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many commission conclusions. Interestingly, Boggs, who died in a plane
crash in 1972, was once described as an "errand boy" 858 for Mossadconnected
Clay Shaw's close friend, Edith Stern, head of the WDSU media
empire in New Orleans that helped create Lee Harvey Oswald's public image
as a "pro-Castro agitator." Thus, Boggs and Hubert were positioned to
restrict inquiries into the Shaw-Banister-Ferrie apparatus in New Orleans that
was intertwined with the Lake Ponchartrain Cuban-exile training operations
of CIA contract agent and Mossad asset Frank Sturgis.
Burt W. Griffin. A junior member of Leon Hubert's commission
team investigating Jack Ruby's background, Griffin was a former assistant
U.S. attorney and practicing lawyer in Cleveland. Later a Cleveland trial
judge, Griffin—like Hubert—ultimately expressed some doubts about the
commission's findings but was never vocal about his reservations.
William T. Coleman, Jr. At the time of his appointment to the
commission, Coleman was one of the most prominent Black attorneys in
the nation, associated with the "political" law firm of Dilworth, Paxon,
Kalish, Levy & Coleman, headed by Philadelphia's former Democratic
Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Coleman's edge up the political/legal ladder
came, however, when he clerked in 1948-49 for Supreme Court Justice
Felix Frankfurter, one of the most ardent leaders of the Jewish community
in America. Coleman's clerkship came at the very time that the state of
Israel was being established. On the Warren Commission Coleman was the
senior member of a team examining "possible foreign conspiracies" 859
behind the assassination of President Kennedy. He found no such
conspiracies.
W. David Slawson. A Princeton graduate with a master's degree in
theoretical physics, Slawson essentially functioned as an assistant to
William Coleman—eleven years his senior—in "researching conspiracy
theories." 860 This was, needless to say, a highly unlikely post, to say the
least, for a young man with a background in physics and who was charged
with the responsibility of investigating foreign conspiracies which may
have been behind the assassination. Slawson gave up his study of
international intrigue after he left the Warren Commission and specialized in
the far less theoretical and highly unscientific fields of contracts and antitrust
as a law professor at the University of Southern California
Francis W. H. Adams. The former New York City police
commissioner from 1954 to 1955, Adams should presumably have been a
top-notch investigator for the commission. It appears, however, that Adams
was mere window dressing. Although Adams was supposed to be teamed
with Arlen Specter to track President Kennedy's activities in Dallas as well
as investigate the motorcade, Adams was, according to the National Law
Journal, "rarely present," 861 so much so that Chief Justice Warren mistook
him for a coroner testifying before the commission. Recommended to the