It is important that all of the facts surrounding President Kennedy's Assassination be made public....
Thanks Tom, Katzenbach is quite clear, he says it's IMPORTANT that ALL the FACTS surrounding the assassination be MADE PUBLIC, and to the best of their abilities, that's exactly what the WC did. Do you have a problem with his opening line?
JohnM
Do you mean the report that was rejected as evidence in the Clay Shaw trial as being,
"fraught with hearsay and contradictions"
"If we are going to accept the Warren Commission's report as being factual, we have just wasted a whole week of time here."BY MR. DYMOND:"If the Court please, at this time pursuant to the provisions of RS 13:3713, the Defense would like to offer,
introduce and file into evidence the report of the Warren Commission, a one-volume report, being the official volume
as published by the United States Printing Office in accordance with the requirements of the statute cited,
and we would like to mark the same D-32."
BY JUDGE BAGERT:"As to the introduction of that particular volume, Judge O'Hara feels that it is in accordance with the statutes of the
State of Louisiana and should be admitted in evidence. Judge Braniff and I believe that it should not. And my reason is simply this.
If we are going to accept the Warren Commission's report as being factual, we have just wasted a whole week of time here.I don't care what statute was ever enacted, to accept the Warren Report, even if it were a constitutional amendment,
and at some time later we, or any law abiding agency, law enforcement agency, would some day conceivably come up with six confessions,
six photographs, six eyewitnesses, it would all be for naught."
BY JUDGE BRANIFF:I am objecting to it because it is
fraught with hearsay and contradictions."
BY JUDGE O'HARA:"Mr. Wegmann, when I agreed that it was admissible, I don't want it implied or inferred that I am in complete agreement
with the findings of the Commission. I would just like to make that perfectly clear. It's admissible for what it's worth.
That's my position."
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Perhaps you were referring to the Commission that found in Executive Session that the conclusion of a lone assassin had already been determined.
Rankin:
"They found the man. There is nothing more to do. The Commission supports their conclusions, and we can go on home and that is the end of it."From the Jan. 22nd session...Dulles: Oh, terrible.
Boggs: Its implications of this are fantastic, don't you think so?
A: Terrific".
Rankin: To have anybody admit to it, even if it was the fact, I am sure that there wouldn't at this point
be anything to prove it.
Dulles: Lee, if this were true, why would it be particularly in their interest -- I could see, it would be
in their interest to get rid of this man but why would it be in their interest to say he is clearly the only guilty one?
I mean I don't see that argument that you raise particularly shows an interest.
Boggs: I can immediately --
A: They would like to have us fold up and quit.
Boggs:
This closes the case, you see. Don't you see?
Dulles: Yes, I see that.
Rankin:
They found the man. There is nothing more to do. The Commission supports their conclusions, and we can go
on home and that is the end of it.
Dulles: But that puts the man right on them. If he was not the killer and they employed him, they are already it, you see.
So your argument is correct if they are sure that this is going to close the case,
but if it don't close the case, they are
worse off than ever by doing this.Boggs: Yes, I would think so. And of course, we are all even grasping in the realm of speculation.
I don't even like to see this being taken down.Dulles: Yes. I think this record ought to be destroyed. Do you think we need a record of this?
A: I don't, except that we said we would have records of meetings and so we called the reporter in the formal way.
If you think what we have said here should not be upon the record, we can have it done that way. Of course it might. . . .
Dulles: I am just thinking of sending around copies and so forth. The only copies of this record should be kept right here.
Boggs: I would hope that none of these records are circulated to anybody.
A: I would hope so too.
