Fwiw...
"Another popular criticism of the Warren Commission was that internal dissent was suppressed. Commission member Senator Richard Russell was the most prominent dissenter, inclined to challenge the conclusions of the Warren Report, flatly rejecting the single-bullet theory.
"In a taped phone conversation between Russell and LBJ on 18 September 1964, just before release of the Warren Report, the president asked Russell why he had recently left town in a rush, with Russell explaining it was due to his frustration with the commission:
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RR: Well, I was just worn out, fightin' over that damn report ... they were trying to prove that same bullet that hit Kennedy fust was the one that hit Connally ... went through him and through his hand, his bone, into his leg and everything else. Just lot of stuff there ... I hadn't, couldn't, didn't hear all the evidence, and cross-examine all of them, but I did read the record ... But we got you a pretty good report.
LBJ: Well, what difference does it make which bullet got Connally?
RR: Well, it don't make much difference. But they said that ... the same bullet that hit Kennedy hit Connally. Well, I don't believe it.
LBJ: I don't either. [LBJ had not received nor read the Warren Report at this time.]
RR: And so I couldn't sign it. And I said that Governor Connally testified directly to the contrary, and I'm not gonna approve of that. So I finally made 'em say there was a difference in the Commission, in that part of 'em believed that, that wasn't so ... But anyhow, that's just a little thang, but we --
LBJ: What's the net of the whole thing? What it say? That Oswald did it, and he did it for any reason?
RR: Well, just what he was a general misanthropic fella ... that he'd had never been satisfied anywheah he was on Earth, in Russia or heah, and that he had a desire to get his name in history and all. I don't think you'll be displeased with the report. It's too long, but it's a ... whole volume.
LBJ: Unanimous?
RR: Yessir. I tried mah best to get in a dissent, but they'd come 'round and trade me out of it by givin' me a little ole' thread of it."
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"Another popular criticism of the Warren Commission was that internal dissent was suppressed. Commission member Senator Richard Russell was the most prominent dissenter, inclined to challenge the conclusions of the Warren Report, flatly rejecting the single-bullet theory.
"In a taped phone conversation between Russell and LBJ on 18 September 1964, just before release of the Warren Report, the president asked Russell why he had recently left town in a rush, with Russell explaining it was due to his frustration with the commission:
BEGIN QUOTE:
RR: Well, I was just worn out, fightin' over that damn report ... they were trying to prove that same bullet that hit Kennedy fust was the one that hit Connally ... went through him and through his hand, his bone, into his leg and everything else. Just lot of stuff there ... I hadn't, couldn't, didn't hear all the evidence, and cross-examine all of them, but I did read the record ... But we got you a pretty good report.
LBJ: Well, what difference does it make which bullet got Connally?
RR: Well, it don't make much difference. But they said that ... the same bullet that hit Kennedy hit Connally. Well, I don't believe it.
LBJ: I don't either. [LBJ had not received nor read the Warren Report at this time.]
RR: And so I couldn't sign it. And I said that Governor Connally testified directly to the contrary, and I'm not gonna approve of that. So I finally made 'em say there was a difference in the Commission, in that part of 'em believed that, that wasn't so ... But anyhow, that's just a little thang, but we --
LBJ: What's the net of the whole thing? What it say? That Oswald did it, and he did it for any reason?
RR: Well, just what he was a general misanthropic fella ... that he'd had never been satisfied anywheah he was on Earth, in Russia or heah, and that he had a desire to get his name in history and all. I don't think you'll be displeased with the report. It's too long, but it's a ... whole volume.
LBJ: Unanimous?
RR: Yessir. I tried mah best to get in a dissent, but they'd come 'round and trade me out of it by givin' me a little ole' thread of it."
[22.0] The Warren Commission (2)