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Chief Justice Warren, Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin and Bobby Kennedy spent 45 minutes with Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home when she told of the assassination. She served lemonade, replied softly to Rankin's gentle questioning. Excerpts...
...assist them, the Commission members named as their chief counsel James Lee Rankin, 57, a top Manhattan attorney who had been President Eisenhower's Solicitor General, carried the Government's argument in the 1953 school-desegregation cases and the Little Rock high school case. Rankin recruited a staff of 14 outstanding private lawyers and law professors. All 56 field offices of the FBI lent their help. So did the CIA, the Secret Service, the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service?and even the Soviet government, which sent in sketchy reports of Oswald's 32-month stay in Russia...
Leaky Pipeline. Indeed, Hearst's serial paid less tribute to the enterprise of journalism than to the astonishing porosity of the supposedly secret Warren Commission's report. In the wake of publication, the commission's chief counsel, J. Lee Rankin, expressed his distress, not that the confidential transcript had been leaked, but that anyone might think a commission member had leaked it. "There were other people who had access to the testimony, lawyers for the defense and the prosecution during Ruby's trial," he said. Going somewhat above and beyond the call of duty, the commission...
Winton B. Rankin, an FDA spokesman, told a special Senate subcommittee that the agency had found no evidence that such impurities are to blame; for safety's sake the FDA is continuing its investigation. There is no doubt, however, that some wearers of contact lenses suffer eye damage from other causes. Explained Rankin: "It appears that the principal difficulty arises from improper fitting, insanitary practices by the wearer, or wearing the lenses too long at a time." On that, optometrists and ophthalmologists, who have differed sharply over the fitting of contacts, were for once in agreement...
Much Better, Thanks. In his first political venture-a congressional primary race in Montana's First District in 1940 -Mansfield finished third, but he has never lost an election since. In 1942 he succeeded G.O.P. Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, who was the only member of the House to vote against U.S. participation in both World Wars I and II. After five terms, he was ready for the Senate. In the 1952 race, Joe McCarthy descended on Montana to campaign for G.O.P. Incumbent Zales Ecton, accused Mansfield of promoting...