SLAWSON: Warren Commission part of a "massive cover-up"

[Martin White]

Yes, Shenon's book basically supports the official story plus a "benign cover up."

Here's a key quote from the article: "Slawson is not describing the sort of elaborate, far-fetched assassination plot that most conspiracy theorists like to claim occurred, with a roster of suspects including the Mafia, Texas oilmen, anti-Castro Cuban exiles, southern segregationists, elements of the CIA and FBI, and even President Johnson. Slawson did not believe in 1964, and does not believe now, that Fidel Castro or the leaders of the Soviet Union or of any other foreign government were involved in the president's murder. And he is certain that Oswald was the only gunman in Dealey Plaza."

It's worse than that, Tracey. In paragraph 3:-

The lawyers, most only a few years out of law school, would do the bulk of the commission's detective work in determining how and why the president had been killed.

There was no detective work, carried out by lawyers or anyone else on the Commission. There was certainly no work done to determine WHO killed Kennedy, and none to determine WHY. The WHO had been decided by Monday 24th November - as the Katzenbach memo shows - and the WHY was therefore immaterial and in fact any speculation was to be "cut off".

Slawson is right to have his doubts. Yes, the CIA obstructed the investigation - such as it was. But Slawson has come to entirely the wrong conclusions. I wonder which came first, Slawson's conclusions or Shenon's book?