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was created by bitterness and hatreds within the
servatism and silence of new frontier
ranks of the Democrat Party - chiefly, among
policies which communists are clearly on record
liberal elements of the Party. It should also be
as approving. We will discuss this extraordinary
re-emphasized that this political bitterness in
theory in a subsequent Report.
Texas, engendered by liberals, had nothing to do
with the murder of the President.
in a subsequent Report, we will also give de-
Even after it became known that the assassin
tails on the life of the late assassin - including
was a communist, many thoughtful conservatives
such interesting items as the report that the State
felt that the assassination might be nothing more
Department lent him American tax money to re-
than an isolated act by a fanatic, operating alone
turn to the United States from Russia, after he
and without reason. The Rubenstein sequel puts
had defected to the Soviet Union and renounced
a different complexion on the matter. It raises the
his American citizenship; and the fact that the
presumption that there was a plot, in which Os-
pro-Castro Fair Play For Cuba front which Os-
wald and Rubenstein were cheap, expendable
wald represented was originally financed in New
tools at the command of others.
York City by Cuban delegates to the United
If the assassination was that kind of plot, who
Nations.
is the most likely suspect? The forces of inter-
national communism? That seems unlikely. As
indicated by the quotation (above) from the East-
The Interim
German communist government (and from nu-
merous other statements by communists, set out in
W hile the nation is in emotional turmoil over'
this Report during recent months), communists
the assassination, two dangers are imminent:
felt they could get along better with President
(1) that conservatives, wincing over efforts to
Kennedy than with any other American who
blame them for the President's death and thus
might become President, There is, however, spec-
reluctant to associate themselves with anything
ulation that the international communist con-
that even smacks of criticism of the now-martyred
spiracy instigated the assassination of President
President, may lose heart and slacken their efforts;
Kennedy, not because communists disliked him,
(2) that Congress, in a sentimental stampede to
but to make a martyr of him, calculating that the
make a gesture to the memory of President Ken-
ensuing turmoil would halt the rising tide of con-
nedy, may approve new frontier legislation which
WHO I S SMOOT?
Born in Missouri, reared in Texas, Dan Smoot went to SMU in Dallas, getting BA and MA degrees in 1938 and
1940. In 1941, he joined the faculty at Harvard as a Teaching Fellow in English, doing graduate work for a doctorate
in American Civilization.
In 1942, he left Harvard and joined the FBI. As an FBI Agent, he worked for three and a half years on communist
investigations in the industrial Midwest; two years as an administrative assistant to J. Edgar Hoover on FBI headquar-
ters staff in Washington; and almost four years on general FBI cases in various parts of the nation.
In 1951, Smoot resigned from the FBI and helped start Facts Forum. On Facts Forum radio and television
programs, Smoot spoke to a national audience, giving both sides of controversial issues.
In July, 1955, he resigned and started his present independent publishing and broadcasting business - a free-
enterprise operation financed entirely by profits from sales: sales of The Dan Smoot Report, a weekly magazine;
and sales of a weekly news-analysis broadcast, to business firms, for use on radio and television as an advertising vehicle.
The Report and the broadcast give only one side in presenting documented truth about important issues - the side
that uses the American Constitution as a yardstick. The Report is available by subscription; and the broadcasts
are
available for commercial sponsorship, anywhere in the United States.
If you think Dan Smoot is providing effective tools for Americans fighting socialism and communism, you orn
help immensely - by helping him get more customers for his Report and broadcasts.
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