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Smith To Discuss
Kennedy Assassination
BY FRANCES HENDERSON
Where were you on Novem
ber 22, 1963? Most of us
remember, for on that day
the most powerful man in the
world was assassinated.
Kennedy's death is still
shrouded with mystery, as
a result of the dubious findings
of the Warren Commission
investigations. Guilford
Senior Chip Smith is one who
has serious doubts about the
validity of the official investi
gation of the assassination.
His intensive research has
convinced him that the Warren
Commission did not do its
job, and the mystery is not
yet solved.
Chip's research began as
work for his Honors thesis in
History, but has expanded so
much that Chip is now consid
ered an expert on the assass
ination. He has lectured at
several schools, including
UNC-CH, Meredith College,
and UNC-A. His research has
taken him around the country.
Over Christmas he drove 15,000
miles to gather information
and talk with experts and
witnesses. He has interviewed
Dick Gregory, John Connally,
Ted Kennedy, Barry Goldwater,
and countless other experts.
Harvey Goes on Leave
Cyril Harvey, Professor
of Geology, has requested
and has been granted an
administrative study leave for
the 1977-78 academic
year. After eleven years at
Guilford, including five as
Academic Dean, Dr.
Harvey looks forward to a
year away from the constant
demands of administration.
He is not certain at this time
that he will resume his res
ponsibilities as Academic
Dean upon his return to
Guilford. By fall Dr. Harvey
Dan Rather of CBS News has
been a very good contact.
Chip now has so much material
that he is writing a book which
he hopes to finish while in
Law School. The hours he
has spent working on the
project he says are inestimable.
Chip was recently offered a
two-year job with the newly
appropriated Congressional
investigative committee on the
assassination.
When Chip speaks of the
assassination, and of the
Warren Commission, it is
obvious that he feels a personal
involvement. Kennedy is one
of his favorite presidents, and
one whose brilliance and
charisma were powerful forces
for good in the country. He
finds it incredible that
"the most powerful person in
the world is shot and we
couldn't find out who did it."
Incontestable evidence such
as the film shot by an amateur
photographer at the scene, of
the six-second sequence of
the shots flatly contradict the
Warren Commissions' single
bullet theory. The study is
"so full of discrepancies that
few people hold it as true.
But, he says, the new
intends to render a decision
concerning this matter.
With the approval and
support of the Faculty
Affairs Committee, the Clerk
of the Faculty, and the
members of the Administrative
Council, Bruce Stewart has
been asked to serve as Acting
Academic Dean for the coming
year.
The Guilfordian wishes
Dr. Harvey a productive study
year and we give support to
Bruce Stewart in his new
endeavor as Academic Dean.
investigative committee will
have a hard time because of
the passage of time. In the 14
years since Kennedy's death,
nineteen key witnesses have
died, in addition to then -
Vice-President Johnson, Jack
Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald and
Hal Boggs. Time cannot be
made up, but Chip hopes that
the new committee will
uncover some truths and
reveal them to the public. At
present there is too much
doubt, too many discrepancies
in the evidence, for another
investigation to not be
undertaken.
Chip, a Rhodes Scholarship
finalist, will present his History
Honors thesis this Thursday
at 10 a.m. in Founder's
Gallery. He will show slides
and discuss his theories of
what really happened. A
limited question and answer
period involving the audience
will be permitted. A copy of
Smith's written presentation
may be examined by requesting
it at the checkout desk in the
library. Everyone is
invited to attend his lecture
on this vitally important issue.
Summer Schoo
Spanish
BY HIRAM HILTY
Guilford students can
complete their language
requirements in the two
summer sessions as follows:
First session - Spanish 100 (111)
Second session - Spanish 201
(112)
The total credit for these
courses will be only six
hours, but the language
requirement will have been
met.
The discrepancy between
Greensboro and Guilford
numbering systems and
corresponding credits seemed
to make this clarification
necessary.
April 26, 1977
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Haley
Comes Home
BY 808 WELLS
Alex Haley returned to
North Carolina last Sunday
in an event that was co
sponsored by the Guilford
College Arts Series in conjunc
tion with Brothers and Sisters
in Blackness (BASIB) of
Guilford and the Neo-Black
Society of UNC-G.
At a press conference prior
to his lecture Mr. Haley
denounced those who have
attacked Roots, saying they
did it just "to get in print."
As for charges that he "copied"
other works Haley quipped,
"It would not have taken me
twelve years to write Roots,
had I copied it." Haley stated
that when he is finished with
his grueling promotional
tour of seventy-three lectures
this Spring he would "dissect
and demolish" each charge of
inaccuracy in his work.
Mr. Haley said his next book
would be entitled Search,
which will tell the story of his
researching Roots. Haley dis
closed that another television
series is in the making, pick
ing up where the first left off
and continuing the story line
for one hundred years The
Chip Smith
series is tentatively set to
air in 1979.
In his lecture Mr. Haley
immediately gave due credit to
his ancestors and expressed
that the success of Roots is
really theirs. He told of his
father's struggle to break out
of the share croppers cycle,
which was usually passed
from father to son, and how
he came to North Carolina
A&T. His father later won a
scholarship to Cornell, earning
a Masters Degree in Agricul
ture, and later became a
college professor. Mr.
Haley acknowledges that his
parents were instrumental in
his acquiring an "upward
perspective."
During Haley's lecture,
Guilford was granted its due.
At an earlier visit Mr. Haley
met Dr. Jim Gifford who
mentioned he might contact
Dr. Algie Newlin. Dr. Newlin
is a retired History professor
and a leading ource on
Alamance Cour y history
having grown up lere. Dr.
Newlin helped Nr. Haley
locate other sources in Ala-
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