Henry B Gonzalez v CIA

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-- ·FFICE OF CONQtESSMAN HENRY B. GONZALEZ

2312 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, D.c. 20515

Contact: Ga i l Beagle, 225-3236

NEWS RELEASE: For Immediate Rel ease, Wed

***GONZALEZ URGES COOGRESSIONAL S IUDY OF

U. S. Rep. Henry Gonza lez (D-

Rules Commi t t ee today and urged approval



Statement o f U S. Rep.

D-Texa

Before the House Rul

Wednesday, March

On beha l f o f himself and 64 co-sponso

H Res. 455, H. Res. 456, H. Res. 721, H.

l a t i o n which would e s t a b l i s h in the U. S.

committee o f seven members, appoin ted by t

studying the c i rcumstances surrounding the



No, I cannot, nor do I think my go

can produce such proof. As I have told a

as several individual s , beginning more th

readily available to me then there would

investigation. I would just s imp ly make



Many have asked me whether I did n

occurred. Well of course I did but t

before Watergate and I wanted to believ

the local , s ta te , and federal law enforcem

and find out the t ruth.

I was very suspicious when Jack Rub



had the opportunity to be brought to t r i a

As the r esu l t we have government

i f ied for a period of 75 years. I say t

as the eongress ' r ight to know the t ru th

the people wil l bet ter know how to handle

The recent CBS ser ies on the Ameri



Party would have fought for his nomination

to the wire.

His death - - a t an assass in s hand

disenfrancized many people from par t ic i

a candidate for the Presidency of the Uni



and who has been active in effor ts to get t

John Kennedy reopened, we are talking abou

of a family.

Not as much has been writ ten quest

Kennedy assassinat ion as the John Kennedy



Ear l i e r t h i s year a nun from my Sa

me to cont inue my e f fo r t s . She commented

about Pr e s iden t Kennedy's personal l i f e we

to por t r ay him a s someone unworthy o f the

Whether any of these cur ren t s to r i e

o f course not the quest ion a t hand. The



For one thing, I would l ike t o kno

E. Howard Hunt, who was la ter convicted o

National Committee headquart ers, to go to

before the police got there.

I would l ike to know how Bremmer c



FOREWORO

On November 21, 1963 I accomp

Kennedy to my home c i ty of San An

tremendous warm we l come .

~ a s among those who accompanied



Since the time I was f i r s t qu

my in teres t in reopening the study

President Kennedy numerous people

have shared with me the f indings o

gations - - among these peop l e are

scient i s t s and jus t ordi nary me r



I do not be l ieve tha t we shou

our invest igat ion t o jus t that of

fee l i t i s now time tha t we

been on our nation as the resul t o

t ions and the attempted assass ina

I t i s impo r t ant to f ind out



HENRY B. GONZALEZ

;l.Ont OUrtRICT, TO:X.U

BIDwt COUNTY

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SMALL BUSINESS

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SBA 0VXRSIOWT ANI) MINOKITYENTIDtl' lttU

CHAIRMAN,

RoeiHSON·PATMAN Acr,ANTI·TIWST. AND RnAT1i J>

MAT'I"UtS (AD Hoc)

BANKING, CURRENCY ANDHOUSING

SUDCOMMfT TDS t

HOUS ING AND COMMUNITY OJlV BLOPM.Dn

CHAIRMAN,

INftRHATIONAL O ~ M i l T IHST1TUTlONs

AND FINAI« K

March 13, 1



.Con ressman s

A rresteJ Alter



7 z f t J1 . . . / y>F?--· Mctrch 22 · 97. ' coNGREssroNAL RECO

T-be meanin g of tbe fl\le mnss: crc >;cemsclear. t t he Co llmun\S\,<; win de ciSively In

South VIetnam . W11:1t Is the pros¢ t?1-'in.'t, all forclr;ners would be cleared out of

the South, especially the hundreds of forelgtlnewsmen who are In nnd out of Saigon. Acurtnlll of Ignorance would descend. Thenwould begin a night of long knives. The warwas long and so are memories of old scoresto be settled. . . . Beyond this woUld comecommunist justice, meted out the "tymntsand lncl,eys." Personal revenge woUld be asmull wheel turn ing within the larger wheelof pnrty retribution."

But little of this would be known abl'ond.The communists In Vietnam w o ~ l < l create nsilence.

The world would call It peace.We nppcal to nll members of Congress to

keep th eso facts and these considerations Inmind. So Ions n.s we deny assistance, It is nforegone certainty that the Communists will

cent. Lnck of moblllty and reartillery support have Jed toposts. an Increasingly defensiv

higher cnsualtfes.

The supply drawdown andties of future aid evidently wIn President Thlcu's decisio

vnst sparsely inhabited a1·ensHighlands and the nortbcrnmor south Vietnam. The witbdrnforces to shorter Uncs and thmarUy or ar;rlcult urlll, constareas containing BO to 00 pecouutry;s population nnd ·arnba sound strategic move but ItsJmpact cannot yet be assessed.

