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s OCT. 81, 1968 MERCER CLUSTER . F. K. Assassination Made U. S. Naked To Attack NEW YORK, For more than 80 touts* on the day President Kan dy waa assassinated the U S. was iwerieaa to retaliate instantane- sly to a nuclear attack. Jim Bishop, author ot the forth- ruing book, “The Day Kennedy *' Shot,” condensed in the cur- nt (November) issue of LADIES' DME JOURNAL, also revealed: Members of the Kennedy group card Air Force One conspired, ■inst Preaident Johnson’s sped- i order, to keep the new President I of the casket photoa when the me landed in Washington. Tlie time of President Kennedy’s ath waa dalibarately changed to least 14 minutes later, “probab- ’ to respect a religious conviction Mrs Kennedy. President Johnson refused to aid Air Force One in Dellas thout twice obtaining the specific rmission of JFK staff member, m.ieth O’Donnell. These revelations by Jim Bishop r based, in part, on the only pri te interview President Johnson inted on the assassination of SKident Kennedy. “It was the it time w had discussed it and, im the manner in which it af- ded him, it may be the last,’’ d Bishop in the JOURNAL S Naked To uclear Attack lishop revealed that the so- led “Bag Man,” the Army War- it Officer who carried a locked ache case containing electronic raratua with which the President il<! call for a nuclear attack, was t for eight minutes at one point, 1 thirty at another. He is never iposed to bo more than a few onds from the aide of the Prasi- it Said Bishop: ‘The Bag Man 1 come to Parkland Hospital) h the rest of the tragic Kennedy to reads. When Secret Service n Lem Johns reached the hoe- si he kept asking people, ‘Are i the Bag Man?’ Finally, Johns located Gearhart (the Bag Man) and ordered him to hurry to the side of the Vice President. But dur. ing the eight minutes that elapsed between the time the cars arrived at Parkland and the moment Johns found Gearhart, no one knew where the Bag Man was — or who he was. And the Bag Man didn’t know where the President was — or who he waa. If there was ever a time when the United States could not retaliate instantaneously to a no- clear attack, these were the min utes," stated the. magazine conden sation. “Had anyone told Johnson that the frightful dedaon to launch a nuclear counter-attack was now hit? Had Major General Cheater V. Clifton, Kennedy’s Military e.c. aid, told the Vice President that it was now within his power — with that bag — to dial any one of sev eral types of attack? Did Johnson know? Had anyone ever briefed him on these awesome and irre vocable decisions? “No. The United States of Amer ica stood, for a time, naked. The men around Kennedy had kept the secrets of power from Lyndon John son. Ke knew there was a man sev eral booths away, with a Beg. But, if the assassination was part of a larger threat to the security of the United States, Johnson had neither the combination to the Bag nor the exact knowledge of what to do with it. And all day long on November 22, 1963, the Bag Man would be lost and found and lost sgain," re vested Bishop. The condensation stated that somehow in the flight from the hos pital to the airport “the new Presi dent had overlooked the Bag Man and Major General Clifton, the Kennedy military ade who under stood the coded types of retaliation. Both were left behind at Parkland. When Gearhart and Clifton learned that Kennedy waa dead, they hast ened to Johnson's side aboard Air Force One. But it took a half hour for them to get there. If, at this tme, the Soviet Union bad launched a missile attack — referred to in the Department of Defense as a Thirty-Minute War’ — that half-’ hour lapae could have been diaas trous," Bishop said. Conspiracy Kept LBJ Out of Caskot Photos Bishop charged that the Kenne dy group aboard Air Force One conspired to keep LBJ out of the casket photos. “As Air Force One began to descend, the small group in the back of the plane began to plot ways and means of keeping the President of the United States out of the casket photoa. The world would be watching .and the Ken nedy! did not want the Johnsons in their mourning pictures ... He (President Johnson) had issued an order for a ramp to be brought to the plane'. The order stated that the Secret Service men aboard would carry the body of President Kennedy down the ramp. The cas ket would be followled by Mrs. Kennedy on the arm of President Johnson ... In the back of the plane, Kenneth O'Donnell issued his orders. They ,too, were explicit. As soon as the aircraft stopped, he wanted the Kennedy group to crowd the rear doorway. They and the Secret Service men would take the coffin out of this exit and down a fork lift. President Johnson was not a party to this plan. "Johnson felt that, as the new President, he should stand behind his fallen chieftain, and he should offer his widow the protection of his person. The Kennedy people felt that this was boorish and over bearing. The plane was still in mo tion