European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday August 8,1993 Clinton s Kansas City to. A Bill Linton s father might have married the president s Mother before his divorce to another woman was final newspapers re ported saturday. The Kansas City Star and the daily news of new York reported that Clin ton s biological father William Jefferson Blythe Iii was married to a Kansas City woman in 1941 in Jackson county. Court records show that the woman filed for a divorce but was not granted one until april 13, 1944, seven months after Blythe married Virginia Cassidy the president s Mother the newspaper said. Clinton s Mother told the Star on Fri Day i knew absolutely nothing about it. It was news to Blythe died in 1946, and Clinton smother has remarried twice since then. M nearly All of Clinton s biographies state that his parents were married in 1942. But the marriage License in Arkan Sas lists the Date As sept. 3, 1943, and Clinton s Mother told the Star she believed the wedding was in 1943. If Blythe were married to both women at the same time the marriage to Clin ton s Mother would have been illegal under Arkansas Law and he might have committed bigamy. Deputy White House press Secretary Lorraine Voles said there would be no comment Friday. Voles could not say whether the president had been told. The Kansas City woman Wanett Aellen Alexander gave birth to a Daugh Ter whose family claimed last week that she is Clinton s half sister. The daughter Sharon Lee Pettijohn lives in Tucson ariz., As does her Moth in neither could be reached by the Star. The Arizona Republic reported thurs Day that Alexander now 70, recognized pictures of Blythe when watching to re ports about Law states that a person has committed bigamy if being married he purports to marry another How Ever the statute continues a person May argue his innocence if he reasonably believed that he was legally eligible to marry whether Blythe acknowledged that he was married is unknown. A still earlier marriage for Blythe was reported in june when a California Man said he believed he was the president Shalf brother. Clinton has spoken by Tele phone with Henry Leon Ritzenthaler 55, of Paradise calif., but has not acknowledged a relationship publicly. In an autoway 17, As six mock trial to put 90s-style spin on Rosenberg atomic spy Case by Laurie Asseo the associated pres Washington Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died in the electric chair More than 40 years ago but a mock jury of Ordinary citizens will consider again whether they plotted to give atomic bomb secrets to the soviet and defense lawyers will re stage the espionage trial of the Century updated to 1990s Lega standards at the american bar association s annual meeting which began thursday in new York. Actors will portray the new Yor couple who were electrocuted at sing sing prison on june 19, 1953, Ami that decade s anti communist tumult. But Ordinary citizens will sit in the jury Box during the two Day mock trial starting monday and try to reach anew verdict on whether the Rosen bergs were guilty of conspiring to d love to see an acquittal not that it would make any difference totem said the Rosenbergs elder son Michael Macropol who was 10when his parents were executed. It will be interesting to see How the various facts that have been brought out since then sit with a new open minded jury he added. Now a College economics professor in Massachusetts Meeropol plans to attend the trial and join a panel discussion with members of the actual 1951 prosecution and defense Rosenbergs the last americans executed for spying were convicted of plotting to give the soviets details of the secret . Program that built an atomic bomb during world War ii. Ethel Rosenberg s brother David Greenglass a machinist at the bomb project at los Ala mos n.m., testified the Rosenberg recruited him to provide bomb sketches. In sentencing the couple to death,. District judge Irving r. Kaufman said their actions were worse than murder saying they had Given the atomic bomb to the soviets and cause the korean War. The Rosenbergs defenders question whether any sketches by Greenglass would have been much help to the Sovi ets. Admitted spy Klaus Fuchs a British physicist is the one who disclosed these crets of the bomb they contend. But Chicago lawyer Thomas Sulli Van who will prosecute on monday said there still is substantial evidence that Julius Rosenberg headed an Liast april Julius Rosenberg Center and his wife Ethel arc shown in front of the Federal court building in new York on March 8,1951. Coast espionage ring and that his wife helped him. We re very serious about it and we re convinced they re guilty Sulli Van Aba event will not be merely a re creation of the Rosenbergs 1951trial. Lawyers said it is aimed More at showing what might have happened i the couple were tried under today s Legal witnesses will stick largely to the actual trial testimony. But this time the actors portraying the Rosenbergs will not plead the fifth amendment right against self incrimination when asked if they were members of the communist party the new defense team believes that strategy Only Hurt their Case. Defense attorney Gary p. Naftalis of new York plans to see now the trial ingoing before he decides whether the accused couple will even take the stand in their own defense. Prosecutors and defense lawyers will be allowed to use documents that have become available since 1951, including witnesses statements to the Fri that could be used to attack their credibility. Defendants now have Legal protections they did not have in 1951. For example prosecutors now could hotpoint out that Ethel Rosenberg pleaded the fifth amendment rather than Tell a Federal grand jury whether she had Ever met admitted spy courier and . District judge Marvin , who will preside will not try to re create what Many called Kaufman s extreme Bias against the Rosenbergs. I m going to do what i think is appropriate in 1993," Aspen said. Lawyers plan to re create the two parts of a jello Box top that Gold and Greenglass supposedly matched to Gether As an identification device. The Case will Stop Short of perhaps the most controversial Issue the death sentence and the . Supreme court s handling of the Appeal. The president s fat Accident near sickest of 1946. At the time viru months pregnant with Dent. He was born aug. 19, 1 named William Jefferson Blythe i Virginia Blythe later married Roger Linton and her son s was changed to William Jefferson Clinton. The Clin tons had another son also named Roger. Clinton s Stepfather died in 1968. His Mother is now married to Dick Kelley a retired food broker and lives in hot Springs Ark. She has said that Blythe never told hero a marriage in Texas in 1935 or of a son Ritzenthaler from that Friday she said she did not know whether her husband had married i Kansas City in 1941 or had a daughter from that marriage. Artsy handouts to a fens and Agency in juror san Diego a the artist stand on a Street Corner handing out $10 Bills to puzzled migrant workers. And congressman sits in his office fuming. Welcome to the latest Battle Over the National endowment for the arts. The Agency lashed in recent years for spending taxpayers Money on Art some considered obscene or frivolous said i would investigate the curious tale of fed eral Money and be gotten quite a few Calls about it said Aba spokesman Josh dare i Washington. And they Haven t been wholly san Diego artists say their Art rebates celebrate the Unsung contributions that undocumented mexican and Central american workers make to the United states Economy. Since july 23, the artists have appear Don Street Corners in the san Diego area handing out signed $10 Bills to hispanic migrants who Are waiting for someone to come and hire them for a Day s of them Are Likely illegal Immi Grants. The artists were awarded $5,000 forthe project by two local museums that had received a $250,000 Aba Grant Foran exhibit titled la Frontera the Bor Der. I can scarcely imagine a More contemptuous use of taxpayers hard earned dollars . Rep. Randy Cunningham,r-calif., wrote in a letter to the Aba. If artists want to hand out Cash to illegal aliens let it be their the Agency will look into the matter Asit would any complaint from a member of Congress dare said 1989, the Aba awarded $250,000 to the two museums the museum of con temporary Art and the Centra cultural de la Raza for the multiyear two museums matched the Grant at a 3-to-l ratio from private donors including the Rockefeller foundation. As part of its exhibits the museums intern awarded $5,000 to artists David Avalos Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco. Twas not known exactly whose Money went to pay for the Grant. The Nea was not aware of the specifics of the Art rebate project dare said. Since 1989, it has increased its oversight of Grants he said. Museum officials too were unaware of the details but they support the project Aid Kathryn Kanjo assistant Cura Tor at the museum of contemporary Art. The artists meanwhile contend the angry reactions prove their Point about increasing hostility toward immigrants in America and the need for such artwork
