WEAL VIEWPOINT
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The Warren Commission
W« cannot dismiss tne naggini
suspicion that 9ome very deliberati
foot-drgaging is taking place ii
completing the work ai the so-cafl
ed Warren Commission which, ii
case your memory fails you, is thi
group appointed by President John
son to investigate the assassinatiot
of Persident Kennedy.
It must be recalled that Presided
Johnson promised a quick ant
thorough investigation, with a fur
ther pledge that the Americas
people would promptly be advisee
of the findings of the investigation,
Not many weeks had passed, how
ever, when Chief Justice Earl War
ren, chairman of the commission
announced that some of the detail:
might not be released in our life
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j time. •
We cannot say that v ‘ -
ticularly surprised at I
events. In the first {
Justice Warren seemed to
credibly improper choice
man of the group. In the
place, as Chief Justice of the
ed States, there is thie distinct pos
sibility that Warren may on day
be called upon to sit in judgment
of some aspect of the matter.
And finalljr, we recall the Chief
Justice’s intemperate outburst at the
time the late President Kennedy's
body lay in state in the Capitol
Rotunda. Warem’s mind was made
up that day; he held no doubts as
to who was responsible for the
murder of the President. It turned
haw Professor
top staff assistant to the commis
sion. The chief counsel -for the
commission, J. Lee Rankin, says he
did not select Redlich. Rankin will
not, however, say who did.
. Our interest in Redlich lies main
ly in the fact that he is a member
of a 13-year-old Cqmmunist front
organization known as the Emer
gency Civil Liberties Committee
which has vowed to abolish the
Mouse UnAmerican Activities Com
remem
wbo shot the
• Oswald, be
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for Cuba Committee lohg after the
FBI had recommended that the
groubbe declared subversive.
The entire history of the Warren
Commission has been puzzling from
beginning to now. The idea for such
a commission was first publicly
recommended by the official com
munist newspaper, The Communist
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methods of operation since. But we
confess a certain amount of discom
fort in the fact that Professor Red*
lich continues as the top investi
gator fof the commission, particu
larly in the light of the Professor’s
leanings arid affiliations. Also, it is
somewhat disconcerting that no
body seems willing to take the re
sponsibility for Professor Redlich’s
appointment. Maybe that too, is
Something not to be revealed in
our lifetime.
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