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Worcester, Mas chusetts
The
Established January 1, 1866.
Published by the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Inc.
(Worcester Evening Post acquired in 1938)
ROBERT W. STODDARD, Chairman
RICHARD c. STEELE, President and Publisher
FORREST W. SEYMOUR, Editor
GORDON A. O'BRIEN, Vice Pres., General Mgr.
ROBERT W. BOOTH, Vice President - Radio
The Gazette Is an Independent Newspaper, Not a Political Organ, and Maintains What It
Believes to Be the Rights of All the People All the Time.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1968
Writing the Warren Report Into Law
A New Orleans man, Clay L.
witnesses. A lawyer who was finally
Shaw, has asked a federal court to
named as a sort of "defense counsel"
prohibit the district attorney per-
for Oswald sat mute much of the
manently from prosecuting him on a
time. Interviews with witnesses were
charge of conspiring to murder Presi-
conducted in a variety of ways, some
dent Kennedy.
of which would not have met the
We express no view at the moment
standards of good courtroom proce-
on the merits of his effort or of the
dure. There was no attempt to serve
prosecution effort. That is before the
the constitutional requirement of a
courts, and should be decided there.
public trial.
But there is a general public right
In short, this was not a trial, but
of concern about one of the issues
an investigation. In many ways,
Shaw has raised. He asks that the fed-
it was thorough, but in others it has
eral court in New Orleans make the
rather conclusively been shown by
Warren Commission report on John
now to have been deficient.
Kennedy's assassination "valid and
binding" on every court in the nation.
The commission's findings merit
In an extraordinary case, it is an
respect. They are, on the whole, the
extraordinary request. It would be un-
best account we have of what prob-
fortunate if the court attempted to
ably happened on that black day in
impose such a limitation, and it is un-
Dallas. But they are not of a caliber to
likely that it could legally do so.
be given the force of law, and that
Whatever its merits, the Warren
was not the intent of the commission
itself.
Commission investigation was not con-
ducted strictly under court rules and
An attempt to bind the entire le-
procedures. Indeed, the commission it-
gal system of the nation to the think-
self made plain that it had not con-
ing of the Warren Commission is out
ducted a trial of Lee Harvey Oswald.
of order. If that were to have been
The man it accused had no opportun-
done, the commission itself would
ity to present a defense; he was dead.
have had to operate much differently,
Nor was there cross-examination of
from the beginning.
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