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} 7 FD-390 (nev. s-to-053 . oo : . ; . sho _ ' . _ ; . uo “¢ , ) . . (Mount Clipping in Spaco Below) Yanied Lawyer Blasts Hédéer| : to say he had the guts to uy Ruby’s tempestuous frial_-in Sate: —— .. jand he had the right to try to 1964, as “a warrior with a big sAlli Calls F BI Director investigate the assassination.” heart and a great personality.” “Fatuous Old Dictator’ Belli termed Garrison ‘‘a_ Belli said, however, that t very good friend of mine’? and Brown “never claimed to be a ° Ny Ta “a ‘terrific trial lawyer.” great lawyer. He should never - By DON LEWIS y ever ‘fan Francisco attorney Mel-| ‘Garrison is an honest ma pave presided over the trial, » clli said. ‘tM. Belli Friday nicht called |and I would be a characte’ . a t purean of Investigation witness for him anytime,” he| Ruby received the death sen- i Dotor J Edgar Hoover “a fat-,|Said. tence in Judge Brown's court dis old. di ctator” and charged. BACKS COMMISSION but the conviction was later re- x “has set up a little: : 1g H troop empire.” P still accepts the Warren Com-|day following a heart attack. yclli, the man who defended mission findings that Lee Har/Ruby died of cancer Jan. 3, ie ’ . . a We .- 3 Ivey Oswald, acting alone, killed| 1967. , < Ruby seri Tee tried President John F. Kennedy. Belli, who has been conduct- 46 Oswald, was interviewed at on! american Bar Associati id: ~ bd r ntra h rican Bar Association, said: npine's Restaurant, 713 St. calls "Tm stil receptive put|“The ABA doesn't like me be- a _,{{he hasn’t convinced me,” Belli/cause I don’t belong to the ype 60-year-old attorney said] said, establishment.” ‘only reason the FBI director!} Commenting on the continu- “I'm a member of the ABA,” + Obecn reappointed to his post ing attempts of Clay L. Shaw’s|Belli said, “and since they’ve tM\ecause “he has had so muchllattorneys to get a change of tried to kick me out, I wouldn't apresidents that they didn’t¥venue for their client, Belli quit for the world.” “ye the guts to kick him out.” said: “I think New Orleans is}. The California attorney has i hey knew that if Hooverjlike San Francisco-—the pcople just returned to the United efe removed from office helin the two cities are the most} States from Vietnam after. writ- ogld come back to haunt them lfolergnt in the world. . fling a Series on military justice “gush speeches and books with{ “If I were a defense lawyer,” for a wire service and has writ- ‘id. . move the trial.” i8 SOURED LONG AGO ~ FORMER CLIENT sgplli. called Hoover “utterly | Referring to his former court against Raymond x completely vicious” andjclient, Jack Ruby, Belli said:|‘‘Perry Mason” fame, Belli ia he started “to go Sour on “He was a status seeker ‘xm long ago when I saw how . -- -Gi very well.— he’s a client of Zid FBI agents were of their flimber nis wanted to belong mite,” mo ‘ayter.” : + oni . yr ene Belli leaves New Orleans at i agents on the witness! Pelli said flatly: “I think thely 2. m, Saturday to attend a volt.” wo ne towmas fas \4d have lied many times,” BUY Was nuts.” meeting of the International >Ri said. “They go with theme to rma attorney Said Aeadery of Trial Lawyers in iy what brung ’em,” Belli ite 40 iy nat 38 did itl Boca Raton, Fla. He was the jded, “and they’re not going toln, Ki 4 Thi ) for yal fe and] first dean of the organization sfify against their chief.” |i» ids. This was Ruby's ra-| and one of the founders. “Sli said he is one of a num-|Lonalization for the act,” Belli peesem-—~> "9of attorneys who have had isle, “This is absolutely not 3Q agents checking into their} ning to District Attorney “f Garrison's probé™of “the Belli. described Ruby as a “psychomotor epileptic’ and said “what turned him on” were : zm aoe -{television strobe lights in the iaiedy assassination, Bellily coment of police ad iq: “I was close to Ruby and tone in Dallas, Tex Se ything he (Garrison); “When the lights came on,” 7 ‘De ; _»| Belli said, “they brought about Syhat he's got, I don’t know, {his seizure” and Ruby shot: Ui said. “I’m waiting like the! Qswald. 7, i *B of the world to see,” he “Oswald was shot and fatally #: qd : ‘go. . . », Wounded Nov. 24, 1963... ” Ae ts a on his face," _-zolli described District Judge |Biiaie nad SBE 0 said, vt It be.the one BUY Joe Brown, wha presigied over| - ‘_,Blasts J. Edgar Hoover Belli said, however, that he|Versed. Judge Brown died Tues-| ” “Plt believe it until Garrison|iNg a running feud with the} , arrassing contents,” Belli[Belli said, “I wouldn’t want toj|ten a new book, “The Lay ReiincbwaezoN CONTAINED — As to how he woul RA 1p UNCLASSIFIED 0 CSP mew. = BY 4 _ said:.'I’m afraid I wouldn’t do | SfREMANPReLSs — Cpe t H a: i i ‘ (Indicate page, name of TIMES PICAYUNE — | NEW ORLEANS, ‘LA. i i i] uy sececmam sates ee areatin es Date: 2-24—68 - PE. Author: : Editor: GEORGE W. HEALY. title: ASSASSINATION OF. vee er AFO | 7 Classification: 89~. let Submitting Office: N 2D °?3 LA: C} Being Invastigated a mAR apse? . SR ated ae OE Con TT ~ a ' at