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the things that we were looking forward to under Kennedy seemed to have
just sort of--my reaction was that they were killed with him in Dallas.
B:
Did this opinion change?
M:
Absolutely.
B:
Do you recall when and why?
M:
In retrospect I think
- the
Congressional records.
But just to begin with, you were elected to the
76th Congress in 1939 as a Democrat from Oklahoma, and you were succeSSively
reelected to the House through 1951.
At that time you were elected as
Senator and served in the Senate until
- Seminar.
The
date is February 24; the time is 4:15 in the afternoon; and my name is
David McComb.
First of all, Dr. Halperin, I'd like to know something about your
background--where you were born and when?
H:
I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois
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Could you date that information?
B:
That was a matter of a very short time after the legislation came
up, which was in March or April, it would have been formed.
G:
You were aware of the activities of the task force--the early task
force
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was invited to do so. My time over there was limited to about two weeks. Fortunately, it
was the two weeks when the action had really reached the highly interesting level.
My work on the study group had given me some familiarity with the rather
extensive ways
- people still felt that the treaty was contravened. This was a time when it was
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