Louisiana Democratic Rep. Hale Boggs, House Majority Whip in 1963, doubted a single bullet killed President John Kennedy, his daughter, journalist Cokie Roberts, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
"He was somewhat skeptical of the single bullet theory," Roberts said Friday. "It's somewhat difficult to see this bullet taking that trajectory."
Boggs served on the Warren Commission established by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination of Kennedy. Roberts, 19 years old at the time, described the days directly after Kennedy's death when LBJ called her father to ask him to be on the commission.
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"I came home from college for Thanksgiving right after the assassination. And, I remember being in the den of the house I still live in, and the phone ringing.
"It was President Johnson. . . calling to talk about the establishment of the commission. And, I can remember my father so well saying, 'We need a blue ribbon commission to put everything to rest, so that the American people know that we have examined every possibility, and we know exactly what's happened,'" Roberts said.
Since Kennedy's death, numerous conspiracy theories have swirled around Kennedy's death. Roberts maintained people have a difficult time accepting Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman in the assassination.
"I really think the problem is that it's very hard for people to accept that one deranged soul could have such an enormous impact. It's so much easier to believe in a conspiracy, because it's rational," she said. "My personal view is that's not the case."
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