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This post is titled slightly different as even the Warren Commission (WC) did NOT claim what its defenders claim on a repeated basis – that the taking of the evidence by the FBI and Secret Service (SS) was within the law on 11/22-11/23/63! NOT until President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) gave them the right on November 26, 1963, were they allowed to touch it without a Dallas Police Department (DPD) representative accompanying it. They would also NOT return a good bit of the evidence to the DPD. The DPD was then told to hand it over a second time for a show for the country’s benefit to make it all seem legit when it had NOT been.
To their credit though, the FBI never lied about this as they have admitted they had NO jurisdiction in the murder of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) UNTIL LBJ gave it to them. Ditto the SS. You will see a quote by J. Edgar Hoover (JEH).saying they had NO jurisdiction when they took the evidence. You will see a retired FBI Agent saying they had NO jurisdiction. DPD Chief Jesse Curry saying this. And the WC saying this.
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In the book Never Again! Harold Weisberg covers how J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) said THREE times in an interview with author William Manchester that he took over the case with NO JURISDICTION.
As you read this remember Weisberg gleaned all of this from viewing these documents that he got via his numerous FOIA lawsuits. He had 60 file cabinets full of this JFK material.
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In the JFK case Hoover's need to control included the fact that the FBI's effective, decades-long self-promotion created a myth that it was on top of everything criminal. Hoover, I believe, simply could not abide having it believed that a president could be assassinated and his FBI not prevent it.
The fact is, although he was able to hide it, he was really hysterical as soon as he knew the President had been killed.
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But it was not hysteria that prompted **Hoover to the ILLEGAL ACTION of moving into the case when he had NO jurisdiction**, as he did virtually the minute of the crime and as he later boasted to William Manchester.
The Kennedy family sanctioned Manchester's sort of authorized account of the assassination. It ended in controversy, but he did produce the book, The Death of a President. (New York: Harper & Row 1967)
Through the intercession of Cartha DeLoach, then the number four man in the FBI hierarchy, Manchester got to interview Hoover. That came to passing at 10:10 A.M., June 4, 1964, in Hoover's office. (62-1009060, Not Recorded; original in 94-42768)
(My note: Four years to the day RFK will be shot.)
Aside from making it clear he never suspected any other suspect other than Oswald, without confederates, **Hoover was quite explicit that WITHOUT JURISDICTION he had controlled the case.**
DeLoach, nominally head of what the FBI called its Crime Records Division, was in fact in charge of its propaganda, leaking, lobbying and other activities NOT on its organizational chart.
As was the custom, after the Manchester interview, DeLoach prepared a memo for Hoover covering it. In the FBI's unique practices he did NOT address his memo to Hoover. DeLoach addressed this memo of more than seven single-spaced, typewritten pages to John P. Mohr, whose title then was assistant to the director. But even Mohr could NOT address Hoover directly. He routed it to Hoover's longtime friend, Associate Director Clyde Tolson.
It was FBI practice for those through whose hands these memos passed to initial them, sometimes adding comments or recommendations. This particular memo--the original of which is in one of those DeLoach files has always refused to search for me, a "94" classification file--was provided to me from the FBI's main JFK assassination file, 62-109060. in which it is not the "Record" copy. The "Record" copy is hidden in the "94" classification file -- "94" refers to "Research Matters" in FBI jargon.
**On a single page of this lengthy memo covering what transpired at the Manchester interview, DeLoach stated that on THREE DIFFERENT occasions Hoover told Manchester that he had entered the case without any legal authority to do so.**
In a sentence referring to Hoover's second call on the afternoon of the assassination to Robert Kennedy, brother and attorney general, DeLoach wrote that Hoover **"once again told him [Kennedy] that the FBI was moving into the investigation. The Director advised Manchester that the FBI took this action DESPITE THE FACT that there was NO law making it a Federal violation to assassinate the President**."
The fourth paragraph on the second page begins, **"The Director told Manchester that the FBI IMMEDIATELY entered the case, despite nonjurisdiction..."** In the same paragraph, referring to a conversation with the new President, DeLoach wrote, **"The Director stated [to Manchester] he advised the President that the FBI had already entered the case."** This third repetition of the FBI's involvement refers to what Hoover told LBJ when LBJ phoned him about 7:25 P.M., not long after he had reached his office after returning from Dallas.
