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Melvin Belli — Part 8

40 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Melvin Belli · 40 pages OCR'd
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a le eld eee lnate ane ketenes || . tre name: ten hein @ fe AG Weegou + “SOT =} Ca hb ej ore Trotter Tele Reo Holmes ce “thet "San ‘Francisco 1 legal. beagle: ° . = re immediately’ after the Jack Ruby - eg . Wkedéy been turned: over. “to. the: FBI, ‘threatening’ me with: bodily. vidlence. and: death if I return to Dallas: Dallas you must. be, aware o of this’. se. When. you chos2 He: 22: = gelevance, coiniittee ot the "ABA. wants hin n., howrcausé: why.*Héi should “fot.-be umped by: the‘association for viola 2 dion’ Of ‘Canons‘1; 20 and 27 of: the 2 anons “of: Professional - Ethics.” In+:: 2 eftect, Belli yelled, “We wuz robbed!” + any ‘of ‘those present, including this * Feporter, agreed... ‘ <-Belli spent. iong*hours in. court, me bine the trial demanding a change | * 2 ‘gt venue for Ruby on the ground that uby.‘couldn’t -get..a: fair ‘rial, in. alas; that: death “was:his- biggest Hughes, who.administered the oath of. office to Presi- #4 dent Johnson, said that Dallas was a city of hate, the _ only,elty in. the United States in which ‘the assassina- ie - tion’ of the ‘President ‘could have ‘been possible. ° ct te _ “Warren Leslie, in his recently published ‘Dallas # city” ‘Limits,’ ‘and “other writers ‘nave; characterized § z Dallas ‘as a city’ of murder and. the. ‘murder. capital’ of NE the. world.’ °2 an sy eres ‘do’ not want to add myself asa statistic t 5 tis Me rhacabre® batting: average,"even at your whim!. There as ? dspect there. Now-he is demanding. are a number of things I would like to say of and Be 5 ay - ™ ; chahge ‘of venue -for himself and" about the American Ear Association. and in my de- = ‘ 3 } generally. for the same reasons. = *: fense at this ‘trial’ I would Me to remain alive to say 15 i"You have arbitrarily. set the place, of all places, them..Consequently, I ask that. the ‘trial’ be held ot ~ or this. “trial as Dallas, Texas!” Belli, an accom: plished the headquarters of the ABA, Chicago, anc :.o% in user.of the ‘exclamation point, writes in his-stinsing Dailas.” -reply:to; ithe summons issued by O. B. McEwan, chair- . Belli had: somethi ng bristling ta say, too, about | Gian’ of fithe \ABA's: gripes department. “I advise you, the fact that the panel that will try. hii is made up 3 ‘: Ygtrth ‘that, Chad mumerous letters, some of which have - entirely of ‘Southern lawyers, We'd print excerpts, but. :0 "The Weskiagten Pos a — 15 Ne The Washington Fostense LoL Times Kerald The Washington Daily News The Evening Ster New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Amesicen New York Mirrer New York Deily News —_ 18 0 New York Post — —— 49 .~ . : . The New York Times —_.—-~—— A 70 ae . a no a A ; The Worker —_ — - ?1 “oS / Bota t 1: fa A The New Leader 22 woot , . NOT ¢ RECORDED The Well Street Journal - Dote MAY 34° S Uetas coun mc : Ci sak .
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