Goldwater Files Libel Suit

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30847, 4 September 1965, Page 15

Goldwater Files Libel Suit

Press Assn—Copyright) NEW YORK, Sept. 3. A former Presidential candidate, Mr Barry Goldwater, filed a two million dollar libel suit against Fact Magazine Inc., its editor-publisher, and its managing-editor, in the Federal Court yesterday, the Associated Press reported. The former Senator’s complaint cited the September/ October, 1964 edition of the magazine. The complaint said that on

the front cover of that issue was the legend:

“1889 psychiatrists say Goldwater is psychologically unfit to be President.” Mr Goldwater was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency at the time. On the back cover of the same issue, the suit said, it was stated of Goldwater that “he consciously wants to destroy the world with atomic bombs. He is a mass murderer at heart. He is amoral j and immoral and a dangerous lunatic." Inside the magazine, the [ suit claimed. Ralph Ginzburg. | editor and publisher of |

l“Fact,” said: “I believe Goldwater has the same pathological make-up as Hitler, Castro, Stalin and other schizophrenic leaders."

i The suit said the statements were written with “actual malice and with knowledge that they were false" to “deprive the plaintiff of his good reputation as a public official and a candidate for office.” The complaint identified the managing-editor as Warren Boroson. It seeks one million dollars in compensatory damages and another million in punitive damages.