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an i ae 2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridoy, November 29, 1963 Circumstantial Evidence Piles Up By ARTHUR EVERETT DALLAS, Tex. (AP) -- Lee Harvey Oswald went to a lonely Texas grave this week in a Plain wooden coffin, with a sin- gle spray of flowers atop it. Buried with him is the secret of his role in President John F. Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22. "This man killed. the presi- | dent," says Dallas Homicide , Captain Will Fritz, But saying ' it is not the same ag proving it. Did he? Most probably. But why? Only the 24-year-old Os- Wald could answer these ques- tions specifically, But now the | answers are locked with him ; beneath the sod in a Fort Worth |; cemetery plot. | he not himself been killed by the owner of a Dallas | striptease joint, Oswald event- ; ually might have been brought | to trial, Presuming he stood firm in his denial that he shot | President Kennedy Nov. 22, what evidence would a jury have had to consider? First, as to motive: Oswald very likely was a Communist of sorts, at least a Marxist, a follower of the 100. year-old philosophy upon which much of the Communist ideol- ogy is based, WENT TO MOSCOW -In 1959, just out of the U.S. Marines, Oswald went to Mos- cow, where he sought to re- nounce his American citizen- ship, He declared then: "T"ve made up my mind I'm through. Capitalism has passed its peak. I've seen poor niggers . . » and that was a lesson. People hate because they've been told to hate. It's the fash- Against Oswald |guerita, was hard put to keepjwhere he lived in Dallas. When her family together when he Dallas police officer J. D, Tippit was young. tried to question him, eyewit- | Dallas Chief Curry says that|nesses said Oswald shot the following Oswald's arrest|policeman dead with a pistol. shortly after. the Kennedy as-|If he wasn't running from the sassination Friday, photographs|scene of another crime, why did were found showing him stand-|he fear the officer? ing at attention, with a rifle in) After Oswald's arrest, paraf- one hand and in the other a/fin tests were made in an effort copy of the Communist newspa-| to detect any particles of gun- per, The Worker. powder on Oswald's hands and DENY CONNECTION | District Att orney Wade re- paper Pravda in Moscow and) Communist leaders in New| York insisted that Oswald had no connection with the Commu- nist party, Yet, after his arrest) he announced he wanted for his} lawyer John Abt of New York, well known as counsel for past Communist defendants. | Castro's Havana government) has announced that Oswald) tried on Sept. 27 to obtain a} visa permitting him to go to Cuba and thence back to Russia. Had his disenchantment left him? Did he want to resume life behind the Iron Curtain? Or ;was he perhaps making prepa- jrations for an escape route after the assassination of the President? All this a jury would have had jto consider in seeking a motive. |Oswald himself could not have been made to testify if he did not wish to. Does it add up to a motive? ness, or was it a pattern of life that led to assassination? Being a Communist would not prove world around him, might prove motive The Communist party news-| PON | Ke it eccentricity, unstable-|oncoe of mankind. ar a man an assassin. But a state! py of mind, an attitude toward the|oocey emerges from a "Pariffin tests on both hands showed he had recently fired a gun." Even more damning evidence was found in Oswald's Dallas room, It was a map of the City of Dallas, On it were marks at various intersections where the ennedy motorcade was due to pass. There also was a line drawn : 7 A from the school book depository Fraulein Helga Carla Zie- building to the spot about 75| semes, Miss Germany for yards away where the bullet) 1963, seems to be in full con- struck the presidenta trajec-) trol of this Canadian CF 104 tory followed by the assassin, | --,----- 5 ah oH A HIGH FLYING FRAULEIN the jet fighter at the RCAF's 3rd up good Canadian - German Fighter Wing, Zweibrucken, cent is " It. _ A. Tou- " a signant of Montreal. Germany. Shown here with (CP Wirephoto from National the happy chore of keeping Defence) CAN PROVE MURDER All the evidence outlined pub- PENSIONS BEHIND WAGES licly so far is circumstantial.