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Melvin Belli — Part 8
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with: bodily. vidlence. and: death if I return to Dallas:
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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.
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