Richard Russell

Richard Russell    (Lawyer)
Born	Richard Brevard Russell Jr. 1897-11-02 Winder, Georgia, U.S.
Died	1971-01-21 (Age 73) Washington D.C., U.S.
Alma mater	University of Georgia School of Law
Spouse	Never married
Member of	The Warren Commission
Party	Democratic
President pro tempore of the United States Senate  In office January 3, 1969 - January 21, 1971  Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations In office January 3, 1969 - January 21, 1971  Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services In office January 3, 1955 - January 3, 1969  Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services In office January 3, 1951 - January 3, 1953  United States Senator from Georgia In office January 12, 1933 - January 21, 1971  Governor of Georgia In office June 27, 1931 - January 10, 1933  Member of the Georgia House of Representatives In office 1921 - 1931

Describing the JFK Assassination, 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".

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
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

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