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...rose and cried: "This is it!" He aimed his revolver at one police man and pulled the trigger-but the weapon failed to fire. The cops jumped him and there was a fierce, brief struggle. Hauled bruised and kicking to police headquarters, the man was booked as Lee Harvey Oswald...
Sunday, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald point blank, the Boston strangler struck again in Lawrence. In Washington, the rain continued. The Sunday New York Times carried the following filler: "Because of poverty and food shortage in many countries, the World Food Congress estimates that 10,000 persons are dying daily from malnutrition or starvation...
When the President's assassin took gun in hand, he rejected a political system designed to allow opposition without treason, dissent without disloyalty. Lee Oswald's murderer put himself no less outside the structure of law. Both men used the tactics of the battle field, not of a civilized society...
Just as no possible motivation could justify the assassination of the President, no calculated expediency could warrant the murder of Lee Oswald, even had he been proved guilty. As the Supreme Court said 97 years ago, "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances...
Those whose desire for vengeance overcomes their respect for the legal system share the guilt of Oswald's murderer. Their attitudes encouraged the killing by spreading contempt for orderly judicial procedure. As our society must allow a Lee Oswald his right to speak, so it should have guaranteed him his day in court...