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The editors of national review regretfully announce that their patience with President Lyndon B. Johnson is exhausted.

In Dallas, a top reporter for a large East Coast daily learned—“from an unimpeachable source,” he said—that Oswald came back from Mexico City with $5,000 he had not had when he left. When he telephoned (so that the wire services couldn’t copy it) his story, it stirred up a sensation at his paper, which rushed it to the front page—but the managing editor ran into the press room to kill it at the last moment, substituting some filler on LBJ instead. Naturally speculation has been running high among the paper’s personnel: what was the “unimpeachable source”? and why was the story junked? Their answers: the FBI was the probable source (it reportedly found money in Oswald’s room) and if so it would have taken something like a White House order to stop the story. In any event, the story that never appeared corroborates some speculation turned up elsewhere— see “Hypothetical Case” below.

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The editors of national review regretfully announce that their patience with President Lyndon B. Johnson is exhausted.

In Dallas, a top reporter for a large East Coast daily learned—“from an unimpeachable source,” he said—that Oswald came back from Mexico City with $5,000 he had not had when he left. When he telephoned (so that the wire services couldn’t copy it) his story, it stirred up a sensation at his paper, which rushed it to the front page—but the managing editor ran into the press room to kill it at the last moment, substituting some filler on LBJ instead. Naturally speculation has been running high among the paper’s personnel: what was the “unimpeachable source”? and why was the story junked? Their answers: the FBI was the probable source (it reportedly found money in Oswald’s room) and if so it would have taken something like a White House order to stop the story. In any event, the story that never appeared corroborates some speculation turned up elsewhere— see “Hypothetical Case” below.