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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1981 Local / State Program to re-investigate JFK’s assassination By NANCY WEATHERLEY Battalion Staff President John F. Kennedy was <illed Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas. Ac cused of the assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald. But, whether Oswald or a spy taking Oswald’s place killed the president has been the subject of debate. Recent events, such as the exhumation of Oswald’s body, have only fueled the controversy. Tonight at 8 in Rudder Audi torium, Harvey Yazijian, co founder of the Assassination Infor mation Bureau, will present an au dio-visual presentation investigat ing the death of the president. The bureau is a public organization whose members are investigating the assassination on their own. Sponsored by the MSC Great Issues Committee, the show, enti tled “Who Killed JFK?” will ex amine a film and slides taken at the time of the murder. The Assassination Information Bureau has declared that the mur der was the result of a conspiracy. The bureau’s release suggests several reasons why groups such as organized crime rings, the Cubans and the military might have wanted Kennedy dead: — Organized crime wanted him removed because Bobby and John Kennedy were attempting to rid this country of many under world figures. — The Cubans wanted Ken nedy dead because earlier he attempted to kill Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion. — The military wanted him out of the way because Kennedy wanted to de-escalate the war in Vietnam. The bureau claims Oswald had close ties with the underworld and with the Communists. Members of the bureau also say Jack Ruby, the man tried for the murder of Oswald, was not a Kennedy sym pathizer, but a' gunman hired to kill Oswald. However, a House Select Com mittee report on assassinations disputes the majority of the bureau’s contentions. The committee reported on the basis of evidence available to them that the murder was not the work of the Soviet government, the Cuban government, the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau ofln- vestigation, the Central Intelli gence Agency or the national syn dicate of organized crime. The committee report does allow, however, that individual members may have been in volved. “John F. Kennedy was prob ably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy,” the committee re ported in 1978. But the committee said they were unable to identify any gun men besides Oswald or to deter mine the extent of the conspiracy. And scientific evidence available to them disproved some specific conspiracy allegations, the com mittee reported. The presentation costs 50 cents for students and $1 for non students. FRI & SAT MIDNITE SHOW ALL SEATS S2.00(R) A SCIENCE FICTION DOUBLE FEATURE! “FLESH GOR DON" THE SEXY, FUNNY SPOOF OF YESTERDAY’S HEROES & “GALAXINA" WITH PLAYBOY'S PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR- DOROTHY R. STRATTEN IN HER ONLY MOVIE. BOTH MOVIES TOGETHER ONLY|2.QO brooke shields martin hewitt IR ?ndlesslov< Experts to release JFK study United Press International DALLAS — Last month, ex perts finally concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was buried in his grave. And Americans may learn FRI 7:30 9:45 SAT & SUN 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:45 CINEMA l&ll 846-6714 CORNER UNIV. & COLLEGE aVES. SAT & SUN - ALL SEATS 52.00 UNTIL 2:30 CINEMA I OR II Dudley Moore Liza MirmelS or: Arthur FRI 7:45 9:55 SAT & SUN 2:15 4:05 5:55 7:45 9:55 Ken’s Automotive 421 S. Main — Bryan 822-2823 “A Complete Automotive Service Center" • Tune-Ups • Brakes • Clutches • McPherson Struts • Front End Parts Replacement • Standard Transmission Repairs All American Cars VW-Datsun-Honda Toyota (Master Card & VISA Accepted) more next month when scientists release their findings on the num ber of gunmen involved in John F. Kennedy’s death 18 years ago. Questions surrounding the president’s death have mounted since gunshots rang out in down town Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. On Oct. 4 of this year, one question was answered. A panel of medical experts examined Oswald’s exhumed body and con cluded it was that of the accused It took more than two years of legal battles before Oswald’s widow, Marina Oswald Porter, was able to'have the grave opened to disprove British author Michael Eddowes’ theory that a Soviet im poster was buried there. The National Academy of Scien ces is completing a report on the methods used in an acoustical analysis of a tape recording made BUD WARD DID IT AGAIN. HE MADE A MISTAKE... HIS MISTAKE IS YOUR GAIN! Bud overbought and now has 52 1981 Volkswagens that he has to move to make room for 1982 models. Bud has instructed the sales force to sell every unit by Nov. 30! AT ANY PRICE! 1981 Volkswagen — the Economy Car of the year. Now the BIG Sav ings are for you. . . In both the price and fuei costs! 