| But circumstantial evidence is| sufficient to prove murder, if] the jury accepts it, It is defined by law as: "Evidence that tends to prove a fact by proving other events circumstances, which, ac- cording to the common experi- e usually or) always attended by the fact in issue, basis for a reasonable inference ity pensions was strongly urged the jury or court of the Thursday by a national group rrence of the fact in issue."'| representing over 2,600 veterans More simply, if a man| who were maimed or totally subway into|blinded during war service. War Amputees Seek Increase In Pension OTTAWA (CP) -- An increase|unskilled labor. He asked the|the 100-per-cent disabled veter-;would arrive here during No- and therefore affords alin the basic rate of war disabil-/\Commons committee to recom-|an's pension at $2,160 a year| vember. }mend an increase in the basic }pension rate of not less than |33 1-3 per cent. "The intention under the Pen- sion Act," said Mr. Bell, "is to for a single man, He said that the assessment table used by the pension com- mission provided the same rate lof pension for a man who had Probing' ey RCAF Denies. INTERPRETING THE NEWS oA Atom Warheads In Canada NORTH BAY (CP) -- RCAF of.icials here Thursday denied By CARMAN CUMMING a statement by an Edmonton'Canadian Press Staff Writer member of beni pgs 2 that nu-| The killing of John F. Ken- clear weapons have been'nedy has let loose a cross-fire brought "'secretly" to North!of 'bitterness in the United Bay. te ; _ |States. It threatens to make a The official said that at this)chasm out of the rift already time there are no nuclear war-|separating the extreme right heads at North Bay and they|from the rest of the popula- further denied the member's tion. | statement that "'th nds of} In the first day or two after American troops' are in this|the assassination the main re- city, ; jaction in the streets and. homes William Skoveyko, Progres-\of New York appeared to be sive Conservative for Edmon-|one of sorrow. | ton East, told a constituency! The bitterness has appeared) JFK Death Could Beef Extremism Daily News editorial Thursday in which the editors announced that they were growing '"'ex-: ceedingly weary of the current talk about how, in the wake of the Kennedy. assassination, we've all got to drop hatred and extremism and get milk-. soppish and ever-lovin'." This talk, The News said, was coming 'mainly from. pin- kos and leftists who are bitterly eanppelanee that Lee H, Os- wald . . . was a Communist and Castroite."' f Elsewhere in the game issue | | | | Almost certainly the greatest party meeting Wednesday nignt/since then, in many forms. t that nuclear weapons have been; Outsiders in New York have brought "secretly" into Canada;commented on the surprising for installation at a gs oc egg of peel on Texas missile base near North y.jand its "Birchers" that are : + Mr. Skoreyko said his infor-\overheard in subway or street ky into pag Bate 2 fod. mation had come from 'very |conversations." stream." ! good authority." This could hardly be called a|_ : \left-wing reaction, Few Ameri-| FORCE IS SMALL cans will admit they are any-! Commenting on the statement where to the left of centre. that there were '"'thousands of} American troops here," the| BACK TO McCARTHY RCAF said a '"'smail' United) On the other side of the coin, States Air Force custodial de-|there has been an outburst of tachment has been in North/antiCommunist and anti-leftist Bay for the last few weeks invective that outdistances the Exporters Eye McCarthy ere Three Mark a the arrival of the war. Much ite trie alka ree ar, ets In the meantime the RCAF is|both sides--is characterized by) OTTAWA (CP)--Europe, the' waging a continual battle deny- 4 certainty that the speaker|/West Indies and the Far East. ing rumors that the warheads knows all the facts of the as-are three market areas where' for some 28 Bomarc migsi!es|Sassination, it is hoped to swell Canadian , stored here have arrived. One man will tell you with/poultry meat exports, federal - "We have still received no conviction that the "Commies"' | officials said Thursday. word on when the warheads wiil/drugged or hypnotized or brain-| They were commenting on the arrive," the official said. |washed Lee Harvey Oswald! formation of Canadian Quality An announcement earlier this|ad used him as the