A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination (103 page)

amount of evidence examined by Angleton and

anti-Communist attacks on

autopsy report and

ballistics and fingerprint evidence and budget and printing costs

calls for official reexamination of Castro testimony and

CIA and

CIA conceals evidence from

CIA denies conspiracy

CIA liaison with staff

CIA Mexico City station and

CIA plots to kill Castro and

CIA pressure on Warren

closed down

commissioners-staff relations Connally and

conspiracy theories and

criticisms of

Cuban document requests and

Cuban link and

Dallas evidence and

Dallas police and

deadlines and

deaths of members and staff

de Mohrenschildt and

Duran sought by

Epstein on

evidence examined by outside experts executive session transcripts eyewitness accounts and

FBI and

FBI conceals evidence from

FBI Dallas FBI

FBI documents reviewed by Hoover FBI files on members of

FBI links to Oswald as paid informant and FBI preliminary report and

FBI surveillance of LHO and

files mishandled by

final fully transcribed meeting final report presented to LBJ

final sessions and debate on conclusions of first meetings and organization of Ford and

Ford vs. Redlich and

Fortas and

general counsel appointed

Helms and

Hoover and

Hoover interviews and

Hoover letter on LHO threat to kill JFK

Hosty testimony

Humes testimony

investigation flawed from start Jacqueline Kennedy and

Jacqueline Kennedy testimony and key areas of investigation

Lady Bird testimony

Lane and

Lane testimony

LBJ and attacks on

LBJ doubts conclusions of

LBJ sets up

LBJ’s written statement to

LHO investigated by

Liebeler criticizes

Manchester and

Mann and

Marguerite Oswald and

Marina Oswald and

Markham testimony

Martin testimony

McCloy letter and

McCone and

media and

medical evidence kept from

medical testimony and

Mexico City investigation and mishandling of classified documents and Nosenko and

Odio and

O’Donnell testimony

office at VFW headquarters

Paines and

public hearings and

Rankin and Goldberg planned defense of records of

RFK and

RFK statement for

Robert Oswald testimony

Rowley testimony

Ruby and

Ruby polygraph and

Rusk testimony

Russell and

Russell dissent on final report Scott and

Secret Service investigated by Secret Service testimony

single-bullet theory and (
see
single-bullet theory) evidence withheld from

staff concerns about conspiracy staff divided into teams

staff draws up preliminary outline staff hired

staff hours totaled

staff relations

staff work done by junior lawyers subpoena power and

surviving staff members

Thomas and

transcripts and

Walker testimony

Warren attempt to destroy files Warren’s media blunders and

Warren’s oversight of

Zapruder film and

Warren Commission report

censorship of

CIA Mexico City and

CIA response to

drafting and delays

drafts written and edited

Duran and

FBI response to

Ford and

Goldberg outline and style memo for internal debate on conclusions Kennedy family response to

LHO as lone assassin and

LHO biography drafted for

McCloy criticizes

media response to

New York Times
publishes Nosenko dropped from

Odio story rebutted in

presented to LBJ

public response to

Redlich vs. Liebeler on

release of

RFK and conclusions of

“rumors” appendix and

Russell and

Secret Service section drafted State Department and

witness testimony excerpts and
Washington Post
Washington Star
Watson, Stanley

Weaver, James D.

Weinreb, Lloyd

Welch, Joseph

West, Eugene

West, Louis

WH-3 (CIA Clandestine Services branch) White, Alan

White, Byron “Whizzer”

Whitten, John

Whittington, Bert

Who Killed Kennedy?
(Buchanan) Wilkins, Roger

Willens, Howard

Willis, Edwin

Wilson, Harold

Worker
(newspaper) Zapruder, Abraham

sale of film by

Zapruder film

Dallas reconstruction and

sale of

Ziger, Alexander

Air Force One, moments after returning to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, from Dallas, November 22, 1963.

President Lyndon Johnson rejected the advice of Secret Service agents who wanted him to depart Dallas’s Love Field airport the instant he boarded Air Force One. The plane remained on the ground for an extra 35 minutes as Johnson waited for the arrival of Jacqueline Kennedy and the casket bearing her husband’s body. Mrs. Kennedy boarded shortly after the casket was loaded onto the plane. Johnson was then formally sworn in, a scene witnessed by Mrs. Kennedy—still in the blood-caked clothes from the motorcade—and Lady Bird Johnson.