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Special Collections Library Hosts Event Today on JFK Investigation and Senator Richard B. Russell

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The UGA Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library is hosting a panel on the investigation into JFK’s assassination. 

 

The Warren Commission was put together by President Lyndon B. Johnson to determine what exactly happened when JFK was killed in November 1963.  Senator Richard B. Russell (Democrat --Georgia), who the library is named after, served on the Commission.

 

Charles Campbell, former chair of the Richard B. Russell Foundation, and one the panel speakers, said that Russell wasn’t sure about some of the Commission’s findings, such as that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and he vocalized them.

 

“And so, Senator Russell was not willing to agree to a categorical statement that there was no conspiracy. And ultimately, they changed the language in the final report to accommodate Russell’s views,” said Campbell. 

 

But Russell’s dissent was not recorded in the Warren Commission records. The panel will focus on what that meant and its relation to the recently released classified records on JFK.   

 

The panel will take place on Thursday, November 16th at 4:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Library auditorium. It is free and open to the public.