assassina-|poyltry Exporters Limited by' month by Defence Minister Pau} 'on tool, lfour Ontario firms for the pur- Hellyer said nuclear warheads| Another is equally certain| nose of selling chicken and tur- wate, ©Oswald and the man who killed|axy meat abroad him were linked in @ right-\°"tnis is the se _| wing 'conspiracy | This is the second such al- | NG gle Gah say ni many ance in the agriculture field Americans fit into either ex:|'0 take advantage of changes tremist category. made a few years ago in the | janti-combines laws. In brief, these changes per- The News reported without comment President Johnson's plea for Americans to turn: away from the apostles of bit- Poultry Meat Chrysler Office part of the population--and the As to opportunity--Did Os- wald have an opportunity to ion to hate people in the United) tes," kill the president? He did. Sta' An American woman whom bright sunshine, but sees wet pavements, gushing gutters and droplets of water dribbling | In a brief presented to the|/make compensation to a 100- |Commons' committee on veter-|per-cent disability pensioner to) jans affairs, the War Amputa-/the extent that he would have; lost two legs and an arm, as it did for any veteran who had lost only one leg and part of a Oswald met in Moscow, Pris- cilla Johnson, an expert on So- viet. affairs, recalls: "I soon came to feel that this boy was the stuff of which fana- tics are made." Oswald worked in a Minsk factory and there married a blonde Russian pharmacist, Ma- rina Nicholaeva. When he died last Sunday he left his widow with two daughters, June, about four, and Rachel, two months./shortly before Kennedy ! shot says he asked Oswald to/"0t have to prove him sane. "Jet's go see the President." | DISENCHANTED? Apperently becoming disen- chanted with Russia, Oswald talked his way back to this country on the grounds that he never actually had obtained Communist citizenship, He came home in 1962, to New Or- leans. There he showed signs of sympathy for Cuban Premier' Fidel Castro, His landlady twice made him take down pro-Castro signs he plastered on her porch. And he had a fight with anti- Castro Cubans who found him a out pro-Castro litera. "He readily admitted he is a Communist," said Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry after Os- plying, "you go on down and send the elevator back up." OVERLOOKED MOTORCADE/{0wn store windows, he may | | of the six-storey Texas School| but the evidence is sufficient for| overlooked the route of the as presidential motorcade There is one final factor in Oswald went to work for the 2lmost any murder trial. firm last September, soon after aid, it was announced that Kennedy|SSassination, would be visiting Dallas. man working with . Oswaidj@ defence, But he would have} was| had to prove it. The state would FOLLOW LAW : The rule governing insanity|i in an American court room) ._ generally foll ich} So Oswald was in the building Sia ly tollows a law. which "No," -he quoted Oswald re- tions of Canada also urged that Kennedy was shot by a sniper reasonably infer that it has/current assessments of serious from a window. on the top floor|Tained. He didn't see it rain| disabilities be changed to allow more than 100 per cent assess- Book Depository building, which him to accept as fact that it)ment for the very seriously dis- abled. At present, a single veteran cannot receive more than the Oswald, had he admitted the|100-per-cent disability pension of é would have had|$2,160 regardless of the extent/provided that he were not phy-) The existing 40 per cent as- Althe right to plead insanity as|of his injuries. Alan Bell of Toronto, repre- senting the War Amputationsjother spokesman for the Wa jgroup, said that - increases in| Amputations group, protested) yyy. Chadderton.