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Rubenstein would knu : that anyone found guilty
dent was assassinated "as of the hatred
of involvement in the death of a President would
and bitterness that has been injected into the
die, in disgrace. If he killed the assassin and then
life of our nation by bigots." The people whom
offered the defense that he acted irrationally
Earl Warren generally cails "haters" and "bigots"
through an excess of grief about the President's
are American constitutional conservatives.
murder and the President's bereaved family, he
Practically every liberal in the United States,
stood a good chance to get a light sentence which
who was quoted during the first hour or two after
might soon be followed by pardon - or, even, to
the President's assassination, joined Soviet officials
get no prison sentence I'll
and Chie: Eart Warren :- assuming das
(3) One television picture of the shooting of
American conservatives (which liberals usually
Oswald has been re-run, in staggered slow motion,
call "right-wing extremists," "right-wing fanat-
possibly on all networks, several times. The pic-
ics," or "ultra-rightists") were guilty.
ture clearly reveals that, in the split-second before
Rubenstein pulled the trigger, Oswald turned and
After it became known that the assassin was
looked at his approaching assailant. Many who
a communist, the tone changed a bit. Some liberals
have studied that remarkable picture are certain
veered to the position which conservatives had
there was a flash of recognition on Oswald's face
taken at the outset-namely, that the assassination
when he saw Rubenstein.
was a horrible, meaningless act of violence by
(4) Jack Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas was
some madman, an act which could occur any-
closed indefinitely on Friday, after the President's
where at any time, and which should not be taken
assassination. Bill Crowe of Evansville, Indiana
as reflecting any political mood or condition in
(a nightclub entertainer whose stage name is Bill
Dallas or elsewhere.
DeMar), had just completed two weeks of a five-
Other liberals, no longer in position to accuse
week engagement at Ruby's Carousel. DeMar's
conservatives of killing the President, kept in-
act at the Carousel displayed a feat of memory.
sinuating that conservatives were responsible for
He would ask 20 customers in the place to name
creating an atmosphere of hate and distrust -
various objects, in rapid order. Then, at random,
an atmosphere which nourishes violence. This was
DeMar would tell each one what object he had
the line that Earl Warren took, after it became
named. DeMar, a memory specialist, is positive
known that the assassin was not a "right-wing
that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the patrons
bigot,' but a communist.
who named an object for DeMar during his act
The communist line in the United States and
at Ruby's Carousel in Dallas, a few days before
in the Soviet Union veered to the position that
the assassination of President Kennedy.
"right-wing elements" had somehow arranged the
assassination in order to discredit communists.
Motives
The East German communist government said
that "ultra-reactionary circles" instigated the mur-
Ti first official comment from communist
der of President Kennedy because "they did not
Russia, about the assassination of President Ken-
like his policy toward the Soviet Union and his
nedy, came from Tass, official news agency of the
attitude toward racialists."(8
Soviet Union. Tass said the assassination was the
work of "racists, the Ku Klux Klan, and Birch-
Concerning the atmosphere of political tur-
ists." In a second article, Tass said the assassina-
moil prevalent in Texas at the time of the assas-
tion was a "new link in the chain of crimes com-
sination: it was mentioned at the outset of this
mitted by southern racists and extremists."
Report, and should be re-emphasized, that Texas
About the same time on the day of the assassina-
conservatives (the so-called ultra-rightists) had
tion, Chief Justice Earl Warren said the Presi-
nothing to do with creating that atmosphere. It
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