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HENRY B. GONZALEZ T.L.S.

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HENRY B. GONZALEZ T.L.S.
<b>982. (JOHN F. KENNEDY) HENRY B. GONZALEZ</b> (d. 2000) Congressman from Texas who served in the House from 1961 to 1998. Superb content T.L.S. on his Senate letterhead, 2pp. 4to., Houston, Jan. 9, 1995, to Robert Zuffenach regarding the FBI investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy! In small part: "<i>...I have never been satisfied with the investigations of the assassination. You may be aware that I was the one who introduced legislation to create the Select Committee on Assassinations...I had hoped to investigate all of the political assassination, including the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy; the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and the attempt to kill Governor George Wallace. My plans did not turn out as I had hoped. The Select Committee was finally formed in a Quixotic fashion, limiting its jurisdiction to the assassination of President Kennedy and Dr. King...the Select Committee...was hastily organized at the end of one Congress with a lame duck congressman as chairman. The Select Committee died...I was faced with an awesome task...of trying to reconstitute the Committee in face of numerous charges regarding steps that had been taken by the departed chairman...As it turned out, the committee turned into a `who dunnit' rather than...a legislative purpose...When the Committee announced its findings that the assassination of President Kennedy was...the result of a conspiracy...the germ seed for eternal conjecturing and infinite hypothesizing was planted...I was riding in the motorcade several cars behind President Kennedy when he was assassinated...I had...been apprehensive about going to Dallas all along, and had even tried to delete Dallas from the agenda...My worst fears were realized when I heard gunfire...</i>". Boldly signed, a bit of additional folding, with the original transmittal envelope, very good. A fine association piece!<b>$200-300</b>