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 The Butler committee uncovered little new information on the assassination of President Lincoln and was unable to establish any link between President Johnson and the conspirators. The body of evidence the Butler committee assembled argued against the charge that has reemerged on occasion since the 1860's that Andrew Johnson was a participant in or had knowledge of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. See generally "A Thousand Days" and Samuel Eliot Morison Henry, Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenburg "The Growth of the American Republic" (New York Oxford University Press 1977) volumn II. chapter XXX (hereinafter "Growth of the American Republic"). Id. "Growth of the American Republic," at p 762. "A Thousand Days, p 635 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. "Robert Kennedy and His Times" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978) Chapter 13.  Id. at 278  Id. at 281  Ibid.  Much of this account of President Kennedy's trip to Texas is based on the testimony of Governor and Mrs John B. Connally. See testimony of Governor and Mrs John B. Connally, Sept. 6, 1978, Hearings Before the Select Committee on Assassinations U.S House of Representatives, 95th Congress, 2d session (Washington D.C. U.S.: Government Printing Office, 1979) vol. I pp. 11-60.  "A Thousand Days," p. 755.  Id. at 98.

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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1964) pp 18-19. (hereinafter Warren Report)

Id. at 86-92.

Ibid.

Deposition of J. Lee Rankin, Aug. 17 1978. House Select Committee on Assassinations hearing. pp. 75-78 (JFK Document 014027) (for a copy of the deposition see "The Warren Commission," staff report, Appendix to the Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S House of Representatives, 95th Congress 2d Session (Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1979) vol. XI (hereinafter WC report — Appendix to the HSCA-JFK hearings —)).

Id. at 75.

Ibid.

Testimony of Robert Groden, Sept. 7, 1978, Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, 95th Congress, 2d session (Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1979), Volume I, p. 99 (hereinafter Groden testimony — HSCA-JFK hearings —)

Ibid.<section end="fn_A_008">

<section begin="fn_A_009" />JFK Document 002498

<section begin="fn_A_010" />Report to the President by the Commission on Central Intelligence Activities within the United States (Washington D.C.: U.S Government Printing Office, 1975).<section end="fn_A_010" />

<section begin="fn_A_011" />I HSCA-JFK hearings, 145.<section end="fn_A_011" />

<section begin="fn_A_012" />Testimony of Michael Baden, Sept. 7, 1978, I HSCA-JFK hearings, 185 (hereinafter Baden testimony).<section end="fn_A_12" />

<section begin="fn_A_013" />Report of the Forensic Pathology Panel in "Report on the Medical Evidence and Related Issues Pertaining to the Assassination of President John F Kennedy," report VII Appendix to the HSCA-JFK hearings (hereinafter forensic pathology report).<section end="fn_A_013" />

<section begin="fn_A_014" />Id. at 151ff.<section end="fn_A_014" />

<section begin="fn_A_015" />Report of Photographic Evidence Panel, VI Appendix to the HSCA-JFK hearings, para. 512-610 (hereinafter photographic evidence report)<section end="fn_A_015" />

<section begin="fn_A_016" />Forensic pathology report, para. 181ff.<section end="fn_A_016" />

<section begin="fn_A_017" />Photographic evidence report, para. 512-610.<section end="fn_A_017" />

<section begin="fn_A_018" />See JFK Exhibit F-19, I HSCA-JFK hearings, 182, and forensic pathology report, para. 205-235.<section end="fn_A_018" />

<section begin="fn_A_019" />Id. forensic pathology report at 461-557.<section end="fn_A_019" />