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DEBATE ON OCTOBER 9, 1964,. BETWEEN - MELVIN BELLI AND “MARK LANE ¢ "oF -, + the-witness who saw OSWALD. at the window of the book deposite “~~ building; the witnesses who saw the shooting of TIPPIT; HOWARD BRENNAN's identifying OSWALD from the police line-up; the cartridges: which were found to have come from OSWALD's ore oe esident's.car. | PRP ae BELLI insisted that all these things showed beyond a reasonable doubt that CSWALD was guilty. he eo PWN WOU M Inuneawn , MARK LANE then made an opéning statement. He said he had never said anywhére that there had been a iN ce conspiracy in this country to kill the President. He said thebg 34- .in-this country there still exists the presumption of innocercdf »g ~.. until proven guilty. He conimented on the voluminous, heavy . 19 Varren Report and ¢ated that historians may some day record “3. the most precise description of.the Report and that would be: & « . » 7President JOHNSON's revark, "It.is very heavy," when he received his copy from Chief Justice WARREN, ya _ ; LANE stated that OSWALD was never represented 25 by counsel before the Warren Commission. Ke then discussed 36 what he believed to. be discrepancies in the Report. He Ma talked about the Dallas Police officers at first reporting 3g, the. finding of a Mauser rifle which tater turned oUt to be rg °° am Italian gun. He discussed witness HOWARD BRENNAN, who 1:0 had been standing outside-the book depository building and $1 his description of OSWALD as being entirely too accurate fron. 12 that distance, He stated that BRENNAN had said OSWALD was $3-.... Shooting while standing by the window, but the Warren Report said OSWALD was sitting down, If OSWALD: was sitting down, _ how could BRENNAN tell how tall he was? Doe ae He discussed the Dallas Police line-up where * . BRENNAN identified OSWALD ‘as the man most closely resembling '. the person he.had seen. LANE stated there were five teen- agers in the line-up handcuffed together and also OSWALD, ‘who kept saying, "This is. not a fair line-up." He stated - ‘Secret Service, nor was there any tape or steno record for - + > eee” ee ye A OT an Oo ie gy Gee RT ee eee . toe Be ans : Cad SEPP er nrntg nen ennenegnenenennererre reer ner ene earried. the gun; the fibers of OSHALD's jacket -on the gun; 7 i hand gun, and the hole on the’ inside of the windshield of the} fe SaaS MRA pita! TEST ot ao mre ., that there were no notes made by the FBI, the Dallas Police, or = ee et ah me a ore a Ca Se a