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--doing a good job and has been effective since almost the turn of the century. So it slipped once, this was a matter of circumstances."
Monday, Sept. 28, 1964
62nd Year, No.7
Warren Report Reveals Lee Oswald Acted Alone
By Merriman Smith
WASHINGTON, —(UIP)— The judgment for history is that Lee Harvey Oswald, a rebellious frustrated Marxist fanatic, murdered John F. Kennedy in Dallas 10 months and 5 days ago "acting alone and without advice or assistane."
There is no evidence that he was part of any conspiracy, either foreign or domestic. There also is no evidence that the emotional climate in the Texas city had anything to do with his irrational act. The motives of the 24-year-old Oswald, who pumped three shots at the young president from the sixth floor of a Dallas office building, are obscure. But they appear linked to a broken home, an indifferent mother and an unsatisfactory marriage.
One consequence of the day of horror has been a tightening of Presidential security procedures.
But much more needs to be done to protect Lyndon B. Johnson and future occupants of the White House from potential assassins.
These are the conclusions of "the President's commission on the assassination of John F. Kennedy," otherwise known as the Warren Commission. It was set up by Johnson immediately after the Nov. 22, 1963, tragedy to "evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding the assassination."
The 888-page report was made public last night after painstaking investigation. The inquiry involved most branches of government and even reached overseas into Russia where Oswald lived for a while and where he met the girl who was to become his wife.
The report conceded that in view of Oswald's subsequent death at the hands of Dallas nightclub owner
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Students Satisfied
The Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was received with satisfaction and relief by KU students yesterday following 10 months of rumors, discussion and speculation.
The report with its implication of the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald and its criticism of the Federal Bureau of Investigation gained immediate acceptance among most KU students.
"It's almost what I'd expected to hear," said Joan Olson, Omaha, Neb. junior. "It seems logical. I'm glad the wrap-up is finally complete."
"It was generally what I'd expected," said Chuck Turpen, Salina junior. "I had decided long ago that he (Oswald) was guilty."
"The conclusions drawn pertaining to Oswald and the fact that he was not in collusion with anybody were probably true, considering the evidence," said Daniel Householder, Wichita senior.
"I was surprised to find that so much responsibility had been placed on the FBI," Householder said. "I was also surprised the FBI had as much information as they had on Oswald."
Householder said the FBI had interviewed Oswald 17 days before the assassination, and had been keeping watch on his activities since his return from Russia. Householder said the Commission stated this material should have been given to the Secret Service.
"The report was good in that it will strengthen not only the FBI, but the Secret Service," Householder said. "The Secret Service has been
The Commission's criticism of the FBI's inability to work with officials in Dallas will probably cause some controversy, Bill Kerfoot, Lawrence junior, said.
"Some people might feel the Commission report will clear the reputation of the city, Dallas," said Connie Church, Dallas, Tex., junior. "But the city cannot be held responsible its reputation didn't have to be cleared."
"The assassination itself was so baffling that I guess we'll have to accept the conclusion that Oswald did it alone," said Lacy Banks, Kansas City senior. "Sometimes I think there is some missing evidence. Nevertheless it happened."
Calling the report thorough and excellently done, Gary Walker, Wichita junior, said he didn't agree with foreign criticism that the assassination was a cover-up job. Many Europeans had considered the assassination part of a Communist plot to take over the United States.
"I think it got as close to the root of the matter as could be done," Walker said.
Citizens Take First Steps To Draft Judicial Reforms
"There may be some refuting of the report," said Jim Tschechtelin, Prairie Village senior. "A lot of people would like to think it was Communist instigated. They point it out as an example of infiltration or moral decline in our country. While this might be possible, you can't automatically point to the assassination and draw this conclusion from it."
The first step in reforming the Kansas judicial system since the original state constitution was first written was taken last week.
Jack Ruby it was impossible to say categorically that no one else was involved in the assassination. But it added:
The conclusion of the "Citizens Conference on Modernization of the Kansas Courts," was only the first process to update and streamline the Kansas judicial system. About 150 citizens met in the Kansas Union Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to discuss various phases of the outmoded court system.
"If there is any such evidence it has been beyond reach of all the investigative agencies and resources of the United States and has not come to the attention of this commission."
Members of the committee for drafting include David Prager, Topeka District Judge; John E. Blake, Kansas City lawyer; James Logan, Dean of the KU Law School; Philip H. Lewis, Topeka attorney; and Fred Six, Lawrence attorney.
Following the conference, a committee was formed to draft a bill which will eventually be submitted to the people to be voted on.
AFTER SEVERAL addresses by distinguished men of the law profession, the conferees held panel discussions. Saturday at the final general assembly a summary statement of suggested reforms was accepted by the conference members.
The report failed to convince the assassin's mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald. She continued to insist "there is no proof" her son killed Kennedy. And a Communist youth publication said in Moscow that the assassination was the result of a right-wing reactionary coup.
After a bill has been drafted, it will be presented to the Kansas Judicial Council for approval. Following their approval the bill will be presented to the state legislature and submitted to the citizens of Kansas to be voted on.
As for the actual events in Dallas last Nov. 22-24, there were no real surprises in this fascinating, heavily documented report written for the ages.
