The Warren Report? It’s not out, but the European left has already pronounced its verdict on the unseen text: “a whitewash.”… In England, Bertrand Russell is at it again, this time as head of the” Who Killed Kennedy?” Committee, co-starring, among others, Michael Foot, the Labor MP, writers Sir Compton Mackenzie, J._B. Priestly, Hugh Trevor-Roper, film director (Tom Jones) Tony Richardson. … In Paris, Jean Paul Sartre is organizing a French Citizens’ Committee of Inquiry, and, according to Mark (the ubiquitous) Lane, the Association of French Jurists is even now planning a convention in Nov. (post “3”) to determine “what really happened.”
Prize clarification of the week: By Jesse Gray, the Harlem rent strike leader, in seeking a dismissal of a court injunction against demonstrations by his group in Harlem. His call for “guerrilla warfare “ (July 19), said Mr. Gray, “had been intended for Mississippi, not for New York City.” . . . According to N.Y. police authorities, the mid-July riots in. Harlem and Brooklyn cost the Police Department $1.5 million. … In his Per Spiegel interview predicting an “unavoidably bloody conflict” in the U.S., author James Baldwin dismissed Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s civil rights record as “unimpressive.”




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