Warren Investigation
Sir: By devoting your cover [Feb. 14] to showing a picture of the wife of the man who assassinated our late President, you are glorifying the most despicable crime—assassination.
MRS. F. A. STRAUB Los Angeles
Sir: To encourage people to come to a conclusion before the commission has announced its findings is to undermine one of the basic principles of our legal system.
The more the evidence seems to point in one direction, the more important it is to remind ourselves that everyone must be assumed innocent until proved guilty. To do otherwise is to adopt the logic of a lynch mob.
JOHN T. ENNIS New York City
Sir: TIME has become so melodramatic! Your story of Marina Oswald's life made me feel like the "constant weader" who "fwowed up" in Dorothy Parker's remark. The plastic roses on Oswald's grave were just too much.
MRS. RICHARD H. DICKSON Indianapolis
Sir: For the first time since those dreadful November days, I felt a pang of pity for Lee Harvey Oswald. Imagine having something like that for a mother.
MRS. DON GARGARO Detroit
Sir: An excellent story. I wish it were possible for every mother—and father—to read your report on Marguerite Claverie Pic Oswald Ekdahl, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. Through her seemingly warped personality, her failure to provide a modicum of healthy home environment, her unwillingness or inability to cooperate with professional people and public officials, Marguerite Claverie Pic Oswald Ekdahl plays an unenviable role in the circumstances leading to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She wants to go down in history? Well, history is replete with unsavory personalities.
ELIZABETH V. PARKER Randolph, Vt.
Who Shall Not Be Moved?
Sir: Transporting children across school-district lines [Feb. 14] is unreasonable, unrealistic, chaotic, unwise, expensive, an unwarranted favor to any group, and a subversion of the primary purpose of the schools, which is to educate, not to integrate. Integration is a result of or at most a secondary purpose of the system.
(MRS.) JOAN Y. TUCKER Kenmore, N. Y.
Sir: As a native Atlantan, I found your article extremely shortsighted and biased. Tokenism does not exist in Atlanta, but racial exhibitionism does, thanks to your ready cameras and dripping pens [Feb. 7]. Atlanta has gone much farther than was necessary in lowering all racial barriers. Atlantans have repressed their own feelings in a conscientious effort to give the Negro his equality, and now they face disgusting demonstrations in spite of this. The Negro deserved civil equality, and Atlanta gave it. The current demonstrations are unwarranted and indicative of the irresponsible, militant youths leading them. Their behavior is evidence of this. J. LARRY SANDERS University of Virginia Charlottesville, Va.
Sir: I read the article under "Civil Rights," and I hung my head and cried from shame. I am a Negro. "Demonstrators rushed into his place, urinated on the floors when he locked his rest rooms"-no wonder they don't want us in their schools, hotels and restaurants. All Negroes are not filthy, dirty and immoral, but as long as any of our people act in this manner we will be considered so.
MRS. E. L. ESSOUND Pasadena, Texas