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104-10096-10193 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/24/1976)

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                                      24 June 1976



        MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

        SUBJECT: .Senators Church and.Schweiker News Conference
                  Concerning Release of Senate Select Committee
                  Warren Commission Report


             1.  The following is a summary of the .23 June 1976
        news conference sponsored by Senators .Church and
        Schweiker concerning the release of the Senate
        Select Committee report relating to the investigation:
        of the assassination of President Kennedy:

              Senator Church opened the news .conference with
        a brief statement outlining the history of the-Senate
        Select Committee and indicated that.this report represents
        the last of -five reports issued by the:Committee during
        its tenure.  Senator Church praised Senator Schweiker
        and Senator Hart for their investigation concerning
        the Kennedy assassination and said that the.report's
        central.conclusion is that senior officials of both
        the CIA and the FBI failed to turn over relevant
        information to the Warren Commission.  Senator Church
        indicated that the reasons for the failure to turn over
        this relevant information are.unclear and then quoted
        from the report to the.effec-t that-the possibility exists
        that this non-disclosure was intentional.  Senator Church
        concluded his opening.statement by recommending that the
        matter be referred to the newly created oversight
        committee with the-recommendation that the committee
        continue this investigation to resolve unanswered questions.

             .Senator-Church .then gave the floor to Senator.Schweiker.
        Attached hereto is a copy.of Senator Schweiker's opening
        statement.  Following Senator Schweiker's reading of this
        statement-the news conference was opened to questions
        from reporters.

             A  general description of the questions and responses
        thereto follows:

                                                      8RETURN TO OIA
                                                      Background Use Only
                                                      'Do Not Reproduce.

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