OSWALD ACTED ALONE, IS VIEW OF SEN. COOPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYR.GHT
'By RUTH MON'('GOMERY was struck Ms, fiend was up, by Oswald and discovered' iTn
News Amerl a;n Correspondent whereas it had to be down for the sixth floor of the Book Dc-,
CPYRGHT Hearst Headline Service the bullet to pierce both it and pository Building. We could
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 - Sen. John. Sherma ! his thigh. find no proof that he and Jack
"Sometimes in war soldiers Ruby knew each other, or that
Cooper, breaking 'tis silence on the raging controvers don't immediately-know they've Q,s,wald had acted in cuncert
Concerning the Kennedy assassination, says he is abso bcen wounded. There's 'often a with anybody.
; and
. .:'at .d acted alone played physical reaction ASKED IF HE did not con-
lutely convinced that Lee Harvey ~,
,: re talking of tenths of, sec-
The Kentucky Republican B U T T H E SENATOR di. ond in this case." cider it strange that officer J.
who was a member of the closed that he and Rep. Hal ! I3: Tippit was able to accost
,, Warren Commission, said in an Boggs were as?insistent as Se } P 0 I' N T I N G OUT that it Oswald so quickly after the
exclusive interview: "We quite Russell that the commission would be virtually impossible to assassination, without some ad-
naturally looked for a conspir- language on that point be sof assemble a more diversified, in- vance or unexplainable knowl-
[cy, but we could find no evi- ened from "categorical" dependent-minded panel' than edge, Cooper replied:
dente of such. We examined the, 'Persuasive evidence" of tl the c o m in i s s i o n members, "The whole case is strange. It
C case with unbelievable thor single-bullet theory. Cooper declared: is strange that the President
oughness, testing and re-testing, Disputing claims.that one "All of us were .searchingshduld have been shot, and that
hundreds of witnesses. i more shots were fired from ti constantly in every ~ possible Oswald. should have been work-
"Because t_ ___.__ _:._ _ __~~_~..~.,, __,__~?? ~ ., __ .
we were concerned front, which would necessity area for clues that might have ling in a building overlook.ingl
about Marina Oswald's testi-! a second assassin, Cooper safe been overlooked. I spent sev- the motorcade; and that Tippet
mony, (Sen. Richard) Russell] "As a former judge I've tri nights at the home' of (fors
and I flew to Dallas toward they shootings and murder cases, a cral and others should have been ex-
end of the hearings and re-ex-! there was hardly a one wh lamer CIA, Chief Allen) Dulles, actly wherethey?were at a par-1
amined her, with counsel' for! witnesses agreed about all tl and many hours in Russell's of- titular moment in history:
five or six hours.
Tice discussing it over and over. "It's natural, for Europeans
"WE WANTED to make ter- evidence, such as where t I did the same with (Rep. Ger- to disbelieve, because they're
ing back, that she had no new ald) Ford and-others-all of us accustomed to' assassinations-
fain that she, was holding troth- shots came from.
?Gov. Connally is an expo searching for any possible through conspiracies, but I per-
but we had rifleman, and when he heap 'holes., sonally am convinced, that there
facts to bring out;
"The over-all evidence led Was none.
to conclude that she herself had two shots he turned to <
back. Although he has ' iden each of us, with different types I m not trying to say that
become convinced of her bus-
band's guilt, after first thinking Pied the frame (of the amate of minds and different ways of we. commission members are .
him innocent." ovie) in which he thinks thinking, to the unanimous con- the only wise men, but we were!
if, in view elusion that Oswald was the the ones selected to sift all the
I asked the senator
sole party involved. evidence and make the deci-
of the doubts raised here and; "The only two bullets found sign. Oswald, I am sure,' acted
abroad, he thought that a re-' came from the rifle purchased alone."
view panel should reopen the
case, and perhaps utilize a dev-
il's advocate to try to rebut the
evidence.
Sen. Cooper replied: "I see
no need of it. I think our con-
clusions, were correct. We had
Mark Lane (author?of "Rush to
Judgment") before us twice un-
der oath, but he .could not pro-
duce any, testimony to support
the statements he'd been mak-
Ing."
Cooper, a former judge who
is known as "Mr. Integrity" in
the Senate, believes that the
same bullet which inflicted
President Kennedy's neck
wound! also p
Connally, despite il e yn or Release 2001/08/20 CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010'005-2
t~i1 -
sistence that he, was struck by
a different, second bullet.