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...Brussels, theatergoers are packing a new play, Dallas, 22 November 1963, 12:27 p.m., in which right-wingers and Dallas police frame Lee Harvey Oswald for John Kennedy's assassination. In publications from Esquire to Commentary, college professors, journalists, novelists and would-be hawkshaws are fairly stepping on each other's lines to find new ways to challenge the Warren Commission's conclusions, investigatory technique, language, logic, legal methodology and moral intent...
...Warren Report, issued more than two years ago after a ten-month investigation into the killing, said flatly that Lee Oswald-alone-shot Kennedy, wounded Texas Governor John Connally, murdered a policeman and was, in turn, shot dead by Jack Ruby, whom it pictured as a demented loner. The report was widely praised at first-but no longer. The discrepancies-real or imagined-surrounding the assassination have become an increasingly obsessive topic the world over...
...party dissenters, as well as the burgeoning cult of parlor detectives, the chief stimulant has been an outpouring of critical books on the subject. The biggest seller of all (110,000 copies) is Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, which in effect is a defense brief for Oswald. Actually, the author admits: "My book is not an objective analysis; I've never said that I believe Oswald did it or did not do it. I say that had Oswald faced trial, he would not have been convicted...
Fact & Fantasy. In all the verbiage expended on the Warren Report and the assassination, an incredible variety of hypotheses-and "facts" to make them true-has been tossed out to support contentions that Lee Oswald was innocent or in league with another rifleman or the dupe of sinister powers. In its December issue, Esquire rounds up 35 theories about the whos, whys, whats and hows of the assassination...
...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...