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JFK files .

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eg

iV '5

; "

uddenly a bunch of nuts became suspects

-•

❑ Jack

ie's grief; JF

K's last

word

s; Osw

ald's p

sych

e. Pag

es 18-2

1.

-

Asso

ciated P

ress .

WA

SH

ING

TO

N —

Th

ere w

as H

obo S

mith

. And a M

iami B

each

gangster called Jimm

y Blue E

yes. A

Fren

ch w

om

an n

amed

Tru

th.

And G

lenn T

. Carth

ron, a telep

hone-

pole creo

sote salesm

an, w

ho said

Jim

my H

of fa paid $1.5 milliun to have

Joh

n K

enn

edy

killed

.

How

did

he k

now

? God to

ld h

im

in P

hilad

elphia.

All g

ot th

e -M

en

tion

of F

BI

agents a

s they h

unte

d fo

r the re

al

story behind the president's assassina-tion. P

ages an

d p

ages o

f files mad

e public yesterday by the F

BI —

40,001 pag

es to b

e precise —

show

that th

e b

ureau

chased

tips fro

m sh

oesh

ine

boys, m

ental p

atients, artists, d

runks,

phone operators, businessmen, house-

wiv

es. Alm

ost an

yo

ne w

ho

offered

an

yth

ing

by

way

of h

elp m

ade it In

to

the o

fficial record

.

A M

ichig

an m

an p

honed F

BI

head

qu

arters to say

the k

ussian

s had

p

aid fiv

e men

to k

ill Ken

ned

y. A

n

agen

t inv

estigated

. He d

uly

repo

rted

two em

pty

whisk

y b

ottles an

d th

e m

an's inability to get out of bed.

-., • A w

om

an su

ggested

that ag

ents

inv

estigate g

raffiti on

a bath

roo

m

wall at a M

arylan

d restau

rant. O

ne

agent thought a chalk scrawl, inside a

bo

xcar in

Mich

igan

mig

ht b

e Lee

Harv

ey O

swald

's. Ch

eck it o

ut, h

e o

rdered

.

. Ho

bo

Sm

ith w

as from

Sp

artan.

burg

, S.C

. " .ate

and in

terv

iew

,"

ord

ered W

ashin

gto

n. T

he files aren

't clear ab

ou

t wh

at agen

ts fou

nd

, bu

t it co

uld

n't h

ave b

een m

uch

.

The m

atter of "S

usp

ect Sm

ith,"

as agents called him, w

as dropped as a , "ch

ron

ic com

plain

t."

Agen

ts heard

about Jim

my B

lue

Eyes from

a shoeshine boy. He quoted

the g

ang

ster as sayin

g. "T

hey

sho

uld

have gotten the w

hole family, includ-

ing Robert K

ennedy."

The M

iami field office reported it

-'-See B

eek Page, C

ol. 1

JFK

files: Su

dd

enly n

uts ap

peared

—

Fro

m P

age 1

• to

Directo

r J. Ed

gar H

oo

ver. N

ot

much

came o

f that In

vestig

ation

either —

Jimm

y B

lue E

yes d

idn

't .really

mean

it.

"Angele" w

as ho

w th

e Fren

ch

.wom

an sig

ned

her letter: "Is H

itler re

ally

dead

an

d b

urie

d? Y

es, I

know, you w

ere told he is, although it h

as n

ot b

een

pro

ved

. Bu

t I, :T

ruth

,' am

tellin

g y

ou th

at th

at

:monste

r is not d

ead ... Y

ou a

re

now

warn

ed, b

e w

atc

hfu

l and

.merciless ... A

ttacks can

take p

lace _

with

in th

e very

near fu

ture."

Her h

andw

riting m

atc

hed

nothing In the bureau's Anonym

ous setter F

ile. Dead

end.

Agents reported C

arthron, who

Ped

dled

creoso

te to k

eep telep

ho

ne

poles fro

m ro

tting, d

escribed

his

message from

God this w

ay: "H

e told

of h

is bein

g in

this

'room

at the B

en F

ranklin

Hotli,

Philad

elphia, P

a., and

while in

the

:bath

roo

m a lig

ht cam

e thrcu

gh

the

transo

m an

d a v

oice sp

oke ... H

e to

ld o

f bein

g so

frighten

ed h

e fell to

the flo

or a

nd

held

On

to th

e

bath

roo

m fix

tures."