when they formed an unbreak able dot at the rear exit. They knew what was expected of them. In the group were Powers, O’Brien, O’Donnell, McHugh, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Kennedy and her secretary, Pamela Hurnure, flanked by Secret Service men. “An engine waa still idling, when the President came down the aisle. He found his progress blocked. A ’male voice from somewhere said: 'It’s all right. We’ll take care of this end.” He recognized the humilia tion," charged Biship in the JOUR NAL condensation. Tim* of JFK’s Death Changed The official announced time of President Kennedy’s death was 1 P.M. “Actually, Kennedy died at least 14 minutes earlier,” stated Bishop. “When Roy Kellerman of the Secret Service entered the room at 12:46, Kennedy was already dead. This is corroborated by Fath er Huber, the Roman Catholic priest who administered the last rites. When Father Huber reached Kennedy's side, it was 12:49 — and the President’s face was cov ered by a sheet. The priest saw Mrs Kennedy and said, ‘Mrs. Ken nedy. my sincerest sympathy goes to you.' Then he peeled the sheet back from Kennedy’s head. The President's eyes were closed. ’The Catholic Church maintains that the sacrament of Extreme Unction is not valid if the soul has departed, but Father Huber gave the last rites anyway. As he left, Mrs. Kennedy took his arm. “ ’Father,' she said, obviously frightened, ‘do you think the sacra ments had effect?’ “ ‘Oh, yes,’ the priest said reas suringly. ‘Yes, indeed.’ “Outside the room, two Secret Service men took Father Huber by the arm. 'Father.' one said, ‘you don’t know anything.' Huber un derstood. Kennedy was dead, but nobody was to know. The priest promised not to tell. As he emerged, reporters engulfed him with ques tions about the President’s condi tion. Begging God’s forgiveness for what he was about to say, the priest replied ‘He was unconscious.' “Why, then, did the official an nouncement say Kennedy died at 1 P.M.? The inaccuracy can prob ably be attributed to Mrs. Kenne dy’s desire to make it clear that the President had received the last rites of his church before he died,’’ spec ulated Biahop. LBJ Asked Permission To Board AF-1 The JOURNAL condensation re vealed that President Johnson spe cifically asked permission of JFK Staff member Kenneth O’Donnell to board Air Force One. The Secret Service suggested that President Johnson leave the hospital at once for AF-1, stated Bishop. “Johnson said he would not leave, he would not board AF-1 ‘without a sugges tion or permission of the Kennedy staff.’ (Secret Service agent) Rob erts asken Kenneth O'Donnell and O’Donnell said: 'Yea.' But Johnson refused to move. "Roberts returned to O'Donnell and asked again: ’Is it all right for Mr. Johnson to board Air Force One now?’ “ ‘Yes,’ O'Donnell said, ‘yes’,” Bishop revealed. Rose Kennedy and Jac queline Weren’t Talking President and Mrs. Johnson made a condolence call to Rose Kennedy from AF-1, stated Bishop in the condensation. During the call "Rose Kennedy did not ask Mrs. Johnson to switch her to Jacqueline Kennedy, who was sitting SO feet behind the Johnson. Nor did Mrs. John F. Kennedy phone her moth er-in-law. (Four months after the assassination I sat with Roses and Joe Kennedy at their home in Palm Springs. Mrs. Rose Kennedy said: ‘I have not heard from ‘Mrs. Ken edy’ since the funeral’)” Bishop re vealed in the JOURNAL condensa tion of his forthcoming book, “The Day Kennedy Was Shot.” The book will be published by Funk A Wagnalls. November 22. ■HHHHHSS Notes From Other Campuses ‘itisburgh. Pa (I.P.) — Car- lie Mellon University recently lounced a three-year $65,000,000 lital funds programs, which in dex the creation of a Graduate tool of Urban and Public Affairs, i objectives of the School will he conduct research and to edu- i a new kind of urban expert able at nding and deal- wit H the w—pl« problems! of ritiea rdfoad. Maas. — <LP.) — to University students have rtumed the “publish or perish” Dry by picking aa the beat teach those faculty msmheas who lead ir colleagues in publishing and ■arch. At the same tins, the riy 1600 students who were *1 to swains! =her* rated lowest in ■city those faculty > neither pnhihhed nor held te- i«h grants. , . . W 'tudanta war* not aware of publishing or raoaanch activities hit iintinutuf whan they rated n They war* concerned merely « the quality of their teaching reflected hi the individual ■*• the stndUnto evaluated. The faculty aanuhar It net bn- to hear the neeeatity of —Hn hsnring," comments Dr. Jack Broader. eehSHt provost at BRKKLKY. Calif. (CPS)— •t 700 Drill niKj of OriMoada Bat* held a taBy Friday to Port •( Meierii ■iyris ISBk, the taught by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver and other guest lecturers. After the rally they marched into Sproul Hall as the 100 students who are taking the Cleaver course attempted to file their course lists. Registrar Clinton C. Gilliam re fused to accept the course lists un less 139x