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commission staff by New York Mayor Robert Wagner, long known for his
close relationship with the New York Jewish community, one might
suggest with good reason that Adams would be particularly attuned to
Jewish political concerns in light of his previous high profile appointment
as New York police commissioner.
Alfredda Scobey. Perhaps the least known of all of the commission
staff was its only female staffer. The law clerk to a Georgia judge—the
nephew of Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.), a member of the Warren
Commission—Ms. Scobey, then 51 and considerably older than virtually all of
her colleagues, was appointed to the staff at Russell's recommendation. She
served as his "observer" since the senator did not attend many
commission meetings. In light of the fact that Russell was later known to
be one of the Warren Commission "dissenters," Ms. Scobey must have been
quite alert in her observations. Among all of the commission staffers—and
perhaps precisely because of her alertness—Ms. Scobey never rose to any
type of prominence, returning to work as a law clerk until her retirement.
Charles N. Shaffer, Jr. Also practically forgotten as a member of
the Warren Commission staff, Shaffer was an aide to the U.S. attorney
general both before and after the Warren Commission. Shaffer's claim to
fame is that his most famous client was Watergate figure John Dean who
helped bring down the Nixon administration. Ultimately, as we shall see in
Appendix Seven, there was much more to the Watergate scandal than meets
the eye and it does indeed tie back to the Kennedy assassination—but not in
the way that so many JFK researchers seem to believe. So perhaps Shaffer's
reappearance in Watergate is really not a coincidence after all.
John Hart Ely. Another of the little-known junior staffers—only 24 at
the time—this Yale graduate was rewarded for his service on the Warren
Commission with a clerkship under Chief Justice Warren after the
commission closed up shop. Ely rose to become dean of the prestigious
Stanford Law School.
Clearly, then, there was a definitive "Jewish presence" on the staff of
the Warren Commission in virtually every key aspect of its inquiries. And
even where a Warren staffer was not necessarily Jewish, many of those
staffers had other connections which would make them "sensitive" to Jewish
concerns. This is not a pleasant topic and one which certainly invites
allegations of "anti-Semitism," but it is a topic that deserves examination
for the record, particularly in light of what is suggested in Final Judgment.
GERALD FORD'S MOSSAD-LANSKY CONNECTION
However, the "Jewish presence" on the Warren Commission has
another interesting facet—and one that has never been explored elsewhere to
the knowledge of this author.