THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No. 70
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 7, 1969
Shaw identified with Oswald
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The "desert" boots of Ron Ferguson, Kirkwood, Mo., sophomore, seem slightly out of place as he steps into the slime around his apartment. The squish is almost audible.
Kansan photos by Joe Bullard
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)
Surprise testimony in Dist. Atty.
Jim Garrison's case against Clay L.
Shaw has placed the three men
accused of conspiring to assassinate
John F. Kennedy together in a car
three months before the murder.
The story came from the last of five state witnesses produced in rapid order late yesterday on the opening day of testimony in the trial of Shaw on charges of plotting the killing of President Kennedy with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. Ferrie.
The state's big gun testimony previously was that the three were overheard plotting the killing in mid-September, 1963. That story was from Perry Raymond Russo in a preliminary hearing two years ago. Russo will be a star witness for Garrison in this trial.
The automobile testimony was given by Corrie C. Collins of Baton Rouge, La., a Negro mail handler. He said that in 1963 he was working in a state hospital in Jackson, La., near Baton Rouge, and also was chairman in nearby Clinton, La., of the local Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality CORE.
He identified Shaw in the courtroom and Ferrie from a picture as the men he saw in the front seat of the parked car. Oswald, he said, got out of the back seat and entered a voter registration line while the other two waited for him to register.
The other four witnesses yesterday placed one or two of the
alleged conspirators at Clinton or Jackson. But only Collins had all of them, and riding together. All placed the time as probably late August.
The state began its new episode by calling Edwin Lee McGeehee, a Jackson barber, who said a man whom he later recognized from television as Oswald came into his shop for a haircut and asked how to go about getting a job at the East Louisiana State Hospital there.
Morgan, the next witness, said Oswald, an unbearded man in a dark shirt, came to his home. He said he told Oswald he couldn't recommend him but that he should get a Civil Service examination. Morgan said he recognized Oswald's picture in the papers after the assassination.
He told him, McGeehee said, to go to Reeves Morgan, the local state representative, for advice about the job.
Under Dymond's cross examination, he said Oswald was clean shaven. Russo has said the man he knew as "Leon" Oswald in the mid-September plotting had a beard.
John Manchester, the Clinton town marshal, testified that in late August, 1963, CORE was sponsoring a voter registration drive in Clinton and he was on duty to "keep out outside agitators."
He pointed a finger at Shaw in the courtroom as the driver of the parked limousine and said he had identified himself as a representative of the International Trade Mart in New Orleans.
BULLETIN
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Mud, trash irk renters
By JOE BULLARD Kansan Staff Writer
The most distressing problem, the occupants claim, is the mud surrounding the units. Occupants further complain that there are no streets or sidewalks, no mail service, and phone service is available because of the mud.
Since moving into their new apartments earlier this week, occupants of the new addition to Gatehouse Apartments, 2124 W. 26th, have run into problems.
The recent snowfall, plus the mild weather, has turned the area around the apartments into a mudhole. To get to their apartments, residents must walk through mud and water.
"Not only am I cut off from the outside world due to no telephone and no mail service, but I also know what it is like to live like a pig
Mrs. I. D. Sadler, manager, said she was well aware of the problem. She said she makes the trip through the mud to the apartments every day. Sidewalks and streets have not been installed because of bad weather, explained Mrs. Sadler.
because of this mud," Ron Ferguson, Kirkwood, Mo. sophomore, and Gatehouse resident, said.
The problem with the mud and the nonpaved streets is so bad that Gatehouse has no mail service for its new residents. Mrs. Sadler explained that the Post Office would not deliver mail to an area which doesn't have paved streets.
Bill Brewer, 1717 W. 21, a representative for the Viking Investment Corporation, owners of the new addition, explained that the apartments would have been finished on time if it had not been for the recent bad weather.
Brewer said students were told their apartments would not be finished on time and were begged not to go ahead and move in. He
Brewer said the corporation was very sorry if any one had been inconvenienced and that as much as $1,100 per day had been refunded to students who could not move into their apartments on time.
said his company has spent over $13,000 to pay for rooms in the Holiday Inn for students who could not move into the new apartments on time.
As far as he knew, Brewer said everything that could possibly be done to help the new residents had been done.
Connie Waetzig, Topeka junior,
said postal officials told her
yesterday it would be at least the
Continued on p. 16.
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