Beginning with DeLoach's flourished "D" and including Tolson's "T" that looks more like a checkmark and falling below all other initials, the crabbed "OK. H" is scrawled, meaning approvals are noted. (Harold Weisberg, Never Again!, Carrol & Graf, 1995, pp. 15-16)(Emphasis mine)
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These FOIA documents shows most of us what we already knew -- the FBI had NO jurisdiction to take the evidence from the DPD and had NO jurisdiction to be interviewing and releasing suspects. They also had NO authority or jurisdiction to take evidence from people in the plaza either. Further confirmation of this comes from a man with 41 years of experience with the FBI.
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**The NONEXISTENCE of a federal law prohibiting the killing of the President of the United States on November 22, 1963, resulted in Lee Harvey Oswald remaining in the custody of the Dallas Police Department on a TEXAS charge of murder. Oswald was NEVER in the custody of the Federal government because NO Federal agency had JURISDICTION.** He had NOT violated any Federal law. Had Oswald only threatened to kill JFK, he would have been a violation of a Federal law and U.S. Secret Service would have had JURISDICTION.
It was August, 1965, when our Congress finally passed legislation making the killing of a President a Federal violation. JURISDICTION for the enforcement of this 1965 law was GIVEN to the FBI. By then our country was 189 years old and 4 Presidents had been assassinated. -- Robert P. Gemberling – FBI Supervisory Special Agent (Ret.) (emphasis mine)
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This is from a special report he did that Dale K. Myers edited. Mr. Gemberling served within the FBI for 41 years, and when you open the link scroll down to his report area and look under the banner of “Presidential Protection and Federal Law” for the above quote. There was NO Federal law in place for this crime and the irony was LHO got to stay in Texas but ALL the evidence was ILLEGALLY sent to D.C.
Under the banner “Investigating The Assassination” he wrote the following.
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Life and experience have shown me we must play the cards we are dealt. In the ABSENCE of Federal JURISDICTION, it was NECESSARY for President Johnson to issue an Executive Order, immediately after the assassination ordering the FBI to coordinate the investigation and take custody of the evidence from the Dallas Police Department. – Robert P. Gemberling
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This is untrue though. There was NO Executive Order for this purpose as LBJ had just three in 1963 after JFK’s death, and NONE of them were for giving the FBI jurisdiction in this case. In the third one (11130) he established the Warren Commission (11/30/63), and it is already stated that the purpose for this order was to “examine the evidence DEVELOPED by the FBI” and any evidence that may come hereafter by the FBI and state authorities. The issue here is the FBI did NOT have jurisdiction when they “developed” this evidence on 11/22-11/23/63. Isn’t “developed” a weird word here too? I mean “discovered” is more appropriate, but I guess when you INVENT evidence “develop” is a good word, huh?
So we see a veteran of the FBI be honest about the FBI having NO jurisdiction, but then he lies to cover the tracks of the ILLEGAL acts they committed on 11/22 and 11/23 with the evidence in this case. Let’s use his analysis to show us this is untrue. Why was LHO NOT sent to D.C. on the same night the evidence was IF LBJ had created an Executive Order as he claims? IF LBJ made it a Federal jurisdiction then LHO should NOT have stayed in Texas, but he did, because LBJ did NOT authorize the FBI to be involved for several days after the evidence was already sent to them WITH NO DPD officers accompanying it.
We know NO officers or DPD personnel accompanied them because Allen Dulles asked Chief Curry this question.
Mr. DULLES - There was no agent of the Dallas police that went to Washington with the evidence?
Mr. CURRY - Not to my knowledge.
So NO one went with the evidence, thus, the CHAIN OF CUSTODY was broken. And that is the least of it as Chief Curry would admit they never got back a good bit of evidence from the FBI.
Mr. RANKIN - Did that work out all right so far?
Mr. CURRY - Well, not exactly, because they were to give us pictures of everything that was brought to Washington, and Fritz tells me that some of these little items that it was very poor reproduction of some of the items on microfilm.
