2 Michigan State News, E a s t L an sin g , Michigan H e have had it before. His­ II liy tltt we insist on /tlati­ tory has sifted and simplified tudes ? its causes into “ Slavery and Secession," " I nions vs. Man­ II In can't we accept part of agement or " Horn b- I lirow­ the guilt ? ing I narchists." lint today is not history. II e % Sure, you 're never broken have no glossy sense of per­ a law in your life, the seed of vio­ who have nothing to lose or people knew that there were lence, even if you have not to idealistic kids who never had some things you just didn t planted it. to work anti then see llieir hard- do. Common sense, we called earned money dumped into it. II here is it now? taxes. " In our version o f democracy, "Those lousy politicians we are not legally our brother's have gone too Jar. Sure, ev­ “ You'd have to be insane keeper. The laws cannot con­ erybody's got to have his rights, to want tit kill such a wonderful trol our moral obligations. but some people are just man. That's all, just insane. " plain lazy. Want everything Hut we all must live in the re- handed to them on a platter. suit o f our inaction. I worked hard to be where I “ I f I'd had the chance, I am. Why should I support would have pulled the trigger these bums just because it myself. He's the one who start­ I iole nee in the streets . . . will ivin votes f o r some crooked ed all this trouble we're in Why? The answer is within senator?" right noiv." you. Apologia Unbelievable as it m ay seem, the Editors erred. The marvelous photo of the old man on the bench (page 8. PICTORIAL CREDITS bottom, of last issue) was tak­ D i r e c t o r ............................................. D a r id G ilb e r t Executire E d it o r ................................MikeO Seal C o v e r ................................................... Jim Y ousling en by Jan Deen, Livonia jun­ P o e try E d i t o r .............Jose/th D io n n e Sketch, page 3 ........................... # . Jim Y ousling Photography Editor Gordon \loore Sketches, page 4 ......................... Shelley Sutton ior. not by Gordon Moore, Jim hoisting. Don Olson. Put Lewis. Hruce Headline, page 5 ...............................Jim Y ousling Collage photography editor. Sfiilz. Tom Howers. Hugh Low IIberl Drake. •Sketch, page 5 .................................... Doug Huston James Sherwood l ifilon. Shirley Echols. Sketch, page 9 Shellev Sutton The best laid plans . . . P i c t o r i a l ..................................................... Hob Iv in s T u esday, N ovem ber 26, 1968 3 One day in Dealey Plaza fabrications to prove-a point. Of the defense Don Olson is the Chairman of the MSU Chapter books, the only one^to present any new in­ of the Kennedy Assassination Truth Com m ittee. formation was "Sholfid We Now B elieve the An Honors College senior from Toledo, Ohio, Warren Report?" byiGtephs?! White, a spokes­ Don has been researching and reading for man for CBS News. this article for five months. His major is Phys­ CBS NEWS inqui(v: The Warren Report ics. White s book p r i n t e d in detail the rea­ soning and research Methods which went into By DON OLSON the production of thé-CBS News report on the The photographers had their cam eras trained Warren Report. ShdVn on June 25-28, 1967. on the President that bright fall day, as he the four hour-long Specials w ere essentially, enjoyed another warm reception along his an answer to the critics, who by late 1966 current tour. Certainly none of the photo­ had stirred up enough doubt so that 66 per graphers could have imagined that their film s cent of a Harris pol>Aample felt that Oswald were to becom e valuable evidence in a P resi­ had not acted a lo n e . CBS showed creditable dential assassination which they were about initiative in conduC ihg extensive tests of to w itness. According to the official recon­ rifle speed and acfc^acy. ¿ballistic penetra­ struction of the shooting, that day the P resi­ tion and the like. . dent fell, fatally wounded by two bullets fired The number and iming of the shots is from a cheap weapon bv a lone (and probably essential to a stat^* ient of the number of dem en ted ) assassin. In som e of the now- gunmen, obviously. Ts claim ed to have dis­ important pictures, the face of the accused covered clues in the ’ 'pruder film which could assassin (him self soon to die in turn) ap­ pinpoint the timing, if the shots. With the peared clearly recognizable m om ents before expert advice of LuK Alvarez ( a recent Nobel the shots w ere fired. One of the photographers "If anybody really wants to shoot the President laureate in phvsic'j: from B erkeley), CBS took a motion picture which depicted the of the I ailed Slates. it is not a very difficult job— thought it had locat 1 three shots in the film events right up to the firing of the fatal shot. all one has to do is gel on a high building some and built their theo- about this finding. CBS Partly because of the lack of definite ev i­ day with a telescopic rifle." (President John F. was justifiably acct ed of selectivity of evi­ dence of a conspiracy and partly because the Kennedy, the morning of November 22. 1963» dence here, for at. iea=t five other sim ilar governm ent investigative agencies said they points exist in the ^’lo which were not m en­ noticed nothing in the film s which would elusions were no surprise. The main con­ tioned on the shov The point becam e aca­ lead to the existence of any fellow conspira­ tribution of the com m ission beyond the as­ dem ic later, howev r. wfhen m ore careful re­ tors. the lone assassin theory cam e to of­ sem bling of evidence for the long demented search proved tHaC Alvarez' initial assump­ ficial acceptance. Thus w as photographic ev i­ assassin-cheap weapon-two shots hit theory tions w ere false am had been based on a lack dence in use in coming to conclusions re­ w as Counsel Arlen Specter's controversial of information. garding the events which led to the execution "single-bullet theory." One bullet w as theor­ Perhaps the m oït jpib itiou s undertaking of Leon Czolgasz for the assassination of P resi­ by CBS was a r^onifj-uction of the firing dent McKinley on Sept. 6.1901. ized to have struck both Kennedy and Gover­ nor Connallv. who was riding ahead of Ken­ site. A target w as f ille d at the proper average Sixtv-two years later the situation w as to re­ nedy. and to have caused seven of the wounds speed down a trackJjefore a tower equi'ihlent peat itself, with the nam es changed to Lee noted in m edical reports. Careful study of the to the sixth floor depository window alleged Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy. Photo­ fram es from the Zapruder film , along with to have been useS^by Oswald CBS used a graphers were in abundance at D ealey Plaza related evidence, had shown that anything ritle sim ilar to (7; Wald's, but with an im ­ in D allas on Nov. 22. 