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BS 1000-35505 if. MISCELLANEOUS The "Boston Globe," a Boston, Massachusetts, daily newspaper, in its issue of January 1, 196, carried an article authored by WILLIAM J. LEWIs entitled "Justice Department Criticized." The article reported that Dr. HOWARD ZINN, a former professor of Political Science at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, had given a speech before the American Jewish Congress at 72 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts, in which he had been critical of Attorney General ROBERT KENNEDY, for his failure to prosecute civil rights violations and to protect the Negro against white violence. Lhe article also reported that the speaker had cited a case in Sylma, Alabama, last October when FBI Agents and Justice Department attorneys stood by on the steps of a Federal court house and watched as local officers arrested two Negro students on Federal property, then dragged them through the streets because they sought to register to vote. Informants contacted in February 196 having Imowledge of some phases of Communist Party activity in the greater Boston area stated they did not know the subject and could furnish no information concerning him.