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This paragraph, the last in the article, refers to a matter of hearsay, a statement attributed to one of our friends and advocates, Senator William Proxmire. That statement is misleading and in effect false. It is not in the context in which it was related...
...Warren Commission report, which said that Oswald had acted alone, was not admitted as evidence in the hearing after Judge Bernard Bagert said it was "fraught with hearsay...
...whole new generation, the Hiss-Chambers case is only a dim memory or a hearsay mystery, but it retains its historical significance and fascination. If one assumes that Hiss was guilty, his behavior made perfect sense; by his denial of the charges against him, he was trying to hide his Communist past. But if one assumes that Hiss was innocent, the behavior of his accuser, Whittaker Chambers, made no sense at all; what could his motive have been for accusing an innocent man? The only plausible answer: he must have been mad. From the start, people who could not accept...
That remark was ruled inadmissible evidence in his murder trial. For that matter, a great deal of the murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February...
...Dean Burch, then G.O.P. national chairman, with a microfilm copy in Goldwater's personal files and a carbon in Romney's possession. The letter's contents have not been made public, but the New York Daily News's perceptive Washington columnist, Ted Lewis, quoting "hearsay" reports, said that it criticized the "extremist" tone of Goldwater's campaign and the ultra-conservative planks written into the platform by his supporters. However, Goldwater aides claim the letter is so vague that their man is still unable to figure out just what Romney was trying...