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Bits & Pieces. As the unruly bits and pieces of Lee Oswald's life continued to come to light last week, there were a few kind words for him from at least his mother. "Lee was such a fine, high-class boy," insisted Mrs. Marguerite Oswald. "He didn't waste time with comic books and trashy things. On Sundays I'd take him to church and then we'd have lunch somewhere and go to the zoo. If my son killed the President," she said, "he would have said so. That...
...others described Oswald's upbringing rather differently. Said John Carro, once probation officer for Oswald, who was a chronic truant during the time he lived in New York: "I got the feeling that the mother was so wrapped up in her own problems she never really saw her son's. I got the feeling that what the boy needed most was someone who cared. He was just a small, lonely, withdrawn kid who looked to me like he was heading for trouble...
Reason for Hope. Meanwhile, in Dallas, the trial of the man who killed Oswald was postponed until Feb. 3 to give both prosecution and defense time to prepare their cases. Even though he faced a possible death sentence, what Jack Ruby seemed most worried about was his popularity. "Are my friends still with me?" he asked his few visitors...
...world that watched TV's first live murder program may soon get to see the ensuing trial. The proceedings against Jack Ruby next February for the killing of Lee Oswald may be televised live at the discretion of Judge Joe Brantley Brown. Last week Judge Brown insisted he had made no decision, allowed as how "I was just fixin' to go deer hunting." Everyone else concerned was fixin' to fight...
...Oswald & Ruby. Defense Attorney Tom Howard, originally reported in favor of TV coverage of Ruby's trial, last week changed his mind: "We don't want any circus-type trials. I'm firmly against it." Dallas Prosecuting Attorney Henry Wade agrees: "Witnesses will be sufficiently perturbed and excited without cameras staring them in the face. It appears to me that it would be difficult for Ruby or anyone else to get a fair trial." And at week's end in Chicago, the American Bar Association issued an angry denunciation of proposals to televise the Ruby trial...