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friday, november 21, 1975 daily nebraskan page 7 Oglesby says power struggle caused deaths By Ron Ruggfess Omaha-Struggles between two govern mental power elites were the cause of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Watergate scandle, according to the former president of the Students for Dem ocratic Society (SDS). Carl Oglesby told an audience at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) symposium "Who Killed JKF?" Thursday night that the struggles are between what he called a "Capital Yankee" and "Cow boy" elites. Fie said "Yankee" elites are govern mental powers concerned with maintaining strong industrial and personal ties with European nations. The "Cowboys" are interested in maintaining a frontier or re gion in which a new territory may be built. Oglesby said former President Kennedy was a Yankee and former President Lyn don Johnson a Cowboy. What he called the power struggle be tween Kennedy and Johnson began "through a CIA plan and a misconception by that group (CIA)" in the Bay of Pigs in vasion of Cuba in 196 1 , he said. Kennedy, not wanting to invade other territories, put a damper on the invasion, he said, while Johnson favored it. He said the result was the "gunplay" on Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shot in Dallas. Oglesby said the most important Yankee-Cowboy struggle concerned the Vietnam War, which he said Johnson es calated immediately following his inauguration. Yankee forces within the Johnson Ad ministration, he said, forced him to stop the air war, start the Paris Peace talks with North Vietnam and not run for reelection in 1968. "The anti-war movement, of which I was a part, had not grown strong enough to cause any trouble for him," Oglesby said. But he added many people claimed SDS was a prime reason for Johnson's de cision not to run. When Johnson decided against running, Oglesby said, it left a vacuum for the "Yankees" to regain power. He said their leading candidate in the 1968 Presidential election was Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D N.Y.). Turning to Watergate, Oglesby said Pres ident Richard Nixon, whom he termed a "Cowboy," was led to his resignation by a "Yankee" faction within the CIA that he said was horrified by Nixon's "gestapo like faction" in the White House. "There is no homogenized mixture of the two elites in government," he said. 1 c : -2 ? ; Mn I s I s go ft & -Si 2l Ssdi ig-g a I I: , , , , t 6tH fte I Sum til 1.ZZ3 9Q 5 2 j, Ir-rl I JZZm a c jr s ;rE IFliTvlJi li i Pi I8? j 1 1 rargy- L li c-B n cy m (oS v m i - I o . ? , r 8 5 h t IMJ ff j n n n S Kt i 2p vk Si , I- rnj-i " 53 r ; Cl-zai y g fi I A ; V r52? -S & -ss . 122 CTggr hu 9 I d S li n 6:9 -S? e? 5 m tiiij iim fv nim t I? O II Mb I f v?r''F-,r",e''w'-,'' ' iittflhlM laMMMWi""'11""1" "'"lMt" 'iMiiiMtfiiiiiiw wnwwa -mwMfini. i mttttt-t&AtiiMm MaLiWjiafea jMlteWMWftWiaifflia-i i&MMmnttm niim&mmm&w&&MWimki