-In all 'other |war disability pension rates had/the pension commission's impo- amputation cases, the assess- not kept pace with the general sition of what the termed 4) ment was 50 per cent or greater! the wages paid for!'tmythical ceiling" which fixed) and the pension carried on for} nerease in le to earn had he not| foot. pe 2 disability. sf H. C. Chadderton of Ottawa, 'also representing the War Am- COULD EARN $400 putations group, told the com- "It is common knowledge to-|mittee that amputation at the day that any man (or woman)/ankle should be assessed in the who was good enough to fightisame category as amputations for his country would be able|below the knee. to earn at least $400 a month) pe pRIVES WIDOWS sically incapacitated. sessment for the ankle amputa- Keith Butler of Kitchener, an-\tion deprived widows of pen-| " T!sion when the veteran died, said |the widows. and had access to the window from which Kennedy was shot. As far as is known, no one saw} him do the shooting. But neither} was anyone able to offer him| an alibi--place him somewhere else at the time of the slaying. As for evidence--the death gun found at the sniper's stake-| out in the depository building) was a 6.5 millimetre Italian) carbine. Dallas District Attor-) ney Wade maintains: SAYS LINK SET "The gun was here, his prints "To establish a defence on the grounds of insanity, it must| be clearly proved that, at the| time of committing of 'the act,| the party accused was laboring] reason under such a defect of from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong." The woeful elasticity of this guide is so great that it leaves it almost entirely to the jury to wald's arrest, "Apparently he|were on the gun, the gun was|'¢cide whether a defendant is was proud of being a Commu-|the gun that killed Kennedy, his|"Sane. While questioning Os- nist. He didn't try to hide it. Last year, Oswald said in New Orleans . . . he was not a Com- munist but a Marxist. But ac- tually Oswald has never drawn any distinction between the two." Dallas District Henry Wade says: "No, there was no evidence that said he was a member of the Communist party. However, there was lots of material deai- ing with communism . . . and there was even more material Attorney palm prints were on the box on which the killer sat and wit-| nesses put him on the sixth] ing." There was further evidence. die a gun in the Marines. Wade said he bought the rifle last March for $12.78 from a Chi- cago mail order house, Authori- ties said they have an order in Oswald's handwriting for the gun, An FBI check is said to show the serial number of the floor at the time of the shoot. | | That, Oswald learned how to han-|¥4% the known case against Lee| wald, Wade himself said: "I.don't think he is a nut. I think he is sane. . . . He an- swers questions very easily and e is sharp." then, oversimplified, |Harvey Oswald if he had lived |to go to trial--a case weak in motive, solid on opportunity and strong with circumstantial \evidence. Johnson Advisors Include JFK Squad WASHINGTON : (AP) Ay | 'Johnson team" of hand-picked jaides and. long-time friends is) oved into White House space |shaping up as the corps of close! jnext to the president's office-- advisers indispensable to any|the office formerly used by gory Moyers was summoned to Johnson's side and has hardly On Tuesday he} \left it since. |Kennedy's personal secretary, But it appears that President/Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln. | |Johnson's own people will be) Though Moyers says he is just) |merged with members of the helping out and expects to go} Calling the difference in as-| sessment between ankle and be- low the knee amputations a '"'tape-measure decision,' Mr, Chadderton said that the pres- ent "inequity of the legislation' Workers OK Strike most silent part--is appalled by | WINDSOR, Ont, (CP) -- Offi- the fanaticism on both sides. icials of the United Auto Work-'say CHILDREN CHEERED jers Union (CLC) Local 240 said) Many New Yorkers expressed |Thursday office workers wh0/reyulsion at reports quoting make up the local voted 98 per|Dallas teachers as saying some cent in favor Wednesday of|of their children had cheered strike action against Chrysler|when they learned of Kennedy's Canada Limited if contract de-| death, mands are not soon met. | There also were many criti- The union spokesman said the|cal comments on a New York istrike vote meeting was "well|---- jattended'"'. Another estimate was that only 300 of the eligible) AIRLINE AGREEMENT 500 members attended. | KARACHI (AP)--Pakistan 1s Attendance figures of UAW expected to sign an agreement votes are never released. Per-|With Indonesia giving the Indo- centages in favor of motions |Nesian airline Garuda the right always are given. jto jand in Pakistan, Garuda No date was set for strike ac-|plans to extend its seryice to j Europe. tion. The