Word: oswald
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...leading opponent of the controversial M'Naghten rule (which holds a defendant legally insane only if unable to tell right from wrong), and a star defense witness in the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, testifying that even under M'Naghten, Ruby was insane when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald; of leukemia; in Baltimore...
Unwitting Support. Thus the commission unwittingly lent support to those who would later insist that Lee Harvey Oswald must have had an accomplice. Their suspicions were based primarily on the commission's controversial "single-bullet theory." This is its conclusion that a bullet hit the back of Kennedy's neck and emerged through his lower throat before it struck Texas Governor John Connally in the back, smashed across a rib, shattered his right wrist, and punctured his left thigh. Commission members accepted this explanation after they saw a tourist's film of the assassination, which indicated that...
...Earlene Roberts, 60, the fuzzy-minded housekeeper who ran the Dallas rooming house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived-and proved a helpful witness before the Warren Commission-died last January. Ramparts says that she had been subjected to "intensive police harassment," adds with sinister implication of foul play that "no autopsy was performed." In fact, Mrs. Roberts had severe heart disease, throat ulcers and cataracts. The cause of death, "acute myocardial infarction," was determined after an autopsy by a doctor at Parkland Hospital...
...William Whaley, 51, the cab driver who picked up Oswald after he fled the book depository building, was killed in a head-on car crash in December 1965. Ramparts views his death with suspicion because Whaley had never had an accident before and was the first Dallas cab driver to die on duty since 1937. In fact, Whaley was killed because an 83-year-old man (who also died) was driving north in a southbound lane. > Eddy Benavides, 29, identified as the look-alike brother of Domingo Benavides, a witness in Oswald's slaying of Patrolman J. D. Tippit...
...nothing much was done about it. At least not until the members of the Warren Commission became outraged by the prejudicial newspaper coverage, on a nation-wide scale, of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused as the assassin of President Kennedy. By December of 1964, the American Bar Association (ABA) had organized a special committee to do something about...