John Sherman Cooper Quotes

• We provided complete protection to witnesses – right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.

  John Sherman Cooper

• We found what we could at that time – the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn’t find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth.

  John Sherman Cooper

• Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

  John Sherman Cooper

• There was no testimony of conspiracy – Oswald’s efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

  John Sherman Cooper

• There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.

  John Sherman Cooper

• The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

  John Sherman Cooper

• The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

  John Sherman Cooper

• The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don’t think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

  John Sherman Cooper

• The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

  John Sherman Cooper

• Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn’t care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

  John Sherman Cooper

• Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.

  John Sherman Cooper

• Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

  John Sherman Cooper

• It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

  John Sherman Cooper

• I don’t think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.

  John Sherman Cooper

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Birth:	23rd August, 1901
Death:	21st February, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Jurist, Politician

About

John Sherman Cooper was born in Somerset, Kentucky, USA. He was an American Republican politician, jurist and diplomat. He served as the United States Senator from Kentucky (1946-49, 1952-55, and 1956-73). He also served as U.S. Ambassador to India from 1955 to 1956 and U.S. Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976. He studied at Centre College, Danville. He earned a BA degree from Yale University in 1923. He also studied at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar by examination in 1928 and opened a legal practice in Somerset. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1928 to 1930. In 1930, he was elected county judge of Pulaski County. After a failed gubernatorial bid in 1939, he joined the U.S. Army in 1942. During World War II, he earned the Bronze Star Medal for reorganizing the Bavarian judicial system after the allied victory in Europe. He was also elected circuit judge for Kentucky's 28th district.

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