Agents in

Louisian

a heard

that

a man

in a S

tetson h

at had

said, "If

we c

an't p

ut a

man in

by b

allo

t, w

e'll get rid

of th

is on

e with

a .30

-.3

0." T

hey

came u

p w

ith eig

ht m

en

who w

ore S

tetsons —

five sen

ators

and th

ree represen

tatives.

An

artist sent H

oo

ver a tw

o-p

age

lette

r ab

ou

t his th

eo

ry o

n th

e

assa

ssinatio

n —

and o

ffere

d to

pain

t his p

rotrait In

the b

argain

. T

he d

irector p

olitely

declin

ed.

A--

An E

l Cam

po

, Tex

as, wo

man

w

ho

disa

gre

ed

with

her -.uncle's

approval of Kennedy's policies sent

the u

ncle a w

ire:,"Th

ank

God, you

did

it." •

Agen

ts hu

nte

d th

e w

om

an

d

ow

n, an

d sh

e agreed

that it w

as a tasteless jo

ke.. .

, Bu

t the a

gelp

ts inte

rrog

ate

d

.her anyway —

for days.

"Exam

ine co

nten

ts of su

spect

Osw

ald sto

mach

and

intestin

es for

traces of ch

icken

," wired

a Califo

r-nia m

an. In

anoth

er telegram

, a N

ew

York

man sa

id: "S

uggest

analysis of feces of suspect Osw

ald H

arvey (sic) for traces of chicken."

Th

e c

on

cern

seem

s to h

av

e

been

pro

mpted

by th

e disco

very

of

chick

en b

ones n

ear the sp

ot w

here

Inv

estig

ato

rs said

Osw

ald

was

standin

g w

hen

he sh

ot at K

enned

y.

Osw

ald's "void" was exam

ined, but th

e files don't sh

ow

wheth

er an

alysts fo

und an

y ch

icken

. -

.• ,

S F

EX

AM

A/F

R

ta-i/7

7

p. )

Jackie's picture of the shooting

!I]

Page 18—S.F. EXAMINER * Thurs., Dec. 8, 1977

The JFK files

JACKIE ONASSIS' MEMORY `Oh my God, they shot him'

WASHINGTON fl1P11 — -Oh my God, they have shot my husband, Jack. Jack!"

From Jacqueline Kennedy's first anguished words as bullets ripped into the presidential limousine in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, to the autopsy hours later in a military hospital outside Washington, newly released FBI documents provide a vivid portrait of John Kennedy's assassination.

John Connally and his wife, Nellie, occupied Jump seals in front of the president and his wife. Connally was wounded and recalled the moments from his bed in St. Davis Hospital Dec. 11. 1963: "First sense or realization of anything unusual I became conscious of a shot on what seemed like a gunshot."

A bullet pierced Connally's body, passed through his wrist and lodged m his left leg where it shattered.

"Oh my God! They are going to kill us all," he recalled saying. He leaned toward his wife, who pulled him close.

"No, he still," she soothed him. "You are going to be all right."

"I was never really conscious of hearing t he second shot but felt it hit me." Connally said. "I was conscious of a third shot and heard it, I had a feeling the third shot hit President Kennedy but did not see it actually

'strike his body.

"About this time I became conscious of the fact that we were all splattered with what I thought was brain tissue from President Kennedy."

Mrs. Connally told the agents that parts of Kennedy's brain tissue fell on her. She said she heard Mrs. Kennedy say, "They killed Jack, his brains are in ' my hand." 4

Doctors worked for seven frantic minutes to save Kennedy, using an assortment of sophisticated 'equip-'` ment. They ' put him on oxygen, connected to a respirator and later an anesthesia machine. He underwent an emergency tracheotomy to clear blood - from his throat, received blood tranfusions and an injection in his ankle with a solution to correct dehydration.

The resident surgeon and first doctor to examine Kennedy's massive head wounds, Dr. James Carrico,,, found Kennedy had "slow, agonal respiratory efforts.. Two external wounds, one in the lower third of the anterior neck, the other in the occipital region of the skull, were noted."

No bullets were found in the president's body during the autopsy, FBI documents showed.

A discrepancy over last words

WASHINGTON (UPI) — John Kennedy's last words may have been either "Get me to a hospital," or "My . God, I've been hit," according to two different versions by the head Secret Service agent in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963.

