Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month the officers of Crédit Suisse convened an extraordinary meeting to explain to 3,000 stunned stockholders how the debacle could have occurred. Newly elected Board Chairman Oswald Aeppli was unable to put a specific figure on the bank's losses. So tangled was the trail of the fraudulent investments, he said, that a 100-man Crédit Suisse investigating team has still not sorted out the mess. The investigation could take months longer...
That haunting, half-familiar figure with the rifle is not Lee Harvey Oswald, but Actor John Pleshette, filming an ABC-TV movie about him. The film shows Oswald's years in Russia and his life with Marina, but switches in a key spot to fiction. The script eliminates Jack Ruby and his fatal shot from history, leaving Oswald alive to go on trial-Eichmann-like-in a glass box. The verdict on his guilt is being kept secret from Ben Gazzara, who plays the ambitious prosecuting attorney, and Lorne Greene, the defense attorney. Nor does Pleshette yet know...
...when Moyers was in Cuba last January filming a documentary, Castro showed up and wanted to talk-for 15½ hours, it turned out. Not to worry, Barbara. Says Moyers: "Even if Castro had come out and told me that he personally handed the rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald, our interviews wouldn't be competitive...
...James David Barber's The Presidential Character. Abrahamsen, 73, who was born in Norway and immigrated to the U.S. in 1940, is an acknowledged expert on criminal behavior. He has also written two other psychobiographies, on a turn-of-the-century Viennese anti-Semite and on Lee Harvey Oswald. In preparing his Nixonalysis, Abrahamsen interviewed dozens of people, including several Nixon relatives (but no members of his immediate family), onetime Colleagues Robert Finch and Roy Cohn, Watergate Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, and Alger Hiss...
...date, no firm fruits of Sprague's early work have reached the public. Nevertheless, a rush of rumor, innuendo and unconfirmed leads has blared from the committee. The latest concerns a letter the FBI is investigating said to have been written by Oswald to a "Mr. Hunt" asking about "my position." It is dated 14 days before the Kennedy assassination. The committee's operation has outraged many Congressmen. Snarled Michigan's John Dingell: "They tell us they have persuasive evidence! What they have is a lot of crap...