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 Richard Russell     ( Lawyer) | ||||||||||
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| Born | Richard Brevard Russell Jr. November 2, 1897 Winder, Georgia, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | January 21, 1971 (Age 73) Washington D.C., U.S. | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Georgia School of Law | |||||||||
| Parents | • Richard Russell Sr • Ina Dillard Russell | |||||||||
| Spouse | Never married | |||||||||
| Member of | The Warren Commission | |||||||||
| Party | Property "Has politicalParty" (as page type) with input value "Democratic|Democratic" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.[[Democratic|“Democratic”]] | |||||||||
"A man of great integrity and despite his being LBJ’s mentor in the Senate, he insisted on issuing a dissenting report [to the Warren Commission."
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Not to be confused with JFK Assassination researcher Dick Russell
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was a US politician on the Warren Commission.
Mark Gorton notes that Richard Russell was "a man of great integrity and despite his being LBJ’s mentor in the Senate, he insisted on issuing a dissenting report. However, Senator Russell’s report was suppressed and only surfaced decades later in his private papers".[1]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Hale Boggs | “This is somewhat like the position the Warren Commission took when Richard Russell, Hale Boggs and John Sherman Cooper refused to sign the draft of the Warren Report until a qualifying statement was inserted. The statement read, ‘Because of the difficulty of proving negatives to a certainty the possibility of others being involved with either Oswald or Ruby cannot be established categorically but if there is any such evidence it has been beyond the reach of all the investigative agencies and resources of the United States and has not come to the attention of this Commission.’” | Hale Boggs Richard E. Sprague | 1985 |
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Description |
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| Warren Commission | 29 November 1963 | 24 September 1964 | A "Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel" (in the words of Nicholas Katzenbach) convened to "head off public speculation [about the JFK assassination] or congressional hearings of the wrong sort." |
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