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...York lawyer Mark Lane charged yesterday that the Presidential Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy will judge Lee H. Oswald guilty on the basis of insufficient evidence." Lane spoke to a full house in Emerson D; his speech was sponsored by the Young Socialist Club...
Lane, the attorney retained by Oswald's mother to protect the interests of her son, blasted the investigation as a "back-door, star-chamber proceeding run by highly political powers...
Then Belli brought in his star doctor, Manfred Guttmacher, 65, of Baltimore, a psychiatrist for 32 years and a veteran witness in court cases. Belli immediately asked him the key question: Was Ruby sane when he killed Oswald? Guttmacher did not hesitate in his answer: "I don't think he was capable of distinguishing right from wrong or realizing the consequences of his act at the time of the shooting...
Ruby was so crushed by the assassination, said Guttmacher, that he spoke of Kennedy "in terms that a person in love would use," saying again and again, "I fell for that guy." In his state of grief, said Guttmacher, Ruby blanked out, did not remember killing Oswald, recalled only being wrestled to the floor after the shooting. Said Guttmacher of Ruby's account of that moment: "He said, 'It flashed through my mind what are all these people jumping on me for? I'm a known person, not some kind of a screwball...
...Defense Attorney Melvin Belli who needed the expert witnesses, for Belli based his case on the argument that Jack Ruby was insane when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Belli produced a clutch of top psychologists and psychiatrists, all of whom testified that they had found something mentally or emotionally wrong with the defendant. The prosecution brought in its own squad of equally expert professionals, who testified to the contrary. Rebuttal was met with counterrebuttal and the witnesses were cross-examined till they were crosseyed. At the last minute, Belli put in a rush call to Chicago, persuaded Neurologist Frederic...