Floyd Fithian
Floyd Fithian (politician) | ||||||||||
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Born | November 3, 1928 | |||||||||
Died | June 27, 2003 (Age 74) | |||||||||
Nationality | US | |||||||||
Alma mater | University of Nebraska | |||||||||
Member of | HSCA | |||||||||
Party | Democratic Party (United States) | |||||||||
US congressman and one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
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Floyd James Fithian was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Representative from Indiana as a Democrat.[1] He was one of the forty nine people who won election to the House of Representatives in the wake of the Watergate scandal during the 1974 House elections with Fithian himself defeating Earl Landgrebe, who became infamous for his stalwart defense of President Richard Nixon. He was one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) and believed that the Kennedy assassination in 1963 was orchestrated by members of organized crime.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191224085007/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41011949/the_star_press/</ref