Warren Commission: Conversation with House Speaker John McCormack
Speaker: | Lyndon B Johnson |
Delivered On: | 11/29/1963 |
Place: | Washington, DC |
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LBJ and House Speaker John McCormack (Dem.-Mass.) discuss commission membership. Issues include regional and ideological balance. Rep. Otto Passman (Dem.-Tex.) joins the conversation. Here, we’re offering selected telephone conversations concerning the Special Commission to Investigate the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (the Warren Commission). President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX on November 22, 1963. Shortly thereafter, the House of Representatives and the Senate considered independent investigations of the assassination and the murder of Kennedy’s putative assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. To trump these congressional efforts, President Lyndon Johnson decided to form a presidential commission to investigate the assassination and Oswald’s death. These conversations document the formation of the commission — indentified by the popular title “The Warren Commission” — because the chairman was Chief Justice Earl Warren. The selected conversations you will hear document Johnson’s extraordinary persuasiveness. A comment about the recordings. These recordings vary dramatically in audio quality. |
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