In essence, this is the U.S. government's verdict on what the report called "a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family, a nation, and against all mankind."
And it declared that two days later when Ruby fatally wounded Oswald in the basement of the Dallas jail, he did so acting alone and not as part of any conspiracy. It said the two men had never known each other.
The seven-man commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, found that Oswald shot Kennedy and Texas Gov. John B. Connally Jr. from a sixth floor window in the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository.
It said that approximately 45 minutes later, Oswald gunned down policeman J. D. Tippit near the intersection of 10th and Patton streets, and ran off muttering either "poor damn cop," or "poor dumb cop."
The commission addressed itself to two questions—the "what" and the "why" of Nov. 22. The "what" was Oswald's guilt, and it was stated in the report in these words;
On the basis of the evidence the commission has found that Lee Harvey Oswald (1) owned and possessed the rifle used to kill President Kennedy and wound Governor Connally, (2) brought this rifle into the depository building on the morning of the assassination, (3) was present, at the time of the assassination, at the window from which the shots were fired, (4) killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit in an apparent attempt to escape, (5) resisted arrest by drawing a fully loaded pistol and attempting to shoot another police officer, (6) lied to the police after his arrest concerning substantive matters.
(7) attempted, in April, 1963, to kill Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, and (8) possessed the capability with a rifle which would have enabled him to commit the assassination.
"On the basis of these findings the commission has concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin of President Kennedy."
It reached two basic conclusions. The first was that Oswald, a strange, psychotic personality, had the capability of killing a prominent man such as the President to take out a grudge against a society that he felt had frustrated him at every turn.
Having decided Oswald's guilt, the commission set out to find the "why" of the killing.
The second was that there were deficiencies and laps in the organizations set up to protect the President of the United States.
Weather
The weather bureau forecast calls for fair and warmer weather tonight and tomorrow. The low tonight will be near 50 following a predicted daytime high in the lower 70's.
Mimi Frink
Photo by Don Black
KU Queen Entrant To 'Royal' Chosen
Her first visit to the American Royal Horse and Livestock Show will be doubly exciting for Mimi Frink. Lawrence junior.
When she visits the Royal for the first time, Oct. 8 to 11, Mimi will be KU's entrant in the competition for queen of the event, held each year in Kansas City.
Mimi, representing Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, was selected from among 23 candidates from women's living groups at a dinner and competition held Friday night in the Kansas Union.
Besides visiting the American Royal shows and exhibits, Mimi will attend a luncheon, a party at the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the Coronation Ball. Anticipating the event as a "marvelous experience," Mimi said Saturday she was both honored and happy to represent KU.
Formal judging of the contestants,
representing land-grant or Big Eight
colleges, is scheduled for Oct. 8.
Candidates will wear floor-length
white formals and be judged on personal beauty, poise, personality,
grooming, talent and educational and social background.
The American Royal queen and two princesses will be crowned at a Coronation Ball the night of Oct. 10. The remaining candidates will be honored as Ladies of Her Majesty's Royal Court.
Mimi was a runner-up to the SUA Carnival queen in 1963. In 1962 she was Miss Lawrence and fourth runner-up to Miss Kansas in the Miss Universe contest.
She is a member of Angel Flight and of a newly-formed honorary theatre group.
The first four projects of a master plan for campus development expected to prepare the campus for a 20,000 student enrollment in the early 1970's have been completed
By Glen Phillips
Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor in charge of operations, said that two more buildings are in the architectural planning stage and construction is slated to begin soon.
Building Plan Meets Growing Enrollment
The master plan, which was introduced early in 1962, is the latest step in a construction boom that has lasted for about 15 years and will continue for another 10.
The present major construction flurry on campus began about 1950. It was brought about by the tremendous enrollment increases after World War II when thousands of GI's returned to school on the GI Bill and enrollment at KU jumped to almost 10,000 in the late forties.
In 1950 the enrollment figures began to taper off, but the economical situation was sufficiently improved that the state legislature could begin to make allotments for construction to catch up with the inflated student counts.
The present plan was instituted in late 1961 to provide a flexible guide for use of the land and facilities available to the university.
in developing a complex of multi-purpose classrooms centrally located on campus. Rooms in the complex will be used for English, social science and humanities courses. This would make it possible for the undergraduate who must take courses in all these fields to get to classes with the minimum amount of travel.
Lawton said that the planners were primarily interested in getting full use from the area along Jayhawk Blvd.
Administrators now are interested
The specialized buildings such as Malott and the Engineering building are placed around the perimeter of the campus. Students who have declared major interests generally spend most of their time in the building devoted to that major, Lawton pointed out. Therefore, when a student declares a major he will move off the hill away from the general class area, he said.
The completed parts of the project are:
- The laboratory addition to Dyche Hall (8840,060).
- The $1.8 million additions to *Nation Library*.
- The new Blake Hall which houses the departments of sociology, social work, political science, human relations and the Governmental Research Center ($720,000).
- Appropriations and architectural plans have been made for:
- The Engineering building finished a year ago ($1.9 million).
New Fraser Hall, to be located immediately east of old Fraser.
A new gymnasium, to be east of Naismith Drive from Allen Field House.