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Tee ee eae car tant Ame ae bee ine nade gid ora vintbebnwa web a wate eee ate UNITnw STATES DEPARiMENT OF yusTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION i .In Reply, Please Referto. . .. San: Francisco, California "¢ October 20, 1964 aere “DEBATE ‘ON OCTOBER “9, .1964, BETWEEN MELVIN BELLI AND MARK LANE ON THE QUESTION "IS OSWALD THE /. *. ‘LOWE ASSASSIN: OF THE PRESIDENT?" 2 a . a Ajo.On: October 9, 1964,.a debate between San Francis “ attorney. MELVIN’ BELLI and New York attorney MARK LANE caption . "Ig; Oswald the:-Lone Assassin.of the President?" was. held at’ ° the Masonic Memorial Auditorium, California Street, San Nee Ow wm. famewnng ee ee 230 24 - Francisco. Prominent .San Francisco attorney JAKE EHRLICH was 5 ‘the moderator. This meeting.was attended by a Special Agent 26 - of the FBI and Mrs. HELEN JANET MEYER, 125 Arbolado Drive, . 27° = | Walnut Creek, California.”’ - _ 2B DI leek ate mY “An ‘opening statement was made by BELLI.’ He .8 29 : a 20 began his statement by praising the Warren Commission. Report, ii Ilagy? c*Stating that: it-was a tribute to such a great democracy as-, ¥ Bp the United States and he believed that no other country ae could have produced such a complete report. He derided LANE a 34.00 ‘for speaking in foreign countries and harming the image of Ye 73 the United States by implying that there had been a conspirac:’ 76 ‘in this country to.kill President KENNEDY and implying that i7° 2. OSWALD was..not the only person involved in the assassination. ie" BELLIy then asked if this is so, who-are these consprators - 39 °* "2 sna where are they nowe BELLI stated there was no one else . 10 | besides OSWALD and he said he would show this beyond a reascn- tL able doubt. . He said OSWALD was a psychotic person and always 120 had:been, and even as a youth under the New York Youth $3... . . Authority, OSWALD had. exhibited psychotic and schizophrenic | aan tendencies.. | ee a nn - |. BELLI then discussed the events the day KENNEDY. 17 was killed. He discussed 0SWALD's travel to get the "curtain 486 °.: rods} the events at the time of the shooting; how OSWALD" ~~ 49°. left the building; took a bus; the finding of the bus transfer 19 . -- on OSWALD; his travel by cab; the shooting of TIPPIT, and iL “+ + OSWALD's subsequent arrest. He discussed the palmprint | 32..: .° 1. found on the gun; the rifle purchased by OSWALD under an 33°" "assumed name; the fingerprints onthe bag in which OSWALD __ 4 . . ee FC. TEES yi 36 a Ho GwIN-Qd | se reef V7 This document contains neither recommendations nor co 13 of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and 1s leaned t* your 19 agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed ours 2g 30° our. agency. - £2 BL GOT ae