land Hospital and is now a full professor of surgery at the University of Texas southwestern medical school. Willian Wayne Whaley who drove the taxicab carrying Oswald from downtown to his room ing House after the assassination was killed in a traffic Accident dec. 18,1965. Earlene Roberts Oswald Landlady died of a heart attack Jan. 9,1966. Police chief Jesse Curry re tired from the department after 30 years and is a vice president and the Security chief of a Down town Bank. J. Gordon Shanklin remains Asabi agent in charge in Dallas. Forrest v. Sorrels agent in charge of the Dallas secret serv ice office retired about three years ago. Police capt. Will Fritz chief interrogator of Oswald is re tired. William Greer Driver of the Kennedy car on nov. 22, received disability retirement from the secret service in 1966 because of an ulcer condition. Patrolman . Mcdonald who grappled with Oswald in the Texas theatre and with help of others arrested him was promoted to detective and is still with the department. Abraham zapruder the Dallas manufacturer who made the dra Matic Home movies of the assassination died in August 1970, after a lingering illness. Joe b. Brown sr., presiding judge at the murder trial of night club owner Jack Ruby died of Aheart attack in 1968. Melvin Belli Ruby s chief counsel practices Law in san  Alexander chief prosecutor of rub is in private la practice. . Jim Bowie a Ruby prosecutor died of cancer in1968. He had been serving As a Federal judge. Flat opinions of two doctors one a noted pathologist and the other a Coroner s investigator that based on scientific Evi Dence More than one gunman was involved. They were the first critics of the com Mission report to be allowed into the National archives in Washington to study the Kennedy autopsy artefacts the photo graphs and a rays. They say these prove that the commission conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole Assassin is  year ago or. Cyril h. Wecht Coroner of Allegheny county Pittsburgh pa.,past president of the american Academy of forensic sciences University professor and a lawyer who has done 5,000 autopsies and consulted in 10,000 More studied the autopsy material from a hard physical evidentiary standpoint there was More than one per son shooting he says. The single Bullet theory is absolute scientific  theory on which or. Wecht says the commission based its main conclusion is that of three bullets fired one of the two nonfatal bullets went through Kennedy s Back and neck and then through Texas gov. John b. Connally s Chest and right wrist and lodged in his  that theory is destroyed we must conclude that More than one person fired Wecht  also says that Kennedy s brain and the microscopic slides of tissues remove from his Bullet wounds Are missing from the archives and nobody is saying whether they were lost destroyed or misplaced. Or. E. Forrest Chapman of Detroit general practitioner and former Deputy medical examiner for Wayne county examined the material two months ago and says it s just impossible that one Bullet could have hit both . It sounds like a conspiracy to say it   new facet is provided by Sylvia Meagher of new York author of the 1967 accessories after the fact in re search on Charles Givens who was cited by the commission As an important wit Ness who established the presence of Oswald on the sixth floor of the depository building in Dallas near the fatal window about 35 minutes before the 12 30 . When the archives began to declassify various documents she ordered every document in which Givens was  found she says that on assassination Day he told the Dallas police and the feb that at about noon he saw Oswald on the depository first floor and not on the sixth. Givens stuck to that Story to inter viewers from nov. 22, 1963, to april 1964, she says when he gave sworn testimony to a commission lawyer and for the firs time mentioned going Back to the sixth floor for his cigarettes and encountering Oswald  the lawyer was aware of Givens original Story but did not Cross examine him about the new Story she says. A third new doubt Raiser is Bernard Fen Sterwald jr., director of the committee to investigate assassinations a Washington based research group. Writing in the no vember Esquire he says close examination of now declassified documents dealing with Oswald s trip to Mexico be fore the murder makes it Clear that there were at least two Lee Harvey Oswalds there one our Lee the other  jibes with the theory of Richard h. Popkin. In the second Oswald that there were two Oswalds one ours used to set up a false Trail leaving his gun so that the. Second a better shot using a better official the seven  Warren n commission delivered its report i i on sept. 24,1964,10 months after it twas appointed with the Central the finding that the assassination of o president Kennedy was the work r i of one .excerpts highlighting this find b big follow. In the shots which killed presi p i Dent Kennedy and wounded gov it fragments taken from con / s wrist but last year the erne court denied his Peti doubts gun could disappear and the evidence being so confusing that our Oswald could t be convicted. 