bad been crossed out by the student The students objected because their lists had been proper ly signed by their advisors and a university dean. They mid they would not cross the course off their liats and would try to get the Reg istrar’s decision changed. The tally on the Sproul steps, which had a disappointingly small turnout brought out again the di vision among students over how to view the Cleaver issue. Art Goldberg, a leader of the ISM Pie# Speech Movement hero, told the rally, “The Cleaver issue to a raciaro issue. The Regents dent want a black man to say any thins on the eempua, except for house niggers. I thought people ham would realise this, but every one keeps talking about acadatnic credit for the course.” Mark Rudd, chairman of Stu dents for a Democratic Society at rvh-M., who to in Berkeley to tabs money for Columbia rebels (■ring court charges, agreed with Goldberg. He told the students that such tomes as the Momtngride Heights Gymn and Oohnahia’s per- toririB to the Institute for De base fleet jus warn “symbols” to Negro Baptists Go Republican National Baptist Convention Endorses Nixon-Agnew Ticket NEW YORK — The National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.’s Political Action Committee, and Dr. J. H. Jackson, president of the six-million member Negro organization, endorsed Richard M. Nixon for Preaident o fthe United States. Members of the Baptist Conven tion were urged to vite for Nixon and the National Republican Party in an endorsing statement read by Dr. Jackson at the Sheraton Chi cago Hotel, Wednesday, Oct. 23. “We believe that Mr. Richard M. Nixon by experience and dedica tion not only will lead his party to higher and constructive achieve ments but will also serve the nation and the cause of peace as well. “We believe this orderly change is best at this time for the nation as s whole. ‘There is no third or fourth party movement among the Republicans'', Dr. Jackson said. Therefore, they are in positions to unit the nation and to build on hto constructive things achieved by the past and the present. “We take hsue with the treat ment accorded to Preaident John son by tozns members of the na tional Democratic Party and re commend that we protest this ac tion at the palls by nlmtog to mp-< port that party.” Dr. Jackson stated. “We believe that the nutlmal Democratic Party to now too di vided to be entrusted with the seri ous lawimiaihiTtty of uniting a di vided niton.” Dr. Jackmn con tinued .This nation mast be united to withstand the threats and as saults of enemies both foreign and domestic." "The Republican Party has through the primaries, its national convention in Miami Beach, and its campaign to the present time re flected and demonstrated a type of party unity on a national scale that is most encouraging to those Amer icans who still believe in the Amer icon way of life." Nixon's stand on law and order was singled out in the 10-point statement as being a key issue strongly supported by the group The Republican nominee’s position on law, order and justice are simi lar to the Baptist organisation's pronouncements for fourteen years, according to the statement. “Without law and order there can he no democratic society, no United States of America, and no means of executing justice and se curing freedom for all,” Dr. Jack son said. The endorsement by Dr. Jackson and tha Convention was the end result of a carefully planned study which began in early September. During its convention, the Bap tist organisation selected a politi cal action committee which exam- fated the issues, zmd listened to the candidates Surtax... (Continued from Page 2) in $5 billion deficits. However valid this may be in principle, the question remains as to whether in practice a sufficient ly low level of government spend ing will be achieved in fiscal 1970 to permit doing without the sur charge. Not knowing, at this writing, who will occupy the seats of power next year, we hesitate to make a pre diction on that point. But holding spending down to a level that makes it possible to end the surtax should be a desirable objective from anybody’s point of view. We hope that the new Presi dent, whoever he may be, is al ready thinking and planning along these lines. We hope that the re tiring President is doing the same since he will submit the first ver sion of the budget for fiscal 1970. Since Congress four months ago provided for termination of the tax increase after one year, the law makers must have thought that this was within the bounds of fiscal responsibility. We don’t know of anything that has happened since that would compel a change in that judgement. Making it come true will require a lot of effort to con trol the spending side, but it is still worth an awfully good try. Enactment of the surtax last spring meant winning one battle in the cause of fiscal responsibility. If tee succeed in controlling spend ing so as to permit its termination on schedule, we will have won a whole campaign.