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Truman Capote — Part 1
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- founder of the Emergency Committee £6
NY 97-1792
. The April 1, 1964 edition of the "New York Post"
contained an article captioned "FAR RIGHT & FAR LEFT,"
which stated as follows:
"oye FAIR PLAY for Cuba Committee lived humbly
and died ignobly. Which is to say that it was almost a
perfect study of extreme left-wing politics in contem-
porary America.
"Barely three years after its founding, the
committee's funds had been spent without too many traces,
4ts leaders had abdicated and were living in self-imposed
exile, and its membership, once in the thousands, had
disappeared. in its death throes, the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee left one final footnote for history: a member
named Lee Harvey Oswald.
. "Tt would be rationayY to assume’ that other groups
would shun a direct link wit} a discredited movement. But
only a few weeks ago SidnewGluck, fashion designer and
le ncy Committee for Disaster Reyier ‘to
Guba, sent a beseeching letter to Vincent Theodore/ Leé,~
the rather invisible former leader of the Fair Plgy Com-
mittee. The letter reads in part: Sid pee : b hue k (
(uF neni Liek
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