From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: First Reports, WP, 1-19-70
Date: 7 Jul 1997 08:34:06 GMT

First Reports, The Washington Post, 1/19/70

All emphasis is my own.......................Michael Parks

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RUSSELL SAY HE NEVER BELIEVED OSWALD ALONE PLANNED KILLING
By Don Oberdorfer

   Sen. Richard B. Russell, who was a member of the Warren Commission which investigated the 
assassination of President John F. Kennedy, says he never believed that Lee Harvey Oswald 
planned the assassination alone.
   "I THINK SOMEONE ELSE WORKED WITH HIM (ON THE PLANNING)," the Georgia Democrat said in one of 
a series of taped television interviews to be broadcast next month by WSB-TV, an Atlanta 
television station.
   "THERE WERE TOO MANY THINGS - the fact that he (Oswald) was at Minsk (in the Soviet Union), 
and that was the principal center for educating Cuban students......SOME OF THE TRIPS HE MADE TO 
MEXICO CITY AND A NUMBER OF DISCREPANCIES IN THE EVIDENCE, OR AS TO HIS MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, 
THE LUGGAGE HE HAD AND WHETHER OR NOT ANYONE WAS WITH HIM - (that) caused me to doubt that he 
planned it all by himself," he said.
   Russell appeared to be in accord with the commission's conclusions that Oswald was the man 
who fired the shots at Kennedy, and that he acted alone.  "I think that any other commission you 
might appoint today would arrive at that conclusion," he said.
   Due to his doubts that Oswald planned the act alone, Russell said he insisted on a disclaimer 
sentence in the final report before he would sign it.  That sentence in the report, which was 
issued in September, 1964, says that "because of the difficulty of proving negatives to a 
certainty the possibility of others being involved with either Oswald or (Jack) Ruby cannot be 
established categorically, but if there is any such evidence it has been beyond the reach of all 
the investigative agencies and resources of the Untied States and has not come to the attention 
of this commission."
   THE MAJORITY OF THE SEVEN MEMBER COMMISSION, HEADED BY THEN-CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARREN, 
"WANTED TO FIND" THAT OSWALD PLANNED AND ACTED ALONE, Russell said.
   Some 25 hours of interviews, which constitute the most extensive memoir yet available on the 
long public career of the 72-year-old Georgia senator, will be condensed to three one-hour 
programs for the broadcast in Atlanta Feb. 11, 12 and 13.

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Russell seems to think Oswald made more than one trip to Mexico City.  He also questioned the 
whole Mexico City story (as anyone with a logical brain should).  He makes it sound as if the 
Warren Commission started off to prove Oswald was guilty.  Some investigation.

MP