The House of Representatives committee that reinvestigated the deaths of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King from 1976 to 1979, with G. Robert Blakey as chief counsel from 1977. Mae followed it from the start and expected a second cover-up. No. 288 is her account of telephoning Blakey.
Across the broadcasts
Met through one phone call, which Mae taped and turns into her case that the inquiry will clear the people it should investigate
September 26, 1977
Mae puts the committee to a yes-or-no test over a single document.
Her telephone call to chief counsel G. Robert Blakey the week before.
"I asked him, have you read the Torbitt document?"Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 30:49
Mae reports the answer as the result of the test: a chief counsel who will say neither yes nor no.
"He said, I will not tell you if I have it."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 32:11
Mae forecasts the committee's closing line two years before it reports, and plans her mailing so it can't be said.
"we can't go into the Kennedy matter anymore, we've given two years and two million dollars and found no evidence of a conspiracy."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 33:36
Mae keeps her own record of the committee's dealings with her, an archivist's move as much as a researcher's.
"Fortunately, I have learned to tape record these conversations. I didn't use to tape record them, but Ted Gandolfo taught me how to tape record."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 35:20
Connections
Hall's appearance was postponed to an unspecified date.
Blakey would not say whether the committee had it.