His first-person accounts of Kennedy's shooting were contained in 40,001 pages of FBI documents released yesterday. „ .

Roy Kellerman, assistant agent in charge of the White House detail, was the ranking Secret Service agent that day. He was riding next to the driver of the presidential car. He recalled that the car had just traveled through a crowd of 250,000 people and he "breathed a sigh of relief" as they 'approached an underpass.

He heard a shot. "observed the president slump, forward and heard him say 'Get me to a hospital."

Kellerman said it took eight minutes to get to the hospital. Upon arrival "the president was breathing and gasping for breath, but did not appear conscious."

In a separate interview Kellerman said he "dis-tinctly and positively" heard Kennedy say. "My God, I've been hit."

In this version of the events, Kellerman was sure of what Kennedy said because he had been "in almost)'. daily contact for the past three years, with the • president, and could pick his voice out from any group.... of people."

• , f

4•V

4 0'

46 -

Lee H

arvey

Osw

ald

Lo

okin

INCI TAX.

Pa

ge

20

—S

.F. E

XA

MIN

ER

* T

hu

rs.. Dec. 8

, 1977

Th

e JFK

files

As b

oy, O

swald

fantasized

abo

ut killin

g

WA

SH

ING

TO

N (U

PI) —

When L

ee Harvey O

swald

vas 1

3, a p

sych

iatrist fou

nd

him

to b

e sufferin

g fro

m

lelu

sion

s of p

ow

er a

nd

fan

tasie

s ab

ou

t killin

g o

r iu

ntin

g p

eople.

At 1

5, O

swald

had

beg

un

to stu

dy

Marx

ism. T

he

text y

ear he w

rote to

the S

ocialist P

arty in

New

Yo

rk

or m

ore in

form

ation ab

out its Y

outh

Leag

ue.

And

after the assassin

ation o

f Joh

n K

enn

edy

, )sw

ald's R

ussian

-bo

rn w

ife Marin

a told

po

lice it was

)swald

who "h

ad an

obsessio

n to

get h

is nam

e in

!story

" and trie

d to

kill G

en. E

dw

in W

alk

er, a

im

minent D

allas right-winger.

• T

hese facts em

erged

from

the n

ewly

-released F

BI

iocu

men

ts pro

vid

ing n

ew in

sight in

to O

swald

's psy

-hological m

akeup and motivations.

The W

arren C

om

missio

n's h

andlin

g o

f Osw

ald's

lotiv

es has o

ften b

een criticized

as unsatisfacto

ry.

"Lee," sta

ted a

psy

chia

tric p

rofile

on O

swald

A

mpiled in 1953. "has to be diagnosed as a personality

mem

distu

rban

ce with

schizo

id featu

res and

passiv

e .7

.ere

ssive te

ndencie

s. He h

as to

be se

en a

s an

-notio

nally

quite d

isturb

ed y

oungster w

ho su

ffers -id

er th

e im

pact o

f ... em

otio

nal iso

latio

n a

nd

-priv

ation, lack

of affectio

n, ab

sence o

f family

life

an

d re

jectio

n b

y a

self-in

vo

lved

an

d c

on

flicte

d

moth

er."

Children's probate court of N

ew Y

ork City ordered

the p

rofile b

ecause o

f Osw

ald's ex

cessive ab

sences

from school: "T

he root of his difficulties seems to be his

relationsh

ip w

ith h

is moth

er (Marg

uerite O

swald

) ... a rigid, self-involved w

oman w

ith strong ideas."

Years later, in the first F

BI interview

with O

swald,

conducted

18 m

onth

s befo

re the assassin

ation, ag

ents

found Osw

ald a "cold and arro

gan

t" man

.

Th

e mem

o said

Os-

wald

"beat h

is wife

..." M

arin

a, a

nd

"dra

nk

to

excess" w

hile liv

ing

in

Fo

rt Wo

rth.

Th

ere were th

ree FB

I view

s of O

swald

befo

re the assassination.

