Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Book depository to be site of JFK show Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 15:07:21 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION \HD Book depository to be site of JFK show \BY Hugh Aynesworth \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES \DT DALLAS DALLAS - A Dallas radio station obtained an injuction yesterday allowing Morton Downey Jr. to stage a three-hour talk show about the John F. Kennedy assassination this morning from the building where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shots. Tom Scott, operations manager of KGBS-AM in Dallas, said he will personally carry the judge's order to county officials, who had previously denied Mr. Downey's proposal. "I'll be there at 6 a.m.," said Mr. Scott. "We'll be on the air at 8 a.m." The syndicated program is heard on WRC-AM in the Washington area. Mr. Scott said Cass Whelan, a lawyer for the Dallas station, presented the injunctive motion to Civil District Judge John M. Marshall at the judge's home shortly after noon yesterday. An assistant district attorney was present also, said Mr. Scott, but made no objections. The basis for the motion was that other media had been allowed to use the building and that to deny the Downey Show the same consideration was a violation of First Amendment rights. Mr. Downey's producers and local KGBS management had asked for and been given permission to broadcast the program from the sixth floor of the onetime Texas School Book Depository, but they dealt with the head of a local historical foundation, not the five county commissioners, who run the county and are responsible for the property. The world-famous building was renamed several years ago and has been utilized as the county administration building. A museum exhibit called "The Sixth Floor," has been open to the public for several years. It encompasses much of the depository building's sixth floor, where Oswald had been seen just before the fatal shots were fired. He was an employee of the building. Where other JFK "museums" in downtown Dallas had capitalized on the tragic events in garish, carnivallike fashion, "The Sixth Floor" since its opening has won raves from hundreds of thousands of visitors for its taste and handling of the facts concerning the assassination. Oliver Stone, whose "JFK" movie made little effort to conform to well-established facts two years ago, was allowed to use the depository building for several weeks - and to even alter it's exterior. But the movie maker paid not only for the use, the inconvenience of people dealing with county government and the cost of refurbishing the exterior, but put up insurance escrow as well. When ads caught the attention of the commissioners Thursday, most of them expressed surprise and anger that they had not been formally approached about use of the exhibit area. Mr. Downey's people, from the beginning, claimed the show was being denied the right to use the facility because of "the hate factor" concerning Mr. Downey. Unless the county makes some last-minute move to have yesterday's order rescinded by a higher court, Mr. Downey apparently will get to do his "tribute" show as planned. Some familiar with the lineup of invited guests and "experts" see little more than what one called "an advantageous use of the territory" to fuel and promote allegations of conspiracy in the president's death. Jim Marrs, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, Victor Marchetti and Dan Muldea are to be interviewed, said Rob Chickering, one of Mr. Downey's producers. All are longtime assassination buffs who have written best-selling conspiracy books. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM