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John F. Kennedy — and Dallas

Oswald?

Standing orders of the Dallas
police require two men incars of
the type Tippit was driving.
Tippit was, moreover, in viola-
tion of orders that he should use
the car radio to notify fellow
officers that he was stopping to
question a suspect inthe Kennedy
assassination.

Buchanan’s answer to these
questions is that members of the
Dallas police force were in fact
among the plotters who carried

through Kennedy’s murder, and ©

planned to shoot Oswald later
‘while trying to escape.’’ Oswald
was also involved in the plot,
“though he was not the killer of
Kennedy, and he was unaware that
his main role in the entire affair
was to be that of scapegoat—
the fall-guy.

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examination that Buchanan makes
of Oswald’s movements and the
behaviour of the police imme-
diately after the shooting of the

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to call off their activities as of

But, man is a restless spirit
and now three of the original
Milestones — Harry Hoshowsky,
Eugene Komar and Jerry Shack
—have been joined by one of
Vancouver’s most promising
young female folk artists, Kris
Robinson, and are reportedly
busily working on a repertoire
which will include many new
stylings as well as some of the
old favorites.

Their first public appearance
will be at the PT Victory Cele-
pration on Saturday, June 13.
The celebration will be held in
the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse
to mark the successful (we hope!)
conclusion of the current press
drive.

In addition to The Milestones,
many other talented performers
have offered their services to
help make this truly a people’s
victory celebration. Their names
will be published in succeeding
issues of our paper.

Tickets for the affair (priced
at only 50¢) are available from
members of any of the press
clubs scattered throughout the
province, or directly from the
PT office.

President backs up this propo-
sition, It explains why Oswald
was allowed out through the cor-
don that had been put around

the book warehouse; it explains -

why, shortly afterwards, some-
one or@ered the arrest of Os-
wald when there was no evidence
whatsoever to link him with the

crime.

“It is certain,’’ says Buchan-
an, ‘that if someone in the police

department gave the order to ar-
rest this man (i.e., Oswald)at any
time before his 90 fellow-
workers had been rounded up and
counted, he knew Oswald’s role

- in the conspiracy already.’’

Buchanan believes that Oswald
was involved as an: accomplice
of the marksman installed in the

‘pook depository. He helped this
unknown person to conceal him-

Deserves Award

Albertan Reader, writes:

’ Please find enclosed money for

‘pT’ subscription. Congratula-
tions on your May Day issue
with its correct and clear direc-
tion to the working people in their
struggles in the economic and
political sphere. Your May Day
issue has the correct conception
which all progressive newS~
papers under present conditions
should have for that special day.

In my opinion out of all the
progressive Canadian publica-

tions, your May Day issue is -

most deserving of an award,

Books needed

Arthur Stratton, North Vancou-
ver, writes; For a number of
years I have been sending my
PT, progressive books and other
literature to Paul Benjamin, 244
Plaissance Park, Pointe-a-

Pierre, Trinidad, West Indies, In

his last letter to me he said

‘that their youth clubs were in

great need of progressive litera-
ture of all sorts, and asked me to
pring their need before readers of
the P.T. in the hope that some
of them would be able to send
‘them some. If any of the read-
ers could help it would be high-
ly appreciated.

self. All this was a key ques-
tion if Oswald was to be induced
to play the later role he did.

But Oswald’s abilities as a
marksman hardly back up serious
consideration that he was the
assassin. His army record shows
him to have been ‘‘one of the
worst shots in the marines — or
for that matter in any other mili-
tary service.’’

Moreover there was evidence
after hisarrestfrom an examina-
tion of his hands that he had
fired a gun, as he indeed had,
but none whatsoever that he had
‘fired a rifle. There were in fact
two men involved in firing the
bullets which killed the Presi-
dent, according to Buchanan.

The best spot from which to
assassinate the President was
from the railway bridge under
which the President was to pass
soon after his car swung away
from the book depository. Cont-
rary to the most elementary se-
curity arrangements this bridge,

Learn a Lesson

William Carson, Burnaby,
writes; Every cloud has a silver
lining and I believe the unfor-
tunate Separatist Movement in
Quebec willteach Canada a great-
ly needed lesson in human under-
standing and tolerance,

Already, the first reactions are
taking place, even on the West
Coast. The hounds. of hate and
intolerance are baring their
fangs. Most people are blinking
in bewilderment—while a small
handful are preparing to throw
light and balm into the troubled
waters.

Watch how these people will
be termed fanatics, ignorant
scum, anti-Canadians,  anti-
Christian, maladjusted tramps,
etc. when in actual fact the very

opposite is true (excepting those ©

who stoop to violence). Those of
us who misunderstand them
enough to deride the movement,
have a.lot to learn about true
Christianity, love of fellow men
and the field of humanities in

general, We must only hope that

those whom we elected to serve
us will justify our faith in them
by showing enough true states-
manship to end the problems be-
fore they get more serious,

May 22, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

the plot?

which was ideal for a sharp-
shooter was not guarded on Nov-
ember 22.

Most of the television and
radio commentators, eye-wit-
nesses to the assassination,
assumed the first shot came
from the bridge. Theshots from
the book depository were, in
Buchanan’s view, meant to divert
attention from the bridge so that
the assassin there could more
easily escape.

Confirmation that the Presi-
dent was struck through the neck
from the front, i.e., from the
bridge, seemed to be forthcoming
in statements from doctors at
the hospital to which Kennedy
was taken. But weeks later the
doctors involved ‘‘were visited
by two Secret Service agents who
showed them a document describ-
ed as the Bethesda autopsy re-
port. Both surgeons thereupon
retracted their original state-
ments.,’’

‘I believe,’’ he writes, ‘‘the
murder of the President was pro-
voked, primarily, by fear of the
domestic and international con-
sequences of the Moscow Pact:
the danger of disarmament which
would disrupt the industries on
which the plotters depended, and
of an international detente which
would, in their view, have threat-
ened the eventual nationalisation
of their oil investment over-
seas,”’ ;

That Lee Oswald was merely

‘a scapegoat, used with the inten-

tion of stirring up anti-Commu-
nist and anti-Soviet feelings as a
result of the -assassination,
seems perfectly reasonable,

So, too, does the possibility
that-the plot to kill Kennedy in-
volved powerful figures, includ-
ing members ofthe Dallas police.

.—Jack Sutherland
(Br. Daily Worker)

Will we learn the lesson? I
am certain we will, for it is
my observation that Canadians
need only to be shown a better
way. But before the final solu-
tions come, there will of neces-
sity be many painful reappraisals
of our so-called democratic
thinking. Some will howl for sey-
erance, others for forceful assi-
milation. There may even be
(heaven forbid) a committee re-
commending the Agassiz-type of
remoulding plants all over Que-
bec!

Good News

Joe Ivens, Okanagan Mission,
writes; I note with great pleasure
in a recent issue. of the PT that
your ‘*Maintenance Squad”’ is do-
ing a big job, also that the press
drive is off to a flying start.

If this ‘‘affluence’? the mon-
opoly press speaks about is gen-
uine, which I somewhat doubt,
is it not because the ‘PT’ has
been here many years, fighting
for better conditons for the work-
ingclass? To keep this ‘‘afflu-
ence’’ going, (and don’t let your
guard down), the workers need
the PT as much, if not more
than ever before, for this very
reason,