1963: a recent book lists but the single-bullet theory necessitated the portant functionaf-^lifference. According to 22. and there w ere several others. The m ost existence of at least two gunmen. White the "voluntCir marksmen" often got important of them was Abraham Zapruder. The official findings received less than off two aim ed shq.2 at the moving target in whose 8mm color m ovie captured the entire unanimous acceptance. Initially prompted by less than two se'V'hds! Oswald's rifle had assassination sequence. None of the photo­ the unfair treatm ent given Oswald in the been shown to tak* - 2- 3 seconds just for work­ graphers w as able to capture a clearly recog­ press and electronic media (both of whom ing the bolt and ti-gger between shots, with­ nizable picture of an assassin, however. Be­ convicted Oswald within days of the a ssa s­ out including tirrx* for "'aiming at a moving sides the photographs, governm ent agen cies sination). various people took it upon them ­ target. The split « r o n d s becom e crucial in w ere able to assem ble a veritable mountain selves to argue in the defense of Oswald. analysis when oneCVecalls that the entire as­ of evidence relating to the assassination: Particularly indefatigable w ere Mark Lane. sassination took p<£ ! ... A \ e w ) ork is (mix a group of people, who, f o r their own rea­ sons, are situated in close proxi­ mity to each other. To see \ e i c )o rk without studying carefully the individuals who compose jp g it is lit completely miss the fas­ i v §r D cinating subtleties that form the i 1 1 K G it basi sfo r that megalopolis. t t B t C These photographs are the product o f two days shooting, Or B i'N 6 but to cover “ the City” in any lO tff | , 0 U R real depth would require months. Or perhaps a lifetime would not suffice. „ D U E 1- —Bob Ivins Ki*'" \ 9' 4 Michigan State News, E a s t L a n sin g , Michigan The Age of Beige’ blues can also bo a lot of excitem ent and wonder. Our society reg im ents human beings and B\ PAT LEWIS U nfortunately, m any schools, especially tor ignores their needs. Not just their physical There is nothing exciting tor kids to grow up those who need them most, a r e really places needs, but their emotional needs. to nothing but corporations and security, says w here kids go to be bored, to be hassled about Albert Einstein was a very independent Paul G oodman one ot our angry prophets And their grades, and to be controlled person who knew what w as im portant to he is right America gets duller and duller The problem, ot course, is bigger than money him. When his wife died, tie was of course Ted Sorensen s speech several weeks ago at or schools or space What we need is a new MSI was one symptom ot our problem The leeling We need to c a r e about excitem ent quietness a mi resignation in his voice seemed anti adventure We need to go som e w here and eerie and out ot place in a political speech do something as a society, instead ot fighting Musth Ite urged the students who could to Russians. Asians and South A m erican g u e r ­ rillas to m ake the world sate tor the uptight than the others You must at least vote 'loti s paradise we are tweating We need to c a r e and to try ra th e r than to del end Onlv it we stop being deluded by a r m s rac es and the rat r a c e a r e we going lo be a w a re ot the things we need and want, and ttie things th.it really affect us Because the trouble with the things we a r e supposed to c a r e about is that they don t m a tte r There is a film called Sixteen in Webster G roves It is about high school juniors in a wealthy conservative suburb of St Louis They a r e dead-heads They have em ptv faces and talk about nothing but g rades and social position and how thev would like to grow up and m ak e money and have a nice house and security Onlv twenty per cent ot them had skipped school even once These a r e the things, a s the movie goes on to show, that they a r e told to ca re about by their p are nts and teachers. However, the film ­ m a k e rs also found the outcasts of Webster G roves High School, the dids who didn't fit very sad. One of his fellow scientists c a m e These oddballs did have something of their to see him and. to cheer him up. they spent own to say. They w ere the intellectuals and a few hours together on the harde st physics the vocational training kids. problem s they could think of. When the other It w as not cool to take a vocational ra th e r m an was ready to leave. Albert Einstein was than an a c ad e m ic course. very grateful to him. "T hank you." he said. Those who did w ere considered "o u t of it.'" " I t w as fun.” But when som e of the kids who took m e ta l­ He did not find com fort in the work he working w ere interviewed, they said that no loved m e re ly because he w as a genius. But Nixon. Humphrey. Wallace. There w as no m a tte r w h at the other kids thought, w hat they sim ply because he w as a hum an being. risk, no hope, no frankness or deep feeling w ere doing w as not Mickey Mouse. But how m a n y people hate their jobs and about them, just safety, security, and fear. "W e really w ork.” they protested. " W e 'r e work for the money, eith er because they have Another exam ple: Congress has just ap­ proud to look a t something w e built our­ to. or because they don't c a r e enough to proved an enormous defense budget-$71.9 bil­ selves." change their jobs? (Or is it that they ju s t lion-setting still another all-tim e appropria­ They a r e doing something im p o rta n t and don't have the e n e r g y ? ) tions record and getting it through alm ost with­ something that they ca re about, but no one Around 1962. on the lower east side of Man­ out a fight. However, the education bill is can see that. (The w orst thing w as that it hattan. the R eal Great Society got started. only 3.1 billion. And the space budget has all rem inded m e of m y old high sc h o o l.) A bunch of kids, m ostly former gang m em ­ been cut. Why c a n 't w e »W re a l achievem ents, and bers. got together and decided they wanted to It looks as though our representatives will respect individuality? do som ething, and they are doing it. They act out of fear, but won't do much out of T here is a good attitu d e in the space pro­ have a U niversity of the Streets, where any­ hope, or out of concern, for people. Billions gram . Schirra, " g r u m p y because of his cold. " one can com e in and teach anything, and for defense, but not much for a better country. refused to prepare a television broadcast anyone can just walk in and take any cla ss Our external enem ies are m ore real to our aboard the Apollo 7 because the equipment he th a t is offered, free. The gang m em bers congressm en than the internal, restless, had would not make a good enough quality began by w riting down on a three-by-five searching, but potentially very stagnant so­ film to satisfy him. Schirra's "I w on't” was card: "What can I teach?” “ What would I ciety they pretend to be defending. accepted without much question. Good. We like to learn?” Anyone can now learn anv- Space is one of the few remaining refuges must let people do their thing without bugging for restless imagination. In education there (continued on page nine) them. T uesday, F iv e m b e r 26, 1968 5 necessary contri of those students, the bureaucratic orgi ization and procedures es­ tablished to m e* this task and the subse­ quent use of com puters have led to an in­ teresting phenomenon - the statistics