1 Here Are still doubters who were onor near the scene who Don t raise logical Cain with the commission but still Are heard to Start any discussion with i just Don t see How. Up to his death former president Lyn Don b. Johnson apparently was one of these. He was in the Dallas motorcade. A close Friend of his recently told up that Johnson thought there May have been a conspiracy. He d say i just Don t see How that on killer could have been. There s bound to have been somebody else involved. Hell Well never know any More than that the Warren commission findings. It s hard to believe that there was t Jnore to it than was discovered Leo Janos writing in the july Atlantic monthly said that in an interview shortly before his death Johnson told him he never believed Oswald acted alone although he could accept that Oswald pulled the Trig Ger. Janos said Johnson told him that he had found that a year or so before Kennedy s death a Cia backed assassination Tea had been picked up in Havana. Johnson speculated that Dallas had been a retaliation for this thwarted attempt although he could t prove  interviewed in Dallas retired police chief Jesse Curry who was in the Lead car of the nov. 22 Parade ahead of presi Dent and mrs. Kennedy and gov.  mrs. Connally said of Oswald i think he might have been influenced or helped by somebody. I have never been completely satisfied that there was not somebody be Hind the Brick Wall firing that  the Wall is near the building from which Oswald is said to have shot. Dallas county District attorney Henry Wade who prosecuted Jack Ruby for kill ing Oswald says i Don t think Lee har vey Oswald suddenly woke up one morning and decided All by himself to kill the  he believes Oswald either was in cited or had help. It is a gut feeling. I was in the room with him about five minutes and he never said anything. .1 was going to interview him sunday evening but As it turned out never got the  Wade said Oswald s activities in new Orleans on behalf of the Fidel Castro government in Cuba he was arrested there for getting into a fight while handing out pro Castro leaflets explain him about As Well As anything sometime before that Kennedy had had that near confrontation with the russians Over  i Here has always been open scepticism in Europe about the Warren commission conclusions. After publication there of critiques by Edward Jay Epstein and Mark Lane the times of London called on the commission to reopen its inquiry to Deal with the Points raised. One of those in the United states who favored reopening was Alexander Bickel the distinguished professor of Law an Legal history at Yale. I was in favor of it at the time he says. Well it s probably too late now so Many of the witnesses gone physical Evi Dence gone. It was the kind of event that draws a lot of self seeking people and a lot of disturbed ones. I did t think it was goo for our country to leave a lot of Loose strings. I did t think that the theory under which the commission concluded that Oswald alone fired All three shots was sup ported by the evidence. I did t think the report excluded the possibility that some one in addition to Oswald was involved. I think they did prove that Oswald Wasp there and shot the president. They did t prove to my satisfaction that some body else was t up there or some where perhaps. As a lawyer analysing the report and the evidence to sustain it the chances Are that Oswald did do it alone but i Don t think they went to the Bottom i explaining that persuasively and. Con  two of the More spectacular doubters Tiave gone to other things but their Sharp opinions have not been dulled by time. Mark Lane probably the most publicized of the writing doubters with Rush to judgment has recently been roaming a South Dakota reservation As at Torney for the wounded knee Legal de sense offence  in an interview he said there had no been a great Deal of new information developed but that there was now evidence that shots were fired at Kennedy simultaneously from three different directions. Inthe Book he said a minimum of two. I think the president was killed be cause of his determination to end the War in Vietnam and begin to move America in a different direction Lane said. Obviously it was a massive Power play that had the support of those who represented segment in the military Industrial com plex. In 1967 i said the conspiracy include elements within the Cia and anti Castro cubans and powerful