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The day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, Daniel P. Moynihan, now director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, sensed the possible murder of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald if he remained in Dallas.
The then Under Secretary of Labor pleaded futilely with Washington officials to move Oswald from the city, William Manchester revealed in this week's issue of Look magazine.
"He had been the one member of the subcabinet who had foreseen disaster in the jail basement," Manchester said, in an article describing his struggle to write and publish The Death of a President, his controversial history of the assassination.
When contacted yesterday, Moynihan confirmed the events described by Manchester, but declined further comment.
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