. In these new circumstancesunconscionable for the Unitcrrect, to cu t off the ammunit

the weapons with which Wnarmed the South VIetnameForc 's proposal for a termin



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H22 8 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR

the point where I am impelled, in fact,compelled to speak out in order to protect what are pre

sently n t i a l victims

of highly sophisticated swindlers whotravel among the highest social and business groups of my community, my State,and of other States. Moreover. they seemto be doing it with impunity. t seemsthat neither the law enforcement of ficials of one or tl:Je other States is capable of rest ricting and restraining theseestablished criminals, and there alsoexists the incapacity of the local officialsof my own State, the enforcement of ficials, to do much about it.

Therefore, at this particular time Irise because I want to warn ciUzens inmY community that I may not have an

Nation in his capacity as a Mthe House of Representatives.Representative, the gentlemanscended the parochialism of a man who repl'esen ts onlydistrict.

Coming from the gentlemwords mean everything to me ,have been under attack. t hasexactly easy, ne ither has t bsome, nor could I truly say thawhelming preponderant majorpeople have not responded sycally. But the point Is when thare drawn It is not easy to poinn ot a happy thing to point to

society. to publish ers of newsowners or ma nagers of the lo



~ - .a ·ch . ' , 1D'i'5 CONGRESSIONAL RECOR

m 1r conununJtlcs. We h nve got to s tandup and roy th a t we arc with them andn ot wit h the criminal, no matter howsympathetic we may feel fown.rd those'1\'ho espouse c:ntscr. but clo wrongful actsin lllc name of th ose causes. f we do

n ;:,t I do not know of n.ny society in his tory that has long cndmcd when its

r r o v c cannot even furnish theprincipal ren:;on why governments areformed, wllicll is security to life andl m ::md if possible, t o pro perty, too.

I n San Antonio we are under a sh:ldow.As I s:dd before, it is o. long shadowbecause, believe it or not, it entailscrookedness in places nnd low. Itinvolves pco i1le in and out of publicoffice.

I h ave nl\\'nys said th at i f I hnd a listc f demons or those thintis· th a t I considered the mos t 1·eprchensible in li fe. lt

IJ cc:mse r like t o fe el In m y mindho cst nn ll I thin : that l I um hI ha ve been wrong, then m y hoimpe l me to co rrec t t he wr on g. Bun ot br owbeat me U} Lhe Im plitho.t £omebody is th reatening ap hy s lcnl violen ce . Those h l l l do

nn ybo d y uu i elderly \'.'Omen nn u sa u d I am ne i th er ouo.

T his sa me g e n t n hn.ppcth e one that felt ofTcnded bc.:has tiscd the mccUn. when on tsion of the Preci GonlC:Z Carrploit ;, which were n:1tionnlly rehe .holed himself up with h osta gStn.tc pcniLeuLiar.v a t Huntsviand later was killed. He wascr iminal and a dr urr addict whoin :> to find sympathy by snyin

the capacity t o be n lawyer orbut the reason he was not ei



- - Last Friday eveningPre s s As s i s t an t who has headed my s ta f f

she was h i t hard in ·the face by a large m

years o f age who with a s l ight ly-bui l t bage robbec1 h er of her {Urse ran l eavin



. A· V.J.c.:tim of C-r ime •••• ••• .continued from p

on a s t r ee t whi ch i s for th e most par t wewel l as in cars . She though t the youths wthe sidewa l k , abou t a b lock and a ha l f fronear the Capi.t o l . Had she had any indicat iwould hav e thr mlll. it a t them, and ran, she

The blow t o her face broke her nose and l enos e which required nine s t i tches a t the n

r g e n c y ward. Car t i lage f i r s t blocked aand throat spe c i a l i s t rese t her nose Mondindica t i on now, according to the doctor , t

i a l surgery , a t l east for the purpose of

In the 13 years she ha s worked for me in W



TI-i iS HEEK WITH HENRY B . JANUAR; 1

A Victim of Crime • • • • • • • • continued from pa

t ion. She did f ind that no one had to takebefor e she was f ina l ly s ewn up. After -wait e t a nus shot , her face washed, some gauzex -rayed twice , she went out of one c u b ~ c l ethat she had been t here qu ·Lt·e a while andwas there who could get around to s t f tchin

of t he rece i v i ng room ra ised his hand andr i gh t awa y, tha t the other doctor had l e f tShe sa id she f e lt espe c i a l ly thankful tha



- - - - -. ~ i l l be g l ~ d to send to any i n t e r e s t ed ch ere in W a s h ~ n n • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Deve l o ewho heads my s t a f f , who sus t a ined f a c i a l i n

he r purse January 17 (see l a s t week s news

rece ived her s e t of keys and a small s t ackwoman, about 18 years of age, who l ives in

eas t Washington a t the Dis t r i c t of Columbif ive miles away from the scene of the crime

t o ld he r t ha t h er littl bro the rs had f oun

near the hous ing p ro j ec t on t he i r way homeor other i tems which were in it have no t be

ass igned to th e case i s fo l lowing up on t h

fu e.sday evening a t the of f i c e , 11 days a f t e

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