The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local police opened an investigation today into distribution of a handbill linking the assassination of President Kennedy with Judaism in an anti-Semitic smear.
The sheet, entitled, “White Citizens Awake,” asserted that “our beloved President was assassinated by Marxist Lee Oswald, who was silenced by a Jew, Jacob Rubinstein, before he could expose that Communism is Jewish.” Police said that the printing appeared to have been done in Toronto.
They reported that several thousand copies were attached to telephone poles, left in homes and stuffed in mail boxes. Copies sent to local post offices for mailings had no stamps and were destroyed by postal authorities.
The distribution was the latest incident in a recent increase in anti-Semitic activities. In addition to anti-Semitic mail, prominent Jews have received anonymous telephone calls and insulting postcards. Insults have been smeared on walls.
Last month, hundreds of leaflets, carrying the postal address of Nazi George Rockwell, were showered on the streets from several downtown buildings. The leaflets bore the slogan: “Hitler was right; Communism is Jewish.” The perpetrators of the distribution have not been found.
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