Subsequently they photographed these things in Washington and sent us copies, some 400, I think, 400 copies of different items. So far as I know, we have never received any of that evidence back. It is still in Washington, I guess.
Perhaps the Commission has it.
Ah, I doubt that. Here is what Chief Curry said about JURISDICTION in this case.
Mr. DULLES - Was there any problem created because of the possible not conflict of authority, but question as to who had responsibility of particular areas here as between you as chief of police and the Secret Service and the FBI?
Mr. CURRY - Prior to the President's visit, no; there was nothing there.
Mr. DULLES - Prior to or subsequent to?
Mr. CURRY - Now, subsequent to that, we felt this, that this was a murder that had been committed in the county, city and county of Dallas, and that we had prior, I mean we had jurisdiction over this. The FBI actually had no jurisdiction over it, the Secret Service actually had no jurisdiction over it. But in an effort to cooperate with these agencies we went all out to do whatever they wanted us to do that we could do to let them observe what was taking place, but actually we knew that this was a case that happened in Dallas, Tex., and would have to be tried in Dallas, Tex., and it was our responsibility to gather the evidence and present the evidence.
We kept getting calls from the FBI. They wanted this evidence up in Washington, in the laboratory, and there was some discussion, Fritz told me, he says, "Well, I need the evidence here, I need to get some people to try to identify the gun, to try to identify this pistol and these things, and if it is in Washington how can I do it?"
But we finally, the night, about midnight of Friday night, we agreed to let the FBI have all the evidence and they said they would bring it to their laboratory and they would have an agent stand by and when they were finished with it to return it to us.
You can see he clearly says the JURISDICTION resided with the State of Texas and NOT the FBI or SS. Notice he also says it was their responsibility to gather and present the evidence too. So why did they relinquish it with NO one going with it to the FBI then? (In the case of the SS they really had NO choice as they just took the limousine and JFK (at gunpoint) without bothering to request anything.)
Let’s see what the FBI has said about this case.
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**A national tragedy produced another expansion of FBI jurisdiction. When President Kennedy was assassinated, the crime was a local homicide; no federal law addressed the murder of a President.** Nevertheless, President Lyndon B. Johnson tasked the Bureau with conducting the investigation. Congress then passed a new law to ensure that any such act in the future would be a federal crime.
www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/text.htm
[Note: The FBI has removed this from their website for some reason, but it was there in 2010 when I wrote this.]
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Don’t bother with the link as I just checked it and the whole subject of the JFK assassination seems to have been removed. I only did a cursory check, but I did NOT see it. Also, when I used the link I got years ago it says the site is “unfound.”
This too seems to be NOT to be as easy to find as it was years ago.
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When President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed, the jurisdiction fell to the local police departments until President Lyndon B. Johnson directed the FBI to take over the investigation. To ensure that there would never be any more confusion over who would handle homicides at the federal level, Congress passed a law that put investigations of deaths of federal officials within FBI jurisdiction.
www.reference.com/browse/wiki/FBI
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I just checked the link but it went to a HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) page. Luckily we have Hoover saying he took over the case with NO JURISIDICTION so we don’t need the links anymore. Finally, let’s look at what the Warren Commission said about this issue in its report.
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There was NO Federal criminal jurisdiction over the assassination of President Kennedy. Had there been reason to believe that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy, Federal jurisdiction could have been asserted; it long has been a Federal law to conspire to injure any Federal officer, on account of, or while he is engaged in, the lawful discharge of the duties of his office. Murder of a President has NEVER been covered by Federal law, however, so that once it became reasonably clear that the killing was an act of a single person, the state of Texas had EXCLUSIVE jurisdiction.” (WCR, p. 454) (Emphasis mine)
www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0239b.htm
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This shows when the FBI and SS took the evidence away from the DPD they had NO legal right to do so, thus, they broke the chain of custody and tainted all the evidence in this case. Since LHO never made it to a trial or the evidence to a evidentiary hearing this aspect of the case was kept under the rug for many years until diligent men like Weisberg made it known.
[Note: The ONLY way they did have jurisdiction is IF they thought a CONSPIRACY was involved. By their actions we would have to say they did!]
Once again we see that the WC’s conclusion is sunk.
