Liz Smith on the JFK Assasination

[Linda Minor]

Dr, Donald Gibson, Professor of Sociology, in his books, The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up and The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up Revisited refers to the Warren Commission as the McCloy-Dulles Commission. These two Wall Street lawyers controlled the work of the Commission by having selected the lead counsel, determining which witnesses would be called, and in other ways took over the direction of the Commission's work.Three of the seven members of the Commission disagreed with its published conclusions. They were Hale Boggs, Representative from Louisiana; John Sherman Cooper, Senator from Kentucky; and Richard Russell, Senator from Georgia.
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In a related thread, David Teacher has joined the Forum and is ready to discuss his work on Le Cercle. I began reading it yesterday after listening to the Brown interview and noticing her mentioning the presence of McCloy at the meeting with LBJ on Nov. 21, 1963. What began to stand out to me was that McCloy was the only man there with any power, and his power went back to his representation of Big Oil, not independent oil men who had gotten rich in East Texas oilfields. McCloy also had internationalist connections to the group David Teacher has written about--especially to Jean Monnet. I think people will never understand the Texas mentality until they figure out how important Texans have been in setting up this international trade infrastructure in Washington accomplished by Col. House, who was actually the person who set up the Allied Maritime Transport Council for which Jean Monnet was employed.

Assassination researchers often seem to forget the need to study history in order to understand the forces that were at play before 1963.