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Virtually every assassination ex pert agrees that three shots could have been fired from the Texas School Book Depository overlook ing Kennedy’s motorcade route, but four shots woidd have been impossible. If the 12-member Na tional Academy of Sciences team concludes four shots were fired, the American public would be presented with more persuasive evidence of a second gunman. Barbara Jorgenson, a spokes woman for the NAS in Washing ton, D.C., said the committee’s report has been completed and is undergoing internal review. She said the NAS hoped to release it by the end of the year. The report was originally due in January but, she said, “it was a very touchy subject, and the com mittee wanted to make absolutely sure that its analysis was right.” The draft report was approved last week, but Jorgenson would not say how many shots the panel con cluded were fired. Some of the men affected by the assassination recall the events as if they occurred yesterday. Paul Groody and Allen Baum gardner have buried Oswald twice — on Nov. 25, 1963 and Oct. 4, 1981. Groody was the mortician who embalmed Oswald’s body in 1963 and buried him; Baumgard ner, then 22, was bis apprentice. Groody and Baumgardner re called the confusion among law officials at the funeral home after Oswald was shot. The morticians said two weeks after Oswald was buried, Secret Service agents re turned to question them in detail about whether they had noticed scars on Oswald’s body. Both men said they didn’t notice these scars while embalming the body. Groody and Baumgardner said that during the exhumation, they were startled that the sealed lid of the vault popped off easily and that the bottom of the vault had cracked. Normally, a seal tightens and makes it difficult to open vaults. annu Together dents To] Relations p.fli. in 2 iTERNA 6:30 p-m DIVERS at 8 p.m Main. gieai p.m. in 2 ILLEGl Marilyn 1 at 7:30 p demonsti IRIBBE. p.m. in i T-CAM the seme ITH0L1 7:30 p.m church. SC POT enacting 1p.m. b UDENT the 1 HEGA meeting 7:30 p. rn IONA: C )RSEM John F. Kennedy Groody said the metal had rusted away, allowing a part of the casket to collapse. Virtually every assassi nation expert agrees that three shots could have been fired from the Texas School Book De pository overlooking Kennedy’s motorcade route, but four shots would have been impos sible. They said it was possible that the casket had been tampered with before the exhumation, although they couldn’t he certain. HALPI at 7 p. in | cremation. Lankford andtwClETY Secret Service agents guankj Oswald family after the assasi tion. Lankford, now 60 and livin' Mount Dora, Fla., saidcremi emission C1ETY fur Aggii semestci “It is a lot more possible that there was tampering than it would have been if the vault was (tightly) sealed, Groody said. was an alternative offered byi| officials to the Oswald family the brother, wife and mi didn’t want to do it. He said: (cremation) papers were sent us.” Ml Both men said considerable effort went into plans to cremate Oswald’s body — which would have made an exhumation impos sible. oooooooooooooooo g CAMPUS hut Groody said the seal apparent ly was broken because the vault was cracked. They could not ex plain why it was cracked. “The seal is normally quite diffi cult to break,” Groody said. He said a portion near the top of the casket — where Oswald’s head was resting—had fallen inside the casket, making the head visible. Baumgardner showed UPI the original cremation forms typed by Groody in 1963, the first time he publicly showed them. A hand written note by Grhody also con tained a reference tc^a $60 crema tion fee. The man who signed Osw death certificate, Pierce McBiiJ was the Justice of the Peace by Dallas police to view Osmi j ^ body after he was shot by Di P , a j f ] ) .| 1 nightclub operator Jack n 1 DICKINS 1 ico Powe led on to i of Gab uver coi ;e early! and foi “I pulled the sheet offthea Parkland Hospital,” McBri said. “His right hand wasdan| off the cot. I signed the deaths tifieate.” Both men identified former volunteer fire marshal Mason Lankford as the main force behind McBride, who retired in IS and is 82, said he was nevens tacted about authorizing acres J tioh. HANDMADE FILMS Proem, TIME BANDITS Priest wants "friends’ United I hLLAS -/■ -l.they didn’t make history, \ they stole it! in Congress, not Gramm United Press International DALLAS — A politically active priest who was forced by Pope John Paul II to vacate his congres sional seat, said he will help raise about $200,000 to help re-elect “our friends” in Congress. jyj *•!•••• u EfYlBASSYmPlCTURES Y HANDMADE FILM PAN TNI! R.SHIP ALL NI(#HTS Rt.MR V£D “This is a miniscule amount compared to the amount raised by the right wing, an amount in Ihe millions of dollars,” said Father Robert Drinan, president of the 55,000-member Americans for Democratic Action. He was in Dallas during the weekend to promote a new chapter of the li beral lobby organization. College Station, who led congres sional efforts to approve the Re publican budget, was one con gressman targeted for removal by the ADA. “Phil Gramm is a nice Republi can,” Drinan said. “But there will be a great struggle over his destiny in the next Congress.” ways, ” he said. “They over-ct their membership and they,® claim their powers to change^]] political process. Drinan also termed political activism by the Moral Majority in appropriate and offensive, and said his own activities were diffe rent because they were nonpar tisan. T find it offensive when (Moral Majority founder Falwell) says God wanted vate enterprise system or communists are the anti-Chri:‘ : ' fat till j|, oooooooooooooo< On other matters, Drinan said U.S. Rep. Phil Gramm, D- “They (members of the Moral Majority) as church people have the right to do these things, hut they do them in inappropriate Drinan, who served as a) sachusetts congressman for years, also predicted thatfieagi economic plans would lead to 1 aster, and said comments ’ White House economic plan* David Stockman prove that''f'f the Administration doesn’t lieve supply-side economics work. ” to blin e squir ir 01 ort Se initial might Airline: oversial lose-in ; softer he firm’ a 95 dm rcraft o 85, bul we the ringen ovvard, endoff, o study Jtions ; tyrejec