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Speaking off the cuff to a crowd in Quincy House Junior Common Room, flamboyant trial lawyer Melvin Belli last night mentioned in varying detail the topics of the Jack Ruby trial, the self education of Caryl Chessman, the American judicial system, and the weakness of U.S. law schools...
...Belli compared the Ruby trial with the Sacco-Vanzetti and Scopes affairs as having projected highly unfavorable images overseas of the American jury system. In his travels abroad he noticed that an overwhelming majority of Europeans were certain that "Oswald, Ruby, the CIA, the FBI, and even President Johnson" were linked in a conspiracy to assasinate John Kennedy...
...Melvin Belli, former defense attorney for Jack Ruby, will hold an informal talk in, Quincy House Junior Common Room at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Belli's visit will be sponsored by Quincy's Ford Dinner program. The public is invited...
...content merely to sue Craig and the co-defendants (to be named later) for slander and defamation of character, Belli also offered his opinion as to their effect on American law. If the leaders of the American Bar Association have their way, he argued, they will "make of the magnificent American trial lawyer a suckling Bugs Bunny or a John Birch athletic supporter for certain insurance companies and economic interests...
...Melvin M. Belli," concluded the complaint, "is practicing law and intends to continue to practice his profession and against Defendant Walter E. Craig and other defendants and their clients and insurance companies, for individuals and unpopular causes into the far future, God, not the American Bar Association, willing...