syn­ drome. The firS-^law of MSU human be­ havior states tKAgr if a concept of a thing cannot be object' sled. u does not exist. How can it? How wouf ‘ 'the bureaucrats be able to record it? How v gjld the computers be pro- gram m ed-’ Your^JJe. your sex. your major, your grades. youC parent's income: these are the onlv true fac- the onlv substantive mea- sure of a human Jeing. Our dorms are built T9 on the sand of - fpnomic returns, ounces of m eat per m eal ✓Id cubic feet per person. We are m easuri i i term s of tim e units, subject units, c t , ‘Jit units and grade units. No one has eve/, j, -ccessfully explained to m e what 10 wet its of five credits of 3.0 This article com pletes a three-part series on and petty academ ic rituals has he adhered grades of Russf ,. of freedom, of lone- plaid-clothed barkers softly mouthed. "We form som eone that he has just undergone a liness. of self? 1 teaches us that if they C are!” and "We're glad to have you!" The third standard deviation experience is m ean­ exist, they can b fi -jd only in the m aterial pam phleteer's pamphlet asserted that "though ingless. Our lives are assvm etrical. Unlike the and productively •P* ational world. All sub- this is not the best. YOU are partaking in an Donna Reed Show, we do not exist in tight­ jective connotatio ■8 i e banished to the back- explosive, dynam ic, approaching-the-best insti­ ly packaged serials of love, crises and happy w aters of our mit S I decay into unobtrusive tution.” The bull horns belched directions. The sedim ent. To stit til i sedim ent is to ques- conclusions. Your relatives do not die every chorus tumbled across green m ats and scream ­ week nor do you get married every monjh We tion who you ar* 71 at question is far too ed. "State is G reat!” Toilet paper w as thrown walk along roads of varying intensities: ecsta ­ dangerous for far k) ¡any of us. Never taught from the upper tiers. And I would fall into tic then m iserable, confused than om niscient, to think or be i: ro jective. we would col- line and prepare m yself for the next act. active then bored. Much like the hanging scrolls lapse; better th£ J>1, ¡tic w aters of a plas- But is has been three years. I'm tired of the of the Orient, sections of our lives are finely tic world. , s preparations. The shows have lost their m ean­ detailed, others sketchy and still others blank. Vanif 1 jt/G eshtalt ing. The vitality that I brought as a freshman At tim es we full the scroll. At tim es w e shriv­ Students are a ;r of the pressure under has dissipated into w eariness. To try to find el and hide in one of the corners. Conflict which the facul* • jsts: the necessity to out why is to reopen doors to now fam iliar arises when a rigid structured system is su­ publish, the adv ft* ’s accrued from for- closets. This article allow s the public airing of perimposed over the irregularity, the assv- eign studies, th* w ,-k in com m ittees and five of these closets. m etrv of our existence. MSU is such a sys­ som etim es, the • si . to be within a com- Structure Suffocation tem. It throbs with precision and dependabil­ petent depaYtme- ,-id to be an excellent The fram e of a car. the bones of our bodies. ity. Enrollment is the acceptance of the ten teacher. Let m e et personal about it. You. The steel beam s of a skyscraper. We usually week period of production, the five week de­ the faculty, as X to iers and as men of ex- envision a skeleton as a structure, a support m arcation 'of cross-exam ination and the one cellence in 'one n rrowed field of knowledge. network designed to contain and protect a much week interim of collapse. tMSU. The green are hindered seve >ly by the contained quality more viable and vital system . It is not the and white merry-go-round. The constant of your involverrt ¡V Erom that precipice of fram e that is of prim e im portance but the con­ straining for gold rings. The uneasy vertigo of specialization, vo ^ tl! never be able to help tent which it securely encases. It is the proper perpetual motion. this urban comj. V St tain or actualize the function and operation of the organism that is However, if you succumb to system fatigue, full potential th g 1' exhibits.: rather your the essen ce of the skeletal existence. Alarm­ if you start to tire and break your vows, if approach will p * ly worsen the present ingly enough, that situation has been reversed your own life suddenly spills like milk on situation. r at MSU. concrete, if parental pressure and the draft For exam ple, ¡rolled in a cla ss last When I ask an upperclassman how many are insufficient to keep you here: you qan spring - IDC 3Ç ’ was a lecture series on good courses he has taken since he has been hand in your ticket. You can walk away from Africa. The mat w as valid. The speakers here, courses that he considered to have been the carnival m usic and the garbled roar of were good. The •hts were initially inter- enlightening, he usually replies between two 40.060. You can leave, if you know where to ested. The clash a flop. A fourth factor and four. And yet. how many lectures has he overwhelm ed the. The lectures took p la ce go and how to get there. attended, how many exam s has he taken, how T to S ta tis tic s S v * r > i r manv papers has he written, how many inane The tremendous student enrollm ent, the tcewthf «page twelve) 6 M ichigan S tate News, E a s t L a n s in g , Michigan L IN E S F O R t t O S S , T W O POETRY V iv e s today UNES ¿ V r td v o w Vo xne»wv.>v^ I w ill ■jAX oS «¿o«- W A A s w rite a & Qrv I k t ec o v tew 0' bout P CURVES a t c> ^ i (w aiting) * ^ SC ^ e & n waiting o c ARE CRCf l TP D BY G C ^ e r iC CHANCE e waiting UNCO NSC IO U S OF FORM YfcT ft MATHEMATICAL PRÉCISION ,S 566N .« EN D LÉSS R E P E T IT IO * -James Sherwood Tipton * * ♦ * , . HC |UT e R5 t c n o N of PARTS E X T IN C T IO N B E f ì i U T ’Y I S ft P f t R f t f t O '- f t ft RCHf 5 E X T IN C T IO N v A u <.> Ifv A R C* E X T IN C T IO N Li E X T IN C T IO N t h e r e f o r e - E X T IN C T IO N YOUR BERUTY IS CURVES E X T IN C T IO N n ev er 0 E X T IN C T IO N B U i E X T IN C T IO N KEVÉR u. E OR DcVl E X T IN C T IO N t*»'ffcVv s t r a it , tv t/S E X T IN C T IO N OR S T IF F E N o E X T N C T ON BUT EVERYW HERE WI T H THE E X T N C T ON ^ pA OF COMCE.RN E X T N C T ON EX N C T ON --Albert Drake EX NC ON First printed in West Coast Review EX NC ON EX NC 0 post-impressionism success EX C 0 m anet m anet manet monet monet monet EX c 0 m anet m anet monet monet EX c money EX c monet monet monet m anet m anet manet EX c monet monet m anet m anet EX --A lbert D rake --A lbert D rake T u esd ay , N ovem ber . 