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...Oswald's palm print appeared on a cardboard box found at the window...
...American public, through the nation's press, television, and radio, has been persuaded that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy. A presumption of guilt, rather than of innocence, has dominated the news media; the day after Ruby shot Oswald, the New York Times headlined its front page, "President's Assassin Shot to Death." In the 55 days since Kennedy's murder, only a few publications, notably the New Republic, the Reporter, and the National Guardian, have pointed out the weakness of the evidence which has been presented to the public...
Foreign public opinion remains, for the most part, unconvinced by the U.S. press. The socialist bloc is not alone in its conviction that Oswald was framed. The Messenger, a moderate Greek newsweekly, wrote, "It is obvious...that they [the Dallas police] manufactured methodically the evidence against Oswald, and that they helped Ruby in his deed, so that Oswald's voice would never be heard...
...conservative forces have already begun to use America's belief in Oswald's guilt to show that they are correct in opposing "communists." The John Birch Society has declared. "We believe that the president of the United States has been murdered by a Communist within the United States." Senator Goldwater, in a campaign speech, said that Kennedy's assassin had "a mind fed by communism." Abroad, the summary dispatch with which the Oswald case was closed, the fabrication of evidence by the Dallas police, and the killing of Oswald, have led many to suspect an elaborate rightist plot...
...sake of a rational political atmosphere at home and for the sake of America's Image in the world, Americans should want to know the truth about Kennedy's assassination. They should wonder: if Oswald may be innocent, then who else may be guilty? But above all, they should feel compelled to find the facts, because in the United States no man is considered guilty until convicted under...