company and the union} have been negotiating off and! on since Aug. 2. The union was| { "KINDNESS certified July 25 as the bargain- BEYOND PRICE, ing agent for office employees, | YET WITHIN affected about 30 members of the iati repr ited They. were not being accorded the full benefits of the Pension Act because of an arbitrary rul- ing of the pension commission. The War Amputations brief supported a private member's bill which would allow court ap- peals by veterans who had been refused pensions by the pension commission, |Johnson likes and respects, to|days, the betting odds are heavy) |form the new inner circle at the|that Peace Corps Director Sar-| }gent Shriver has lost his prized} diat nob-| deputy for good. acme aanes |. Johnson is reported to be an- las many as he would like of the|Xious to keep McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy men, who. were fierc-| the Harvard dean who was Ken- lely devoted to the slain presi-|nedy's special assistant for na- \dent and have little stomach for|tional security affairs. Bundy {Washington without him. jhas a greed to stay, White House | Johnson has no lack of staff|Sources say. resources, however. Though|. Most presidents want to name \John F. Kennedy crew, whom|back to his own job in a | |White House. 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"I've sent men to the electric only a handful of people worked for him directly when he was 313 ALBERT ST. 723-4663 their own press secretaries, 'so| lit is widely assumed that the \days of Pierre Salinger are| great dealing with the Fai r Play) mail order rifle matched that of Cuba organization." |the assassination weapon. TOLD OF ROSENBERGS | The night before the assassi- At the age of 15 in his native New Orleans, La., handed a pamphlet about Julius gta Rosenberg, executed n New York in 1953 as Com- munist spies. The Communist| "eekends: rty h om|,, Next day, Mrs, Oswald no- nt May ornate make them ticed that a gun had disap- 'This taste of an alien phito- [peared te ee a i eel we nee to examine| panket. On the way to work in seeneniios tasted 'edonnis neighbor's car next morning, "-- He said later: \Oswald carried a tone, te a "It was like a very religious P 1 1 j i d window shades. It man opening the Bible for the|°ont#ine 8. first time. I could see the jne|was long enough to conceal a poverishment of the masses be- 'i!l¢- fore my own eyes in my|POLICEMAN SHOT mother, I thought the worker's) After the assassination, jrigid pattern and went nearby Irving, Tex., to spend ithe night with his wife. Nor- mally, he visited her only on |wrapped package. said Os- a) declared. | EXPORTS SUITS MEXICO CITY (AP)--Men's nation Oswald deviated from a/Suits, made entirely in Mexico,|utive agencies. to|are a new item of export to the| United States, suit manufac- turer Jorge Springer reports 'He says the suits have been exported recently to several U.S. department stores, vice-president, score' or hun-| ldreds of 'Johnson people" are|Mumbered. lsprinkled through the staffs of the U.S. Congress and the exec- Bill Moyers, 29, the slender and able Texan who is deputy director of the U.S. Peace Corps. happened to be in Dallas} on the bla Friday of Ken- nedy's assassination. 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The second deportation order against the former right - hand man of slain dictator Rafael Trujillo was issued in Toronto after a hearing before an im- migration officer. The 41-year-old Dominican has appealed against the order to the immigration appeal board which will hear the case in Ot- tawa in about two weeks. If the is, Se ceed & 9 oe paillet can aj ° tario Appeal Court and the Su- preme Court of Canada. Espaillat ation act which states London, Toronto: Cloudy with that once a person has been de-|clear periods tonight and Sat- ported he may not re-enter Can-/urday with a few snowflurries. ada without the consent of the|Winds northwest 15 to 25. | minister of immigration. Northern Lake Huron, Niag- ara, western Lake Ontario,| MEE tent' aeration order, Southern Georgian Bay, Hamil- upheld by Canadian courts af-|ton Cloudy with clear periods) ter an extended legal wrangle, |tonight and Saturday. A_ few) Windsor csccscoses St. Thomas....... London Kitchener .. Mount Forest..... 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