timb2
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Apologists for the MBT can be quite adamant. They don't seem to consider that three members of the Warren Commission, Representative Hale Boggs, Senators Richard Russell, and John Cooper, all thought the MBT improbable. They also seem to forget that two of the original "conspiracy theorists" were Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson -- both men in a good position to know. On September 18, 1964, the last day of the Warren Commission, Sen. Russell phoned Johnson, his old political protegé, to tell him he didn't believe the single bullet theory. Replied Johnson: "I don't, either." Even LBJ's good buddy J. Edgar Hoover once wrote on the bottom of a memo regarding the Warren Report: “We don’t agree with the Commission as it says one shot missed entirely & we contend all three shots hit.” James Chaney, the police motorcyclist who was riding to President Kennedy’s right at Dealey Plaza, claimed that Connally’s back wound was caused by a separate bullet. So did Gov. Connally and his wife Nellie. They insisted with "absolute certainty" that John Connally was struck by a separate bullet, at about Zapruder Frame 230, and they never wavered from that conviction for the rest of their lives. Remember that when you read the arguments and ridicule by those still defending the Warren Report's orthodoxy on the MBT.