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6-B THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS MONO AY MORNING, SEPTEMBERS, 1988 Texas report JFK death film selling for up to $30,000 a client HOUSTON (AP) The family movie should be in the nnhlif cin. HOUSTON (AP) The family of the man who made a home movie capturing the assassination of President John P. Kennedy nearly 25 years ago is selling the film for as much as $30,000 per use, the Houston Chronicle re-' ported in a copyright story Sunday. While the footage is currently under copyright protection, some believe profiteering from the historical film made by the late Abraham Zapruder on Nov. 22, 1963, is wrong and that the home movie should be in the public domain.

"You shouldn't be able to copyright something like that," said David Wrone, a history professor at the University of Wis- consinat Stevens Point. "It should be in the public domain, just like the crucifixion of Jesus. It's immoral, socially speaking," said Wrone, who teaches a class pertaining to the assassination. Chip Selby, a graduate student at the University of Maryland, sought permission from Zapru- der's son, Henry Zapruder, to use the 22-second, color film in his new documentary without being required to pay the $30,000 fee for non-exclusive rights. "I explained to him that I was a graduate student and I didn't have that kind of money to pay," said Selby, whose documentary, "Reasonable Doubt," concludes that more than one gunman fired at Kennedy.

"He kept saying that he didn't want to close down my project with the price and that we Community helps 9-year-old overcome cerebral palsy odds PALESTINE (AP) Lori Campbell is a straight A student. She does her homework as soon as she gets home from school. She's already talking about college. Her classmates and teachers adore her. The difference is that Lori, 9, can't walk or talk because she has cerebral palsy, a condition resulting from loss of oxygen to the brain.

Despite her disability, Lori has overcome a lot of odds. When she was 8 months old, one doctor said she would never be able to do anything. "The first therapist that we were seeing in Tyler told me 'She'll never crawl. She'll never be able to use her hands. She'll never be able to use her said Lori's mother, Pam Jones of Elkhart.

After the pessimistic prognosis, Mrs. Jones took Lori to a neurologist she had worked for before Lori was born. "He told me not to let anybody put a stopping point on her, "she said. The family took his advice and Lori has exceeded all expectations. "She learned how to crawl," Mrs.

Jones said. "She learned how to sit. She can feed herself. She can dress herseif, and she can go to the bathroom by herself. "As far as any limitations in her future, I don't see any because she's just going to make progress.

She's very hard-headed, determined and independent. She tries anything she thinks anybody else "The first therapist that we were seeing in Tyler told me 'She'll never crawl. She'll never be able to use her hands. She'll never be able to use her Lori's mother, Pam Jones willtry." The community helped Lori jump her fast hurdle: a sophisticated computer to help her communicate and do schoolwork. Her family is not poor, but could not afford the $4,500 communication aid that therapists recommended.

The Palestine Kiwanis Club donated $1,000 and set up a special bank account, encouraging individuals to round out the balance. Palestine firefighters and police officers raised almost $700 for the fund in a charity basketball game earlier this summer. Less than a month after the account was opened, it contained almost $2,500. Then a miracle happened. Tammy Mays, a computer consultant living in Elkhart, offered to donate the Word Plus Equalizer.

The $2,500 already raised was designated for badly needed software and a printer. Kiwanis Club president Dick Terry organized the Lori Camp- Briefly, DA to review murder information DALLAS (AP) The Dallas County District Attorney says he will review information in the capital murder of a police officer but says a film challenging the conviction did not cause him to question the verdict. "The Thin Blue Line" opened over the weekend in Dallas and other cities, and is based on the 1977 conviction i of Randall Dale Adams in the shooting death of Dallas police officer Robert Wood. The film contends that police and prosecutors railroaded Adams and suggest that the real killer was David Harris, a teen-ager who was the state's chief witness against Adams. Randy Schaffer, Adams' attorney, said he mailed District Attorney John Vance information he hopes will persuade Vance to investigate Adams' conviction.

If Vance refuses, Schaffer said he would use the information to seek a new trial. Court spending at ail-time high DALLAS (AP) Felony court judges in Dallas County are spending a record amount in hiring private attorneys to defend the poor, while the public defender's office provides the same service at a fraction of the cost. By the end of the fiscal year felony court judges will have spent an all-time high of $4.5 million on legal defense for 13,000 indigent criminal suspects in Dallas County. The amount exceeds the judges' annual budget by million and breaks down to an average of $296 per case paid to attorneys for often a five- to 15-minute court appearance. By contrast, the public defender's office a county agency that provides legal representation for accused felons with a staff of eight salaried lawyers will have defended about 4,000 indigent defendants for $175 or less per case, the Dallas Times Herald reported.

