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Posted on 10/27/2017 6:13:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
"There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead."
J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, dictated that line in a memo he issued on Nov. 24, 1963, the day Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald as Oswald was being transported to the Dallas County Jail after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The memo is one of at least 52 records never previously made public that were included in the release Thursday of about 2,800 unredacted government documents related to Kennedy's murder in Dallas two days earlier. President Donald Trump approved withholding an undisclosed number of other documents pending a 180-day national security review.
Scholars and other experts have repeatedly said it's unlikely that there's anything groundbreaking in the documents. But as journalists and historians pored through the enormous database of material Thursday night and Friday morning, some interesting nuggets were turning up, among them Hoover's Nov. 24 memo.
Hoover appeared to be particularly concerned that the public would have to be compelled to believe that Oswald was a lone actor — not part of a larger conspiracy.
In the 1964 Warren Report on Kennedy's assassination, Hoover was firm in stating that he hadn't seen "any scintilla of evidence" suggesting a conspiracy — a sentiment he expressed in other public forums, as well, but not in words as blunt as those he used the day Oswald was killed.
Referring to Nicholas Katzenbach, the deputy attorney general at the time, Hoover dictated: "The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."
It's not clear from the memo whether Hoover thought there might have been a conspiracy but didn't want it to be known or whether he sincerely believed Oswald acted alone and hoped to head off public fear and confusion.
Hoover also indicated that his concern may have been influenced, in part, by diplomacy, dictating that there could be serious international complications if the public thought Oswald might have been part of a larger plot.
Katzenbach is known from previously released documents to have shared Hoover's concern, writing in a memo the next day, on Nov. 25, 1963, that "the public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial."
In the memo, Hoover excoriated the Dallas Police Department for not having prevented Oswald's killing by Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. The FBI had warned the police that Oswald's life was in danger, but nothing was done, he complained.
"Oswald having been killed today after our warnings to the Dallas Police Department was inexcusable," Hoover dictated. "It will allow, I am afraid, a lot of civil rights people to raise a lot of hell because he was handcuffed and had no weapon. There are bound to be some elements of our society who will holler their heads off that his civil rights were violated — which they were."
Hoover argued against appointing an independent commission to review the evidence, contending that the matter should be left to the Justice Department, the FBI's parent agency. Lyndon Johnson, the new president, announced the creation of the Warren Commission a few days later.
JEH was conservative, by the book, meticulous leader whose record of accomplishments in methods of investigation, forensics, and anti-communist efforts is second to none. The left hated him with a passion and worked tirelessly to discredit him and the agency. As long as he was alive they got nowhere. Once dead is was important for them to discredit him and the agency. The FBI, during the social revolution of the 60s and 70’s, was so successful in neutering Weathermen, SDS, and Black Panthers, mostly by infiltrating them, that Congress passed legislation limiting that important tool, essentially tying their hands behind their back. He is also the one who stood tall in keeping the KGB from running rampart on our shores. If there is one person this FR site should stand behind it is JEH. I read an excellent, well researched book about all of this good work a few years ago, but I just can’t recall the name of it. I am an octogenarian and memory is not a strong suit.
Statement seems to “birth” the
Perps narratives.
Proves nothing. Maybe govt bueraucracy incomptence.
What you offee is nothing more than conjecture....not proof. Evidence is on my side.
I do really hope so.
Hairline very similar.
The Feds took over a century to repeal a telephone excise tax set up to help fund the Spanish-American War, so it is possible you are right. However, in an era of declining trust in government and the absence of national security concerns, as the Soviet Union is long gone, and the fact that all the major players are dead, everything should be released, unredacted.
This was 1963, and this was Dallas Texas. The good old boys in the DPD let their village idiot friend Jack Ruby come and go in the DPD as he had been doing for years. Ruby always carried a hand gun because of his seedy strip club business. The DPD wasn’t concerned, lots of men carried hand guns all over the place. This was Texas 54 years ago, DUHH!!!!
Hoover was absolutely right for criticizing the DPD, they were IDIOTS for how they handled security when moving Oswald. Of course, the DPD afterwards tried to cover up their negligence and incompetence.
Yes.
Thank you, Arizona Joe.
Yes, additionally, Connolly’s front seat in the limo was something like 6 to 12 inches lower than JFK’s back seat in the limo, the back seat had been built up for JFK and his wife so the crowds could see them a little bit better through the windows. The difference in seat heights helps explain how the bullets travelled through JFK and Connolly.
It was a bad last minute decision by the SS to put the limousine top down, that was not what they normally allowed. Again, bad judgement, incompetence by the SS. They had much to atone for.
BTTT
Well there you go...
Why else would that concern them?
Just be a good lil worker drone bee; it’s all up to the queen to decide the fate of the hive.
Nearly every single terrorist act has been declared to be a ‘lone wolf’ operation.
They declare motives asap because they are mind-readers.
The OKC - Murrah Fed building was first suspected of being MId. Easterners, then White ex-military right wingers.
They never followed up on John Doe #2, the Hispanic looking guy ID’d by a dozen eye-witnesses. He clearly resembled very closely Jose’ Padilla- the PR muzzie convert. We are left to wonder if there’s more to that story.
bkmk
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