WC general counsel and assistant counsel

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Thank you, Steve. Redlich was an interesting character indeed. Too summarize in general an interesting episode, Gerald Ford had brought up the idea that ideologs from either the right or left shouldn't make up any members of the counsel. An influential member of Ford's Michigan House District brought it to Ford's attention that Redlich had been the co--author of an article in a leftist magazine or publication that went too far left and Ford almost had Redlich removed but was outvoted by the majority of the other commissioners. It turned out that Redlich's name had been added without his knowledge and he was not one of the authors.  I'm writing this from memory from the book A Cruel and Shocking Act that I read years ago so don't quote me for exactness 

Yes, I'm familiar with that controversy too. Ford did indeed, at least from what I read in the same account you mentioned, apparently try to get him removed. Redlich was, well, he was a leftwinger and not a liberal. He thought the Rosenbergs and Hiss were innocent. Or at least they shouldn't have been given the death penalty (which he opposed throughout his life).  As to Hiss's innocence: What was he thinking?

Re Shenon's book: it's a pretty good overview of how the WC was formed and worked.

These were honorable men in a difficult situation. Sure, legitimate criticism of the investigation can be made; it was a product made by humans: what do people make that is perfect? But the claims that they deliberately covered things up is simply not, for me, true.

[Louis Earl]

But weren't all these lawyers dependent on the FBI as their investigators?

[Walt Cakebread]

But weren't all these lawyers dependent on the FBI as their investigators?

Yes ....Of course all these lawyers were dependent on Hoover's gang as their investigators...   Could there have been any doubt what the conclusion would be?

[Tom Scully]

.......
The Commission was made up of 14 Assistant Counsel and 12 named staff members plus additional personnel were hired to perform specialized functions, such as for the writing of the report.
The Assistant Counsel;

Francis W. H. Adams, (Satterlee, Warfield, & Stephens private law firm based in NYC and D.C)
Joseph A. Ball, (Ball, Hunt & Hart private law firm based in Long Beach and Santa Ana, CA)
David W. Belin, (Herrick, Langdon, Sandblom & Belin, private law firm based in Des Moines, Iowa)
William T. Coleman, Jr., (Dilworth, Paxon, Kalish, Kohn & Dilks private law firm based in Philadelphia)
Melvin Aron Eisenberg, (Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler private law firm based in NYC)
Burt W. Griffin, (MacDonald, Hopkins, & Hardy private law firm based in Cleveland, OH)
Leon D. Hubert, Jr., (Hubert, Bladwin & Zibilich private law firm in NO, Louisiana)
Edward Baldwin, Hubert's law partner, was brother of CIA covert agent and Clay Shaw hire, David Baldwin.
Robert Zibilich was a friend of the Baldwins and married their sister....

Obit of Garrison's wife's aunt, who was the mother of David and Edward Baldwin and of Mrs. Robert Zibilich:




Albert E. Jenner, Jr., (Raymond, Meyer, Jenner & Block private law firm based in Chicago)

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/07/magazine/the-ordeal-of-lester-crown.html
THE ORDEAL OF LESTER CROWN
BY BOB TAMARKINDEC. 7, 1986

...The family turned to Albert E. Jenner Jr., a lawyer and longtime friend who is on the board of General Dynamics. ''Whenever the kids got into trouble,'' Jenner says, ''they never bothered the old man. They talked to me, and I got them out of trouble.'' In return for his cooperation with the grand jury, Lester Crown was granted immunity from prosecution...
1946:

1956: Tom Clark appoints the son of Henry Crown.:

Law Clerks - The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark - Tarlton Law Library ...
https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/clark/clerks
Aug 24, 2018 - 1956-57, Harry L. Hobson; John J. Crown, 1966-67, Stuart Philip Ross; Marshall Groce. 1957-58, Robert Gorman; William D. Powell ...

Wesley L. Liebeler, (Carter, Ledyard & Milburn private law firm based in NYC)
Norman Redlich, (Professor of Law, NYU)
W. David Slawson, (Davis, Graham & Stubbs private law firm based in Denver, CO)
Arlen Specter, (assistant Philadelphia district attorney and private law firm of Specter & Katz, Philadelphia, PA)
Samuel A. Stern, (Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering private law firm based in D. C)
Howard P. Willens, (Second Assistant, Criminal Division USDJ) (In 1958, Willens's father, Joseph, put himself and his
wife in harms way by buying and moving into the River Forest. IL residence next door to the residence of Anthony Accardo.
......

Terrific post. Short and to the point. Two names jump out at me:
.....

At least two names jumped out at me, too.....

Earl Warren and his family; moths who danced a bit close to the flame....?

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=Conrad+Hilton+came+in+with+Virginia+Warren
The silver spade: the Conrad Hilton story‎ - Page xx

by Whitney Bolton - 1954 - 230 pages

"... he attended the opening of the Supreme Court, escorting Virginia Warren, daughter of the Chief Justice Earl Warren. Hilton is an old friend of Warren...."

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=crown+QUITE+INEXPLICABLY+Virginia+Warren
The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark‎ - Page 347
by John Tauranac - Travel - 1995 - 384 pages

Escorted by Colonel Crown and his wife, the couple was introduced to the Empire

... and, quite inexplicably, to Miss Virginia Warren, daughter of Chief ...

"...The building got it's money's worth in free publicity. The

queen said the view was "the most beautiful thing" she had ever

seen. She and Prince Philip were then guests at a reception in

the executive lounge. Escorted by Colonel (Henry) Crown and

his wife, the couple was introduced to the Empire State Building

directors and their wives, and QUITE INEXPLICABLY, to MISS VIRGINIA WARREN,

daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren..."

https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=Conrad+Hilton+came+in+with+Virginia+Warren

Saturday Review‎

by Bernard Augustine De Voto - American literature - 1958

Page 34

Conrad Hilton came in with Virginia Warren, daughter of the Chief Justice of the

United States, on his arm. And later, limbo dancers from Trinidad showed ...

Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba‎ - Page 191

by Rosalie Schwartz - History - 1997 - 247 pages

Conrad Hilton brought his own bodyguard, as did Virginia Warren, daughter of the

US chief justice. A trio of uniformed guards accompanied the Hollywood ..

Garrison is named in his wife's father's obit, as is Mrs. Harry Raworth, mother of Liz Garrison first cousins, David and Edward Baldwin
and Elizabeth Baldwin Zibilich.:

[Oscar Navarro]

But weren't all these lawyers dependent on the FBI as their investigators?

For the most part, yes. After all it is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They also relied on the Secret Service, Dept. of the Treasury, State Dept., C.I.A, Army and Navy Intelligence, other federal agencies and experts in various fields not associated with federal agencies, Dallas Police, Mexican Federal Police and Customs and Immigration, witness testimony, and their own acquired expertise in the area assigned to each associate counsel to arrive at a conclusion that was supported by a more independent investigation by the HSCA, with the exception of the soon discredited fourth gunman in the Grassy Knoll that missed.

[Oscar Navarro]

Yes ....Of course all these lawyers were dependent on Hoover's gang as their investigators...   Could there have been any doubt what the conclusion would be?

??.Considering that the preponderance of the evidence supported the WC conclusions.

[Oscar Navarro]

To Tom Scully...how much of a role did Leon D. Hubert play in the investigation. Once you acknowledge that the answer is minimal at best perhaps this 10th degree of separation guilt by association nonsense can be toned down a bit.....perhaps