Ford informed Hoover that two Warren Commission members were dissenters
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August 11, 2008 -- Ford informed Hoover that two Warren Commission members were dissenters
According to a December 17, 1963 memo from FBI official Cartha "Deke" DeLoach to J. Edgar Hoover confidante John Mohr, Warren Commission member Gerald Ford, then a congressman from Michigan, served as Hoover's eyes and ears on the commission. The memo was recently released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The memo states that Ford told DeLoach, another close adviser to Hoover, that "two members of the Commission brought up the fact that they still were not convinced that the President had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository." The memo continues, "These members failed to understand the trajectory of the slugs that killed the President." WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source who has researched the Kennedy assassination that the two Warren Commission skeptics coted by Ford were Georgia Democratic Senator Richard Russell and Louisiana Democratic Representative Hale Boggs.
Boggs and Alaska Representative Nick Begich disappeared in an airplane crash over Alaska in 1972. The plane was never found.
The Warren Commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy.
The DeLoach memo also points out that former Secret Service chief U. E. Baughman, who served as head of the agency from 1948 to 1961 and into the Kennedy term, lambasted the Secret Service for its failures in adequately protecting Kennedy.
Baughman went public with his concerns after the Kennedy assassination and criticized his old agency for not peppering the sixth floor window with machine gun fire if that location was the source of the shots that killed Kennedy. He also wondered why Oswald was permitted to leave the Book Depository building. Ford told DeLoach that Ford said three Commission members criticized Baughman for making "a number of ill-advised remarks concerning the operations of the Secret Service in the press." Ford said the Commission criticized Baughman "quite thoroughly." The three members of the commission who were most likely to criticize Baughman were Allen Dulles, the former CIA director who was fired by Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper from Kentucky, a member of Yale's Skull and Bones; and John J. McCloy, former President of the World Bank, Assistant Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt, and a special guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
August 11, 2008 -- Ford informed Hoover that two Warren Commission members were dissenters
According to a December 17, 1963 memo from FBI official Cartha "Deke" DeLoach to J. Edgar Hoover confidante John Mohr, Warren Commission member Gerald Ford, then a congressman from Michigan, served as Hoover's eyes and ears on the commission. The memo was recently released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The memo states that Ford told DeLoach, another close adviser to Hoover, that "two members of the Commission brought up the fact that they still were not convinced that the President had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository." The memo continues, "These members failed to understand the trajectory of the slugs that killed the President." WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source who has researched the Kennedy assassination that the two Warren Commission skeptics coted by Ford were Georgia Democratic Senator Richard Russell and Louisiana Democratic Representative Hale Boggs.
Boggs and Alaska Representative Nick Begich disappeared in an airplane crash over Alaska in 1972. The plane was never found.
The Warren Commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy.
The DeLoach memo also points out that former Secret Service chief U. E. Baughman, who served as head of the agency from 1948 to 1961 and into the Kennedy term, lambasted the Secret Service for its failures in adequately protecting Kennedy.
Baughman went public with his concerns after the Kennedy assassination and criticized his old agency for not peppering the sixth floor window with machine gun fire if that location was the source of the shots that killed Kennedy. He also wondered why Oswald was permitted to leave the Book Depository building. Ford told DeLoach that Ford said three Commission members criticized Baughman for making "a number of ill-advised remarks concerning the operations of the Secret Service in the press." Ford said the Commission criticized Baughman "quite thoroughly." The three members of the commission who were most likely to criticize Baughman were Allen Dulles, the former CIA director who was fired by Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs fiasco; Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper from Kentucky, a member of Yale's Skull and Bones; and John J. McCloy, former President of the World Bank, Assistant Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt, and a special guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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8/29/2008 05:36:00 AM
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