cultural revolution."
KUPFERMAN ASKS CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
By Arthur Maglin
The controversy over the Kennedy assassination proceeds unabated in. the United States. On April 13 Theodore Kupferman, a New York liberal Republican, made the following remarks in Congress:
"Mr. Speaker, I am today reintroducing my concurrent resolution for a joint congressional committee to determine the necessity for reinvestigating the assassination of President Kennedy.
"In the 89th Congress on Septemper 28, 1966, the second anniversary of the Warren Commission Report...I introduced House Concurrent Resolution 1023, pointing out that the official report, with respect to the assassination of President Kennedy, had created more doubts than it had settled. Subsequent polls proved that this was so...
"The alleged truths of the Warren Commission Report can no longer, if ever, be considered self-evident.
"The reason the Congress must now act is that the executive branch, in the most obvious areas of doubt, has engaged in a conspiracy of silence and inaction, when clearly there is need for sound action and high-level investigation.
"The refusal of the executive branch to take necessary action has been demonstrated in the situation involving the X-rays and the photographs of the autopsy of the late President Kennedy. It has become increasingly clear to me, throughout the rising controversy subse-
quent to President Kennedy's assassina~
tion and the publication of the Warren
Report, that this material, which the
Warren Commission as a matter of nonfea-
sance had failed to examine, should be
officially examined."
Kupferman went on to describe how
he attempted to view these items in the
company of scientific experts and how it
turned out to be "an exercise in bureau-
eracy and futility" involving the imme-
diate representatives of both President
Johnson and the Kennedy family.
Meanwhile, the investigation of
New Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison into the Kennedy assassination
continues. The April issue of Ramparts
magazine reports:
"About all that is certain [of
Garrison's theory of how the assassi-
nation took place] is that Garrison's
suspects include Cubans as well as
Americans.
"When the Cuban angle first be-
came evident, Garrison was besieged by
right wingers and anti-Castroites who
assumed he had detected the hand of
Castro in the affair. Now they have
packed off, since it is palpable that he
is on the spoor of anti-Castro fanatics.
His sleuths have spent considerable time
in Miami, another center of émigré ac-
tivity. One theory attributed to Garrison
is that Oswald was importuned by an anti-
Castro faction to get a Cuban visa in
Mexico City in order to assassinate
Castro and, failing that, was turned on Kennedy, whose lack of overt action against Castro made him unpopular among the more volatile émigrés. This theory necessarily renders Oswald a phony leftist, which is not a far-fetched idea."
Another intriguing development is indicated in the following short item which appeared in the April 21 New York Post: "Manila, April 21 (Reuters) -- Philippines police today produced at a press conference here a 24-year-old Puerto Rican who they think could have been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.
"They said that, while under the influence of a truth serum, the Puerto ~479-
Rican, handsome Imis Angel Castillo, said he was one of a group of about 15 men assigned to kill 'the President.'
"He was given a rifle and put ina high building with instructions to shoot a man who could be in an open car in a motorcade together with a woman and another man.
"Castillo told them that another man had dismantled his rifle after they heard that somebody called Joe had already 'got the man.' Then he had driven to the airport and flown to Chicago.
"Questioned by reporters, Castillo who never raised his eyes, said that he had lost his memory apparently because he had been given drugs while in the U.S."
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