Th

e FB

I mem

o said

O

swald

was first in

ter-

view

ed u

pon h

is return

to

the U

nite

d S

tate

s from

th

e S

ov

iet U

nio

n. T

he

date w

as June 1

4, 1

962, in

Fort W

orth

, Tex

as. The

agents found Osw

ald "very curt and short in answering

man

y q

u estions an

d g

ave th

e impression of being cold

and arrogant. He advised that he w

as not willing to take

a poly

grap

h test"

Osw

ald told the agents he was never recruited "at

any tim

e- b

y S

ov

iet intellig

ence, an

d p

rov

ided

no

inform

ation on the Russians.

The seco

nd in

terview

too

k p

lace Au

g. 1

6, 1

96

2.

Osw

ald d

isclosed

that h

e had

contacted

the S

oviet

embassy

in W

ashin

gto

n to

pro

vid

e his R

ussian

-born

w

ife's curren

t address —

"which

was req

uired

by

Soviet law

."

At th

e end o

f that In

terview

, accord

ing to

the

docu

men

t, Osw

ald ag

reed to

"contact th

e FB

I if any

perso

n ev

er con

tacted h

im in

the U

nited

States u

nd

er suspicious circum

stances."

The th

ird —

and last —

interv

iew cam

e Aug. 1

0,

1963, in New

Orleans. O

swald told agents that he w

as unem

plo

yed

but v

olu

ntarily

wo

rkin

g fo

r the F

air Play

-for C

uba Com

mittee.

"Oth

er th

an th

e c

onnectio

n w

ith th

e F

PC

C,

investig

ation d

evelo

ped

no su

bversiv

e data reg

ardin

g

sub

ject ..." Bu

t the m

emo

end

s with

two

blan

ked

ou

t portio

ns w

ith h

andw

ritten q

uestio

ns —

"Why n

ot?

When? —

in the margin.

in defending FB

I i

a th

s is

. tt

tV~

.i

By S

aul F

riedm

an

Kn

ight N

ews S

ervice

WA

SH

ING

TO

N —

Docu

men

ts just re-

leased b

y the F

BI sh

ow th

at J. Ed

gar Hoover

was alm

ost as Interested

in d

efend

ing th

e F

BI as h

e was in

solving th

e mysteries b

ehin

d

the assn

.ssination

of John

F. K

enn

edy.

Hoover's fam

ous p

reoccup

ation w

ith h

is ow

n a

nd

the F

BI's rep

uta

tion

stan

d o

ut

clearly in th

e pap

ers. He took

great pain

s to d

efend

the B

ureau

against an

y outsid

ers.

Ind

eed, even

qu

estions from

ordin

ary A

merican

s did

not go u

nn

oticed b

y the F

BI

and

its investigative ap

paratu

s.

Wh

en a N

ew Y

ork cou

ple, in

a telegram

to H

oo

ver, w

on

dered

wh

at b

e wa

s do

ing

ab

out th

e case, the F

BI ch

ief replied

icily: "

Ind

ividu

als are qu

ick to fin

d fau

lt More

often

than

not th

ey sp

eak

with

ou

t an

y

kn

owled

ge of the facts . . ."

.

A typ

e-written

mem

orand

um

attached

to th

e bu

reau's file cop

y of Hoover's rep

ly n

otes omin

ously th

at the F

BI h

ad search

ed

its files to see wh

at it had

on th

e New

York

cou

ple.

"B

ased on

inform

ation availab

le," th

e n

ote said, "

no in

formation

iden

tifiable w

ith

correspon

den

t located in

Bu

files."

Th

eMu

reaut an

ger and

the p

ower of th

e F

BI w

ere not on

ly directed

at citizen critics.

Hoover's top

aides, In

an in

ternal m

emo,

den

oun

ced th

en C

IA D

irector John

McC

one

for allegedly leak

ing stories to n

ewsp

apers

design

ed to u

nd

ermin

e the F

BI in

vestigation.

McC

one, reach

ed in

Los A

ngeles. w

here

he n

ow lives, d

enied

leakin

g any in

formation

to th

e press regard

ing th

e investigation

.

"1 had

the closest p

ersonal relation

ship

w

ith J. Edgar H

oover and good relations with

the F

BI,"

McC

un

e said

. "I th

ink

if an

y

allegations of this k

ind

had

come to H

oover's atten

tion, h

e'd h

ave gotten on

the p

hon

e and

' called

me ab

out it"

• - :

Hoover, th

rough

top aid

es, enlisted

the h

elp of ran

kin

g pu

blish

ing an

d television

n

etwork

officials to protect th

e repu

tation of

the F

BL

tr"

•

•

J. ED

GA

R H

OO

VE

R (IN

1962) C

oncern

ed w

ith p

ub

lic relations_ ...-

An

d th

e FB

I Director fou

ght tooth

-and

-n

ail to

sho

rt-circuit th

e creatio

n o

f an

in

dep

end

ent com

mission

to investigate th

e assassination.

