Hale Boggs and the Warren Report
- Fred Litwin
- 7 days ago
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Did Hale Boggs have reservations about the Warren Report. Paul Bleau thinks that he did -- here is excerpt from the book, Chokeholds:
Boggs was neither convinced that Oswald was the assassin, not that Ruby acted alone. According to legal advisor Bernard Fensterwald:
“Almost from the beginning, Congressman Boggs had been suspicious over the FBI and CIA’s reluctance to provide hard information when the Commission’s probe turned to certain areas, such as allegations that Oswald may have been an undercover operative of some sort. When the Commission sought to disprove the growing suspicion that Oswald had once worked for the FBI, Boggs was outraged that the only proof of denial that the FBI offered was a brief statement of disclaimer by J. Edgar Hoover. It was Hale Boggs who drew an admission from Allen Dulles that the CIA’s record of employing someone like Oswald might be so heavily coded that the verification of his service would be almost impossible for outside investigators to establish.” According to one of his friends: “Hale felt very, very torn during his work (on the Commission) … he wished he had never been on it and wished he’d never signed it (the Warren Report).” Another former aide argued that “Hale always returned to one thing: Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission—on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it.”[28]
Bleau's footnote is a page from the Spartacus website. And the source on that website regarding Boggs is Bernard Fensterwald's book, Coincidence or Conspiracy:
Like Russell, Boggs was, very simply, a strong doubter. Several years after his death in 1972, a colleague of his wife Lindy (who was elected to fill her late husband's seat in the Congress) recalled Mrs. Boggs remarking, "Hale felt very, very torn during his work [on the Commission] ... he wished he had never been on it and wished he'd never signed it [the Warren Report]." A former aide to the late House Majority Leader has recently recalled, "Hale always returned to one thing: Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission - on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it...
This is just hearsay. An unnamed colleague of his wife supposedly said Boggs regretted signing the Warren Report. And then Fensterwald quotes an unnamed former aide to Boggs.
Let's look at what Hale Boggs actually said.
Here is a transcript of this recording:
The Warren Commission took testimony from many, many witnesses, well over a thousand. The testimony runs in twenty-six bound volumes, in the many many millions of words. It had at its disposal the complete resources of the FBI, the Secret Service, the CIA, the intelligence of the Army, Navy, Air Force, the State Department, the law enforcement officials of the state of Texas, the Attorney General of this state, law enforcement officials in Dallas, where the assassination occurred. The only direction to the Commission, which was made up of a bipartisan Commission -- my colleague the Republican leader in the house sat on the Commission as did Senator Cooper. As a matter of fact, majority of the members of commission were members of the opposition party. The only admonition we had was to find the truth, and we sought the truth and my own conviction is that we found it. I have my own conviction is, it is, no doubt about it
And here is an article:
Here is another article about the same Boggs interview:
Money Quote:
Many people would rather believe there was a conspiracy. This is unfortunately human nature.
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