1968 no eSCape blooming flower T H E 0 P among dieing ones a yen to breath L f t suffercated by surrounding a Well To Spread D I block by dis . . . ease thats choking his sphere A heckoning to V I E T N A T out grow the parentical atm osphere Yet I the not recognizing Cold the direction to HEAD? S Wind Knocking Blows through the dry vacant path the leaves fa rth e r than BEFORE? C T in the di i rec tionof infinity, Scream ing n ow ithness T 0 R to the flower where abouts / blown a way " S te p h e n Hi vay with the swirling w i n d s -S h irley Echols EDITOR’S NOTE: An attem pt to justify this form of poetry would only develop into a ramb­ ling discourse of sem antics. Suffice it to say then (cop-out) that the POEMS which appear r r r r on these pages have, in a sense, transcended a a a a the dimensions of fam iliar descriptive rela­ tions. They have in fact founded their own i i i i dimensions through the device of m ixing m e­ n n n n dia. Some, like Albert D rake’s, “post-im pres­ sionism su ccess,” have becom e pure SOUND- treestreestreestreestrees SCAPES. Others, like Stephen Hathaway's, sw astica creation, and Albert D rake’s, “ Lines (r (r (r (r For Moss, TWO,” have bombarded our senses a a a a from so many directions that they have becom e i i i i WORDART LANDSCAPES. The rest of the poem s offered here, for the m ost part, use a n) n) n) n) sight-device technique to illustrate a single thought or scene. --James Sherwood Tipton T. V iW .'-“ Ä Am*'«- -A. ft*,«“ 8 Michigan State News, E a s t L an sin g , Michigan Renaissance in education? By TOM BOWERS something he was searching for. Forni c a m e grad u a te can hardly en ter a professional field " I ' m happy h ere .” E nrico Forni re m a rk s to the U n it e d States to do r e s e a r c h on the without on-the-job training. A m erican e d u c a­ to his class as he leans back in his c h a ir philosophy of history. But a year of p a r ti­ tion does r e l a t e life and scholarship and. to and breaks into that w arm , slightly self-con­ cipation in American higher education had a Forni. this is w hat has m ade Am erica rich scious grin - of a person confessing a p e r ­ profound effect on this m an who had been and powerful. sonal truth. He m eans it His whole face is bored in the atm o sp h e re of a E uropean uni­ "But education must not be a tool of so­ smiling. Then th e re is a pause ot perhaps versity. Something about the openess of ciety." P'orni warns. E d u c a t i o n should ef­ half a second as his eyebrows and forehead A m erican education first im pressed him. fect its environm ent, not be controlled by it. give a fleeting hint of frustration. The smile Soon the whole concept of the A merican ed u ­ P’orni finds a m a jo r s h o r t c o m i n g in the covers a vaguely helpless gesture ot his hand cational system began to fascinate Forni. A m erican system to be a tendency to m a k e when he adds: " i ' m not ready to go home He forgot his rese arch and began to study education subservient to society. He consid­ Enrico Forni is a n I t a li a n , a visiting pro­ the e d u c a t i o n a l concepts he saw and was e r s the idea of a board of tru ste es to be a fessor a t MSI . He is on leave from the U n i ­ experiencing. sign of this m a jo r flaw. E d u c a t i o n should be versity of Bologna in northern Italy. Bologna The connection in America between life run by specialists, he says, "not by Fiona Id is . the oldest nontheologieal university in and scholarship is a key to his interest. “ In Reagans and gas station owners sitting on the E urope and has a long heritage of traditions. America every activity of life is studied and board of tr u ste e s.” The heritage is nice, but a few y e a rs ago taught," he says in a tone which betrays R egardless of its shortcomings. A m erican Forni began to get restless under the tra d i­ admiration. education provides a model which the m o re tions. Italian higher education seem ed to When P'orni begins to talk about education, rigid E uropean system s ought to study. Forni him to be missing something to be too tied he sounds excited. As the discussion goes says. This is w hat m otivates him righ t now down, to be alm ost Irrelevant. " I w as b ored.” deeper his conversation gets faste r and and he is w riting about A m erican education in he says, "a n d I wanted to get out and see he forgets to put a question m a rk in his voice an effort to influence the educational system something else. I was m ad because I know each tim e he uses a word from his English of Italy and the rest of w estern Europe. E u ­ there m ust be something m ore but I couldn't reading vocabulary. The becomes =«• and ropean universities fail to function in society. get it at Bologna.” So he decided to go abroad sn m eih iu g becom es isomeziiif!. but the ideas F orni em phasizes, and he hopes his article s Ignoring his apprehensions, he c a m e to the com e through clearly anyway. He has ob­ and the book he is writing will help prod the United S tates in the s u m m e r of 1967 and spent viously thought a g rea t deal about w hat he Italian ac a d e m ic com m unity into a m o re pro­ the first confusing months at MSU. He was likes and dislikes in education. gressive attitude. terrified, he adm its, especially because he “ Public education is a public service. "My aim is a political on e,” Forni says was obliged to speak English. With laughter Therefore it must be a function of so ciety ,” earnestly. “ This study is not just academ ic. that com es only from regained confidence, Forni has written. Education fits properly I want to effect som e change.” he describes the anxious m inutes he spent into society by teaching people to function« Forni. who holds a doctoral d eg re e in circling Morrill Hall to build up courage for in society. Students in A m erica learn how to theoretical philosophy, is the equivalent of his first encounter with the c h a irm an of MSU's perform in life. An engineering student is an associate professor at Bologna. At MSU he Philosophy Dept. In the fall of 1967 he went to ready to go to work when he finishes his edu­ teaches history of philosophy. He s e em s am used teach a t San F rancisco State College, still cation. and a journalism m a jo r is taught to at the difficulty A merican students supposedly scared, and sti 11 unsure of w hat he wanted. w rite for a real newspaper. Forni finds E u ­ have in making 8 o'clock classes. 8 o'clock When Forni returned to MSU's Philosophy ropean education too ac a d e m ic and too sep­ is not early to me. he says, but the class is Dept, in the fall of this year, he had a new a ra te d from real life. P ro g r a m s em phasize alw ays sleepy. "M a y b e .” he suggests with an outlook on things. For one thing, he could at things like law and humanities. If you study assum ed expression of one giving inside in­ last speak good English without undue strain. medicine. Forni r e m a rk s , you don't learn formation. " m a v b e philosophy is too dull to But much m o re im portant, he had found how to work in a hospital. An Italian college teach at 8 a . m . ” C re a tiv e P e o p le O f T h e W o r ld , S u b m it! . . . S u b m it y o u r i d e a s , p o e m s , s t o r i e s , a r t i c l e s , e t a l, to C o lla g e . W e a r e n o w a c c e p t i n g m a t e r i a l fo r n e x t t e r m ’s i s s u e s . I f y o u a r e a l i v e , i m a g i n a t i v e , a n d r e a d y fo r a c h a l l e n g e , C o lla g e i s fo r y o u . W e a r e s till a t th e S ta te N e w s o ffic e , S u n d ay th r o u g h T h u r s d a y a f t e r n o o n s . T u esd ay , Novem b 6, 1968 Ç &- Assassin? O r Assassin i? (continued from page three) had been correct in stating that he had been surem ents. Thompson proved "vj, many peo­ In the final analysis after tests like these. struck by the second bullet, different from ple had noticed already. I iq .