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...Sort of Lost." Another intriguing, if coincidental, aspect of the case is the similarity in background and character between Speck and Lee Harvey Oswald, President Kennedy's assassin. Like Oswald, Speck was brought up largely by his mother (his father died when the boy was six). Born in Kirkwood, Ill., on Dec. 6, 1941, Speck, like Oswald, moved to Dallas as a small boy. Speck's mother, like Oswald's, remarried and clung grimly to the lower-middle-class fringe of poverty...
...Like Oswald, who, in the words of the Warren Commission, "was profoundly alienated from the world in which he lived," Speck was from childhood a stranger to all, filled with strange hates. Recalled a Dallas teacher who taught Speck in the eighth grade: "He seemed sort of lost. I don't think I ever saw him smile. Kids who sat near him often asked to be moved." The next year Speck dropped out of the ninth grade (the same level at "which Oswald quit school...
...Victims. Speck's mother, who lives in tawdry East Dallas, refused to talk with reporters. But Shirley's mother told newsmen: "He's crazy when he gets liquor in him." In 1963, three days before Oswald killed Kennedy, Speck was sent from Dallas to the Texas Penitentiary at Huntsville to start a three-year term for forgery and burglary. Freed on parole, he was jailed a week later on charges of assaulting a woman with a knife, confessed that he had meant only to rob her but had fled when she screamed. Returned to Huntsville to serve...
Mindful of Dallas and Lee Harvey Oswald, Cleveland and Dr. Sam Sheppard, Miami and Candy Mossier-and of recent Supreme Court decisions on the handling of suspects-Chicago newspapers have treated the mass slaying of eight student nurses with reasonable restraint. Headlines and stories have been as cool as the event permits. Still, in collecting the lurid details, one paper has had a clear advantage. Chicago's American was able to unleash Harry ("Romy") Romanoff, 74, the last of the city's great Front Page, get-the-story-at-all-costs reporters...
...checked 200 persons who had received mail-order guns, found 25% of them had criminal records. In New Jersey, the Paterson Morning Call last November marked the second anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by ordering a .38-cal. revolver by mail in the name of L. H. Oswald. It was promptly delivered...