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V. Vol. 77, No. 101 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Wednesday, February 18,1976 Pair debates CIA link to JFK assassination By TOM JACKSON Of the Emerald Who killed John F Kennedy? The traditional view is that Lee Harvey Oswald did, and that he was unassisted. This is a view that Hays Gorey, Time magazine Washington correspondent and co-author of a Nov. 24,1975, article in Time entitled "Who Killed JFK?" adheres to. But, it is a viewpoint that is bitterly op posed by Mae Brussell, a conspiracy theorist who has been researching the Kennedy assassination extensively in the 13 years since that event. She worked for 8 years on the matter before making her re search public. Gorey and Brussetl spoke to University students Tuesday night in the EMU Ball room, giving accounts of what each be lieves actually occurred in Dallas on Nov. 22,1963. The debate was sponsored by the Cultural Forum and the Student Bar As sociation. Gorey, who also was involved in Water gate reporting, assured the audience that he is not merely a defender of the estab lishment," but added. I don t believe that the establishment is always wrong. Gorey emphasized the importance of hard facts throughout his commentary, and also emphasized that the case had to be solved beyond a reasonable doubt. Facts are not as interesting or as excit ing as theories, but they are all we have to go on until new facts are reported and es tablished as fact," he said. "lam not able to eradicate every doubt in your minds—no one is—and in my opinion, no one ever will be. You can take conflicting statements and make a very good case for conspiracy, said Gorey. Gorey pointed to much of the factual evi dence of the Warren Commission report, for example, that Oswald was in the School Book Depository, from which shots were indisputably fired." He also pointed out that Oswald owned the rifle found on the sixth floor of the building, and that the bullets that struck Kennedy were found to have been fired from that rifle. He also said that the Tippitt slaying was crucial. "If Oswald didn t kill Tippitt. then it is possible that he didn’t kill Kennedy," he said, and detailed what he believes is overwhelming evidence that Oswald did kill Tippitt. ‘ The slaying of Tippitt makes no sense unless he was involved, as I very strongly feel, in the assassination of Pres. Ken nedy." “There is no evidence that Oswald worked in concert with anyone,” said Gorey. Brussell, on the other hand, feels that Oswald was not only working in conjunction with the CIA in assassinating Kennedy, but that he had been involved with the CIA much earlier than that. She cited the facts that Oswald had a top security clearance while in the service, that he was extremely intelligent and had know ledge of radar, and the peculiar circum stances of his arrival and departure from Russia as supportive evidence of his ties with the CIA. Brussell said that Oswald had about eight ties with the CIA She also pointed out that Kennedy's car was stripped within two days of the assas sination, and that John Connally s clothing was also destroyed. In all, she said that about 35 pieces of evidence were de stroyed immediately after the assassina tion." I think it is disgusting that the burden of finding evidence is put on the public: on me, said Brussell. Brussell will be speaking on The U.S. Intelligence Community and the Politics of Conspiracy" today at 12:30 p.m. in Room 129 Law, in which she will further elaborate on the JFK assassination and errors in the Warren Commission report. "Bad luck runs in cycles"—or into their parking space, in this case. The driver of this car parked on University Street received that sad news Tuesday. ’Shrooming: Stalking for a natural high By KARON STIRLING Of the Emerald Spring is almost upon us, bringing re lieved students outside once again with their baseballs, footballs and frisbees. For many Oregonians, however, the new sea son will extend an invitation for more excit ing activities—straight to the cow pastures and the sport of Shrooming." Rediscovered by many students last fall, shrooming involves stalking nearby pas tures for mushrooms containing a natural high. According to most shroomers, the only problem in obtaining the mushrooms is getting out to the fields before they are all gone—most leave in the early morning just after daybreak. Once collected, the mushrooms may be smoked, sniffed, or most commonly, in gested orally. The best thing about eating mushrooms is going out picking them," one student commented. You usually pick one and eat three, and so on. and by the time you're done you've really obtained a gradual, neat high. Experiences after consuming the mus hrooms range from extreme depression to invg oration. The reason I first tried mus hrooms was because someone told me it was a real laugher, I mean it just made you laugh all of the time, another student exp lained. When I took them I was by myself and I think I ate about 100 small ones. At first it was really neat because it made me very aware of myself, my bone structure, and I could feel my blood (Continued on Page 16) todau CIA President Ford reveals a major reorganization of intel ligence operations... Page 3. Truckin’ The Food-Op plans to initiate a delivery service for mem bers next week . . . Page 6. Alaska bound Five local mountaineers em bark Thursday to climb Mt. McKinley . . . Page 8. Commercialism Kamikaze basketball glasses, shirts and dolls saturate Eugene . . . Page 9. J