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Thursday, January 19, 1978
University Daily Kansan
From the Kansan Wire Services
WASHINGTON—In the years following John F. Kennedy's assassination, J. Edgar Hoover fumed over the mounting criticism of the FBI investigation of the case, but decided to ignore most of the critics, at least publicly.
In private, he kept meticulous records on the critics' personal lives as well as their public comments about the bureau.
The details emerged from 88,754 pages of FBI files that the bureau made public yesterday to comply with requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
The half-ton of documents, together with 40,001 pages released in December, comprise all of the bureau's informational leader of the president Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas
THIS BATCH of files begins in mid.1964.
Scores of letters and memos reflect the cool but polite relationship between the FBI and the commission, which launched its probe of the case.
Later that year, the commission was to report its conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy and that he acted toward Hodgson and arrived at the same belief months earlier.
However, a number of writers and researchers were attracting considerable public attention with their theories that Oswald and the man who shot him to death in the Dallas police station, nightclub owner and one of the few dark conspiracy of varying origins.
NOTHING WAS found in the first batch of FBI files to disprove the Warren Commission's conclusion. The initial scrutiny of the files also yielded no startling new information.
What the material does show is the countless hours FBI men spent investigating people who were reported to have made threats against President
Included in FBI documents was a 340-page report on investigations of individuals who were named by others as possibly being involved in the assassination of Osama bin Laden, either dropped for inability to locate the individuals, dismissed as concerning "nuts" or mentally unstable persons, or closed after interviews proved the tips false or based on misinterpreted facts.
Included in the possible suspects was an unidentified man who slipped several dollars to a piano player in Aaron Rouge, La. bar to repeatedly play a song called "Dreams" which in described as a "Texas song" because "down in Texas, we kill them."
ANOTHER WAS a Waco, Texas, hardware store employee who frequently ordered "Kennedy coffee" at a Toddle House cafeteria and when asked for an explanation said it was "black coffee in a white cup" or "black coffee with white cream."
The FBI also checked out an Army enlisted man who was found drunk in a ditch at Zion, III, and later told hospital personnel that he had shot Kennedy. Upon sobering up, the man said he had been in line awaiting his military pay at the time of the Kennedy assassination.
The report also revealed an anonymous letter sent to Jack Ruby while he was confined in a Dallas County Jail cell in Texas, after he killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
The letter, replete with faulty punctuation, was written to "Jack" and said, "Don't worry (sic) we will get you out even if we have to blow up the whole city. We will be there the 9th be ready don't be a fool like Lee."
The letter included threats on the lives of President Lyndon Johnson, Texas Gov. Huey Perry and others.
ONE PART of the letter read, "They might not have told you but they think Lee done all the shooting. They know a lot but not all. We are bringing it with us. Don't get scared. If we don't get scared, all of them didn't get Johnson. We will take care of Connelly before we see you..."
Handwritten samples from three individuals showed none was the author.
The letter was signed "L. C."
Decker said he considered the letter, which Ruby never saw, one of many pieces of "prank" mail that were received by law officers after the assassination. After discussing the information, Justice Debbie Sullivan, Assistant U.S. Attorney H. Timmins decided "no further investigation was warranted," the FBI files said.
Early in 1967, Garrison charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with the assault on Kennedy. He said Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and an airplane pilot, David W. Ferry, met at Shaw's home to discuss the assassination. Later in 1968, he also visited, alas was present, Garrison said.
The released documents show that the FBI was also intensely curious about the federal grand jury investigation New Orleans District Attorney James Garrison launched in 1966. Garrison claimed to have proof that the assassination was the product of a conspiracy, but his charges later were discredited.
THE DOCUMENTS showed all the information the FBI pulled from the Garrison investigation was presented to the Warren Commission.
However thought Garrison and some of his informants unreliable, but kept close watch anyway on Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination, FBI documents
The files imply that Garrison's case against Shaw apparently revolved around his relationship with Andrew, who had seen Oswald in June of 1963 in the company of a group of men he defined as homosexual in connection with his bad conduct discharge from the university.
However, the bureau was systematically investigating a group of homosexuals in New Orleans where the memos said, in connection with a study on their sources included one of Shaw's lovers.
NEW YORK (AP) - A six-week-old coal strike has reduced stockpiles at electric utilities, but most utilities should be able to withstand the strike for at least three more months, government and industry officials said yesterday.
Strike cuts coal surplus
The documents showed the FBI knew the informant. He was Jack Martin, a private detective who had visited Dallas a number of times and repeated his charges into a tape recorder that was played for FBI agents in Kansas City. The agents determined Martin might be mentally unstable, the documents said.
The memo said: Andrews further stated that on the evening of Nov. 23, 1963, at which time he was in a hospital in New Orleans when his mother came to pick him up telephone call from an individual who said his name was Clay Bertrand. He added that Bertrand asked him if he would be invited to the house of Harvey Owald in Dallas, Texas, for the murder of President Kennedy.
ALEX GAKNER, a coal specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy, said that if most utilities "did not get another ton of coal and they continued to burn it at the same rate, they still would have 85 to 90 days of coal left."
Gakner said that if the strike lasts more than three months, some utilities could burn oil instead of coal and take other steps to stretch their coal reserves.
The Norfolk and Western railroads, where coal accounts for 70 percent of the tonnage and 40 percent of revenues, has laid off 4,100 of its 24,600 employees because of the strike. The spokesman said. The Chessie System reports having laid off more than 85 employees.
The AP spot check also showed that steelmakers had their stocks of coal—vital to production of steel—were adequate, but the shortage of steel did affect on the two major coal-baulring railroads.
