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Coyotl

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4. Hale Boggs - Warren Commission Member and Critic
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 01:20 PM
Nov 2013

Dallas journalist Jim Marrs pointed out Bogghs was "The most vocal critic among Commission members ... "

On April 1, 1971, House Majority Leader Boggs delivered an attack on J. Edgar Hoover ... the FBI had adopted 'the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo.'

Boggs vanished on October 16, 1972, while on a military junket flight in Alaska ... no trace of the airplane or of Boggs has ever been found.

Sen. Mark Begich's father was on the same plane!

"Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance."
--House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, in a speech before Congress, 22 April 1971


"[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover lied his eyes out to the [Warren] Commission – on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it."
--Hale Boggs, speaking to an aide, cited by Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy?


It is a myth that the Warren Commission was united in its conclusion that a lone assassin killed President John F. Kennedy. On the seven member Warren Commission, there were three dissenters: .....

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