Even

tually, w

hen

the com

mission

un

der

then

Ch

ief Justice E

arl Warren

was created

, H

oover and

the F

BI coop

erated, A

nd

the

comm

ission, after ru

ne m

onth

s of investiga-

tion, reach

ed th

e same con

clusion

as Hoover

— that O

swald, acting alone, killed P

resident K

enn

edy.

Bu

t dou

bts h

ave lingered

amon

g man

y A

merica

ns. A

nd

critics of th

e Warren

C

omm

ission's fin

din

gs and

the F

BI h

ave su

ggested th

at the early p

ressure to solve th

e case q

uick

ly, for the sak

e of the C

oun

try and

to p

rotect the F

BI's rep

utation

, were am

ong

the reason

s for a shod

dy in

vestigation.

Da

vid

W. B

erlin a

ran

kin

g la

wy

er-in

vestigator for the com

mission

, said in

his

book

defen

din

g the fin

din

gs of the com

mis-

sion

, that th

e FB

I reports w

ere often

m

isleadin

g, filled w

ith error or ju

st plain

w

rong.

On

e examp

le, tb w

hich

Belin

poin

ts, is th

e FB

I report on

tile autop

sy on K

enn

edy's

bod

y. Th

e FB

I agents atten

din

g the au

topsy

reported

that th

ey saw tw

o entran

ce wou

nd

s in

the P

residen

t's bod

y, bu

t only on

e exit': w

ound, in his skull'-:'•sv -i!K

rie'"iss

Th

is has led

to sp

ecula

tion

tha

t then

T

exas Gov. John C

onnally was w

ounded by a secon

d assassin

and

that O

swald

did

n't act

alone. How

ever, the comm

ission said that the F

BI agen

ts were w

rong an

d th

at the secon

d

bu

llet wh

ich en

tered K

enn

edy's b

ody exited

an

d th

en h

it Con

nally

. Th

e com

missio

n

claimed that the exit w

ound was obscured by

a tracheatom

y incision

in th

e Presid

ent's

throat.

Th

is differen

ce is vital. Th

e comm

ission,

itself, in p

uttin

g forth th

e view th

at a single

bu

llet killed

Ken

ned

y and

wou

nd

ed C

onn

al-ly

, ack

now

ledged

that if th

ere were tw

o

bu

llets there h

ad to b

e two assassin

s.

Su

ch ap

paren

t' prob

lems h

owever w

ere ignored by H

oover and his investigators after th

ey reached

their con

clusion

s on th

e case d

urin

g the aftern

oon an

d even

ing of N

ov. 22.

Thus H

oover, at 4:01 p.m., 31/2 hours after

the sh

ootin

g, ca

lled th

e late R

ob

ert F.

Ken

ned

y, then

the attorn

ey general, to tell

him

the case w

as all bu

t solved.

"I ca

lled th

e atto

rney

gen

eral a

t his

home and told him

I thought we had the m

an w

ho k

illed th

e Presid

ent d

own

in D

allas,"

Hoover w

rote in a m

emo d

ated N

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!The JFK files

Jack Ruby said he was blinded by fury

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• • • New York News

WASHINGTON — All Jack Ruby said he could remember of the man he

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murdered was that he emerged from •,-'• nowhere in between two men. "That's all .'I can =member. Naturally, I knew who qbe is. To me he had this quirky, smug

Vindictive attitude."

"I can't explain what impression he gave me, but that is all I can ... well, I just lost my senses. The next I knew I was on the ground and five or six (policemen) were on top of me."

• morn thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents Jack Leon Ruby (born Jack Rubenstein in Chicago in

• 1911) emerges as a tormented. sometimes belligerent, often emotional man. His decision to kill Lee Harvey Oswald appears to have been made on the spur

• of the moment, minutes after he man-. , aged to walk unnoticed into the base-, merit of Dallas Police Headquarters,

Nov. 24, 1983

Ruby apparently slipped in when a

guard left the entrance to stop traffic for an emerging police car. The FBI files, saying Ruby was not helped into the building by a member of the press, said he may have entered no more than 10 seconds before the shooting.

