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From the March-April, 1997 issue (Vol. 4 No. 3) |
Are we going to finally see a new trial in one of the biggest murder cases of the century? On February 20th, Judge Brown in Memphis gave a preliminary approval to a reopening of the case against James Earl Ray in the murder of Martin Luther King. His court has OK’d a testing of the supposed murder rifle, subject to approval by an appeals court. Lisa Pease continues to cover the progress of attorney Bill Pepper in his efforts to get this new trial going as he races against time, for as Lisa noted, Ray is terminally ill.
Speaking of patsies, our special section in this issue focuses on Lee Harvey Oswald. As I note in my introduction, instead of becoming more clear and finite as more files are released, the figure of Oswald is becoming even more complex. And as John Armstrong and Lisa explain, the efforts to disguise this complexity seem to have been of overriding concern in Washington, before and after the assassination. Last issue, Carol Hewett detailed the Paines’ participation in the disguising of the Minox camera found in Oswald’s seabag. John concentrates on the FBI’s role in this particular camouflage. He also details the mystery of the apparently posthumous W-2 forms. Lisa goes into the bizarre saga of the demise of Otto Otepka, State Department security officer. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth treatment of Otepka’s destruction in regards to the assassination. Lisa notes the shadowy presence of Walter Sheridan at the periphery of his forced ouster. In another relatively ignored incident, we welcome William Weston as he explores an Oswald sighting in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1963. Were the Paines and Jack Ruby involved?
On the medical side of the case, Gary Aguilar and Kathy Cunningham contribute an overview of the medical evidence to date, with a focus on the differences between the HSCA version of the autopsy and the Warren Commission’s. One case, two medical postmortems. Carol Hewett issues another fine installment on the queer roles of Ruth and Michael Paine in relation to Oswald. This time she minutely examines Ruth’s role in unearthing Oswald’s letter to the Soviet Embassy, written just two weeks before the assassination. Was Ruth on assignment, and did Oswald know who “Kostin” was? Art Pineda alerts us to the unfortunate death of Krissa Kearton, survivor of George DeMohrenschildt and former contributor to Probe. As usual, we update our readers to the latest progress of the Review Board and the most recent developments out of Harry Connick’s New Orleans court cases.
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