U.S. -Soviet space shot considered HOUSTON (AP) A group of 15 Americans, including several from Texas, are en route to Moscow for talks with top Soviet officials on the possibility of future cooperative efforts in commercial space ventures. The discussions will take place at the prestigious Space Research Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and at Star City, the secretive cosmonaut training base outside Moscow, the Houston Chronicle reported Sunday. The group includes representatives from two of Houston's most highly developed commercial space companies, Space Commerce Corp and Space Industries Inc. "My personal belief is that these enter- a of 16 wave of the future for Houston and the rest of the 7 tes and that the wiu rove to be mutually profitable for both the government and private development," said Harlan J.

brnitn, the dean of the group and a longtime observer of the Sovietspace program. Baylor battle launched DALLAS (AP) A conservative group has launched a crusade against Baylor University trustees and its alumni association saying the groups have allowed the school to become too liberal. In a four-page letter to Baylor friends and alumni, the Key. Donny Cortirmha urged conservatives to attend the Nov 4 AlumruAssociation meeting and vote to change the editorial policy of The Baylor Line, the alumni journal. Conservatives have complained the journal does not represent their perspective Cor- tunilia abo encouraged attendance at the Oct.

25 meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and support of the election of conservative-minded trustees for theschool. Balloons sail to edge of space fn. na few days a team of scientists expect to have a 7-fopt-tall package of instruments tuned up and ready for a trip to the edge of space. But it won't be a rocket that soars 8E? 1 a ba Iloon The team which is studying air chem- Ktry and the depletion of ozone, is one of some 50 scientific groups that will launch experiments aboard balloons in East or years little fanf are, scientists from around the world have been drawn to Texas' other space center the National Scientific Balloon Facility, just outside Palestine. "This is very low-tech, says Dwight Bawcom, the manager.

A typical balloon launching might cost $100,000. A sounding rocket, which Cai yn sub rbital ni ihts several minutes longs, can would work something out. But apparently he was just jerking me then, too, because he won't return my calls. He won't answer my letters or any thing like that." Selby's documentary now includes a $75 bootlegged copy of the Zapruder film that he obtained from Canada. Zapruder, a tax lawyer who has been negotiating the sale of the film's rights put of his Washington, B.C., office, would not comment about his financial interests in the film.

However, he did say: "Anybody who is using it for their own use, research, showing it to students, colleges, can have it free of charge, other than the costs of reprinting the film. But if they're going to be making commercial use of it, then we charge." Zapruder, 50, sells the rights to the film and stills through the family company, LMH Company. Richard B. Stolley negotiated the 1963 purchase of the film and its rights for Life magazine and Time Inc. from Abraham Zapru- der, who died in 1970, for $150,000.

He said Zapruder was sensitive to accusations that he profited from Kennedy's death. Time sold the original film back to the Zapruder family in 1975 for $1 in part because Time wasn't comfortable controlling public access to the film, the paper re- parted. Time, itself, he said, still has unlimited publication rights of film stills. Abraham Zapruder, according to Stolley, saw the sale of the film as a way to provide financial security for his family. Family, friends hold memorial service for Loyal Garner Jr.

AP Laser photo Lori Campbell plays with her dogs bell Fund and said he was concerned at first about reaching her goal. "I think this is a demonstration of what can be done in a small town when everyone pulls together, "Terry said. Mrs. Jones recalls surprise and excitement in the family when Terry told her the computer had been dona ted. "I couldn't believe it.

I still can't. It's a godsend an answer to all our prayers," she said. Lori and her sister, Amy Jones, 6, were excited too. "Lori was giggling. Me and her were," Amy recalled.

Lori's father is Bobby Campbell of Frankston. Her stepfather, Joe A. Jones, works for Bill Hardy Tractor Sales in Slocum. Lori had started out four years ago with a less-sophisticated lapboard that she has now outgrown. Her new computer has changeable software that can advance along with technology.

FLORIEN, La. (AP) Family and friends of Loyal Garner Jr. gathered at a local high school auditorium for a memorial tribute to the truck driver who died of head wounds after being jailed in the Sabine County Jail. Police Chief Duane Calhoun fought back tears Saturday as he described his friendship with Garner and he pledged to help Garner's widow and six children. Calhoun said he knesv Garner as he grew up and never saw him do any thing wrong.

Garner, 34, died Dec. 27, at Tyler Medical Center after surgery for head wounds he received at the jail in Hemphill. Former Hemphill Police Chief Thomas Ladner, 41, and sheriff's deputies Bill Horton, 58, and James "Bo" Hyden, 35, were acquitted July 15 of violating Garner's civil rights by beating him and denying him medical attention. The 12th District Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday the trio cannot be tried for murder in Smith County because it would constitute double jeopardy trying someone twice for the same alleged offense. Florien Mayor John Manasco said the people of Florien know "a wrong has been committed, but the question is why did we permit it to happen." "I don't agree with the courts in Texas.

But someday it will be righted," Monasco said. "I knew Junior (Garner) to be honest and hardworking. He was loved by his family. APLaserpholo Loyal Garner Jr. "It is incomprehensible that something like this could happen," he said.

The Rev. Ernest Charles of Houston said he has talked to many whites who feel Garner's death was racially motivated. The three law men were white and Garner, black. "In spite of the fact that racism exists we who are for righteousness must rise above racism. We must recognize a man for being a man, not the color of his skin, but the truth he has in his heart," Charles said.

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