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4 | 0 vf PLAYBOY: Speaking of... violating indi- F i oO Ls “vidual-rights, da you feel, as some have | : selves to the fact that these atrociti¢s, * , charged, thae Robert Kennedy, us Attor- und these wavestics of justice, will cov- 2 ney (General, unduly and extralegally : : tinue until the white South learns to un- 3. harassed Teanister boss Jimmy Holla? | derstand and respect the spirie as well as + 2 4. Belu:%God pity Hoffa. Any. individual : the letter of due process and equality be- 5. -is in’ trouble today if he gets the. cagle ; i fore the law, It just takes time. Pretty. "6 _ after him. Onc vicious man, Bobby Ken- : i soon all the subterfuges, tricks and de- a -nedy, subverting the: powers of govern- + “ceits designed to circumvent the’ civil: — - “mhent, made it a. mission to “get” Hoffa. : rights laws. will have been tried by the : a -& ‘Now, Hoffa's done a lot I don’t like—but | : die-hards and eliminated by the Supreme : “9 2.1 think ‘some of his convictions will be , ‘Court. Theh, and only then, will Ne- 0: reversed. M- Hoffa ‘has done wrong—and if igroes in the South begin to. enjoy the Ye ‘maybe: | he. “*has—the Taw’ will take care j - | fruits of true freedom. an 5 ~ of. him. “He should: be “prosecuted, not a PLAYBOY: Do you share the conserva- ; : 22 + persecuted. ; . ‘tive ‘view that. the present. Supreme ; | .. 3 1" playBoY: Fact- magazine recently ‘ate ‘Court, because of its trail-blazing deci-: ~ 24 , tributed to you the following remarks... ‘sions ih civi) rights, censorship, school ' 5 {\: about Robert Kennedy: “He's the most : | | prayer and the like, i is “too liberal’? And © 26 “4” vicious, evil son of a bitch in American’ “4 ‘do you agree with those who feel that it 9 _ i politics today. >. . Sure, he wants to be’ jhas begun: to unrightfully usurp legisla- , * President, but what he really wants is to ‘tive authority? 2 become head of the universe. . The. BELL: What do you mean by “liberal” 4 re a |- 4 Betu: 1 probably am--- ng ill ingreuth, When uf ppedts~in print, I fully expect a knoes ai the door from Mr. Hoover's gray-flanne) minions. They've already tied to tap my phones and monkey with my mail. But I've had -uninvited nocturnal visitors before. I'm ready for them. “The question, is: Ares: they ready for me? Pope isn't safe with that little bastard around. ..... He's arrogant, rude, and- . E-even ignorant of the law. . . .: He's. the “ monied Litthe Lord’ Fauntleroy of gov- -ernment. . . . Every newspaperman knows what he is. and even Johnson "can’t stand him, but everybody is too scared of the son of a-bitch.”’ Are these accurate quotes? BELLE: That's, whit I said. But I cer- ‘tainly didn’t expect. to see it on the cover of a magazine: indeed, I didn’t ex- pect to be directly quoted, But I've since had hundreds of both lawyers and lay- men write and telephone me to say, “‘T wish to hell I'd had the guts to say- the eral had absolutely no. experience - for same thing.” Kennedy as Attorney Gen- 4- “the job as top lawyer of :he United | States. Who is this man, who has never been in a courtroom, to tell me how to -act, or to tell my colleague trial lawyers ; ‘how to act? Which he did. But quite apart from that, and his vendetta against Hoffa, 1 know of tothing Bobby, Ken- nedy as Attorney General did that he ; could point to with pride. : pLaYsoY: How about his department’s : dedication to the enforcement of civil - rights legislation? _. “BELU: His office did a wemendous and . food job on civil rights; but in Juck * Kennedy's Administration, could any Petar eed cee Cane, et ene a a rede ne Cali nlite a Ta nnn ene ae ee eae eta Ge ah ¢ Lrigeer aad cit ofectdnrlet P—atironeracemty |. the Luw of man? “the aw of God; they disgrace theraselves aud our country’ be- fore the world.. But this conspiracy of- hate and bigotry won't last; its days ac numbered. In practical terms, however, ~ohhe antes wig we can’t change the state laws or the . inbred prejudices that keep them in‘ force. I'm afraid .we must resign our- ‘and “conservative”? If you mean that: .liberals"” are more concerned with: hu- !man rights, and “conservatives”, with | “property rights, [think that’s as good a ‘definition as any. According to that, ‘definition, the present Supreme Court is , -the most liberal we’ve ever had. But too ‘liberal? No. As for assuming legislative authority, of course it has. But waavizl fully? No. For good or for bad, our _ Supreme Court has without question be- i coMfe the second legislature Washing- , ton. I say that not in criticism, only as ‘ something in the nature of things. I hap- . ‘pen to think we have a great Supreme “Court, the greatest decision-making Coust we've ever had, the most humani- tarian in our history. Earl Warren is a. ‘great administrator; he has integrity, : ability. The individual justices are sin- cere and hard working; they try hard to be gbjective, to put country above per- sonality; they're the best we've ever had. H _ The Court’ has done ‘the American , - people great justice in rendering the law . | consonant with the changing needs and | : increasing complexities of the contempo- , rary world. “PLAYBOY: Since the turn of the centu- | ry, many attempts at censorship of sex- ually explicit books and films have been made by the U.S. Post Office, the U.S. Customs Bureau, various stale gover we nee Ce nce ee nee wee Le er AN ee lao et * ve Attorney General's office have done less? ments and scores of religious and. citi- 38: PLAYBOY: What do you feel can be done zens’ censor Loards. Almost al! of these 59 ~ to rectify the mockery of justice in South- bans have been judicially, overruled, -. ~ 3 ern courts, which perennially exonerate some of them in historic decisious by theo “ white charged with murdering Negroes? Supreme Court. With whom do you feves tionist - bs al; 3 AL, sliould © ultimace authorit rest, for: By