25-07-2009, 02:19 AM
Today I mailed off some 17 packets of letters and documents to members of the Oversight Committee and the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and NARA, and to others. If anyone wishes to do the same, you can send your letters to the address given in the letter for Eudophus Towns and William Lacy Clay.
As of today, there are now 194 signatures on Bill's petition.
Adele
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July 21, 2009
The Honorable Representative Edolphus Towns
Chairman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
And
The Honorable Representative William Lacy Clay
Chairman, House Subcommittee On Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Representative Towns and Representative Clay:
In 1963 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (NINDB), performing neurophysiological research at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. I met Jose A. Rivera, a science administrator and member of the Training Grants and Awards Section of the NINDB, at week-long scientific meetings in April, 1963, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where I presented my work on the mechanisms of synaptic actions in the nervous system.
Rivera invited me to have dinner with him and his family once I arrived at the NIH which I had planned to visit, but it turned out that he and I had dinner at restaurants and a sightseeing trip while he spoke of the President and his impending assassination. I am enclosing a narrative account of my experiences and attempts to bring these to the attention of government agencies and Congressional investigating committees with the help of Attorney Jack Peebles. I also have sought, through many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, copies of documents of my interview with US Secret Service Agent John W. Rice and FBI Liaison Special Agent Orrin Bartlett, on Sunday, November 24, 1963, with no success.
I also enclose copies of relevant pages from the Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) where my name is mentioned; a summary of Rivera’s career based on his personnel file records written by Attorney Dave Robertson; and Xerox copies of photographs of Jose A. Rivera.
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When I learned last year that Jose A. Rivera had been present at the autopsy of the President’s body at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on the evening of November 22, 1963, I posted my narrative on the internet. At my age I do not have much more time to wait to see that the American people would know that there was a conspiracy to kill the President, and that it had been planned long in advance, even before April of 1963.
It has been 46 years and 3 months since I learned of the impending assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and in November it will be 46 years since his death. It seems to be an unusually extraordinary length of time to solve a murder case, and an extraordinary length of time for the American people to begin to learn how and why their President was killed.
I am writing to you directly to urge you and your Committee and its Subcommittee to have open public hearings on oversight of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Collections Act of 1992 which required that every government agency produce their files of documents, films, recordings, etc., to be reviewed by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) and then be placed into the JFK Collection at the National Archives II at College Park, Maryland.
I only ask that this Congress and this Government provide the American people with honest answers to questions about the murder of our President John F. Kennedy.
Please feel free to share this with other members of your committee. Thank you for your time and kind consideration in this matter.
Yours truly,
Adele E. U. Edisen, Ph.D.
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 690111, San Antonio, TX 78269-0111
Residence Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Address: aedisen@prodigy.net
cc: Representative Paul E. Kanjorski
Representative Carolyn B. Maloney
Representative Diane E. Watson
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton
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cc: Representative Danny Davis
Representative Steve Dreihaus
Representative John L. Mica
Representative Lynn A. Westmoreland
Representative Patrick T. McHenry
Representative Jason Chaffetz
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich
Representative Henry Cuellar
Representative Ciro D. Rodriguez
Attorney Jack Peebles
Attorney Dave Robertson
The New York Times
The Washington Post
CBS-TV Sixty Minutes Program
As of today, there are now 194 signatures on Bill's petition.
Adele
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July 21, 2009
The Honorable Representative Edolphus Towns
Chairman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
And
The Honorable Representative William Lacy Clay
Chairman, House Subcommittee On Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Representative Towns and Representative Clay:
In 1963 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (NINDB), performing neurophysiological research at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. I met Jose A. Rivera, a science administrator and member of the Training Grants and Awards Section of the NINDB, at week-long scientific meetings in April, 1963, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where I presented my work on the mechanisms of synaptic actions in the nervous system.
Rivera invited me to have dinner with him and his family once I arrived at the NIH which I had planned to visit, but it turned out that he and I had dinner at restaurants and a sightseeing trip while he spoke of the President and his impending assassination. I am enclosing a narrative account of my experiences and attempts to bring these to the attention of government agencies and Congressional investigating committees with the help of Attorney Jack Peebles. I also have sought, through many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, copies of documents of my interview with US Secret Service Agent John W. Rice and FBI Liaison Special Agent Orrin Bartlett, on Sunday, November 24, 1963, with no success.
I also enclose copies of relevant pages from the Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) where my name is mentioned; a summary of Rivera’s career based on his personnel file records written by Attorney Dave Robertson; and Xerox copies of photographs of Jose A. Rivera.
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When I learned last year that Jose A. Rivera had been present at the autopsy of the President’s body at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on the evening of November 22, 1963, I posted my narrative on the internet. At my age I do not have much more time to wait to see that the American people would know that there was a conspiracy to kill the President, and that it had been planned long in advance, even before April of 1963.
It has been 46 years and 3 months since I learned of the impending assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and in November it will be 46 years since his death. It seems to be an unusually extraordinary length of time to solve a murder case, and an extraordinary length of time for the American people to begin to learn how and why their President was killed.
I am writing to you directly to urge you and your Committee and its Subcommittee to have open public hearings on oversight of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Collections Act of 1992 which required that every government agency produce their files of documents, films, recordings, etc., to be reviewed by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) and then be placed into the JFK Collection at the National Archives II at College Park, Maryland.
I only ask that this Congress and this Government provide the American people with honest answers to questions about the murder of our President John F. Kennedy.
Please feel free to share this with other members of your committee. Thank you for your time and kind consideration in this matter.
Yours truly,
Adele E. U. Edisen, Ph.D.
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 690111, San Antonio, TX 78269-0111
Residence Address:
Telephone:
E-Mail Address: aedisen@prodigy.net
cc: Representative Paul E. Kanjorski
Representative Carolyn B. Maloney
Representative Diane E. Watson
Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton
- 3 -
cc: Representative Danny Davis
Representative Steve Dreihaus
Representative John L. Mica
Representative Lynn A. Westmoreland
Representative Patrick T. McHenry
Representative Jason Chaffetz
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich
Representative Henry Cuellar
Representative Ciro D. Rodriguez
Attorney Jack Peebles
Attorney Dave Robertson
The New York Times
The Washington Post
CBS-TV Sixty Minutes Program