-J that the CBS essentially agreed with the Warren Com­ the one which had already struck the P resi­ fatal shot drive the Presiden; ) j -ty violently m ission. with som e sm all variations in the dent at this point. The explanation for this back and to the left, slamri n„' ^m against story. The public at that point could hardly belated noticing of evidence lies at least the back of the seat. Th* made a be blamed for being in confusion. An under­ partly in the inferior quality of the film detailed analysis of the situ tier irr* light of standable opinion w as that the questions used by the FBI for the com m ission; it was w itness testim ony and m edi1 yfdenee and w ere unresolvable and one might as w ell be­ a copy of a copy. Life still has the originals other possible explanations ‘or nstance, he lieve whom ever one liked. today. At the crucial point in the film showed that the car did * '* c>iddenly ac­ Six seconds in Dallas (fram es 234-238) Comm issioner Allen Dulles celerate at this point). He W*A 1 ^ to the con­ Fortunately at this point objectivity en­ asked the FBI expert if the 'jerky motion clusion that Mark Lane’s U hypothesis tered the scene in the person of .Josiah Thomp­ in Connallv" w as a motion in Connally or of a gunman on the grassy f boil which lies son of Haverford College. Having concluded a jerk in the film; the FBI expert could only to the right front of the m otorcade route, is that the Warren Report left much to be de­ reply "You can't tell." I spent a full day of indeed confirmed by the evidence. My study sired. but noticing that nriost criticism had my tim e at the National Archives in Wash­ of this portion of the film , in light of the been only destructive. Thompson attacked the ington studying the Zapruder film fram es and physics of conservation of momentum, led m e problem: If the Warren Commission had paying particular attention to the governor. to feel that if anything © ¿¡tip son under­ erred, was it possible to determ ine what The clearest wav to separte the motions stated his case. On this p£»w Counsel Lie- really had happened in D ealey Plaza? Work­ proved to be this; using two projectors. I beler could only say o f th« official analysis ing as much as possible from primary sources. superimposed nearby fram es (in this case 236 of the film , "It’s only sine’s.The critics have Thompson studied the ease for over a year and 238) on the sam e screen in such a way raised this point that anybody has ever looked before publishing his results. On the basis that the fixed parts of the car (window sill, at it closely." of detailed photographic analysis iusing en­ door handle i remained stationary when we flipped back and forth between the fram es. While Thompson’s book. Uke all others, is largem ents. dissecting m icroscopes, pro­ The m otions then observed in Connally - the H tractors and optical scales wherever appli­ elusions appear w ell-rea so n tl however, they cab le' and the consideration and organiza­ 20 degree shoulder drop, the puffing of his cheeks, the disarrangem ent of his hair. etc. - flatly contradict the comr , on findings of tion of evidence glossed over or not known to a lone assassin To briefly su- <- i.irize for a no­ the Warren Commission. Thompson arrived w ere quite obvious when brought out in this way. In light of the related testim ony and doubt confused reader, Thor* >n feels that in at several conclusions which contradicted com ­ a period of about six secort*- . hree assassins m ission findings. evidence, the logic of the case necessiated an additional assassin to the rear of the fired a total of four shots^c ..ee hitting the Besides a large number of statem ents cor­ motorcade President and one hitting governor. The recting persistent m istakes in analysis of the Thompson's other major contribution lay in question naturally com es . pmd how the film s. Thompson m ade two major contribu­ studying the motions of the President's head other assassins escaped com m ission tions Acting as consultant for Life m aga­ analysis and who they m ight- - zine. he studied the clear Life blow-ups of the after the fatal shot, which visibly explodes ** Zapruder film and for the first tim e saw the right side of the President's head at enough evidence to prove that Gov Connallv fram e 313. By making extrem ely careful m ea­ (continued on page^Velve) § Decide Before It s Too Lete (continued from page four) it is disastrous to ignore our It som e­ thing really hurts us. but no ■> . Ueves it thing from acting to accounting They just is an important thing, then w' be tn e con­ got a $70.000 grant (ask and you shall re­ fused and torn apart inside W'*ar feprived ceive». even of sim ple sadness There was a sort of im m ediacy about them. If som ething^ is important, t» us em o­ They had figured out a way to help save a tionally. but we don't realize i inti ectually, poverty problem in a sm all town on Long we are likely to ignore it. and o o to som e­ Island, and were ready to carry it out before thing which w e think w e sh< Id ant. but the conventional people had decently pulled which leaves us empty. over and digested the fact that things were A society's people need to , >ve rneaning- bad in that little town. (But never mind, con­ ful goals in common, or the be hne lost ventional people, speed is not the m ost im ­ venture and curiosity, with the need to make and confused. When you thin! soi thing is portant thing. The m ost important thing is a real contribution to human beings rather exciting and important, but no ne se does, that w e realize w e can do som eth in g.) than just to make money, with the need to you becom e a lonely person ' her ou need No one seem s to realize the im portance of feel that the things around us are part of us something, but no one else se€* -it a need, the goals that humanly m atter, at least not (even cooking our own food helps in this including yourself, you becom e 3 ‘¿rson those who are in power. Many of the needs respect, i and with the need to feel w e can We live in a society where f ist >f us will w e m inim ize are more important than we do som ething that m akes a difference. We be lost and in which people w i^ rg. irage and think. We are restless with the need for ad­ need to feel alive. im agination are going to be very, »er lonely 10 Michigan State News, E a s t L an sin g , Michigan Word-plastics: new graphics parts of speech ("sujet." "verbe." "sufixe"). a's. u s. e's, x s. etc. Here the typewriter be­ By HUGH FOX com es a substitute for a pencil or brush-but Hugh Fox is a professor of ATL at MSU. He are given. R eality has been totally subjugated to the word. The linear abstract word-world has there is no relationship between Garnier's is editor of the “ International Quarterly of E x­ "drawings" and words as "thought-vehieles." perimental P oetry.” taken over. Again "com m u nication " using words as graphic, plastic symbols. Technically, though, in term s of presentation. Garnier's work does not approach that of Bory First a little