Nicholas Katzenbach

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Person.png Nicholas Katzenbach  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Member ofCouncil on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Rhodes Scholar/1947

JFK assassination

According to a memo of November 25 1963, from Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, it was important then to persuade the public that "Oswald was the assassin," and that "he did not have confederates."[1]


 

A Document by Nicholas Katzenbach

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Nicholas Katzenbach on the importance of reassuring the US public about Oswaldmemo25 November 1963Lee Harvey Oswald
JFK/Assassination
"The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial. Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off..."
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References

  1. “Memorandum for Mr. Moyers” of November 25, 1963, FBI 62-109060, Section 18, p. 29, link. Cf. Nicholas Katzenbach, Some of It Was Fun (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008), 131-36.


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