KTLA News: "Press conference on investigation of assassination plot" (1972)
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The KTLA newsfilm collection at UCLA consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound.
Title: "Press conference on investigation of assassination plot." January 26, 1972.
Summary: Two unidentified men speak at a podium, one after the other, possibly as part of a press conference. The first man talks about a history of men who stand for popular causes being assassinated and urges the FBI to involve itself in this investigation before anyone is killed. According to the second man, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says they don't have jurisdiction even though the man hired to do the murder was an expert in the use of explosives. He believes that not only should they continue investigating, but there should be a review as to why the case was dropped. The roll of film was originally labeled "Cesar Chavez," and it may be that they are talking about the 1971 assassination plot on Cesar Chavez.
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Complete Record: The KTLA newsfilm collection at UCLA consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound. Title: "Press conference on investigation of assassination plot." January 26, 1972. Summary: Two unidentified men speak at a podium, one after the other, possibly as part of a press conference. The first man talks about a history of men who stand for popular causes being assassinated and urges the FBI to involve itself in this investigation before anyone is killed. According to the second man, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says they don't have jurisdiction even though the man hired to do the murder was an expert in the use of explosives. He believes that not only should they continue investigating, but there should be a review as to why the case was dropped. The roll of film was originally labeled "Cesar Chavez," and it may be that they are talking about the 1971 assassination plot on Cesar Chavez. Learn more about this UCLA Film & Television Archive project: ucla.in/1SONCuw © 2016 The Regents of the University of California
Transcription
...that would seem to me that with the record that we've had in our nation of the assassination of illustrious men who have stood for the correction of our wrongs and have stood on behalf of popular causes, that it is absolutely without understanding that the federal government should drop the investigation, that they did continue, for some time. And the OAW would like to ask the Federal Bureau of investigation involve itself immediately and directly in this investigation. We should not wait until after... men are killed, when we have as much evidence as is here available, to which Mr. Cohen and Mr. Shears can speak, if there are questions. But certainly it is the duty of the federal government to take all actions before such an appalling event, event may take place. Originally when we were first contacted by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms division of IRS, we were told that the man who was hired to do the murder, was also an expert in the use of explosives. That it was very possible that he had in his possession, 120 sticks of high-powered dynamite, caps and cord and enough to blow up all our offices all over the state. And, they have jurisdiction to investigate possession of illegal explosives. Now it seems to me that once they got that jurisdictional hook, until they pursue the investigation through to the end, I don't think they had any right to drop it. Now what they told Mr. Shears subsequent to that, which we then found out later in December, was that since this particular man had been picked up, therefore the probability of the use of explosives was diminished and they didn't have jurisdiction anymore. I don't buy that argument. And I think that, that the whole question of why they closed the case has to be examined very closely.
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