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    "ocrText": "vices Committee, made slight secret of\nticated new technology and a raft of Free-\nren Commission report. They are ready\nhis disenchantment with the com-\ndom of Information lawsuits, they have\nto believe almost any explanation. how-\nmission's report and encouraged private\nuncovered additional evidence pointing\never crazy. as long as it doesn't come\ninvestigators to challenge its findings. \"I\nto the existence of a conspiracy-a con-\nfrom the government.\"\nnever believed that he [Oswald] did it\nspiracy in which LeeHarvey Oswald was\nThe proposition that Oswald\nwithout any consultation or encourage-\nnot involved, if indeed there ever was a\nwasn't acting alone has always seemed a\nment whatsoever.\" Russell said in 1970.\nLee Harvey Oswald. Within the last few\nlittle crazy. Because, if he wasn't, then\n\"Too many things caused me to doubt\nmonths. Congressman Henry Gonzalez. a\nthere must have been a conspiracy, a\nthat he planned it all by himself.\" And\nDemocrat from San Antonio. has intro-\nword that does not go down easily among\nthen there were the witnesses to the as-\nduced a resolution calling for a congres-\nmany Americans. And, if there was a con-\nsassination itself. Fifty-two of them insist-\nsional investigation of the assassination.\nspiracy. then there must have been an ef-\ned that at least some of the shots that\nA petition backing it has collected more\nfort to cover it up. an effort so monu-\nkilled President Kennedy came from in\nthan 250,000 signatures on the West\nmental that it would have had to include\nfront of him, from the direction of the in-\nCoast alone. A bootlegged copy of the\nthe Dallas police, the CIA, the Secret Ser-\nfamous grassy knoll. The commission dis-\nlong-suppressed Zapruder film. showing\nvice, the FBI and. yes. possibly the Presi-\ncounted all of them.\nPresident Kennedy being driven violently\ndent of the United States. Ten years ago.\nSmall wonder, then, that the com-\nbackward by a shot that rips off the top of\nthat was a little hard to swallow. Even\nmission's report proved a breeding\nhis head, has been shown on national tele-\nnow. it is a story one would rather not be-\nground for skeptics. In the years imme-\nvision twice. Perhaps most significant of\nlieve. But there are the questions that\ndiately following the assassination, 26\nall. the Justice Department, according to\nwon't go away. And there is Watergate: a\nbooks and dozens of articles. some of\nreliable sources. has very quietly begun a\nconspiracy involving the CIA. the FBI,\nthem serious, some simply scurrilous,\nhigh-level, internal review of Oswald's\nthe Department of Justice and, yes. the\nchallenged the finding that Oswald acted\nbackground. In the past, rumors have cir-\nPresident of the United States. Suddenly.\nalone or, in the opinion of many of the\nculated that Oswald was an agent of one\nit becomes possible.\nubters-including Mark Lane and Syl-\nor more intelligence agencies. perhaps in-\nvia Meagher. author of the seminal\ncluding the FBI. Now. the rumors are tak-\nThe commission and the critics\nAccessories After the Fact-at all. By\ning on some substance.\nImpossible, said the commission,\n1967. the holes in the Warren Com-\nMuch of the evidence that is being\nfrom the moment it began its work. Con-\nmission report had become so numerous\ngone over today is precisely the same\nspiracy was the one thing the commission\nand obvious. and the public furor about\nground that the critics went over a de-\ndid not want to hear, much less discover.\nthem so great, that several congressmen\ncade ago. What has changed is belief.\nEarl Warren, who had accepted the chair-\nwere demanding a new investigation.\nThe strongest selling point of the Warren\nmanship of the commission only after\nThen. another one of those coincidences.\nCommission is not what it said but the\nconsiderable arm-twisting from President\nIn New Orleans a district attorney named\npeople who said it: some of the most re-\nJohnson, made it clear at the first. secret\nJim Garrison, a figure of large ambition\nspected men in the land, among them the\nstaff meeting of the commission that his\nand unsavory reputation, indicted Clay\nchief justice of the United States. two di-\nmission and theirs was more political\nShaw, director of the New Orleans Trade\nrectors of the CIA and a man who a de-\nthan investigatory. He had taken the job.\nMart. for conspiracy to murder John Ken-\ncade later would assume the presidency.\nWarren told the commission, because the\nnedy. Garrison claimed that Shaw was the\nGerald R. Ford. If a senior public figure\nPresident had convinced him that if\nringleader of a CIA cabal. He proved only\nstated something in 1964. there was a ten-\nrumors about a conspiracy were not\nthat Clay was a devotee of kinky homo-\ndency to take him at his word. In the af-\nsquelched, it could conceivably lead the\nsexuality. After a ludicrous trial, in which\ntermath of Watergate and Vietnam, few\ncountry into war. As Melvin Eisenberg, a\nGarrison made almost no attempt to pro-\npeople are prepared to believe anything\ncommission lawyer. later recalled the\nduce evidence, Shaw was acquitted. Sub-\nthat comes out of Washington. In a sense,\nchief justice's charge in a memo, \"He\nsequently. Shaw died and Garrison was\nthat is part of the problem. As Mark\nplaced emphasis on quenching rumors,\ndriven from office. The Warren Com-\nLane, who has returned to investigating\nand precluding further speculation such\nmission's critics were scattered in dis-\nthe assassination after sojourns into Viet-\nas that which has surrounded the death of\nnam protests and Indian rights struggles.\nLincoln.\"\narray.\nNow the critics have returned,\nputs it: \"It's not a question any longer of\nThus, under extreme political pres-\nstronger than before. Armed with sophis-\npersuading people to disbelieve the War-\nsures, the commission set about its task.\n18 NEW TIMES"
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