Ruby Seen as 'Patriot'
Moscow TASS International Service in English 0651 GMT 25 November 1963--L
(Excerpts) New York--An atmosphere of uncertainty and
hysteria continues to reign in Dallas, the town where President Kennedy was so
monstrously killed. After Oswald, the accused assassin of the President, was
shot there yesterday in the police station, the Mayor of Dallas appealed to the
people of the town "to come to their senses and fight the hysteria."
CBS correspondents report from Dallas that suspicious
telephone calls were made today to the home of the mayor and homes of many
prominent Dallas citizens. Unknown persons threatened them. In particular, the
mayor was threatened that the plane which he planned to take to Washington to
attend the President's funeral would be blown up by a bomb. After this threat,
the mayor took another plane.
The foul crime in Dallas is being used by certain quarters to
fan anti-Soviet and anticommunist hysteria. All the details of the crime were
flashed for the past two days on the screens of television sets. The Americans
were insistently told that Oswald was a "communist," a "Marxist," "Castroite,"
and so forth. Some papers even tried to implicate the communist party in
Kennedy's death. The New York JOURNAL AMERICAN was the loudest in this unseemly
business.
At the same time, one gets the impression that the circle of
suspects in the President's assassination has concentrated only on one man. The
possibility that the assassination was the doing of someone else has been thrown
aside. The murderer of Oswald, Jack Ruby, a man with a criminal past, is now
being pictured as a man motivated by patriotism, an "admirer" of the late
President. Investigation of Kennedy's assassin was stopped with Oswald's death.
All the circumstances of President Kennedy's tragic death
allow one to assume that this murder was planned and carried out by the
ultrarightwing fascist and racist circles, by those who cannot stomach any step
aimed at easing international tension and improving Soviet-American relations.