the most recent, most spectacular development in the oswald case involves the cia and the spectacular district attorney of new orleans, the man they call the jolly green giant. do you believe that lee harvey oswald did not shot president kennedy? i don t want to get involved in the speculation of individuals, but there s no question about the fact that there was a plot and a number of individuals involved. in 1967, he announced, i ve solved the case. i ve found the real assassin. we will make an arrest based on that, and we will make charges based on that, and we will get charges based only that. you wouldn t pay much attention to this, except he was the district attorney of new orleans. i ve spent hour after hour
ruby and oswald knew each other. before we proceed with that kind of questioning, let me ask you, what kind of conspiracy do you think? was it a communist, left wing, right wing conspiracy? i m convinced there were two riflemen. the warren commission was set up, as you know, at the request and urging of the communist party. it s obvious he was working for several years at that moment, and it could not be anyone else than fidel castro. it might have been the servant of the castro mao communist group of violence. there was an entire world of assassination buffs. some raised valid questions. it is another one of the
captain will fritz just told me that ruby has said that he did it, that it was his gun, and he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. in jack ruby s small mind, he thought he was going to become a big, big hero. i mean, he killed the guy who killed the president. i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional medal of honor for it. and a lot of other good american citizens think he did exactly the right thing in shooting down this communist. word also in just now from dallas that homicide chief captain will fritz has now said that the case of president kennedy s assassination is now closed with the death of oswald. it may not, however, be the opinion of the u.s. secret service or of the federal bureau service or of the federal bureau of investigation. service or of the federal bureau of investigation. (customer) do i have to do anything? (burke) nothing. (customer) nothing? (burke) nothing. (customer) nothing?
cooperate with the press, with the understanding that there would not be questions shouted at him. did you kill the president? no, i have not been charged with that. in fact, nobody has said that to me yet. the first thing i heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. you have been charged. sir? you have been charged? nobody said what? okay. what did you do in russia? oswald, how did you hurt your eye? a policeman hit me. at 1:35 this morning, a complaint was read. it charged that, quote, lee harvey oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john f. kennedy by shooting him with a gun, end quote. following the reading of the complaint, oswald said, that s ridiculous. within hours of the
as soon as they arrested clay shaw, they all came back. the name was first introduced by a lawyer named dean andrews who told the warren commission a person by that name telephoned him suggests he provide legal defense for oswald. dean had described bertram of having guy tendencies and representing gays as a lawyer. therefore, garrison believed he must be clay shaw. that was the extent of garrison s investigation. do you have enough evidence now to go to trial? if i answered that, i shouldn t be district attorney. the case against clay shaw is built on testimony that didn t pass a lie detector test that garrison ordered and garrison knew it.