Louis Stokes

“Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and...”

“Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were allegi...”

“Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in...”

“Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibi...”

“There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the plann...”

“In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.”

“Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly...”

“There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authorit...”

“There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney G...”

“There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in th...”

“There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our com...”

“Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, th...”

“In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination...”

“The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.”