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Noyes stated that the title of his book referred to the “legacy of doubt” among the
American public resulting from the unanswered questions about the assassination, but in
the end, the reader is left with more questions and few answers. There is suspicion, but
not much hard evidence. One is left to wonder, like Noyes, “Was Eugene Hale Brading’s
rise to prominence in the organized underworld connected with his presence in Dealey
Plaza on November, 22, 1963? Or was his being there just an accident of history?” 410
Jack Anderson, Noyes and other Warren Commission critics did succeed in
convincing many Americans there was a conspiracy and pressuring Congress to open its
own investigation. During the 1970’s, two such congressional investigations uncovered
evidence that indicated the Mafia may have been responsible for the assassination of
President Kennedy. First, the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities – known as the Church Committee
after its chairman, Idaho Senator Frank Church – publicized its findings in 1976 that the
CIA had solicited help from the mob to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The CIA
had withheld information of the plots, which had occurred in the later months of the
Eisenhower administration and then the Kennedy administration, from the Warren
Commission – even though it raised questions about whether Castro had retaliated for the
attempts on his life by assassinating Kennedy or that the CIA and mob had conspired to
kill Kennedy instead of Castro. With widespread public skepticism about the findings of
the Warren Commission, the House of Representatives decided to establish a committee
410 Noyes, 230.
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