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...Undoubtedly it will be Lee H. Oswald who will be selected as Man of the Year, but may I suggest that the title this year be changed to "Alleged Man of the Year"? This would still the voices of those pettifoggers who will protest that Oswald was not actually proved guilty in a court...
...your references to Mrs. Ruth Paine, who befriended Marina Oswald and her two baby daughters [Dec. 6], you reported that she is a Russian immigrant. She is not. Mrs. Paine was born in New York, lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, in that order...
...Paine offered Marina Oswald refuge in her home primarily as one human being offering aid to another in distress...
...Paine did not know that Oswald had hidden a gun in the garage. As a Quaker, she would not have permitted it, although it is within the law and a relatively common practice in Texas to keep a weapon in the house...
...What occurred in Dallas struck at the heart of our fundamental rule of law," said the A.B.A. "The widespread publicizing of Oswald's alleged guilt, involving statements by officials and public disclosures of the details of 'evidence,' could conceivably have prevented any lawful trial of Oswald due to the difficulty of finding jurors who had not been prejudiced." As for the Ruby trial, said the A.B.A., "the judicial process must not be further impaired by additional sensationalism, which would inevitably result if television of the trial were permitted...