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...WAKEFIELD. Nov.4--Ten mimeographed pamphlets calling for the assassination of President Johnson and signed by the "Harvard Council for Restoring U.S. Democracy" were found on a street here today...
...pamphlets were discovered early today by a Wakefield newsboy. They bore the heading "Why Kill LBJ?" and read "Because he is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans in Vietnam, forced to fight for their own lives in a futile war in which they do not believe. SOMEONE MUST KILL LBJ if democracy is to be restored in the U.S." The name of the organization was at the bottom...
...brought the pamphlets home and his mother contacted Wakefield police, who called the FBI and the Secret Service...
...custodian at Wakefield's St. John's Church discovered another pamphlet in the church parking lot later in the morning. This one read "Thousands of Americans are being killed while LBJ vacations." There was no mention of the Harvard organization but it was written by the same hand and mimeographed on the same machine as the other pamphlets...
Shevlin, a junior, is one of the legion of high school stars--he played for Wakefield High (Mass.) High--who disappear into the morass of college football and are never heard from again...