Word: warren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet long or wide. An exception was an aircraft sign saying WELCOME. Near by two scorched dogs lay dead on their backs. All the coroner's crews could do was pick up parts of bodies and put them into yellow plastic bags. Said Deputy San Diego County Coroner Warren Chambers: "It may be many days before we will be able to match parts or even determine how many bodies we have...
Ford acknowledged that the CIA had never told the Warren Commission about its attempts to assassinate Castro. "Why we weren't given it, I frankly don't understand," he said. Yet he insisted that the information would not have changed the commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone, because the members had thoroughly studied the possibility of Cuban involvement anyway. Ford said the idea was presented in strong arguments by the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, who felt that Castro was somehow involved...
Helms, who was CIA liaison to the Warren Commission, admitted to the committee that he had not told the commission about the Castro assassination plots, but, noting that John McCone was then CIA director, he asked: "Why single me out as the guy who should have told the Warren Commission?" Did he now believe that he should have informed the commission? Helms, who grew short-tempered as the committee grilled him for seven hours, replied: "Yes, I should have backed up a truck and taken all the documents down to the commission...
Former FBI Agent James R. Malley, who was the bureau's emissary to the Warren Commission, was just as forceful in disputing claims that the FBI's assassination investigation had been deficient. Said he: "You have had the benefit of the Rockefeller Committee, the Church Committee, all of our files. Maybe you could tell me what you think we did wrong...
Bird's appointment was attacked from the outset because she was considered "soft" on crime and the death penalty, and because she had no prior experience as a judge. (Neither did Felix Frankfurter or Earl Warren before they sat on the U.S. Supreme Court, her defenders pointed out.) "She has a very clear mind, a good heart and strong administrative legal skills," said Governor Jerry Brown when he elevated Bird to the court from her prior post as head of the state's agriculture and services agency. "She is vindictive, snaps back and is autocratic as she can be," charges...