H.R. Haldeman Archives

H.R. Haldeman: “We would be in a position to get all the facts “

Jefferson Morley June 17, 2014

“An investigation of the Kennedy assassination was a project I suggested when I first entered the White House [in 1969]. I had always been intrigued with the conflicting theories of the assassination. Now I felt we would be in a position to get all the facts. But Nixon turned me down.”

– H.R Haldeman, chief of staff to President Richard Nixon, from his book, The Ends of Power (p. 39).

Nixon asked CIA about the ‘Who shot John angle’

Jefferson Morley June 17, 2014

Nixon Helms — President Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms.

The 42nd anniversary of the Watergate burglary reminded me of Richard Nixon’s obsession with the “whole of Bay of Pigs thing.”

H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff for Nixon, wrote in his memoirs that he had come to the conclusion that his boss used the phrase as a kind of coded reference to the assassination of President Kennedy.

A tape of a conversation between Nixon and CIA director Richard Helms in October 1971 lends credence to the notion. Listen to the tape, published online by Luke A. Nichter, a history professor at Texas A&M University.

Nixon, it is clear, was interested in what he called the ‘Who Shot John?’ angle.

Listen. …

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H.R. Haldeman: “We would be in a position to get all the facts “

Nixon asked CIA about the ‘Who shot John angle’