people might say today that his home was an armed compound, weapons were everywhere including howard thompson's submarine gun. after the acquittal which he predicted. a white man has as much chance for being convicted of killing a black man in mississippi for being convicted for hunting deer out of season, he gave speeches under the sponsorship of the naacp as wilkins arranged for these speeches. spoke to crowds of thousands as a result of this work, had california eagle called him the most hated and best-loved man in mississippi. he constantly pushed the argument in his speeches that more than two people were involved in the murder. it wasn't just the two. more than 50 years later we now know from an fbi investigation or at least it's been confirmed that, yes, more than two people were involved in the murder of emmett till. his speeches also criticize the fbi which is something a 1955, which you did not do very often. the fbi was at the height of its power. he so enraged j. edgar hoover that he wrote an open letter to howard which he released to the press which he called howard's charges basel

predecessors and i see it as two important questions -- howard baker as what to the president know and when did he know in the watergate hearing and then fred thompson was his minority counsel and he said mr. butterfield, or there any recordings of the office of those became the nixon tapes. and as a matter of interest at that time the watergate hearings were on every day for five or six hours a day on all -- and there are only three television networks and it was on all three networks. a senator in no way told us after about a month george gallup came and told him it was only one person in the u.s. but in on the senator and it was president nixon because the whole country was riveted to that set of hearings in this room. in case senator kennedy is listening which i hope he is, i would like to say to him how much we wish you were here because we know how i'm for this bill is two him and he is important to us and we hope he is doing well. out like to express my appreciation to senator dodd for his courtesy is since he suddenly took over this proceeding in the midst of his other responsibilities, he does that as carefully and well as any member of the