Daily w Trojan
Vol. LXVI, No. 52
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, December 6, 1973
JFK Murder Linked To Secret Conspiracy
BY BRIAN ROBINETTE
Staff Writer
The coauthor of the controversial novel Executive Action told an overflow crowd Wednesday in Hancock Auditorium that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was indicative of the clandestine operations of what he called “a secretive govern ment/'
Donald Freed, who, with Mark Lane, also coauthored the film version of the novel, said that the predominant theme of both efforts concerned the right of the people to know the facts surrounding the myopic mysteries ofthe assassination in November. 1963.
“We must open it up and ventilate it." said Freed. “We must let the Americans know—only then can this be called a functioning democracy.”
FREED THEN challenged the validity of the Warren Commission report, which he indicated w as a token gesture authorized by JFK's successor. President Lyndon B. Johnson, to soothe the conscience of an angry.confused
nation.
He cited a 1966 poll that
showed that 669c of those interviewed rejected the lone-assassin theory offered by the Warren Commission. A 1973 survey, taken 10 years after JFK's death. Freed said. show?ed that the number of skeptics had ballooned to 98^.
Armed with two short but
gripping film clips, the first a one-minute commercial trailer of the current movie Executive Action, and the other an equally short pi-
ham Zapruder film of the assassination, Freed proceeded to expose what he said were the glaring inconsistencies of the WTarren Commission.
The author rejected the “magic bullet” theory, which the Warren Commission maintained was the second shot fired at the presidential motorcade and struck ex-Texas Gov. John B. Connally in the back, wrist and leg.
Freed said that the bullet was relatively intact and could not have done all ofthe damage, especially since Connally was facing the assassin at the time of impact.
IN SHOWING a crude reproduction of the Zapruder film, taken by an amateur photographer on top of a nearby grassy knoll, Freed noted that the President's wounded head pitched backward, not forward as had previously been reported. This would contradict the bullet trajectory according to the Warren Commission.
However. Freed's remarks were aimed at the burgeoning but largely undetectable influence of a secretive government. Such a government. he said, did not necessarily constitute the established power structure, but the infrastructure of the vested interests.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy. Freed said, was actually two conspiracies. One involved the assassination. while the other concerned the interrelated and carefully orchestrated coverup. This began what Freed called “the decade of conspiracy,” which has exhibited itself more recently in the Watergate break-in.
“The truth has been kept from the American people,” said Freed.
“This was evident in Vietnam and W'atergate as well. My Lai, with Lt. Calley, and Watergate were both supposed to be aberrations according to the government.”
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ASSASSINATION PLOT—Donald Freed, coauthor of the novel Executive Action, told students Wednesday that the Warren Commission inquiry into President John F. Kennedy's assassination was riddled with inaccuracies. He showed a reproduction of the famous Zapruder film showing the actual assassination. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
Students Miss Council Meetings
BY BOB EVANS
Staff Writer
Student members of the University Council have missed more meetings than they-have attended, council records show.
According to attendance records for the 19 student members, the combined student absentee rate is about 557c for this semester. The records also show that:
•	Nine students have missed three of the five council meetings this semester.
•	Four students have been absent from all five meetings, and one
academic division has not elected its student representative.
•	Three students have not attended a single meeting out of nine for which attendance was recorded since the council was established in April.
•	Twelve students were absent from the last council meeting, at which members adopted recommendations concerning student programming and a proposed increase in tuition.
Only one student has a perfect attendance record for all nine meetings. She is Connie Seinfeld of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Natural Sci-
ences and Mathematics Division.
Jim McNamee of the School of Engineering has missed only one meeting since the council was formed.
Both McNamee and Peter Scolney, Humanities Division representative and cochairman of the Student Caucus, have perfect attendance records forthis semester.
Although a few student members have high rates of attendance, the overall rate for students is brought down because some students rarely attend meetings—and some never do.
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Health Center Counselor Says All Sex Is Normal
BY SHERRY STERN
Staff Writer
“Fm in the business of pan-sexuality.” Liz Canfield, family planning counselor at the Student Health Center, said Wednesday to a group at Hillel House.
Canfield said she believes all sex is normal and normality should include all types of sex as long as three basic principles are not violated.
The principles are that it is immoral to bring an unloved child into the world, that it is immoral to give disease to another person and that it is immoral to exploit another person's body.
Canfield spoke on “Sex Facts and Fallacies at USC.”
Fallacy: All men need to be sexually experienced and all
women don't.
CanTield said that not only
is this false but unless all
men go to prostitutes, it is mathematically impossible. And according to statistics, most college men in the United States don’tgoto prostitutes, Canfield said.
Fallacy: College students are well informed about sex and birth control.
Canfield said that statistically, most college students are more protected that those of the same group w ho are not in college, and therefore are less informed.
Fallacy: Birth control preparation makes people promiscuous.
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C Aid Forms Available
Students may obtain applications for first-time or renewed financial aid for the 1974-75 academic year at the first-floor information desk. Student Administrative Services Building, formerly Town and Gown Hall.
The deadline for returning applications is Dec. 19. They may be returned to the first-floor desk or to the Student Aid Office receptionist, Room 316.
The applications include two parts. One is a sheet labeled Preliminary Financial Application for Renewal and Continuing Students, 1974-75. All items must be completely filled out.
The second part is a financial statement, which a student \nust submit each year. Detailed instructions are provided.,
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SPEAKS ON SEXUAL FALLACIES—Liz Canfield, the family planning counselor at the Student Health Center, spoke Wednesday at the Hillel House about “Sex Facts and Fallacies at USC.” She claims that people have sexuality though they don't always have intercourse. I)T photo by Michael Sedano.