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outside world. Since the day the government had turned David
Ferrie loose after I had arrested him and had him held for the
F.B.I., I had not changed in my placid acceptance of its official
story. Nor was I yet able to conceive that the government
afterwards would have participated in any kind of coverup of the
facts. Yet the force of Senator Long's words aroused my
curiosity for the first time. I immediately ordered the entire
set of the Warren Commission volumes -- the Hearings, the
Exhibits and the Commission's Report.
While I waited for the books to arrive, I decided to
learn more about how the Warren Commission had come into being so
I spent some time at the library.
I learned that five days after the assassination
Representative Goodall of New York had proposed a Joint
Congressional Committee to conduct an investigation. The
proposed committee would consist of seven Representatives and
seven Senators.
Two days later, before Congress had taken any action to
follow up on Goodall's proposed committee, President Johnson had
announced that he already had formed an investigative commission.
In the same announcement he named the seven members whom he had
chosen. Conceivably to forstall any possible criticism that he
was taking the investigation out of the hands of Congress he had
included some representatives of each House.
I
looked up the biographical information on each of his
selections. It was apparent that his investigative group was
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