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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)Last time I checked Allen Dulles, the de facto head of the Warren Commission, who chaired all but the two meetings Warren attended, was a Republican.
Earl Warren was a Republican.
John J. McCloy was a Republican.
John Sherman Cooper from Kentucky was a Republican
Gerald Ford from Michigan was a Republican
The two Democrats on the WC (Russell from Georgia and Hale Boggs from Louisiana) were Southerners and NOT friends/supporters of JFK. It's a fact, however, found in later transcripts of WC meetings, that these two gentlemen dissented from the final report and were promised that their dissent would be recorded in the printed volume. It was not.
There was no investigation by the WC as they relied upon the FBI reports submitted by ... J. Edgar Hoover, a notorious Republican.
The biggest tell in the WC transcripts is Jack Ruby pleading with Warren and Ford to be taken back to Washington so he could tell them the whole story. It's obvious that the stuttering Warren almost messed his pants at that one, and told Ruby that would be impossible. Ruby told them if they left him in the Dallas jail he would die and the truth never known. Warren said, basically, Gee sorry 'bout that, Jack.
To say Democrats were behind the Warren Commission is a farce. What is true is that Lyndon Johnson stacked the commission with Republicans and two conservative Dems. When Walter Cronkite reported that LBJ believed there was a conspiracy behind Kennedy's assassination in 1969 and the media STILL refused to question the WC ... there was no hope. LBJ was briefed by Hoover (it's on tape) the day after Kennedy was murdered reporting to the president that Oswald was NOT the man in Mexico City. Hoover said he saw photos and heard tapes and it was NOT Oswald. Why were these destroyed when we now know they existed. Why was Agent Hosty in Dallas told to destroy the note that Oswald left at the FBI office if it actually incriminated Oswald. Many scholars of the assassination believe that the note in question was to warn the FBI of the assassination plot. That's why it HAD to be destroyed.
Read the Jim Douglass classic, JFK and the Unspeakable for the truth behind who wanted Kennedy dead. It's all there. Doesn't matter who pulled the trigger. There were hired guns to do the deed, but who ordered it? IMO, the guy who ran the Commission, Allen Dulles himself, with help from his CIA buddies Richard Helms and James Jesus Angleton.
Remember, LBJ put Dulles on the commission when Kennedy had personally fired Dulles in 1961, blaming him for setting him up with the Bag of Pigs fiasco. Unclean hands! The fact that none of this information is well-known should tell you something.
I don't know if there's anyone yet living with any answers, but the cover-up has been unraveling since Day 1 and hasn't stopped.