Where was attorney general Robert Kennedy? Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach acting as THE attorney general! A 1979 account of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), reported that on November 25, 1963, only 3 days after the John F. Kennedy assassination and before any formal federal investigation had been conducted, Nicholas Katzenbach, then deputy attorney general, had written a memo to presidential assistant Bill Moyers at the White House. Katzenbachs memo may come the closest of any known official document (Katzenbachs memo) to discussing a conscious desire on the part of government to control information about Kennedys death: It is important that all of the facts surrounding President Kennedy’s Assassination be made public in a way which will satisfy people in the United States and abroad that all the facts have been told and that a statement to this effect be made now. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he had no confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial... Speculation about Oswalds motivation ought to be cut off...Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat—too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.)... We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Katzenbach
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:53:32 +0000