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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, May 8, 1968
'Anti-literature' clutters local post office
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
Somewhere in Lawrence there lives a little old man or woman who does his part to make the world more livable by distributing anti-everything literature.
These pamphlets aren't obscene. By no means, for they condemn pornography along with everything else which doesn't appeal to their authors. But their radical attacks on everything from the Catholic Church to Jews to modern music strikes a sour note in the minds of many people.
Lawrence postmaster John Harris said the individual who distributes this material comes in late every night and leaves it in the post office. The janitors are instructed to throw away any of this literature when they find it, but they're only on duty until 7 p.m., Harris said.
Only authorized material is supposed to be available to the public at the post office. "And that's one reason why we have glass covering the bulletin boards —so no one can put anything like these pamphlets there," he added.
Harris thinks he knows who distributes a lot of this material, but he can't prove anything. But this individual isn't alone in his efforts to distribute the "truth" to the people of Lawrence, the postmaster added. "I'm sure there are others just like him," he said.
Postal inspectors have investigated several people suspected of distributing this literature, but they haven't really been able to find out anything, Harris said. "After talking to several of these people, these trained inspectors have come away mumbling to themselves," he said in describing how radical some of these people were.
"There's really nothing we can do about this material because it's not lewd or obscene," he said.
"The postal inspectors have done just about everything they can to control it."
Post office patrons also help in ridding the post office of this material.
"We get complaints quite frequently from patrons who pick up this stuff, but most people help us control it by tossing it in the nearest disposal," Harris said.
For example, one broadsheet entitled "Common Sense" ran a headline reading "To the youth of America — Face reality — Only truth can set you free," and then followed with a story describing the Communist Master Music Plan to destroy America.
The Communists, this article declared, are trying to hypnotize American youth and control their emotions through the beat of their music, and then give the word for riot and revolt.
The complete solution to the Kennedy murder mystery is offered in a handbill distributed by a civil engineer from California. The handbill offers such tantalizing transcripts or half hour tapes as "The Strange 'Death' of Lee Harvey Oswald," or "The Stranger in Arlington Cemetery," or "Triggerman—Identifies by name the real suspect."
But one of the most eye-catching offers is "The Real Reason for the Attempted Assassination of President Kennedy," with an explanation further down the page which states: "Contrary to reports President Kennedy was not in the Presidential automobile and consequently, was not shot."
This handbill also offers a tenpage report with "factual details that show Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT shot in the Dallas police basement as shown so dramatically on television."
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Another frequent target of these attacks are Jews and Judaism.
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A picture in one of the broad-sheets shows white crosses over graves of 13,000 war dead in National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu, Hawaii, with a caption which reads: "But the crosses are no longer there. Anna Rosenberg (with a Star of David drawn in after her name) while Assistant Secretary of Defense ordered their removal."
Another handbill quoted Rabbi Stephen Wise as saying, "Some call it Communism, but I call it Judaism." It went on to quote Rabbi Wise as saying: "Gerald L K. Smith is the most dangerous man in America."
The handbill states that Smith was the "persecuted victim of a gang of international character assassins," and that this same gang effected the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur, the "crucifixion" of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, and was engaged in a campaign to smear and destroy the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities.
Several publications attack the Catholic Church, accusing it of everything from starting the Vietnam war to threatening to take over the U.S. government.
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"Voice of Freedom" states that "history will probably never reveal the full story of what the Roman Catholic Church has done to foment wars, unrest, distrust, and division in the whole world."
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