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This post is titled slightly different as even the Warren Commission (WC) did NOT claim what its defenders claim on a repeated basis – that the taking of the evidence by the FBI and Secret Service (SS) was within the law on 11/22-11/23/63! NOT until President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) gave them the right on November 26, 1963, were they allowed to touch it without a Dallas Police Department (DPD) representative accompanying it. They would also NOT return a good bit of the evidence to the DPD. The DPD was then told to hand it over a second time for a show for the country’s benefit to make it all seem legit when it had NOT been.
To their credit though, the FBI never lied about this as they have admitted they had NO jurisdiction in the murder of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) UNTIL LBJ gave it to them. Ditto the SS. You will see a quote by J. Edgar Hoover (JEH).saying they had NO jurisdiction when they took the evidence. You will see a retired FBI Agent saying they had NO jurisdiction. DPD Chief Jesse Curry saying this. And the WC saying this.
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In the book Never Again! Harold Weisberg covers how J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) said THREE times in an interview with author William Manchester that he took over the case with NO JURISDICTION.
As you read this remember Weisberg gleaned all of this from viewing these documents that he got via his numerous FOIA lawsuits. He had 60 file cabinets full of this JFK material.
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In the JFK case Hoover's need to control included the fact that the FBI's effective, decades-long self-promotion created a myth that it was on top of everything criminal. Hoover, I believe, simply could not abide having it believed that a president could be assassinated and his FBI not prevent it.
The fact is, although he was able to hide it, he was really hysterical as soon as he knew the President had been killed.
------
But it was not hysteria that prompted **Hoover to the ILLEGAL ACTION of moving into the case when he had NO jurisdiction**, as he did virtually the minute of the crime and as he later boasted to William Manchester.
The Kennedy family sanctioned Manchester's sort of authorized account of the assassination. It ended in controversy, but he did produce the book, The Death of a President. (New York: Harper & Row 1967)
Through the intercession of Cartha DeLoach, then the number four man in the FBI hierarchy, Manchester got to interview Hoover. That came to passing at 10:10 A.M., June 4, 1964, in Hoover's office. (62-1009060, Not Recorded; original in 94-42768)
(My note: Four years to the day RFK will be shot.)
Aside from making it clear he never suspected any other suspect other than Oswald, without confederates, **Hoover was quite explicit that WITHOUT JURISDICTION he had controlled the case.**
DeLoach, nominally head of what the FBI called its Crime Records Division, was in fact in charge of its propaganda, leaking, lobbying and other activities NOT on its organizational chart.
As was the custom, after the Manchester interview, DeLoach prepared a memo for Hoover covering it. In the FBI's unique practices he did NOT address his memo to Hoover. DeLoach addressed this memo of more than seven single-spaced, typewritten pages to John P. Mohr, whose title then was assistant to the director. But even Mohr could NOT address Hoover directly. He routed it to Hoover's longtime friend, Associate Director Clyde Tolson.
It was FBI practice for those through whose hands these memos passed to initial them, sometimes adding comments or recommendations. This particular memo--the original of which is in one of those DeLoach files has always refused to search for me, a "94" classification file--was provided to me from the FBI's main JFK assassination file, 62-109060. in which it is not the "Record" copy. The "Record" copy is hidden in the "94" classification file -- "94" refers to "Research Matters" in FBI jargon.
**On a single page of this lengthy memo covering what transpired at the Manchester interview, DeLoach stated that on THREE DIFFERENT occasions Hoover told Manchester that he had entered the case without any legal authority to do so.**
In a sentence referring to Hoover's second call on the afternoon of the assassination to Robert Kennedy, brother and attorney general, DeLoach wrote that Hoover **"once again told him [Kennedy] that the FBI was moving into the investigation. The Director advised Manchester that the FBI took this action DESPITE THE FACT that there was NO law making it a Federal violation to assassinate the President**."
The fourth paragraph on the second page begins, **"The Director told Manchester that the FBI IMMEDIATELY entered the case, despite nonjurisdiction..."** In the same paragraph, referring to a conversation with the new President, DeLoach wrote, **"The Director stated [to Manchester] he advised the President that the FBI had already entered the case."** This third repetition of the FBI's involvement refers to what Hoover told LBJ when LBJ phoned him about 7:25 P.M., not long after he had reached his office after returning from Dallas.
