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Louis Stokes Quotes
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoovers electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI. - Louis Stokes Quotes
And the evidence clearly showed that Ray was in the boarding house and the bathroom from which the shots that killed Dr. King were fired. - Louis Stokes Quotes
But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary. - Louis Stokes Quotes
Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files. - Louis Stokes Quotes
In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination. - Louis Stokes Quotes
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind. - Louis Stokes Quotes
Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material. - Louis Stokes Quotes
Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But thats the kind of thing you have in this movie. - Louis Stokes Quotes
One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. - Louis Stokes Quotes
Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didnt participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. - Louis Stokes Quotes
People are just fascinated by assassinations. - Louis Stokes Quotes
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people. - Louis Stokes Quotes
The purpose of the investigation was to bring out all relevant facts and to keep innocent people from being harmed by unsubstantiated reports. - Louis Stokes Quotes
There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them. - Louis Stokes Quotes
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous. - Louis Stokes Quotes
There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committees investigation. - Louis Stokes Quotes
There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered. - Louis Stokes Quotes
There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy. - Louis Stokes Quotes
We held 36 days of evidentiary hearings on national television and made recommendations to the House for legislative action in the two assassinations. - Louis Stokes Quotes
Well thats true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated. - Louis Stokes Quotes
Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did. - Louis Stokes Quotes
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