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wLE MONDE" DECLARES OSWALD esha WAS FAKED
By» Joseph Hansen
PARIS, April 23 -- The leading daily of Paris, Le Monde, which enjoys a world-wide reputation for its high standards of journalism, this week stated flatly that the sensational photograph of Lee Oswald, featured in such magazines as Life, Newsweek and Paris-Matoh, showing the alleged assassin of President Kennedy brandishing a rifle, a pistol and a newspaper, was -~- a fake.
Sinoe this affirmation was made in the April 21 issue of . Le Monde other publications have featured the "new 'mystery!" =~ ag it was called by Le Monde -- and at least two have reproduced the evidence of the fakery, The most crushing proof yet adduced of Oswald's guilt has thus suddenty become the most damning eVidenoe of a Trame-up. |
The faked-up "proof" was spotted by Analyses et Documents, Paris socialist documentary service, and published in their ttaroh 19 edition. Here is what they wrote:
"among the 'tproofs! promised by the Dallas police, immediately after the arrest of Lee Oswald, was a photograph showing the alleged murderer brandishing the rifle used in the killing in one-hand and a newspaper in the other, . The newspaper. was said to.be either The Militant, a newspaper of the American Trotskyist party, or a headine, 'Be a Militant,! an editorial from an issue of a newspaper of the John Birch Soolety, a fascist-like organization, The photograph
was not produced by the police at the time. It has just been produced, in the United States, three months later, by Life and the Detroit Free Press under conditions that are ali the more disturbing since the two copies are identical in all respects except the repre~ sentation of the rifle. In the one, the rifle, with a short stook, is equipped with a telescopic sight; in the other, the rifle, with a long stosk, has no telescopic sight, The first photograph was bought for $5,000 by Life Magazine from James Martin, the FBI. agent charged | with guarding Marina Oswald, the wife of Lee Oswald. The other was bought, according to a ‘Dallas policeman, by G. Roberts of the Detroit Free Press, (It was reproduced in Newsweek Mareh 2, 1964, p. 54),
The article in Analyses et Documents continues: "Paris-Matoh (No. 777 of February 29, 1964) published the falsified reproduction showing the rifle equipped with a telescopic sight on the cover, under the caption: 'This photograph ends the mystery of the death of Kennedy.! The falsification is evident, in fact, since according to the police, the photograph was taken in * the spring of '65, while the sight was fitted, according to the same police, November 6, 1963,"
Who made the fake photograph? “Analyses et Documents apeoulates that the U.S. federal police agencies themselves are involved, that they are trying to hide the real circumstances of the murder éf the -
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Le Monde deolares that a check has been made and the observations of Analyses et Documents "have been revealed to be accurate: the: photograph published by Newsweek shows Oswald holding a rifle. without a telescopic sight, while the telescopic sight is very plain on the photograph published by Paris-Match and Life Magazine. The newspaper which the alleged assassin of John Kennedy is holding in this photograph is not identifiable; it seems to have been whited with gouache Lopaque water color] with this in mind... We recall that according to some versions that it was supposed to be The Militant, organ of the American Trotskyists; according to others it was a newspaper of the extreme right-wing John Birch Society, in which an editorial carried the title: ‘'Be a militant.' Mr, Jesse Curr [Dallas chief of police], at the time of his press conference twhere he first talked about the photograph] scarcely showed himself very precise, since he likewise cited, according to some press agencies, the Communist newspaper Daily Worker,
"However that may be, the fakery is certain. Someone or a group was interested in creating the belief that the gun brandished ‘by Oswald was re: lly the one used in the assassination of John Kennedy, It would seem impossible to identify with sureness a gun in a document as indistinct as this photograph -- one can also ask moreover how Mr, Jesse Curry was able to affirm that the revolver which Oswald carried at his hip and of which qnly the butt can be. seen -- is really the one that killed Officer Tippit, The Warren Commission will not be able to explain this new enigma."
A series of startling articles on the assassination of Kennedy was recently completed in the liberal Paris weekly L'Express, The author is an American, Thomas Buchanan, but his analysis of the ovidence was too “hot" for the big press in the United States and he had to seek a European outlet, In L'Express of April 25 he summarizes the facts about the now notorious photograph and adds this: .. |
“Which then is the good photograph? . Libxpreds posed this question to the Paris representatives of Life an ewsweek, . Life cabled to its office in the United States, and gave us the official reply: 'No comment,! [In English in original,] Newsweek is waiting for a reply.
"One or the other, or both American journals have been, it seems, victims of an operation that is at least curious."
. Today's New York Herald Tribune [European edition] took all this without batting an eye. It reported the discovery in Paris that the photographs in Life and Newsweek were exactly alike except for a minor detail, Under the caption "Too Simple. for French," the Herald. Tribune said: "This was’ enough to set off the press here, which from e beginning has refused even to consider anything so simple as
Oswald having killed the President. Most papers have preferred to print exclusive and inside stories of dark and complicated plots,"
This is the line that has been followed consistently by. the capitalist press in the U.S. with the possible exseption of the New York Times among the major papers, The line is that it is perfeotly normal in the U.S. to have someone like Oswald assassinate a president, displaying marksmanship that few experts in the world could mateh, ‘and just as normal to have him protest his innocence and then be assassinated in turn in a police headquarters in front of the TV screens of the entire country by a super-patriotic gangster who carns-a:normal living as a police stool pigeon and strip-tease entrepreneur, In Europe all this just doesn't appear normal, the American newspapers explain; Europeans are more devious and suspici-~ ous-minded than clear~thinking, uncomplicated Americans who can see whet is obvious.
The truth is that the Europeans are much more simple-minded in their approach to the case than the American.press cares to admit, The Buropeans tend to believe that a man should be considered innocent until he is proved guilty. They do not deny that Oswald might be- guilty, but they feel that they are entitled to know the evidence.
- When the "evidence" that is adduced turns out, as it has’ in instance after instatice, ‘to be. nonexistent, or self-contradictory, they draw the ‘uncomplicated conclusion that something smells vory fishy about the whole case, :
The series by Thomas Buchanan had great impact in France, It is now to appear in book form with simultaneous translations ina number of languages. It has been reported that even the original English manuscript may see the light of day. SO
Buchanan's approach was quite different from the one ‘followed by the Dallas police and their.U.S, federal collaborators, They — operated from the beginning on the theory that Oswald was guilty ~ and that the evidence was bound to prove it. Thus there was a... strong tendency to.imagine “evidence.” Certain proofs that did not fit the .preconceived hypothesis: apparently simply vanished or were forgotten. And, as the photograph proves, in at least one instance proof was deliberately falsified, Buchanan's procedure, on the contrary, was to assemble all the known facts -- as they appeared in the press -~ and see what deductions could be drawn from this.
Proceeding in this empirical way he was able to demonstrate that the probabilities are high that a number of persons were involved in the murder and: that Oswald was most likely not the killer although he was in on the plot. Buchanan suggests specific clues that should be followed up, The identity of the policeman who permitted Oswald to leave the warehouse should prove of interest, he indicated, Likewise the identity of the detective. who’ tailed Oswald from the warehouse - to
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his room and then to the theater, Another mystery that cries for investigation, in his opinion, is the role of Officer Tippit.
Behind tne persons directly involved in the plot, Buchanan suggests the varue of investigating the figures: whom he fninks stood to gain most politically from the assassination -~ the ultra-reactionary oil barons’ 61 of Dallas,
As for Oswald, Buchanan is of the opinion that he was a minor figure in this political assassination, probably connected with a federal agency, who was selected to serve as the scapegoat.
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