forces in govern ment. Some of the authorities laughed. But after watergate i Don t believe anyone can believe such a conspiracy was  of those people were in Dallas on nov. 22,1963." Lane has provided the Story line for a new movie executive action about the murder starring Burt Lancaster and the late Robert Ryan to be released on the eve of the 10th anniversary. Jim Garrison the big new Orleans District attorney who was acquitted in sep tember on Federal bribery charges says the government is out to get him but i they want to i la dance with them again and i la beat them  failed in a 1969 court attempt to prove that Clay Shaw former head of the new Orleans International Trade Mart conspired to murder Kennedy and that the military Industrial Complex and the warfare sector of the government were be Hind the  an interview in new Orleans Garri son said he believed the murders of  f. Kennedy Martin Luther King and the Kent state students were related to that of the president. Epstein author of inquest who wrote that pressures on the commission militated not for establishment of actual an probably imperfect truth but for a quite different political truth says today that his position was and is that the commission had not done a thorough  significantly new has come up through the years he says except  s examination of the autopsy re cords. It s the Only evidence that has really shown that the assassination could not have occurred the Way the commission said it occurred he says. It seems to me now More than Ever that the commission if its Job was to establish the facts beyond a doubt did not accomplish  film version by Bob Thomas associated presses it a thoughtful Challenge to the War Ren report on president Kennedy s assassination or is it simply a make Money gimmick that is the film world s puzzlement Overa new film executive action which is billed As probably the most controversial film of our  although it was made on a modest budget executive action is no shoestring film. It stars Hurt Lancaster Robert Ryan and will Geer and was created by three Topflight film makers producer Edward Lewis director David Miller and writer Dalton Trumbo. The Cost was held Dow because All worked for minimum salaries except Lewis who was paid nothing. Lewis told How he became involved inthe project Donald Sutherland the actor originally developed the property with Mark Lane author of Rush to judgment and Donald freed Over a two year period. Sutherland got turned Down by every com Pany in town and i bought it from him. My interest in the project had  do with the death of president Kennedy i am not an assassination Buff. It seemed to me that this Story offered a terrific Chance to put across the idea that we Nee to be reported to on official matters. I feel that we have not been told the whole truth about the Kennedy assassination the officials have Only handed out  1 he premise of executive action is that Lee Harvey Oswald could not have pulled off the assassination alone hence there was a conspiracy. But the film do snot attempt to document the conspiracy it offers a fictional hypothesis on How it could have happened. The picture is really a strange animal a mixture of fact and fiction that has never been attempted before said the pro Ducer. The Story we Tell is entirely fictional but Many of the characters Are real life figures shown in hews footage which occupies 30 per cent of the  Only real life figures who Are portrayed by actors Are Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack  Lewis took the Story to Veteran screenwriter Dalton Trumbo who had written such films As spartacus and lonely Are the Brave for the producer. Trumbo s original reaction was negative. I Don t think history proceeds through conspiracy he said. Lewis gave the writer a Small Library of books on the Kennedy assassination an showed him the 8mm Home movie taken when the shots hit the Dallas motorcade. That convinced me utterly that the shots came from two directions said Trumbo. Al Rumbo conceived the idea of com Bining news reels with a fictional Story. It thesis that powerful  in the Industrial defense establishment planned an carried out the assassination because of their opposition to such Kennedy policies As the test ban treaty removal of troops from Southeast Asia cutting the Oil depletion allowance Etc. Predictably Lewis ran into a Roadblock in his attempts to finance the film. He finally enlisted a private investor who had never before backed a movie. Lewis him self took the heavy risk of guaranteeing the film s completion. Burt Lancaster liked the script but told Lewis i won t do the picture unless i m convinced that the plot could have  after several months of thinking about it he said i  Ember 22, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 15