An Associated Press spot check confirmed that assessment, but also found utilities in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio at which dwindling supplies soon might cause emergency curtailments of service.
Because of the strike 170,000 members of the United Mine Workers union have not worked since Dec. 6. Negotiations over pay are going on intermittently in Washington.
The utilities are getting some shipments of coal despite the strike. But Gakner said that utility stockpiles of coal, which he said were at their highest in history before the strike, are falling at a rate of four days' worth of coal a week.
With almost half the nation's electricity produced by coal-burning plants, utility officials began stockpiling before the strike. Officials estimate that about 60 percent of the nation's electricity is owned by the UMW strike. Utilities are receiving some shipments from non-union sources.
In West Virginia and Maryland, two power companies said yesterday that they are running short of coal and must impose conservation measures.
Potomac Edison Co., which supplies power to about 185,000 customers in western Maryland and parts of West Virginia, said it is working with Delaware County Co., which serves 230,000 customers in parts of Ohio and West Virginia, said that before tomorrow it will have enough coal for 40 days.
"A LOT of them are farmers, and there's nothing to do on the farms this time of year," he said. "So they go down into these fields to dig the soil for coal. It can't much, but every bit helps."
Gakner said that some of the void is being filled by "mom-and-pop mine operators."
Both Potomac Edison and Monongahela Power asked customers to begin voluntary conservation measures and said mandatory restrictions may have to be imposed later, depending on the severity of the weather and the length of the coal strike.
The inspector, William Higg, said the Topeka department is charged with the inspection of the state structures, but there are questions that have not been answered about how or who should take steps to see that there is compliance.
TOPEKA (AP) - Fire safety deficiencies exist in the Kansas Capitol, the State Office Building and the State Historical Museum. The Fire Department inspector said Tuesday.
Hazards found in state offices
Higg said the 12-story state office building, first occupied in 1966, meets structural standards but that deficiencies in the office of storing combustibles in hallways.
Higg told newsmen the Capitol and the Historical Museum Buildings, completed in 1903 and 1914, respectively, both need good early warning systems.
JERUSALEM (AP) - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat dramatically broke off talks with Israel yesterday, called his foreign minister back to Cairo and accused the Israeliis of deliberately blocking progress toward Middle East peace.
Sadat halts Mideast peace talks
The sudden move by the Egyptian leader cast a pail over the future of Egyptian-Israeli peace negotiations begun at Sadat's initiative last November.
U. S. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said, "It means for the moment that the talks will not continue. I'm not to go assume it beyond that."
There was no immediate Israeli comment on the development. The Israeli cabinet had approved a deal to build a new facility.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who has been attempting to bridge the gaps between Israel and Egypt in private talks last week, said he did not believe the talks have broken down.
"IVE BEEN by a lot of international negotiations. I've seen up and down."
The talks between the Israeli and Egyptian foreign ministers, the highest level negotiations between the two countries so far, began Tuesday and soon were deeply divided over Palestinian rights to a land invasion and Islam's 13-year occupation of Arab lands.
But Egypt's announcement caught Vance
by surprise. He was planning to give a
Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel last week.
Mohammed Kamel last week.
The talks were "continuing in a vicious cycle." Egyptian Information Minister Abdel Momeneil Sawy said in announcing the breakoff on Cairo television.
Saway said Sadat ordered Kamel to return immediately because "it became apparent from the declarations of Israel leaders that Israeli insists on presenting partial solutions that cannot lead to the establishment of a just and lasting peace."
INFORMED OF THE Egyptian announcement, Vance went to Kamel's hotel room, but their meeting ended abruptly when Vance was called out to answer a phone call from National Security Adviser Zhigun Brezeleki in Washington.
TOPEKA (UP1)—Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein apparently does not hold too many grudges against Kansas, where he has been tried twice on federal
Screw runs Kansas ad
In fact, Goldstein may have been behind some free publicity for the state.
An advertisement encouraging Screw readers to visit Kansas appeared in the New York Times.
The ad, which was identical to those appearing in other national publications, boasted "Kansas is much more than pioneers." It was a clip-up coupon ad with the name of the Kansas Department of Tourism and a state agency in charge of promoting tourism.
But the economic development department says it never placed the ad and never requested that an ad run in the magazine because they know who is responsible for the free publicity.
"We didn't know about it until we started receiving requests for more information," she said.
Department employees were tipped off to
the free ad when they noticed what type of advertisements were on the back of some of the clipped-out Kansas coupons they received in the mail.
A department, spokesman, who said he was uncertain how many of the coupons came from Screw readers, said the department thinks the Kansas ad may have been obtained from other national magazines in which it has appeared.
An advertising representative for Goldstein Publications in New York City Tuesday said any questions about the Kanye entretien would have to be put on hold.
Goldstein, his company and his former partner were indicted by a grand jury in Wichita in 1974. A jury convicted the three of 12 federal obscurity charges in Wichita in 1976, but the conviction was overturned because of prejudicial statements the prosecuting attorney made in his closing arguments.
The publisher's second trial ended in a hung jury in November in Kansas City, Kan.
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Sawy, his face grave as he read the recall statement over Egyptian television, said Egypt's demands for total Israel withdrawn from Arab lands and for self-determination for the Palestinians had not changed.
Sawy said Sadat had called an emergency session of the People's Assembly, Egypt's
parliament, for Saturday to place before the representatives of the people all the facts of the session.
It was from that same rostrum that Satad launched the historic quest for peace that the nation came up with, to serve for the first dramatic meeting with leaders of the nation his country fought in four wars.
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