name-dropping. J.F . Borv ("Ap­ or Carrega. Bory and Carrega are technically proches“ !. Ugo Carrega ("Tool“ ). P ierre Gar- Ugo Carrega in Milan looks at language in a "slick. " neat, hold to a firm hard line and nier. Martino Oberto ("Ana E ccetera” ). Waliv way verv sim ilar to J.F . Borv—only even m ore in highly refined surface, whereas the work of Depews. Dick Higgins ("Something E lse term s of a TOTAL plastic expression. Carrega Garnier is flaccid, often am ateurish. The plas­ P ress" ). is interested in: tic manipulation of word-structures demands Now som e explaining. The above are the the world of verbal-phonetic signs precision and technical m astery. nam es of poet-experim entalists who no longer i of the words apart from their m ean­ Although at first glance som e of the work of try to use words to com m unicate as thought- ing or sound >and the world of grap­ Martino Oberto (a friend of Ugo Carrego si svmbol units but. rather, avoiding lineal, tvpe- hic signs (their physical appearance, seem s m erely an extension of Carrego s "scrit- age "m eaning." try to use words as a plastic the "m atter" of the word on the tura sim biotica" (sym biotic writing) it is really matrix to be moulded and manipulated to give p a g e .» much m ore am bitious. Oberto describes the im m ediate, plastic effects. J.F . Bory. the editor (¡1 nutmln tlt'l scgni it'thitjnnc11(i (tlclltt /turnlr purpose of his m agazine Ana E tcetera as: of Approches, for exam ple, in his "Hiroshima" ncl lorn significant c stutntt) *’ i/ nutmht tlci the operational aw areness (ceccato) begins with a dot-size word-conglomerate that scgni grnfici (VnsftvHtt fisica. nittlcritilc ilclht of the specific exercise of linguistic expands outward toward the reader as he turns /ttirttlit tiulJitglitt.) the pages, until finally the conglom erate m oves off the page and the reader's eye is led into In his work "Segno Vita." for exam ple, a space and then blackness. The im age literally multi-limbed red design is projected on a bright explodes toward the reader. Fear is com m un­ orange surface and words skate along the edges icated by words without using them «* thought- of three of the six limbs. His "Rossa esser- svmbols. In another poem of Bory s. "Saga." iale" is composed of a straight line at the top using the two words “On Va” he attem pts a of the page (“ non principio e fine,” written under it) followed by what look like drawings of neurons with text (“ governa ma (’ultimo iatto:ora” ) placed contrapuntally along the edges, followed by m ore text (e dal com ples- so, enorm e agita l’universo), a sm all, black, red-centered circle, m ore text (seeondo gli An­ tichi), a black and white Yin-Yan symbol. The text as "idea-vehicle." though, is totally sub­ ordinated to the visual-emotional effect of the word-drawing com plex as design on the page. The works of other poets that Carrega pub­ lishes in Tool often approach Pop Art. This is especially true of Alviani s black and yellow squares-w it Inn-squares. I.uigi Ferro s com plex geom etric figure m ade out ol black L s and red R s. or Maurizio Spatola's Intercromatico" term s, integrative levels for a type com posed of a red-lined parallelogram in the of language programmed to the phil­ middle of a "field" of parallel black lin e s - osophical abstractism (verbaliza­ all in Tool No. 6. At tim es Carrega returns to tions taking as a model the opera- more conventional word-sound-meaning play as tion-sense in the language-gam e in his "Ti M Mare" where he uses "m are " i with Wittgenstein ). synoptical w rit­ isea ' to evoke ' un uomo a mare" 'a man ing as serial montage, transcriptions, at sea ', but most recently he has shown a graphic sem antics, anamorphosis marked trend toward total visualization kind ol history of communication. First the and a new extraction of the term (ab­ Pierre Garnier. especially interested in "spa- ON VA'S 1111 the page like back columns or stract I. from the esserialism to the cia iism ” (spatialism e) and concrete poetry, a l­ pillars and a sm all figure stares out from be­ thought by machine.' in the intention though he often does silk-screen art work td Depew are rare tion of "sem -graphics." a black spot followed birds on the U.S. poetry see e, and except for by its analytical equivalent (“ a definite form- them and a few others the *-illy equivalents oi elem ent" >, its "association" (“ soleil noir”- the contemporary European -Joetry experim en­ black sunt, then its analogical equivalent (‘‘un tation in the United States Jre in poster art. trou sans contour a la surface du vide” —a record covers, experiment?* film s and som e cavity without contour on the surface of em p­ rock groups . . . nil of .. n f > have in comm' > tiness i. A white spot in the middle of a red the conveyance’ of ’.rot.-; through “ direc. square becom es an "indefinite elem ent of rather than “ indirect t wee stage) sensory ir. form .” a “ mer rouge” (red seat, whose equiv­ Service de la Revolution (No. 5) are two poenhs pact. alent analogue is "air becoming the recipient by G iacom etti combining faces, spaces and In a recent letter to n. . Ih ' Higgins oi of a neutral form containing a neutral form .” words, others by Michel Leiris that are very Something E lse P ress, the (fev. nnortant pub­ Here conventional language is viewed as an rem iniscent of Pierre Garnier's “ letter-pic- lishing center of nvnnt-ganfe 'n. . rial:- in tf impediment to total com m unication and a new tures.” On the other hand Kurt Schwitters' United States, and an impi'-rtarH no »r word-graphics combination is sought, that will own literary invention “M erzism" w as a liter­ European mani-garde w orkfi^riths: "get behind” language to " reality.” Oberto does ary equivalent of random collage-work, and al­ not seem to belong in the sam e category as though it lacked the total plastic orientation of a . . . we are taught to th-nk that there his friend Carrega (or Borv and G am ier), but G iacom etti or Leiris. it does point toward a de­ is something pecuharl' ico n o cla stic in fact all these poets have in common an in­ finite elim ination of "m eaning” as the ruison and verve-full in Ami rican avant- terest in transcending language and moving d'etre of poetry: garde work: actually f -sn t so. What toward a Heideggerian confrontation with "Ex- happens in Providenay#R I in 1968 istenz.” Also, it is important to note here that becom es known in Nev-. York in 1969. they are only rem otely related to that E.E. By ALBERT DRAKE and throughout the vij fid in 1970— Cummings-A.L. G illespie attem pt to "explode” especially in Madrid, ¿jondon, N ice, or "resensitize” language to approximate im ­ GHOST O-t.XCE Vo. 2 (llugli fo x , E d ito r, Prague, Berlin. Dusse 4orf. Milano m ediate. in-life language situations, although lif/ti. of I I I.. MSI ), 3 ! />/».. "■>(. and Frankfurt, wherd’ s where the Oberto. the m ost sem antically, meaning-orient­ action is (Tokyo seem /' jo have slow ­ The ghost begins to dance in E ast Lansing, ed dow n ). \ ed of the group, does, in a sense approach Gil­ lespie's program of returning to "the original but its shim m ering steps w ill be seen from afar. Its editor, Hugh Fox, m ight call Higgins’ big m istake her»» I think, is to fail flashsearConsciousness QUANTITY of Im ages, it a mindblast. What he does call it is: The to recognize where the acj *)n is in U.S. art— that polvgonating Im pact-series of the was-as- International Quarterly of Experim ental in the young rock groups, pi, ter m akers, cloth­ pected Ideation.” (Transition, 12. March. 