Post by Rob Caprio on Mar 16, 2021 14:13:14 GMT -5
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Why did the Warren Commission (WC) bother to “investigate” the murder of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) when the FBI had already reached a verdict on who did it?
If we go to the WC’s Executive Session for January 27, 1964, we will see this exchange.
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Mr. Rankin. Part of our difficulty in regard to it is that they [FBI] have no problem. They have decided that it is Oswald who committed the assassination, they have decided that no one else was involved, they have decided—
Sen. Russell. They have tried the case and reached a VERDICT ON EVERY ASPECT.
Rep. Boggs. You have put your finger on it.
Mr. McCloy. They are a little less certain in the supplementals then they were in the first.
Mr. Rankin. Yes, but they are still there. THEY HAVE DECIDED THE CASE, and we are going to have maybe a thousand further inquiries that we say the Commission has to know all these things before it can pass on this.
And I think their reaction would probably be, “Why do you want all that. IT IS CLEAR.” (WC Executive Session 1/27/64, p. 171) (Emphasis added)
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Why did the WC even bother given this state of affairs? It is very clear from reading this that the FBI had already found Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) guilty and the WC had NOT even begun their “investigation” yet! Why would the WC just take the FBI’s word for it? Oh, that is right, because J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) was good people.
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Sen. Russell. There is no man in the employ of the Federal Government who stands higher in the opinion of the American people than J. Edgar Hoover.
Mr. Dulles. That is right.
Sen. Russell. Of course, we can get an affidavit from Mr. Hoover and put it in this record and go on and act on that but if we didn’t go any further than that, and we don’t pursue it down to Hudkins [reporter of story saying LHO was a FBI agent] or whoever it is, there would still be thousands of doubting Thomases who would believe this man was an FBI agent and you just didn’t try to clear it up and you just took Hoover’s word.
Personally, I would BELIEVE J. Edgar Hoover, I have a great deal of confidence in him.
Mr. Dulles. I do, too.
Sen. Russell. But the other people—I would believe, a simple statement as Holy Writ, this one statement without being under oath, but you can’t try cases that way, and you can’t base the conclusions of this Commission on that kind of material. (Ibid, p. 158) (Emphasis added)
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It was nice that they had such confidence in JEH’s word, but he was dishonest while under oath before the WC. It also was not a matter of what Senator Russell and Allen Dulles thought, but rather a matter of conducting this investigation properly. We see however that from the beginning JEH was running the show.
Given this state of affairs, can any WC defender tell me why the WC even bothered to “investigate” these crimes? Or provide any evidence that shows the whole thing was not just a cover-up?
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Why did the Warren Commission (WC) bother to “investigate” the murder of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) when the FBI had already reached a verdict on who did it?
If we go to the WC’s Executive Session for January 27, 1964, we will see this exchange.
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Mr. Rankin. Part of our difficulty in regard to it is that they [FBI] have no problem. They have decided that it is Oswald who committed the assassination, they have decided that no one else was involved, they have decided—
Sen. Russell. They have tried the case and reached a VERDICT ON EVERY ASPECT.
Rep. Boggs. You have put your finger on it.
Mr. McCloy. They are a little less certain in the supplementals then they were in the first.
Mr. Rankin. Yes, but they are still there. THEY HAVE DECIDED THE CASE, and we are going to have maybe a thousand further inquiries that we say the Commission has to know all these things before it can pass on this.
And I think their reaction would probably be, “Why do you want all that. IT IS CLEAR.” (WC Executive Session 1/27/64, p. 171) (Emphasis added)
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Why did the WC even bother given this state of affairs? It is very clear from reading this that the FBI had already found Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) guilty and the WC had NOT even begun their “investigation” yet! Why would the WC just take the FBI’s word for it? Oh, that is right, because J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) was good people.
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Sen. Russell. There is no man in the employ of the Federal Government who stands higher in the opinion of the American people than J. Edgar Hoover.
Mr. Dulles. That is right.
Sen. Russell. Of course, we can get an affidavit from Mr. Hoover and put it in this record and go on and act on that but if we didn’t go any further than that, and we don’t pursue it down to Hudkins [reporter of story saying LHO was a FBI agent] or whoever it is, there would still be thousands of doubting Thomases who would believe this man was an FBI agent and you just didn’t try to clear it up and you just took Hoover’s word.
Personally, I would BELIEVE J. Edgar Hoover, I have a great deal of confidence in him.
Mr. Dulles. I do, too.
Sen. Russell. But the other people—I would believe, a simple statement as Holy Writ, this one statement without being under oath, but you can’t try cases that way, and you can’t base the conclusions of this Commission on that kind of material. (Ibid, p. 158) (Emphasis added)
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It was nice that they had such confidence in JEH’s word, but he was dishonest while under oath before the WC. It also was not a matter of what Senator Russell and Allen Dulles thought, but rather a matter of conducting this investigation properly. We see however that from the beginning JEH was running the show.
Given this state of affairs, can any WC defender tell me why the WC even bothered to “investigate” these crimes? Or provide any evidence that shows the whole thing was not just a cover-up?