Warren Commission, ALS, Signed by Two LBJ Appointments

Warren Commission, ALS, Signed by Two LBJ Appointments Including Gerald Ford!

Black edged stationary card with "John Sherman Cooper" letterhead. Dated "August 9, 1990", and signed by John Sherman Cooper and Gerald R. Ford-Warren Commission. 6.25" x 4.25"

"I received your letter, and I thank you. I was appointed to the Warren Commission with former Senator Richard Russell … House of Representatives Gerald Ford, and another member of the House of Representatives … after three years I believe our findings were (illegible) Have you read the report of the Commission?

This important letter reflects on the findings of the lead appointments to the commission by LBJ.

On November 29, 1963, Lyndon Johnson appointed Gerald Ford and others to a "blue-ribbon presidential commission to investigate the assassination".

A copy of the transcript of that conversation between President Johnson and Gerald Ford is below designating his appointment:

(Gerald R. "Jerry" Ford): Yes, Mr. President. How are you, sir?

(President Johnson): Happy Thanksgiving. Where are you?

(Ford): I'm home, sir.

(President Johnson): You mean Michigan?

(Ford): No, no, I'm here in Washington—

(President Johnson): You're here in Washington? Well, thank God there's somebody in town! [Ford chuckles.] I was getting ready to tell [James] MacGregor Burns he's right about the Congress. They couldn't function.

(Ford): I thought your speech was excellent the other day.

(President Johnson): Why, thank you, Jerry. Jerry, I got something I want you to do for me.

(Ford): Well, we'll do the best we can, sir.

(President Johnson): I've got to have a top, blue-ribbon presidential commission to investigate the assassination. And I'm going to ask the Chief Justice to head it, and then I'm going to ask John [J.] McCloy and Allen Dulles.

(Ford): Right.

(President Johnson): And I want it nonpartisan. Now, I'm not going to point out I got five Republicans, two Democrats, but I'm going to do that, and I'm just . . . then you forget what party you belong to and just serve as an American.

And I want [Richard B.] Dick Russell [Jr.] and [John] Sherman Cooper, John Cooper, of the Senate. [Ford acknowledges.] Dick's on Armed Services over there, and I want somebody on Appropriations who knows CIA over in your shop—

(Ford): Right.

(President Johnson): —from the Appropriations angle, 'cause I'm covering the Armed Services angle with Russell.

(Ford): Right.

(President Johnson): I want to ask [T.] Hale Boggs [Sr.] and you to serve from the House—

(Ford): Well, Mr. President—

(President Johnson): —it'll be McCloy, and Dulles, and Ford, and Boggs, and Cooper, and Russell, and Chief Justice Warren as chairman.

(Ford): Well, you know very well I would be honored to do it, and I'll do the very best I can, sir.

(President Johnson): You do that, and keep me up to date, and I'll be seeing you.

(Ford): All right. Thank you very much—

(President Johnson): Thank you.

(Ford): —and I'm delighted to help out.

(President Johnson): Thank you, Jerry.

(Ford): Thank—

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