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There could be little doubt of Oswald's guilt," wrote TIME two weeks after President Kennedy's assassination, and continued, "Lee Oswald was plainly a man of demonic frustrations and fanaticisms." Most of the U.S. press shared that conclusion, but the major job of reporting then shifted from journalists to the members of the Warren Commission. By the time Mrs. Marina Oswald testified, it had become even clearer that, as TIME said, "there was no dark conspiracy ... no plot." This week the Warren report massively confirmed these views...
...This sentiment was typified when we ran a cover on Caryl Chessman, the convicted kidnaper and sex offender who had become the center of a major legal dispute over capital punishment. A reader then wrote: "How could you glorify such a despicable criminal?" Similar thoughts were expressed about Lee Oswald when TIME did a cover story on his wife. We acknowledge the readers' feelings that to be on TIME'S cover is a distinction quite different from being in a newspaper headline. And in most cases, our cover subjects have achieved importance by the good they have done...
...four. Abe's wife was Mary Todd, but not Jack's. Whereas Lincoln was shot in a theater in April by means of a pistol, Kennedy was shot in a car in November by means of a rifle. The names John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald have no initial letter in common. An attempt was made to impeach the Tennessee Johnson, but not the Texas Johnson, despite the fact that both were born in states whose names begin with T and succeeded Presidents who were shot in the presence of their wives. "Different cause, different effect." Therefore...
Ruby also had trouble mentioning the name of the man he had killed: "Very rarely do I use the name Oswald. I don't know why." But once past this obstacle, he could be clear in his insistence that the deed was solely his own: "I was never malicious toward this person. No one else requested me to do anything. I never spoke to anyone about attempting to do anything. No subversive organization gave me any idea. No underworld person made any effort to contact me . . . The last thing I read was that Mrs. Kennedy may have to come...
...these coincidences have been circulated, the facts have been embellished more than a little to fit. Many of the lists have it that Booth was born in 1839 and Oswald in 1939. Booth, in fact, was born in 1838. Some accounts point out that Lee Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theater, while Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and ran to a warehouse. But Booth's refuge, where he was killed twelve days after shooting Lincoln, was in fact a tobacco-curing barn. Beyond this the twists have gotten ridiculous. It has been noted...