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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1964
Commission Probed Rumors
By Merriman Smith
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Warren Commission, in its exhaustive examination of the assassination of President Kennedy, had to sift through thousands of unsubstantiated reports and rumors.
One of the more persistent items of speculation was that since the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, spent more than two and a half years in the Soviet Union he must have been a Russian spy and/or Communist agent assigned to murder the chief executive.
The killer was widely reported to have a mysterious source of funds; that he brought $5,000 into this country from Mexico a little more than a month before he cut down Kennedy with rifle fire.
TV to Air Report
NEW YORK — (UPI)— Special news commentary programs discussing the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be presented Sunday evening by the three major television networks.
A spokesman for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) said CBS will go on the air at 3 p.m. with a two hour program on the report scheduled to be released by the White House at 4:30 p.m.
The first 90 minutes of the show, the spokesman said, will deal with background and an investigation of the questions the Warren Commission sought to answer. The last 30 minutes will deal with the report itself.
The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) said its hour-long special program would be broadcast from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. and would blend the findings of the commission with background clips and commentary.
The American Broadcasting Co.
(ABC) will present a half-hour special program on the report from 5:30 to 6 p.m.
An ABC spokesman said the program will deal mainly with the report itself.
There were theories—which grew into "inside" gossip—that the weak-chinned, 24-year-old ex-Marine was in some way connected with either the FBI or the CIA.
ACCORDING TO the commission,
the unromantic truth was that Oswald,
a forlorn, wretched man with
a tortured mind, was none of these
things.
True, he was in the Soviet Union from Oct. 16, 1959, until June 2, 1962. He married a Russian girl, Marina. He tried to renounce his U.S. citizenship, but he never really went through with it. True, he applied for visas to take his family back to Russia in 1963.
Despite his defection to the Soviet Union and his later entreaties, the overriding fact was that nobody wanted Oswald—the Russians, the Cubans, the Mexicans, the Communists, the Socialists or for that matter, his Russian wife whose beautifully sad eyes he blackened with his fists when the mood moved him.
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THE RUSSIANS naturally encouraged the defection of anyone from the West and coddled such turncoats until they could determine whether a defector could be useful from the standpoint of propaganda or what information he might have.
Oswald turned out to be virtually worthless to the Russians on both counts. They gave him a job in a Minsk factory but his work was shoddy.
When Oswald applied for exit visas for himself, his Russian wife and their first baby, permission was granted in five and a half months—fast, but not unprecedented. In fact, the Oswalds could have left Russia much sooner than they did, but they were held up until Oswald received state department permission to re-enter his native country.
The commission said, "There is no evidence that Oswald had any working relationship with the Soviet government or Soviet intelligence."
ALSO, THE Russians never would have permitted Oswald to marry a Soviet girl and take her to the
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As for Oswald having assassinated Kennedy on Soviet assignment, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said this was so much "madness."
"I have not seen or heard of any scrap of evidence indicating the Soviet Union had any desire to eliminate President Kennedy nor in any way participated in any such events," the secretary testified. "... It would be an act of rashness and madness for Soviet leaders to undertake such an action as an active policy."
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