In the previous paragraphs, Mark Lane pointed out how the Warren Commission did
more than misrepresent their evidence, they flatly lied about some of it. Here's
some more examples:
"Ruby did not serve coffee and soft drinks alone to officers of the Dallas
police. His bartender had standing orders to serve hard liquor to all police
officers who came into the nightclub � an illegal practice. Nancy Perrin Rich,
who told Commission counsel that she 'was actually a bartender' and 'worked
behind the bar mixing and serving drinks', said that while she knew the law
prohibited the sale of hard liquor, she broke the law at Ruby's request. Asked
to whom she served liquor on Ruby's orders, she replied, 'The police
department.'
Q. Are you saying that Jack Ruby told you that when any member of the police
department came in, that there was a standing order that you could serve them
hard liquor?
Rich: That is correct ...
Q, Did they pay?
Rich: Oh, no; of course not.
Q, Was that an order too, from Mr Ruby?
Rich: That was.
'When they came in, by themselves,' Mrs Rich explained, 'I was to go get the
private stock, as he called it, special stock. They were served whatever they
wanted on the house.' Asked who enjoyed that privilege, Mrs Rich replied,
'Anyone that came in from the police department. Including certain attorneys in
town.'
Mrs Rich's testimony contradicted the Commission's conclusions and some of it
attacked the foundations of its reasoning. The Commission effectively rejected
her testimony by failing to publish a word of it in the Report. When the
Commission found material disconcerting, it often handled it in one of two ways.
It either minimized the importance of the evidence, here presenting it out of
context, there ignoring it altogether; or it challenged the probity of the
witness. The latter method, when equitably applied, is a commendable � often
valuable � procedure.
But were Commission witnesses fairly investigated? There is no certain way of
telling. Not one page of the Report or of the 26 volumes yields a definitive
answer. How many persons did the FBI and the Secret Service visit to secure
background information? Who selected the list of persons to be visited? On what
basis were they chosen? A final judgment of the fairness of the background
investigations must be withheld. However, the decision to conduct such
investigations appears to have often been unfair. Those whose testimony
conformed to the Commission's case were not investigated, while those whose
testimony challenged it almost invariably were. Howard Brennan, who stated that
he saw Oswald on the sixth floor of the Book Depository, was not investigated.
But when Arnold Rowland stated that he saw two men on the sixth floor, the
Commission went so far as to call Rowland's wife and ask her if her husband ever
told her fibs about his report cards from school."
Mark Lane is now pointing out that not only did the Warren Commission
misrepresent their own evidence, they flatly lied about much of it... kooks such
as Billy Clarke have no answer to this...
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