University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 3, 1977
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JFK assassination files to be released by FBI
WASHINGTON (UI)—The FBI has announced that it soon will release most of its raw investigative files on the John F. Kennedy assassination, and a former Dallas agent predicted yesterday that the material will out an end to conspiracy theories.
"Frankly, this will make the House Assinations Committee put up or shut up," said Robert Gemberling, a retired FBI officer in the role in the presidential assassination study.
"And it will put an end—hope—to all this conspiracy business by some members of the public and the press," Gemberling said in a telephone interview from his Dallas home. "There wasn't any conspiracy to kill Kennedy."
In Washington, an FBI spokesman said the bureau, in response to a barrage or Freedom of Information requests, was readying for release more than 80,000 pages of raw investigative data from its offices on the Nov. 22, 1983 assassination.
The spokesman said the material, however, would wensor the names of informants and other information exempt
from compulsory release under Freedom of Information laws, and would also exclude documents classified by the Warren Commission and data received from the CIA, the Secret Service and other federal agencies.
The investigative commission headed by the late Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy.
The spokesman said the first batch of materials, to be released this month, will cover the first six months of the FBI's murder investigation.
More material will be released in January. he said.
Copies will go to more than 80 individuals and organizations that have pressed the Freedom of Information demands. Reporter also will have access.
Gembering said he was glad to hear the files would be released and predicted there would be no earth-shaking revelations in them.
"There just won't be any," he said. "I think the public pretty well knows everything there is to know about the assassination."
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—A federal appeals court yesterday upheld Patricia Hearest's 176 conviction for robbing a San Francisco church with the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
The government said Heard would be permitted to remain free on bail pending testimony.
Patty Hearst bank robbery conviction upheld
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it found "no reversible error" in the celebrated two-month trial of Hearst, who was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison for participating in the bank robbery 10 weeks after she was kidnapped by the terrorist SLA.
She has been free on $1.2 million bail since November of last year, and would be eligible for parole after serving another 14 months.
U. S. Attorney James Browning Jr., who prosecuted the case, said the government would not seek to have her bail revoked and have her returned to custody until her attorneys decided whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
There was no immediate word from Herbert on whether they would appeal further.
Heart's father, Randolph A. Heart,
president of the San Francisco Examiner,
said he and her mother were "disappointed" by the decision.
"We thought there were very good grounds for the appeal," Heartat said.
April 15, 1974, bank robbery. She was not found for a year and a half after the holdup and finally was arrested in San Francisco in September 1975.
Hearest, 23, was found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury of participating in the
Hearst had contended that she was forced to take part in the robbery after undergoing weeks of duress and torture while locked in a closet by members of the SLA after her
kidnaping. Her attorneys argued that if she had not been kidnapped in the first place, she never would have been involved in the robbery.
In a 35-page opinion, the appeals court said: "We on the basis of well-established principles that no reversible evidence was found and that the judgment must be affirmed."
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Bryant says her efforts against gays will continue
NEW YORK (AP) -Saying she has been shunned as an entertainer, Altay Bryant declared yesterday that death threats, the potential loss of her livelihood and various forms of harassment would not deter her from campaigned against homosexuality.
"I'm not afraid," she said in an interview. "So they kill me. So what?"
Saying that her $100,000-a-year job with the Florida Citrus Commission is in jeopardy, Miss Bryant declared that she 'won't be intimidated.' She continued.
"If that's the price I have to pay for standing as the concerned mother of my four children and to make it a decent payoff to live in, then it's worth paying the price."
Bryant became the target of criticism by homosexuals in January when she spoke out against a Dade County ordinance, later defeated, which would have allowed known homosexuals to teach in public and private schools.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: The 21st Annual KANSAS ASHPHALT PAVING Conference will be all day in the Kansas Union. MID-AMERICAN POETS will meet at 11 a.m. in the Union's Cork 2 Room. KUAD CLUB will have a brown bag lunch at 11:30 a.m. in the Union's Meadowlark Room. UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB will meet at 2 p.m. at the chancellor's residence. YURY TRIFONOV, Russian author, will present a lecture/discussion about Russian prose at 2:30 p.m. in 4101 Wosce. Bo Anderson, Michigan State University, will present a SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM about social exchange and network analyses at 3:30 p.m. in the Union's Council Room.
TONIGHT: SAU BRIDGE club will meet at 6:30 in the Union's Pine Room. KU SAILING club will meet at 7:30 in the Union's Parler. Kristen Bergering, visitor professor of philosophy, will present a LINGUSTICS COLLOQUY, "Montague Grammar and Modal Logic," at 7:30 in 20 Blake. JOHN YROY, president of the National Education Association, will present an open University address, "Objectives for English Learners," at 8:45 in 10 Blake. EDITOR: SIGMA DELTA CHI will have a reception for H. L. Stevenson, editor-in-chief of United Press International, at 8 in the Union's Regionalist Room. KU YOUNG DEMOCRATS will meet at 8:m. in the Union's Council Room.
TOMORROW: Richard G. Stutz of Sikorsky Development Flight Test Center, Stratford, Conn., will present an AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Colloquium, "The Flighting Test Program of the Sikorsky Helicopter," at 3:30 p.m. in 2002 Learned Hall, KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 173 Robinson Gymnasium.
Announcements
Applications for executive and staff positions at JKJHK radio are available at JKJHK in Sudler Anexx or outside 21T Flint. Deadline for application is Nov. 22. MARTIN THOMAS HAGAN will present his doctoral dissertation on electrical engineering, and he will power Locks. A System Identification Approach, *at* 8:15 p.m. in 1011 Learned Hall.
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