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BY ED JOHNSON
Robert Morris, GOP candidate for the Senate, labeled
Wednesday Chief Justice Earl Warren's heading the com-
mission investigating President John F. Kennedy's assas-
sination "a constitutional monstrosity."
Warren should resign from
the commission which was ap-
pointed by President Johnson,
Morris said in a press con-
ference at the Press Club of
Fort Worth in the Blackstone
Hotel.
He said Warren actually is
playing into the hands of Jack
Ruby, who killed accused as-
sassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
"Ruby's defense will claim
he can never get a fair hear-
ing," Morris said in contend-
ing Ruby's lawyers will use
Warren's position on the com-
mission as an argument against
getting a fair hearing before
the Supreme Court.
The defense will push for a
hearing before the court of last
resort in an effort to set aside
any trial court conviction, he
predicted.
"They will say Warren
will prejudice the other eight
justices," he added.
Morris, former University of
Dallas president, is an attorney
and former counsel for the
Senate internal security sub-
committee. He is seeking nom-
ination in the Republican pri-
mary May 2.
The candidate also blamed
Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell for
"adding fuel to the fire" in the
ultra right-wing demonstration
against United Nations Am-
bassador Adlai Stevenson a
month before Kennedy was
slain.
time Stevenson, leaving a Dal-
las auditorium, was hit with
a sign and spat upon.
"Stevenson, against police
warning, went among the pick-
ets and provoked them," he
said.
He added Cabell's apology
for the City of Dallas helped
blow up the incident and that
Oswald, in killing the presi-1
dent, made "Dallas itself a
target."
Morris said President Johnson
Wednesday hurt himself in the
State of the Union message "by
completely embracing the pro-
gram" of the late president.
He said he was disappointed
in the speech because Johnson
did not encourage more moral
and individual responsibility and
the religious and spiritual tex-
ture of our society.
"Our Constitution is color
blind. It knows no second class
citizens," Morris said on civil
rights.
He advocated the integration
problem should be solved by re-
ligious instinct and economic as-
sistance to underprivileged
groups.
Morris named Joseph D. Ken-
nedy, an oil man, his Tarrant
County campaign chairman,, The
candidate said he expected to
be in Fort Worth every 10 days
until the primary.
He said he is considering Fort
Worth for his state headquarters
Morris said only two of the j but is more inclined to establish
pickets were out of line at the I it in Austin.
—Star-Telegram Photo
CANDIDATE—Senate aspirant Robert Morris autographs
a copy of his latest book, "Disarmament: Weapon of
Conquest," for Joseph Kennedy, his Tarrant manager.
Morris Says Warren
Should Quit Panel
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