</s>7. of Allegiance for a short-lived (three issues) underground COMFENTIAL campus paper, called The Oolion. While I enjoyed the shock- effect I could produce in classes and among friends by argus- ing such issues as the Pledge, I was surprised when people I know began reforming to us as a "Communist", which I certainly wasn't, How things have changed! A young man in high school today would never be called a Communist for arguing against nationalism and for supporting the U.N. that was only eight years ago! In my last year of high school I made my most important Intellectual discovery -- C. Wright Mills. I read his book, Insten Yankee and because a supporter of the Cuban Revolution. In an opinion poll for the school newspaper, I described the Cuban Revolution as "en independent socialist revolution." which will determine its own destiny outside of either bloc." Next I read Mills' The Causes of World War Three, and bought myscle a ban-the-bomb button. I and the most political of my friends, who influenced me the most, practically hero-worshipped Mills, and tape recorded a two hour program off of KPX on Mills' life by Saul Lendon, his secretary. Two periodicals, both now defunof, were originally intended to continue Mills' work: Root and Branch and Studies on the Left. Hills showed us the basic relevance of radical politics, and predicted the development of a New Left in America. his explained that private problems are not really private problicas at all, but are actually public issues, confronting privatized, compartimentalized and powelens individual. 19 CONFIDENTIAL 2025 RELEASE E.O. 14176

**John F. Kennedy**

* Assassination occurred on November 22, 1963
* Location: Dallas, Texas

**Investigations**

* FBI investigation led by Director J. Edgar Hoover
* Warren Commission established to investigate the assassination
* Commission's findings: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy

**Related Individuals and Events**

* Lee Harvey Oswald: assassin of John F. Kennedy
* Jack Ruby: killed Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963
* Sirhan B. Sirhan: assassin of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
* Jerry Bruno: staff member for Senator Robert P. Kennedy
* Gary Wayne Dotterman: volunteer advance man working with Jerry Bruno

**Locations**

* Dallas, Texas: site of John F. Kennedy's assassination
* Los Angeles, California: location of related investigations and events

**Dates**

* November 22, 1963: date of John F. Kennedy's assassination
* May 2, 1968: date of Sirhan B. Sirhan's conversation with Walter S. Crowe Jr.
* June 5, 1968: date of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination

**Evidence and Testimony**

* Polygraph examination of Walter S. Crowe Jr. revealed his involvement in discussions about politics and the Communist Party with Sirhan B. Sirhan
* Interview with Detective Sergeant Mike Nielsen regarding Nancy Joan Hamilton (also known as Nancy Jan Hawton)
* Information provided by the Office of the California State Attorney General regarding Nancy Joan Hamilton

**Sirhan B. Sirhan**

* Convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968
* Possible connections to Al-Fatah and Israeli intelligence
* Sniper attack on Saidallah Sirhan, his oldest brother, in July 1968
* Claimed interest in buying a horse from a local minister on the night before the assassination

**Other Individuals**

* James MondeLL: former Catholic priest seen walking with Kennedy's group at the Ambassador Hotel on the night of the assassination
* Jose Duarte: anti-Castro leader who claimed to have gotten into a near-fight with Sirhan at a pro-Castro meeting before the assassination
* Vincent DiPierro: witness who saw Sirhan and a woman in a polka-dot dress smiling as he opened fire on Kennedy

RFK Declassified Files

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