[B5JMS] ATTN JMS: Nightwatch/Home Guard in America?

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From: kurtullman at yahoo.com (Kurt Ullman)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:38:56 GMT
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In article <3D658378.1060508 at attglobal.net>, "John W. Kennedy" 
<jwkenne at attglobal.net> wrote:
>Andrew Swallow wrote:
>> The vice-president is always a suspect in an assassination.  The
>> investigation into the death of JFK was performed by congress.
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>Not by standing law, it wasn't.
>

Is there a standing law that rules on this or do they always have
to make things up as they go along. 

[Moderator note: they make it up as they go along.  Even if there were
a standing law, presidential assassinations are rare and important
enough that everyone involved will insist on making new laws for the
specific occasion.  You'd have to hard-wire it into the Constitution to
get any sort of consistency.  JHS]


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 23 Aug 2002 22:41:08 GMT
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>>> The vice-president is always a suspect in an assassination.  The
>>> investigation into the death of JFK was performed by congress.
>>
>>Not by standing law, it wasn't.

Here's the pertinent details from one of the many sites on the subject, just so
its clear who was on the commission and how it was formed:

"By his order of November 29 establishing the Commission, President Johnson
sought to avoid parallel investigations and to concentrate fact-finding in a
body having the broadest national mandate. As Chairman of the Commission,
President Johnson selected Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States,
former Governor and attorney general of the State of California. From the U.S.
Senate, he chose Richard B. Russell, Democratic Senator from Georgia and
chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, former Governor of, and county
attorney in, the State of Georgia, and John Sherman Cooper, Republican Senator
from Kentucky, former county and circuit judge, State of Kentucky, and U.S.
Ambassador to India. Two members of the Commission were drawn from the U.S.
House of Representatives: Hale Boggs, Democratic U.S. Representative from
Louisiana and majority whip, and Gerald R. Ford, Republican, U.S.
Representative from Michigan and chairman of the House Republican Conference.