Warren Commission Executive Session of 22 Jan 1964

[Peter Lemkin]

Well said, Mr. Lemkin.

Until you shared your post, I had no idea that of the seven (7) total commission members that three (3) of them actually had misgivings/opposed the findings (the aforementioned Boggs, and also Senator Sherman Cooper and Senator Richard Russell as well). Dipping my hat in remembrance of all three (thanks gentlemen for caring about honor, integrity, justice and truth).

More sentiments from the late Congressman Hal Boggs (RIP) ---->

"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

*Source: haleboggs.tripod.com

In respect to Mr. Boggs' congressional speech remarks above, we cannot say presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy didn't try to warn us of this emerging national security powerplay under afoot as early as President Eisenhower's 2nd Administration. .


So, the hotplace with the democratic Republic I see, and we are left with lying treasonous cowards and their ilk (grrr).

As I have related a few times over the decades on various Forums, I contacted Boogs' daughter [Cokie Roberts of NPR] and politely asked her some questions about her late father's feelings on the Commission and his mysterious death, after introducing myself as a serious researcher, my bona fides....blah, blah, blah.... I started with what I considered the least controversial and asked her what she knew of attempts to locate the plane her father was lost in in Alaska. She declined to say anything on that. Then I went into his objections to the Commission's conclusions and the 'work' of the FBI and CIA vis-a-vis the Commission. She was silent during my questions, and then said she had no comment on any of it, and then quickly hung up. Afraid for her job or afraid of her father's killers? (I don't claim to know)...but if I had to guess, I'd say a mix of both. Even in her silence and few words I sensed a great unease and fear in the subjects I was calling about.

Ms. Roberts' deafening silence speaks volumes, Mr. Lemkin.

This example alone is so indicative of of how very crippling fear can be, especially around this five decades old murder case. I suspect these paralyzing fears still permeate even today. A sad truth, because courage doesn't grow on trees. Sounds like she had lots at stake, her professional life; the safety of her family and friends; and, of course, not to mention her own well being as well.

Thanks for trying though.

Yes, I tried...but didn't get very far with it at all. She was talkative in the beginning when I just praised her for her work at NPR...then 'clammed up' completely when I turned to her father. She keeps the fact she is his daughter completely hidden and you can not find this information easily, if at all. I'd think that as his daughter she would at least have talked about the mysterious plane crash [plane and those aboard never located, conveniently] and the feeble attempts to locate the plane...but no, she didn't want to talk to me about her father at all....and less about the events of Dallas, the Commission and what her father really thought about all that. NPR is no bastion of progressiveness and is funded by all the usual media controllers. However, the fear I heard in her voice makes me think she'd not have said more if I had been able to talk to her in person and promised not to mention where the information came from. The fear of that event still haunts the nation as if it happened yesterday - and will, IMHO, until we bring the real perpetrators and their motives to the fore in the Public Mind - and make the necessary changes in our polity.....those being HUGE changes, almost total changes of the current 'system'.