Liz Smith on the JFK Assasination

[Myra Bronstein]

I listened to the Madeleine Brown interview about the meeting and was amazed that the interviewer didn't ask about what John J. McCloy was doing there and what she knew about him. McCloy, besides being on the Warren Commission, was attorney for the seven sisters oil companies--the majors. Hunt, Murchison and Sid Richardson were supposedly independent oil men.
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That interviewer was awful. He just asked his canned list of questions without listening to the answers so he could follow up when she said something interesting.

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McCloy was attorney for the Rockefellers, who were Republicans. She didn't mention anyone being at the meeting who were connected to Humble Oil, such as Bush's friend Farish. She didn't mention the Liedtkes, who were Bush's partners and whose father had been a career attorney for the Mellons in Gulf Oil. I can't figure out what McCloy would have been doing there.

Because McCloy is a "person of interest" in the assassination of President Kennedy, and because I want to know more about the role of each of the insiders on the WC, I did a brief summary of McCloy's connections. I can sure see why he was called "Chairman of the American Establishment."

• Attended Harvard and fraternized w Rockerfellers. Lawyer.
  
• Dates?--Legal counselor to the major German chemical combine I. G. Farben; pro-German.
  
• 1936--Shared a box with Hitler at the Olympics
  
• 1941-1945--Assistant Secretary of War for Roosevelt under Henry Stimson; crucial voice in setting U.S. military priorities; refused to endorse USAAF bombing raids on the rail approaches to Auschwitz concentration camp that would have saved Nazi Holocaust victims.
  
• Name partner at Milbank law firm that worked for Rockefeller family & Chase Manhattan bank.
  

In this capacity he acted for the "Seven Sisters", the leading multinational oil companies, including Exxon, in their initial confrontations with the nationalisation movement in Libya—as well as negotiations with Saudi Arabia and OPEC.

• 1946-1949--Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation
  
• 1947-1949--First President of the World Bank President (Truman).
  
• 1949-1952--U.S. Military Governor & U.S. High Commissioner for Germany; oversaw the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany; pardoned/commuted sentences of Nazi criminals took place, including those of the prominent industrialists Friedrich Flick and Alfried Krupp.
  
• 1953-1958--Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation
  
• 1958-?--Member of Draper Committee
  
• 1953-1960--Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (working closely w D Rockefeller)
  
• Member of Georgetown Set
  
• 1954-1970--Chairman Council on Foreign Relations (before D Rockefeller); (CFR study groups helped to lay the framework of thinking that led to the Marshall Plan & NATO). Mentored Henry Kissinger?
  
• 1958-1965--Chairman of the Ford Foundation
  
• Advisor to advisor to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan
  
• 1963—Warren Commission
  

He was selected by Johnson to serve on the Warren Commission in 1963. Notably, he was initially sceptical of the lone gunman theory, but a trip to Dallas with Allen Dulles, an old friend also serving on the Commission, in the spring of 1964 to visit the scene of the assassination convinced him of the case against Oswald. The only prominent lawyer among the seven commissioners, with the posssible exception of U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, he brokered the final consensus — avoiding a minority dissenting report — and the crucial wording of the primary conclusion of the final report. He stated that any possible evidence of a conspiracy was "beyond the reach" of all of America's investigatory agencies — principally the FBI and the CIA — as well as the Commission itself.

• 1963—Recipient Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy at West Point.
  
• 1966-968--Honorary Chairman of the Paris-based Atlantic Institute for NATO
  
• 1978--Honorary German citizen
  

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