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JackRiddler

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3. Ford was informing FBI about Commission deviants...

Reply to KurtNYC (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2013, 01:22 PM

Nov 2013

2. Gerald Ford secretly provided information on the Commission to the FBI
While serving as a leading member of the Warren Commission, future U.S. President Gerald Ford also acted as an inside informant for J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Several months after his death in 2006, a cache of declassified documents revealed that Ford, then a U.S. congressman, had approached FBI Assistant Director Cartha DeLoach and offered to confidentially keep the Bureau informed on the Commission’s deliberations. Among Ford’s many leaks was the revelation that two unnamed members of the Commission—most likely Richard Russell and Hale Boggs—remained unconvinced by FBI evidence that the kill shot had been fired from the Texas School Book Depository.

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9 Things You May Not Know About the Warren Commission [View all] KurtNYC Nov 2013 OP

It was just a lone gunman. Scuba Nov 2013 #1

Brief and misleading Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #2

Ford was informing FBI about Commission deviants... JackRiddler Nov 2013 #3

This one and part of 5 seem to be aimed at keeping the WCR from saying KurtNYC Nov 2013 #5

Russell was conned directly by WCR staff. JackRiddler Nov 2013 #6

This is a great list. avaistheone1 Nov 2013 #4