Beginning with DeLoach's flourished "D" and including Tolson's "T" that looks more like a checkmark and falling below all other initials, the crabbed "OK. H" is scrawled, meaning approvals are noted. (Harold Weisberg, Never Again!, Carrol & Graf, 1995, pp. 15-16)(Emphasis mine)
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These FOIA documents shows most of us what we already knew -- the FBI had NO jurisdiction to take the evidence from the DPD and had NO jurisdiction to be interviewing and releasing suspects. They also had NO authority or jurisdiction to take evidence from people in the plaza either. Further confirmation of this comes from a man with 41 years of experience with the FBI.
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**The NONEXISTENCE of a federal law prohibiting the killing of the President of the United States on November 22, 1963, resulted in Lee Harvey Oswald remaining in the custody of the Dallas Police Department on a TEXAS charge of murder. Oswald was NEVER in the custody of the Federal government because NO Federal agency had JURISDICTION.** He had NOT violated any Federal law. Had Oswald only threatened to kill JFK, he would have been a violation of a Federal law and U.S. Secret Service would have had JURISDICTION.
It was August, 1965, when our Congress finally passed legislation making the killing of a President a Federal violation. JURISDICTION for the enforcement of this 1965 law was GIVEN to the FBI. By then our country was 189 years old and 4 Presidents had been assassinated. -- Robert P. Gemberling – FBI Supervisory Special Agent (Ret.) (emphasis mine)
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This is from a special report he did that Dale K. Myers edited. Mr. Gemberling served within the FBI for 41 years, and when you open the link scroll down to his report area and look under the banner of “Presidential Protection and Federal Law” for the above quote. There was NO Federal law in place for this crime and the irony was LHO got to stay in Texas but ALL the evidence was ILLEGALLY sent to D.C.
Under the banner “Investigating The Assassination” he wrote the following.
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Life and experience have shown me we must play the cards we are dealt. In the ABSENCE of Federal JURISDICTION, it was NECESSARY for President Johnson to issue an Executive Order, immediately after the assassination ordering the FBI to coordinate the investigation and take custody of the evidence from the Dallas Police Department. – Robert P. Gemberling
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This is untrue though. There was NO Executive Order for this purpose as LBJ had just three in 1963 after JFK’s death, and NONE of them were for giving the FBI jurisdiction in this case. In the third one (11130) he established the Warren Commission (11/30/63), and it is already stated that the purpose for this order was to “examine the evidence DEVELOPED by the FBI” and any evidence that may come hereafter by the FBI and state authorities. The issue here is the FBI did NOT have jurisdiction when they “developed” this evidence on 11/22-11/23/63. Isn’t “developed” a weird word here too? I mean “discovered” is more appropriate, but I guess when you INVENT evidence “develop” is a good word, huh?
So we see a veteran of the FBI be honest about the FBI having NO jurisdiction, but then he lies to cover the tracks of the ILLEGAL acts they committed on 11/22 and 11/23 with the evidence in this case. Let’s use his analysis to show us this is untrue. Why was LHO NOT sent to D.C. on the same night the evidence was IF LBJ had created an Executive Order as he claims? IF LBJ made it a Federal jurisdiction then LHO should NOT have stayed in Texas, but he did, because LBJ did NOT authorize the FBI to be involved for several days after the evidence was already sent to them WITH NO DPD officers accompanying it.
We know NO officers or DPD personnel accompanied them because Allen Dulles asked Chief Curry this question.
Mr. DULLES - There was no agent of the Dallas police that went to Washington with the evidence?
Mr. CURRY - Not to my knowledge.
So NO one went with the evidence, thus, the CHAIN OF CUSTODY was broken. And that is the least of it as Chief Curry would admit they never got back a good bit of evidence from the FBI.
Mr. RANKIN - Did that work out all right so far?
Mr. CURRY - Well, not exactly, because they were to give us pictures of everything that was brought to Washington, and Fritz tells me that some of these little items that it was very poor reproduction of some of the items on microfilm.
Subsequently they photographed these things in Washington and sent us copies, some 400, I think, 400 copies of different items. So far as I know, we have never received any of that evidence back. It is still in Washington, I guess.
