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Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and
the Conspiracy to Mislead History by Larry Hancock

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Government Reports and Documents

President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy 26 Volumes of Hearings and Exhibits, referred as the Warren Commission, after its chairman Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Investigation by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison into the assassination of President Kennedy, including Clay Shaw Trial Transcripts and Orleans Parish Grand Jury Transcripts.

Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, known as the Church Committee after its chairman Frank Church.

House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations Investigation of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as HSCA, 95th Congress, 2nd Session. Includes the report from staff members Dan Hardaway and Edwin Lopez Oswald, the CIA, and Mexico City referred to as the Lopez Report. 1976

President’s Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States was formed by President Gerald Ford. Headed by Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, known as the Rockefeller Commission. 1975

CIA Inspector General, Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation, October 1961, CIA History Staff files, HS/CSG-2640.

LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

Government Documents held at the National Archives and Records Service, College Park, Maryland:

  • Assassination Records Review Board
  • Central Intelligence Agency, John F. Kennedy Files
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, John F. Kennedy Files
  • President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

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Journals

Electronic Assassinations Newsletter

The Continuing Inquiry, Editor Penn Jones

From the Wilderness, Editor Mike Ruppert

The Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Editors George Michael Evica, Robert Chapman, Larry Haapanen, and Alan Rogers

The Third/Fourth Decade, Editor Jerry Rose

PROBE, Editors Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease

The Dealey Plaza Echo, Editor Mark Bridger

Dateline Dallas, Editors Larry Howard and Coke Buchanan