Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week laid out the strategy for getting him off scot-free from the most widely viewed killing in world history. It was only a bail hearing in Dallas' criminal court, but in its course the lawyers clearly showed their intent to prove that Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald while temporarily insane from the shock of President Kennedy's assassination. If Chief Counsel Melvin Belli can prove that-and prove as well that Ruby is now recovered-it is possible that, under Texas law, Ruby could be a free...
Bromberg noted that though Ruby telephoned his sister after Kennedy was killed and said, "I will have to leave Dallas-Dallas is ruined," he cheered up considerably by hanging around police headquarters after Oswald's capture. He felt "like a big guy, being in with the police." Ruby's feeling toward Kennedy, explained Bromberg, approached "a love that passed beyond a rational appreciation of a great man, coming out of his unconscious." His killing of Oswald "was in response to an irresistible impulse. His knowledge of right and wrong was obliterated at the time of the crime...
...torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick placed against their necks. Kaduk had already served nine years in an East German prison for what he contemptuously called "the Auschwitz business" when he was paroled and fled to West Berlin...
Only by answering all the questions about the shootings of Kennedy and Oswald, in the fullest and most public manner possible, can the Warren committee serve justice. The committee's job will be easier if the public ceases to prejudge the case...
Americans should realize that the published evidence against Oswald proves nothing. They must look to the Warren committee for the real answers, whether it concludes that Oswald is innocent, guilty, or concludes that there can be no conclusions...