Perhaps the Commission has it.
Ah, I doubt that. Here is what Chief Curry said about JURISDICTION in this case.
Mr. DULLES - Was there any problem created because of the possible not conflict of authority, but question as to who had responsibility of particular areas here as between you as chief of police and the Secret Service and the FBI?
Mr. CURRY - Prior to the President's visit, no; there was nothing there.
Mr. DULLES - Prior to or subsequent to?
Mr. CURRY - Now, subsequent to that, we felt this, that this was a murder that had been committed in the county, city and county of Dallas, and that we had prior, I mean we had jurisdiction over this. The FBI actually had no jurisdiction over it, the Secret Service actually had no jurisdiction over it. But in an effort to cooperate with these agencies we went all out to do whatever they wanted us to do that we could do to let them observe what was taking place, but actually we knew that this was a case that happened in Dallas, Tex., and would have to be tried in Dallas, Tex., and it was our responsibility to gather the evidence and present the evidence.
We kept getting calls from the FBI. They wanted this evidence up in Washington, in the laboratory, and there was some discussion, Fritz told me, he says, "Well, I need the evidence here, I need to get some people to try to identify the gun, to try to identify this pistol and these things, and if it is in Washington how can I do it?"
But we finally, the night, about midnight of Friday night, we agreed to let the FBI have all the evidence and they said they would bring it to their laboratory and they would have an agent stand by and when they were finished with it to return it to us.
You can see he clearly says the JURISDICTION resided with the State of Texas and NOT the FBI or SS. Notice he also says it was their responsibility to gather and present the evidence too. So why did they relinquish it with NO one going with it to the FBI then? (In the case of the SS they really had NO choice as they just took the limousine and JFK (at gunpoint) without bothering to request anything.)
Let’s see what the FBI has said about this case.
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**A national tragedy produced another expansion of FBI jurisdiction. When President Kennedy was assassinated, the crime was a local homicide; no federal law addressed the murder of a President.** Nevertheless, President Lyndon B. Johnson tasked the Bureau with conducting the investigation. Congress then passed a new law to ensure that any such act in the future would be a federal crime.
www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/text.htm
[Note: The FBI has removed this from their website for some reason, but it was there in 2010 when I wrote this.]
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Don’t bother with the link as I just checked it and the whole subject of the JFK assassination seems to have been removed. I only did a cursory check, but I did NOT see it. Also, when I used the link I got years ago it says the site is “unfound.”
This too seems to be NOT to be as easy to find as it was years ago.
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When President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed, the jurisdiction fell to the local police departments until President Lyndon B. Johnson directed the FBI to take over the investigation. To ensure that there would never be any more confusion over who would handle homicides at the federal level, Congress passed a law that put investigations of deaths of federal officials within FBI jurisdiction.
www.reference.com/browse/wiki/FBI
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I just checked the link but it went to a HRT (Hostage Rescue Team) page. Luckily we have Hoover saying he took over the case with NO JURISIDICTION so we don’t need the links anymore. Finally, let’s look at what the Warren Commission said about this issue in its report.
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www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/pages/WCReport_0239b.gif
There was NO Federal criminal jurisdiction over the assassination of President Kennedy. Had there been reason to believe that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy, Federal jurisdiction could have been asserted; it long has been a Federal law to conspire to injure any Federal officer, on account of, or while he is engaged in, the lawful discharge of the duties of his office. Murder of a President has NEVER been covered by Federal law, however, so that once it became reasonably clear that the killing was an act of a single person, the state of Texas had EXCLUSIVE jurisdiction.” (WCR, p. 454) (Emphasis mine)
www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0239b.htm
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This shows when the FBI and SS took the evidence away from the DPD they had NO legal right to do so, thus, they broke the chain of custody and tainted all the evidence in this case. Since LHO never made it to a trial or the evidence to a evidentiary hearing this aspect of the case was kept under the rug for many years until diligent men like Weisberg made it known.
[Note: The ONLY way they did have jurisdiction is IF they thought a CONSPIRACY was involved. By their actions we would have to say they did!]
Once again we see that the WC’s conclusion is sunk.