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WaPost Exclusive: Gerald Ford, JFK and the FBI (3 posts)

  1. truthmod
    Administrator

    "No Problem"

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinv...

    Two members of the Warren Commission were initially not convinced that President John F. Kennedy had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository, according to confidential FBI files released this week to The Post's Joe Stephens.

    The files detail the inner workings of a secret back channel that Gerald R. Ford, then a Michigan congressman who was one of seven members of the Warren Commission, opened in 1963 to J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The declassified FBI memos are among scores of documents in the file on President Ford, who died in December 2006. At the request of The Post, the FBI this week released 500 pages of the bureau's voluminous file.

    Although it has long been known that he secretly spoke with the FBI, the newly obtained, previously classified records detail one visit Ford made to one of Hoover's deputies just three weeks after joining the panel.

    A December 1963 memo recounts that Ford told FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. DeLoach that two members remained unconvinced that Kennedy had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository. In addition, three commission members "failed to understand" the trajectory of the slugs, Ford said.

    Ford told DeLoach that commission discussions would continue and reassured him that those minority points of view on the commission "of course would represent no problem," one internal FBI memo shows. The memo does not name the members involved and does not elaborate on what Ford meant by "no problem."

    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. cosmos
    Member

    Will the WaPo feed us scintillating tidbits on the 9/11 Commission in 40 years?

    Let's work to make sure the answer is NO.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  3. truthmod
    Administrator

    Yeah, the online comments are closed and it looks like that's the end of that story.

    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iErCx7wVHvfDTY7...

    What would real journalists do with this story? First of all, they would report it acknowledging the implications of the information and the very long history of skepticism concerning the Warren Commission. They might even ask the question of "what Ford meant by 'no problem?'" and why he was providing such a service to Hoover and maybe actually put forth some reasonable explanations. But no, we don't live in the kind of country where the information gatekeepers dare pursue the most important and obvious questions.

    JFK MLK RFK 9/11
    No Truth. No Justice. No Peace.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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