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Melvin Belli — Part 8
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DEBATE ON OCTOBER 9, 1964, BETWEEN. - .
MELVIN BELLI AND MARK LANE _ . —
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the twelve hours that’ OSWALD was interrogate’, and he said |
if ‘you believe that you might as well believe the rest .of th» cs
. Warren Commission Report. What OSWALD is supposed to have
‘said during the interrogation is reported” from police memory
only. .
spe,
vee: He talked about the photographs of OSWALD holdir
«the gun which he said had been doctored or superimposed and
which shad. been: printed in various magazines. He stated that
no rifle expert in.the. world, using the gun OSWALD had, could
> hit a.moving target at that distance with the accuracy that
.= OSWALD had exhibited. He stated that ,three leading rifle
' experts, using the Italian gun, fired eighteen shots ata
still--not a moving--target-and missed five times. He said
that authorities have stated that OSWALD ordered the rifle t
from a Chicago sporting firm from an article in the February, .&
1963,"Rifleman" magazine. He said that is a lie because the ig?
length and weight of the gun advertised in that article are”
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79 .aifferent than the length and weight of the gun actually
1s “ found. SRS pee, - ; :
as He discussed the witnesses'testimony who saw te
“4. OSWALD bring the gun into the building. One witness did not a
°5 see any package. The other two said the package was carried
6 under OSWALD's aempit cupped in his right hand, and tha. :
a. impossible because the gun broken down was too long for that.
“9 ; He discussed eleven witnesses who saw Officer
+0 TIPPIT shot. He said the Warren Commission never called many
il of these witnesses; one gave a completely different @scriptic:,
i2 and one woman wds told by the Dallas+Police not to testify.
33 He said the Warren.Commission relied on the FBI, Dallas Police,
is and Secret Service, and never got all the facts.
160 BELLI in his rebuttal stated that the Dallas
v7 Police, the FBI, and Secret Service had carried out their duty
‘ and had done everything possible to protect the President.
39 He said the Commission nad been composed of elite Congressional
29 members and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and
fl ’ insisted that the facts had been ferreted out and that th
32. - Warren-Commission Report was complete.
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