1928. Poetry, and its policy is “ To save the print­ es designers, interior decoi tors, folk singers, P. 173). ed word from obsolescence by stretching it The origins of this contemporary experim en­ ballet dancers and in som e- erv alive contem ­ tation extend back to the experim ental clim ate into the media-revolution now-world.” porary U.S. playwrights, f (nds like those of of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Ann Halprin, the director qf 'Ae Dancer's Work­ Or: W In the 1910 "Futurist Painting: Technical Man­ shop in San Francisco, or L* playwright Allan OKU m eans lineal button-down SEQl I. \ ( f. ifesto” of Boccioni. Carra. Russoio. Ball and Kaprow, think primarily ►% trm s of "plastic Severini w e find a declaration on painting that and what is desired is II.I. (TOXCEXESS im pact.” European "plasli'~ ' poetry borrows applies just as w ell to poetry: " . . . all sub­ freely from dance, painting- Sculpture, plavwrit- Although there are poem s here that are linear jects previously used m ust be swept aside in ing and media becom e i*» ’ed .” the compart­ and frankly sequential, the em phasis is on order to express our whirling life of steel, of m ents between genres arts em oved. Complet­ experim ental poetry which, in one way or pride, of fever and of speed. In Tristan Tzara s ely “ non-academ ic” art-ac' sities—I'm thinking another, breaks' out of traditional fram es— "Dada M anifesto” (1918»the anti-traditional pro­ of rock groups like the El* trie Prunes or the such as Jean-Francois Bory's Hiroshima, gram becom es even m ore far-reaching: "I am Grateful D ead-how ever. ~(f five out of classifi­ where words and letters sw irl on the page, against system s, the m ost acceptable system is cation and categorization ? ’ cross— and inter - and the next page, and the next, each tim e on principle to have none . . . I detest greasy genre patterns much as Eu,.'pean poets do. moving closer until the reader really is "in­ objectivity and harmony, the science that finds Just how "traditional” Aiost U.S. poetry is volved.” everything in order.” In his 1934 "What is Sur­ cam e home rather force' illy the other night Other poem s are catalogues, visually manipu­ re a lism ’.” looking'back to the earlier battles when a poet-friend of.mint said: “Robert Frost lated verbal pictures, concretes, etc. There gained by the surrealist revolution, Andre Bre­ claim s that w ritrig verse ithout rhym e is like are also translations of Heinrich Boll from ton w rites: "Surrealism . . . w as securing ex­ playing tennis without a i t . . . but I do it all the German, of Manuel Santos from the Spa­ pression in all its purity and force. The free­ the tim e." He w as apoleg Tic and seem ed hap­ nish, of Carrega from the Italian, etc. dom it possesses is a perfect freedom in the pily unaware of the “f( elutions" of Dada, And for a real m indblast, try reading som e of sense that it recognizes no lim itations exterior Surrealism, Merzism, Fut- n sm and all the other these poem s aloud. to itself.” "ism s” which should hav had som e influence Most of the "experim ental” contemporary on the United States, but* which, for the m ost poetry is directly descended from this ferm ent part, have been nil. Ano tier statem ent from of activity in the period between 1905 and Stagger. the Higgins letter quoted a ove. though, at least 1935. Rainworms. shows the direction tha the U.S. thought In the surrealist m agazine La Surrealism e an Fishes. should take: Fishes. Clocks. . . . I suppose the’ answer is that The cow. w e are trying to rea-ly BELONG to V E The woodland leafs through the leaves. A drop of asphalt in the snow. the Global V illa g e . / We don’t care much for the m ore ypical U.S. at­ Cry. cry, cry, cry, cry. titude that ' ‘so wha if it happened A E R A w ise man explodes without payment. Some criticis like Matthew Josephson saw in Stuttgart or Rom* if it hasn't hap­ pened in New Yorfc -t hasn't really that the American Billboard Culture (later to happened. ■ N U becom e Pop A ^ nicely combined meaning (the sell) and y a p h ic s (the design), but for the m ost part the furthest that U.S. poets went One can only hope thijt som e of the plastic energy of other U.S. aft?Adrms can be som e­ u T w as in the direction of Cummings-esque or how transferred into U,S poetry at the sam e Poundian word-puzzles. just as today in the tim e that the hoped-for*, global village com es United States m ost of our furthest out poetic closer to becoming m ore of an im m ediate real­ experim entalists like Vito Hannibal Acconci or ity- i C Aram Sareyan are not so much experim entalists as exhibitionists. Sarvoan. for exam ple, in an w V old-hat concrete poetry fad long ago super­ seded in European circles, fills pages with one Wlllllllll llll l E word like BLACK or "prints " books with noth­ ing else but em pty pages. Among U.S. poets lllltllj i i there are very few who. like Richard Kostel- 1! mum oJ anetz or Lynn Lonidier or Wallv Depew. ap­ proach the genuine originality of a Bory or 1 1 i • Carrega. Kostelanetz. widely knowledgeable in modern theater (author of The Theatre of Mixed 1 1 1 1 N Means, 1968) and the whole U.S. contemporary cultural scene, does poem s like a "Tribute to 1 1 !1 1 Henry Ford” where part one is m ade up of a 1 1 1 1 1 0 series of large T's arranged on the page like cars in a parking lot. part two is a design with 1 1 1 A s and part three is a cloverlead intersec­ 1 1 1 C tion design m ade out of A's and T's combined. Lvnn Lonidier in her Po Tree (1967) works out a contrapuntal meaning-graphics combina­ 1 1 1 LA FROSDE tion that is very amusing, putting improbable word-combinations like TENDER TENEM ENT 1 1 Mich«*l L f. i r i s . TENNIS DENTIST. PATENT EYES. BUILD- 1-----] 1 2 Michigan State News, E a s t L an sin g , M ichigan T uesd ay, N ovem ber 26, 1968 A Skeleton Full Of Closets (continued from page five) in 106 Wells Hall. Several hundred people ClAg|jwM CLAM C l A f f XS-lclASi you do not have the right to look at us. at our apathy and m ediocrity, with disgust and dis­ gathered in a white-walled, concrete-block­ dain. Look outside that classroom window. ed. sterility ward. Thirty feet high, a 100 or / » / / / / -— i Look at that glorious benefactor of all that is REST REST CLASS 1 so feet long - it is the biggest john in the jjc U W i CLASS CLASS ROOM good and right. And then look into the ivory ROOM windows of your own minds. What have you world. I kept looking over m y shoulders ex­ pecting to see stalls lined up against the done to change it? To what extent are you walls. It is very hard for a speaker to develop and then question why--maybe you will be­ responsible for it? Or are you as we. petty anv rapport with an audience in that setting gin to attack the problem in the proper per­ pawns