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...option to him." Among his problems, she said, was that "he had ambivalence about his desire to be close to someone and his desire for freedom." But his estranged wife Maryann maintains that he was not the sort of man to kill himself. She has hired Washington Lawyer Bernard Fensterwald to try to find out what happened. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence also has been looking into the case and is expected to complete its inquiry in a few weeks...
Tough-Minded. Incredibly, two men considered to head the investigation were Mark Lane, who has lived substantially for the past 13 years off writings and lectures attacking the Warren Commission, and Bernard Fensterwald Jr., who once represented James Earl Ray. Lane had the sense to bow out, but he recommended the man who was eventually appointed as the $39,600-a-year chief sleuth: Richard A. Sprague, 51, a tough-minded former district attorney from Philadelphia...
...operation. He said Alch also suggested that CIA documents could be forged to support this defense. Alch, as dapper as he was indignant, demanded the right to make a lengthy rebuttal and to impugn McCord's testimony. He said he had asked McCord's present attorney, Bernard Fensterwald Jr., why his client had made such a charge. Replied Fensterwald: "I can only hazard the guess that it is the result of Mr. McCord's faulty recollection. I think you will agree that there is no zealot like a convert." Taking the offensive, Alch quoted Fensterwald as declaring...
...sooner had Alch made his protest than both Fensterwald and McCord demanded a chance to answer. But the committee decided that it was time to call a halt. The Watergate small fry had already consumed much more time than had been scheduled, and there was growing criticism that the committee should move on to bigger game. Otherwise, it would be several weeks before major figures like John Dean, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were heard from. Responding to this restiveness, the committee moved up the resumption of hearings from June 12 to June 5 ("February...
...Fensterwald said that there was "absolutely no basis" to reports that McCord's original lawyers were unhappy with his arrival on the grounds that he was trying to "politicize" McCord...