"The Reverend"
Powell, students talk
BY JOHN MARSHALL and RICH LOVETT
"The Reverend," as his constituents call him, was busy "keeping the faith."
Adam Clayton Powell, wearing an orange shirt and with sunglasses shading his eyes from a lot of different glares, boarded a chartered boat and sat in the helm. He snapped his fingers. Someone handed him a cigar. Someone else lit it.
This time, his audience was 15 KU Underwater Sport's Club members. They were in Bimini for spring vacation.
POWELL MADE the rounds, smiling and shaking hands with them all. When he settled in to hold court on their rented boat, he asked if there were any questions.
There were none.
"So," said Mike Redfield, Des Moines, Iowa, senior, "he started off on this sermon about the youth revolting and said young people are tired of the old wavs."
He called students "the hope of the future" but said they must continue a "sustained indignation."
Powell said young people today are revolting against what he calls the three F's: parents, preaching and politics.
"THEER WILL BE big changes." Powell told the students, when the American youth unite. "America is theirs for the taking."
John Aldis, a Fort Scott senior
with the group, said Powell contradicted himself "many times." But he noted that Powell had the magnetic personality of a typecast leader and it appeared that the islanders all worshiped him.
Powell knew every boat that came into the harbor, Aldis said. And many times he would shout "Keep the faith, baby . . . spread it gently" to the fishermen. They waved back.
"The people of North Bimini (the economically poor side of the island) love him," said Joe Goodman, Overland Park freshman and president of the Underwater Sports Club.
"THE ISLAND has really grown since he came. The island's two trucks have 'keep the faith, baby' painted on their sides, and Powell told us the local bank is planning to stay open an extra day because of all the tourists he lures."
Powell "discovered" Bimini about three years ago, long before his current congressional problems, but now it's those problems and the threat of arrest in conjunction with a slander suit Mrs. Esther James won over him in New York that makes it a semi-exile.
When the students did have questions they centered around those political controversies.
Powell answered them in his style.
"When asked about losing his seat in Congress," Aldis recalls, "Powell looked at the chair he
was sitting on and said, 'I haven't lost my seat.'
"IVE BEEN IN WASHINGTON 22 years," Powell was quoted as saying. "They made a big mistake when they refused. If they'd have seated me and then censured me, they'd have me over a barrel. Now I'm a martyr and the people of Harlem will re-elect me as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow."
It was reported that the sun rose the next day. The elections are being held on this one.
A question was asked why Powell was ousted.
"EVERY OTHER politician is a hypocrite," Powell said. "They're all doing exactly what I'm doing except that I don't trv to hide it."
Someone else asked Powell what he thought of James Meredith, his one time Republican opposition for the seat.
"Who"? he grinned.
Another person asked Powell (Continued on page 3)
ADAM AND KU COEDS IN BIMINI
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (center) hugs two KU students during Spring break in Bimini.
77th Year, No.111
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, April 11, 1967
'Oswald killed JFK alone?'
By PAUL HANEY
A police ballistics expert said physical evidence proves that Lee Harvey Oswald, alone, killed President John Kennedy.
A political scientist said the Warren Commission Report of the assassination is a result of finding the right evidence to prove a preconceived idea.
AN HISTORIAN said a procedure should be devised for conducting assassination investigations of high government officials.
A philosopher said the Warren Report is disturbing.
These were statements made last night at a panel discussion of
"The Warren Commission and Its Critics" in the Kansas Union Forum Room. About 100 persons attended.
PAUL E. WILSON, professor of law, was panel moderator.
Capt. Clyde Bevis of the Wichita Police Department crime detection laboratory and a member of the police science department at Wichita State University, said all physical evidence proves that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy when three shots were fired from the top floor of the Texas Book Depository.
Bevis cited impression and ballistic evidence. He said one of the
Oswald with the rifle that killed Kennedy is a photograph that shows Oswald holding the rifle.
ETHAN P. ALLEN, professor and chairman of the department of political science, said the Warren Commission Report is "a darn good case of the prosecutor. I wonder what a good defense lawyer would do with it." he said.
He said that after reading the report, "you've got a beautiful case of a mind being fixed and then a good staff finding all the evidence to prove it.
-UDK Photo by Dick Doores
"THE WARREN COMMISSION AND ITS CRITICS"
Panel members in last night's discussion are (beginning clockwise, upper left) David R. McCoy, Capt. Clyde Bevis, Ethan P. Allen and David H. Jones.
"A commission composed of prominent office holders under stress and tension, worry and uncertainty, will reflect that tension and uncertainty in a desire to get a quick answer," Allen said.
DAVID R. McCOY, professor of history, said that after four assassinations, the U.S. was "once more unprepared to calm the nerves of the country and the world.
"So, as in the past, the President appointed a bunch of well-known, busy men who are harrassed to a commission," he said.
He said the Warren Commission was faced "with all the problems that face every coroner's jury. Due process is denied because there can't be a trial."
David H. Jones, assistant professor of philosophy, said, "Not only is the Warren Commission deficient, it's the most flagrant example of selecting evidence to prove a preconceived view of what happened I can imagine."
JONES SAID that all doctors in Parkland Hospital said the wounds in the late President's neck were entrance wounds, but the commission said in its report that they were exit wounds. He said that almost 2-3 of the witnesses said shots came from a grassy knoll while the commission said they came from the book building.
He called the report "one big fairy tale to the American people." He said he is disturbed that the commission "rigged a report
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Vietnam mail-in campaign begun
A mail-in campaign, calling for an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam, was announced today by Hamilton Salsich, assistant English instructor.
The mail-in will begin at 1 p.m. Friday. Salsich said it will be a silent demonstration in which the participants will walk through Lawrence to the Post Office where letters will be mailed to elected government officials.
Salsich asked that letters be written to: President Lynden Johnson, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Rep. Larry Winn Jr. (R-Kan.), Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), and Sen. James B. Pearson (R-Kan.).
THE MAIL-IN was organized
by the Kansas Peace Forum, the KU Student Peace Union and the KU Vietnam Committee.
Salsich said he is "the unofficial chairman of the KU Vietnam Committee.
In a letter to about 150 members of the three organizations, Salsich said, "The mail-in is not a demonstration but a vote, not a rally but a roll call.
"IT IS A gathering of people who want to express their opinions to their elected representatives, and indirectly to their fellow townpeople."
Salsib said the Lawrence Police Department has been notified about the mail-in and has agreed to cooperate.
Strike delaying Spencer
For the third straight day, work is being halted on construction of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library by striking Bricklayer's—Local Number Three.
Contractor for the library, the B. A. Green Construction Co., reports the main dispute is over higher wages. Picketing began Thursday.
NEGOTIATIONS ARE in progress with the union. No bricklayers or masons are working on Spencer at the present time and will not be needed for about three weeks. Other construction crews are honoring the picket lines; construction has been stopped.
Constant Construction Company said work has halted on the School of Religion. Some work is being done, when workers are not picketing.
Bob Green, B. A. Green Construction Company president, said, "We have no idea of when
the strike will be settled. At the present time we haven't lost too much work. We are counting the days; our real loss will depend on the length of the picketing."
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts fair skies and warmer temperatures with a high near 70 degrees. It is expected to be partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with a chance of scattered showers or thundershowers late tonight or early tomorrow. Precipitation probability tonight is 20 per cent and 30 per cent tomorrow.