lost in a petty gam e of status and or for the audience to respond: they just spective. That bored, uninterested class you information com m ercialism ? Do you also wanted to get up and leave. instruct is filled with m em bers of a ner­ plead ignorance and impotencv? Do you also I suggest that this cam pus is constructed vous. confused, frustrated generation. We are squander your lives in prom ises for tomor­ in that fashion-vou just want to get up and in a constant state of polarization. While row? Do you also sit with us in a nervous leave. Leave the dorms. Leave the large we slush through the resignation and twilight of uncertainty, tapping your feet to classes (in Fall of 1966 there w ere over 25.000 life-w eariness of our parents and the the blissless rhythm of cogs and hollow student enrollm ents in cla sses of 100 or adult' world, w e feel a torrent within us voices? m orel. Leave the television lectures' (during whine. "But I thought life w as m o re!” The New Satisficer 1966-67 over 62.000 students w ere enrolled in While w e search to find ourselves, w e feel The final closet of this article concerns the TV cla ssesi. Leave the im personal, non-hu- the grasping claw s and the bony fingers of concept of "satisficing. " Satisficing is an man. sexless, tense environment that is MSU. others tell us who w e are. While w e m ean­ econom ic term which reconciles the diffi­ Leave the anxiety and the pressures that we der in daydream s and life in rom antic fields culty man has in optimizing his profits. On brought here and the fertile MSU soil within of success, of love and of acknowledgem ent, the theoretical level econom ic man has per­ which they so eagerly blossomed. w e are placed in m echanical dorm s and fect knowledge of all the variables: on the Empty rituals, pressure, m echanization, promised jobs with IBM and Ford. While real level he does not. So, he aim s for an area anxiety, crowds, isolatiom . totality, clas­ w e yearn to "DO something, w e are rele­ of econom ic returns within which he will be ses . . . Here is where the apathy lies: here gated to the peanut gallery of the uncerti­ satisfied. Extend the meaning of profits to is where the drabness, the dull gloss of un­ fied where w e wait and watch the quali­ encom pass life-returns and w e notice that concerned eyes and minds are born. And for fied maim and botch our world. While we the satisficer takes on new connotations. In­ all your concern as academ icians and teach­ beg to be left alone, to withdraw from the stead of shooting for the best, w e now aim for ers. for all your fragm ented sincerity, your pressure, to regain our composure, to allow the least worse and the best escape. School inability to challenge and to search for change ourselves to coagulate and heal, w e are threat­ rather than the Draft. Suburbia rather than on the broad, m ore encom passing level of ened and coerced - Diploma or the Draft. the City. Nixon rather than Humphrey. The the total environment, will be the reason Diploma or Failure. Diploma or Disgrace. least worse type of life; the best escape from for your failure. When you stop doubting your MSU stands enclosed and encapsulated: an living. Freedom reigns and the American own actions as being insufficient, when you assem bly line of rituals, a test of endurance. dream wins the pole vault at the Olympics. recapture the excitem ent that teaching once Each succeeding year MSU strips her stu­ In conclusion of this article and this se­ held, when you reconsider the pupil and chal­ dents of patience and com passion, dism em ­ ries. I ask that you consider a rather inter­ lenge the prem ise that the student has a bers their minds, shatters them into the frag­ esting paradox. If the U niverse im plies the plebian outlook, a childish desire to remain m entary world of 'expertise without consci­ perfect and absolute containment of all that childlike and is the necessary recipient of ence.' and forcibly molds their bodies into her exists, then how many U niverses constitute regurgitated knowledge: when you do that plastic im age. As teachers at this institution. a Multiverse. Dallas . . (continued from page nine) P a p e r b o u n d s o n r e a d in g y o u r list? The Garrison Commission Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison of New Orleans FIVE SMOOTH feels that lie can answer those questions. His investigation from the fall of 1966 to the spring STONES of 1967 led to the arrest on March 1. 1967. By Ann F a i r b a i r n of Clay Shaw, a prominent New Orleans resident, for conspiracy in the assassination. P a p e r b a c k ..................$ 1 . 2 5 Garrison claim ed to have solved the a ssa s­ FIVE SMOOTH STONES is sination with regard to the identity of the con­ th e s to ry o f one m an ’s spirators and their m otives. After the initial s e a r c h fo r dignity and lo v e . sensation the American news media looked the It m o v e s sw iftly fro m a other way as the w heels of justice rolled New O rle a n s g h e tto , w h ere through the appeal courts Shaw s law yers a black ch ild re a c h e s out sought an injunction against prosecution by fo r a b e tte r li f e , to th e Garrison on the grounds that Garrison had s c e n e s of in te n se beauty bribed and threatened w itnesses among other and b itte r n e s s th; t m a rk misdoings. N ew sw eek. Time. NBC and the h is jo u rn e y to m anhood . . . New Yorker repeated the charges. The judges h is in itia tio n into lo v e . A were apparently unimpressed; Garrison has won p a s s io n a te lo v e— r a r e and all legal encounters so far. The case is presently te n d e r , co n su m in g and reaching the Supreme Court of Chief Justice tr a g ic — a fo rb id d en love Earl Warren. Conclusion While the precise details of the Garrison investigation must legally rem ain secret until THE 10 BEST-SELLING PAPERBACKS the trial ( d e s p i i c polem ics to the effect that 1. The E xhibitionlst 6. C hristy (iarrison should put up now or shut upi. 2. M yra B reckinridge 7. R o s e m a r y ’s B a b y Thompson's book m ore than any other has 3. T h e P r e s i d e n t ’s P l a n e Is M i s s i n g 8. Five Smooth Stones gone beyond m ere refutation of the Warren 4. C o n f e s s i o n s of Nat T u r n e r 9. The G am es Report and has presented reasonable and con­ vincing alternatives regarding the events in 5. The K lansm an 10. T he Plot D ealey Plaza. For the interested reader. I suggest the following list of sources as the best place to begin a look beyond the Warren Report. I further w elcom e any com m ents, opinions or questions regarding the details of the points of controversey and how the ookV or« photographs help to resolve them. No doubt the timing and content of this article will bring to m e charges of irrever­ ence or (at best) irresponsibility. To the latter charge I can only reply with the photographic evidence as I have studied it. To the first charge I stand in agreem ent with those who feel that the m em ory of President Kennedy s O v e r 100 P u b l i s h e r s life is less than adequately served by the S t o c k e d in o u r W a r e h o u s e official endorsement of a m endacious account of his death.