"No one knew I was going to shoot him." Ruby, a local nightclub operator, told the FBI. "I didn't discuss anything with anyone shout shooting him," It was easy, Ruby told the agents. He always carried heat la gun). You had to in the nightclub business in Dallas. There were so many stickups and he often carried a large amount of cash.

"When he shot before me like he did, something in my Insides tore out," Ruby said. The Texas "outsider" said he thought about Oswald "being associated with communism and how he blemished this beautiful city and Mrs. Kennedy having to come back for the trial.''

Then Ruby said, he reached into his pocket and took out his gun. He fired a single shot.

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Jack Ruby, inset, may have slipped into police headquar-ters only seconds before gun-ning down Lee Harvey Oswald

Paper flood in JFK assassination s F. ,-Ya li;ricH , - TOTAL of 40,000 pages of FBI internal memos on the assassination of President John

F. Kennedy have been released tinder the Freedom of Information Act, providing an extensive feast of fact and speculation to Stimulate the appetite of that insatiable breed, the conspiracy cultists.

'Considerable time would be needed to digest the entire report. Once that has been done by the many who make either a career or a hobby of 9tuatitioning the conventional verdict on the assassination, a number of conclusions will emerge. All will differ.

e. While never foreclosing the possibility of a change of mind, we have accepted the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald did it on his own. His wife, Marina, has written a book holding that view.

for the newly released material, it discloses that J. Edgar Hoover had in hand letters

purportedly written to Oswald from Cuba that referred "to the job he was going to do." Hoover withheld these missives from the Warren Com-mission because he could not prove their authen-ticity.

We are loathe to second guess the director 14 years later, but it would seem that that was of sufficient interest to be turned over to the commission members, leaving them to judge the veracity.

The - newly released papers tell how the-Oswalds wanted to return to the Soviet Union because Marina was homesick and unemployed. They took the first action to effect the return nine months before the assassination.

Had the Soviet embassy acted promptly to process that request, encouraging the return, the course of history would have been changed. Life is full of might-have-beens, this one more poignant than most.

14 San Francisco 41)1rotticit Fri., Dec. 9, 1977

JFK Death Probe

What Next Batch of FBI Papers Will Tell

Washington

The FBI still pursues "tips" on who killed President Kennedy and the second stack of assa.ssInation due out next month, will reflect that sort of endless, leftover gumshoe work, a bureau spokesman said yesterday.

Continued scrutiny of the first 40,000 pages of the FBI's Kennedy murder files, released Wednesday, divulged more intriguing but inconclusive tidbits of insight into the 1963 Dallas slayings.

• Investigative memos show that the CIA assured the Oswald was never "an informant in their

organization,"'for example, and indicated that Warren ;Commission members were satisfied Lee Harvey

Oswald could have fired the fatal shots from his sixth-. f• floor window perch once they inspected the scene of

the crime.

The•filei also depicted Oswald as a hostile, hermit-like Marine who read Communist literature behind locked doors in his barracks room, and Jack Ruby, his killer, as a tough Chicago street kid who might have run errands for Al Capone.

But nothing emerged to undermine the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald alone killed Kennedy for motives still unknown, and an FBI spokesman who has helped prepare the files for public release said the 40,000 pages due for release in January won't change that picture.

"1 really don't think there are going to be any major new revelations from this new material any more than there were in the material just released," he said. "But, if this is your field, you'll find it interesting.

"Of course, the !conspiracy buff) people Who make a business of this will dispute that. 1 understand some of them are already saying the true stuff is what was never written down.

• "Well; there's not much you can do about that"

The initial files have already covered the most active, intensive period of the bureau's investigation.. They run through September, 1964, when the presiden-tial commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded Its probe and issued Its findings.

The next 40,000 pages of assassination papers will bring the investigation up to date — apparently with activities increasingly devoted to checking out wild goose chase tips.

• "If somebody jumped up out of a rose bush last

month — or let's say last year, since these things are becoming more infrequent — and said he knows who did it, we check that out and that will he included in the material," the spokesman said.

"I'd say it will predominate with that sort of thing."

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