Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief Justice Warren, Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin and Bobby Kennedy spent 45 minutes with Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home when she told of the assassination. She served lemonade, replied softly to Rankin's gentle questioning. Excerpts...
...granted permission for 21 such ceremonies; among the privileged few were West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Juanita Castro, anti-Castro sister of the Cuban dictator. Last week Miss Castro said that her brother was in part responsible for Kennedy's assassination because he "must have influenced" Lee Oswald by constantly calling the President "the illiterate millionaire" and a "murderer...
...fact that when Oswald was alive he forbade her to drink hard liquor. She chain-smokes, though Oswald once slapped her for smoking a cigarette in his presence. So far, she has refused to change her name, although she worries some about the stigma affecting her children, June Lee, 2, and Rachel, 1. She has had mountains of marriage proposals and other bizarre propositions (a man from Kentucky offered her $50,000 if she would let him exhibit Oswald's body in a sideshow, another $100,000 if she would accompany the display). She still broods about last...
MARGUERITE OSWALD, 57, the assassin's mother, lives in Fort Worth and wallows in woe and self-pity. She still insists shrilly that her son did not murder Kennedy alone, says: "I think Lee was a patsy. I think President Kennedy was a victim of people in the State Department." She complains that she has been taken by money-grabbing writers who gleaned information from her, then "didn't even send me $10." She asks, "Why shouldn't there be as much sympathy for me as the President's family? After all, my son was murdered...
Griswold, for example, was convinced that "Lee Harvey Oswald could not have received a fair trial anywhere in the U.S. and the Supreme Court would have so held." Nothing like the Oswald case, said the Warren Commission, has so dramatized "the need for steps to bring about a proper balance between the right of the public to be kept informed and the right of the individual to a fair and impartial trial...