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Melvin Belli — Part 7
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. {thesis: that J. Edgar Hoover keeps his _ _ —_ B.
18 job only because: he knows dark’secrets. ie a
20 “How much he has got on the. ne .. yon one Dy
2} - present guy (Nixon) I don’t know,” ; wie Pe ray oar A
19 . Belli said. “The reason the Kennedys’ ; ‘
03 didn’t get him out of there and Johnson : SO —
4 i didn’t get him out of there is that he. !
5 i ; had too much on both of them, The - |
° } reason that pcliticians don’t go after © a an -
26 ; him is that he just knows too much.”
27. ‘ What could they be, those evil.
8. deeds of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixons :
29° 8 | {hat are so terrible they enable the FBI —*
2 .
3 that Belli so matter-of-factly attributes . —
32° - to three successive presidents?
; The world will never know, at least
34 | from Melvin Belli, because as seems to _
z 3 : woe customary in attacks on Hoover and
> ; py the FBI, no facts were offered in evi-
27) : “dence. 4
38 ---— t Hoover, said Belli, has criticized the —_~
co: | United States Supreme Court as being Omaha’ World-Hera ¢.
10. a. “punch a Roe? What is i Omaha , Nebraska
en ere at is the source Sgt
O of this quotation? Again, no evidence — Date: _ 5 4- 71" {*
: mercly an unsupported: assertion. Edition: Metropolitan .
. One would think, after the acute em- Author: an
14 . barrassment of Rep. Hale Boggs andthe . Editor: Ke ith - ‘Wilson’ #
45. lesser embarrassment of Sen. Muskie, Title: oo f: 3
; g that ‘prominent figures would be less ay oa
. . careless in their remarks about a otk co} Sy
48 respected public official. ; ALL yur AT oo cour STAINED ;
49 But the innuendoes, distortions, HEREIN ,t0 4. “he ‘spk GED a
30 deceptions and plain lies continue. And.. DATE @=\—n waht eerogl Ef,
1 we continue to wonder: Where now is ~ pe Submits ot .
52 : the showing cf fair-minded outrage: We... ng Officer _ OMAHA, °
? ‘ brought forth by such excesses as those - (C] Being Investigated Joys
33, committed by the .late Sen, Joe. _ - — _
4 McCarthy? Does the acceptability of REC- oy bj~- ! CA, LQ]
b> he “the Big Lie technique depend on the .; | eeccmes CMC NS
360 , identity of the victim? In some quar- . JE
57 _ ters_the capacity..1 for,indignation ap- . ir JUL 33 1971 le ~
pears to be highly selective, _—— ' a
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