Wednesday, May 13, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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JFK Assassination Investigation Nears End
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — With a mountain of detail piling up in its files, the Warren Commission is approaching the end of its exhaustive investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy.
Unless some unforeseen development demands expanded investigation, the seven-man commission expects to finish sometime within the next two months.
The purpose of most commissions appointed by the President is to develop information which can be used as the basis for changing government procedures, he explained.
But at this point, even commission members are not sure what will happen to their report after it is submitted to President Johnson.
A JUSTICE Department lawyer said the report of the commission which investigated Pearl Harbor under the chairmanship of Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts had no legal status in the sense that it can not be used as proof in any court case.
"This is certainly part of the purpose of the Warren Commission, as it was of the Roberts Commission," he said. "But both of these reports are aimed much more at the public than is the case with most presidential commissions."
The commission that investigated the Pearl Harbor disaster would be the closest thing to a precedent for this commission, a staff member said.
Whether there will be any changes in the procedures for protecting a
President as a result of the commission's report is problematical.
BY JAN. 29, about two months after the commission began its work, the FBI had submitted more than 250 investigative reports containing more than 10,800 pages.
Since that time, it has turned over several thousand more pages containing specific information requested by the commission.
Physical evidence, such as a windshield from the car in which Kennedy was riding, and displays, such as a detailed scale model of the assassination area, also were turned over to the commission by the FBI.
When it was created, the commission announced that it planned to cover:
Secret Service agents told the commission about the specific steps taken in advance of Kennedy's fatal visit to Dallas Nov. 22.
THE COMMISSION'S investigation has ranged far beyond the protection given to the President.
- Every detail of Oswald's activities on Nov. 22.
- The life and background of Oswald, with an attempt to assess his ideas and psychology.
- Secret Service witnesses also included four men who were riding in the presidential motorcade when Kennedy was shot.
- Oswald's career in the marine corps and his stay in the Soviet Union.
- The murder of Oswald in the Dallas police station and all aspects of how it could have occurred.
- The story of Jack Ruby, the night club owner who shot Oswald to death before a startled television audience.
- The procedures to protect Kennedy, the performances of the Secret Service, the FBI, the Dallas police, and possible influence of hate movements and extremist organizations in the Texas area.
The commission has covered all of these areas except the role played by Ruby, which was intentionally left to the last so there would be no conflict with the night club owner's trial in Dallas.
DETAILS OF Oswald's activities on Nov. 22 were related by the youth with whom he rode to work, persons who worked with him at the Texas Book Depository, eyewitnesses who saw a gun protruding from a sixth floor window in the depository building, a bus driver and a cab driver who had Oswald as a passenger shortly after the shooting, and Dallas police who investigated the slaying of patrolman J. D. Tippitt.
Oswald's life story and his background were related by his widow, Marina Oswald; his mother, Marguerite Oswald, and his brother, Robert L. Oswald.
The commission has asked for a return appearance by Oswald's Russian-born widow. A spokesman said the commission wanted the widow, who was described as a "very cooperative witness," to answer questions about "several additional points" that had come up since her
British Fear Nasser's Actions; Goal Thought to Be Port of Aden
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst Since the days of the Romans the port of Aden at the tip of the Arabian peninsula has been a trading link between Asia and Europe. Today, in the hands of the British it is a strategic military base guaranteeing the flow of oil from the Persian gulf and the site of an oil refinery capable of processing five million tons of oil per year.
It also is a plum ardently desired by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic.
In recent weeks have occurred events which in British eyes are not mere coincidence.
But with all the effort, Yemeni republican forces and the Egyptians still were able to control only Yemen's cities. Desert tribesmen still rallied to the deposed monarchy.
In neighboring Yemen, where for more than a year his troops have been deeply involved, Nasser told cheering tribesmen:
"WE SWEAR BY GOD to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world. We shall shed blood and sacrifice souls. . ."
For Nasser the time was approaching when either he had to win in
And in the south Arabian federation, of which Aden is a part, the tribesmen whom Britain has been battling for a century suddenly were striking with modern arms, mortars and automatic weapons. The weapons could only come from outside sources, and the British were convinced they came from the United Arab Republic via the Republic of Yemen.
IN YEMEN, NASSER has tied up close to 40,000 of his armed forces, a third of his military strength. An operation undertaken to protect the new Republic of Yemen after the overthrow of the monarchy and at first expected to be of short duration, had turned out to be a quagmire, costly to the Egyptian economy and unpopular at home.
As usual in the tangled affairs of the Middle East, the ramifications spread far beyond the desolate volcanic rock and the barren mountains and sand which make up the Aden protectorate and the sultanates, emirates and sheikdoms composing the South Arabian Federation.
Contributing to rising British anger were reports, later denied, that the decapitated heads of two slain British soldiers had been paraded in the Yemenite capital of Taiz.
Yemen or get out with resulting damage to his aspirations for Arab unity.
Despite the difficulty involved there were certain advantages for Nasser.
A victory in Yemen would go a long way toward eventual control of the Red Sea and would lead directly into the oil rich sheikdoms of the South Arabian Federation.
In the British he had a natural target for his favorite themes against
colonialism and imperialists, doubly so since the area involved once was held by Yemen and still is claimed by the Yemen government.
in xemen, it was noteworthy that Nasser did not attack Saudi Arabia which has supported the deposed monarchy. New discussions with Saudi Arabia are pending and success there would contribute to success in Yemen.
Britain's troubles in Aden may be just beginning.
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