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Taylor Caldwell — Part 10
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vas Miss Kilgallen's opinio
to me, that Bene Warren Commission had realy
So they insisted that Oswald was "only a Marxist" and not’ a een pee
a distinction which is very puzzling - and that the wh ole thing had been
who
; entirely his own idea. ages
Before I began to write this letter i made a wide search ‘for: z
. Miss Kilgallen's letters, but I apparently threw them away as I do with ©:
practically all personal mail, and I never make carbons of. personal mail.
“If Il kept such things I'd have to have a warehouse of files. Besides, Miss
Kilgallen asked me to keep her letters "confidential," andl usually destroy
sucn letters immediately in order to preserve the writers' privacy.
~ - ' The enclosed is fot the only letter I have been receiving on the.
ne . subject. Of course, I know a lot of it is inspired by malice or kooks' 28
imacination. I do know th&t-gne said that Miss’ Kilgallen had asked an °* |.
expert sharpshooter, anda former Marine, if it would have been possible”:
for Oswald to shoot from such a distance and such accuracy, and ina mat-
ter of seconds. The Marine told her "no." Miss Kilgallen did not inform”,
me of this conversation between her and the Marine. An anonymous letter
. I recently spoke in Tulsa and in Wisconsin, and mentioned thai
I had been disappointed that the American people hed not risen angrily and
put the Communists and their yellow-traveiers out of business in the Unitec
States after the assassination. Several people in Tulsa, who heard me © -
speak, told me afterwards that the Warren Commission had been trying to’:
protect the Communists in America and that they “feared a blood bath if the
truth were known." Two men, in particular, told me that they had "infort
ann to that effect, and that they were supplying it to some "well- known
ewspaper people and other writers." One said that he knew Governor |
Connall y very well and that tne Governor "knew the truth,” but was 4 afraid
to speak out, we a
&
Well, it all seems very strange to me, fl get more informa
tion, as the enclosed promises, I will pass it on to you. But it has seeméc
to me that the FBI and the Secret Service should be exonerated for any _
alleged “carelessness,” such as that very, very “liberal” columnist, Drew
Pearson, gave loud and lying publication to. ¢ ¢ :
Sincerely, : PoE,
(Miss) Yhijlor:
P.S. I should appreciate the return of the enclosed, or at least a copy.
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