Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
* * * had planned while in Munich that in order to accomplish
our goals, to try to do it from scratch would be almost
impossible, because it would be years before we could even get
the funds to develop a powerful organization. So we had planned
to infiltrate various rightwing organizations and by our own
efforts become involved in the hierarchy of these various
organizations and eventually get ourselves elected or appointed
to various higher offices in these organizations, and by doing
this bring in some of our own people, and eventually take over
the leadership of these organizations, and at that time having
our people in these various organizations, we would then, you
might say, call a conference and have them unite, and while no
one knew of the existence of CUSA aside from us, we would then
bring them all together, unite them, and arrange to have it
called CUSA.[C6-455]
Schmidt was the first to leave the service; settling in Dallas in
October 1962, he became a life insurance salesman and quickly engaged
in numerous political activities in pursuit of the objectives devised
in Munich.[C6-456] He became affiliated with several organizations and
prepared various political writings.[C6-457]
Upon their release from the military, Weissman and Burley did not
immediately move to Dallas, though repeatedly urged to do so by
Schmidt.[C6-458] On October 1, 1963, Schmidt wrote Weissman: “Adlai
Stevenson is scheduled here on the 24th on UN Day. Kennedy is scheduled
in Dallas on Nov. 24th. There are to be protests. All the big things
are happening _now_--if we don’t get in right now we may as well
forget it.”[C6-459] The day of the Stevenson demonstration, Schmidt
telephoned Weissman, again urging him to move to Dallas. Recalling that
conversation with Schmidt, Weissman testified:
And he said, “If we are going to take advantage of the
situation * * * you better hurry down here and take advantage
of the publicity, and at least become known among these various
right-wingers, because this is the chance we have been looking
for to infiltrate some of these organizations and become
known,” in other words, go along with the philosophy we had
developed in Munich.[C6-460]
Five days later he wrote to Weissman and Burley to report that as
the “only organizer of the demonstration to have publicly identified
himself,” he had “become, overnight, a ‘fearless spokesman’ and
‘leader’ of the rightwing in Dallas. What I worked so hard for in one
year--and nearly failed--finally came through one incident in one
night!” He ended, “Politically, CUSA is set. It is now up to you to get
Ambus going.”[C6-461]
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