I know the Crowns are "untouchables"...they sponsor the new president, but I can't help "speaking truth to power"...

http://www2.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/11/18/BU49588.DTL&hw=assassinated&sn=009&sc=442">

How Kennedy Assassination Affected Some Stock Prices

JONATHAN MARSHALL

"Nov. 18, 1996

....But the facts speak tellingly about how accidents of history can affect great fortunes.

A postscript for assassination buffs: No individual stood to lose more from the TFX scandal than Chicago investor Henry Crown, who owned 20 percent of General Dynamics. His personal attorney, Albert Jenner, became a senior staff attorney on the Warren Commission, in charge of investigating the possibility of a conspiracy.....

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/23/business/boeing.php

Boeing and General Dynamics report strong quarterly profit ...Apr 23, 2008 ... General Dynamics, the largest producer of armored vehicles for the U.S. military and a leading maker of business jets, said net income ...

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A DEFENSE COMPANY GIANT IS NOW A MAN ON THE RUN

- Philadelphia Inquirer - NewsBank - Jun 25, 1984

By his own estimation, he was the crown prince of General Dynamics Corp., heir to the presidency of America's largest defense company, a giant in a giant ...

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1976/ii761206.html

Corruption in the legislature: Cement Bribery Trial

Albert E. Jenner, Jr., attorney for Lester Crown and an architect of the package ..... However, prior to the cement bill trial, a district judge and later a ...

http://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=evica+jenner+crown&btnG=Search+Books

And We are All Mortal: New Evidence and Analysis in the John F. Kennedy ...‎ - Page 388

by George Michael Evica - 1978 - 465 pages

The Jenner-Henry Crown connection alone should have suggested conflict of interests to those responsible for selecting the Warren , Commission's counsel,

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THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

(COPYRIGHT, 1963 BY THE BELL SYNDICATE)

DREW PEARSON SAYSt (CAPS) SENATE PROBES B I G CONTRACT AWARD TO

GENERAL DYNAMICS j WAS CONTRACT INFLUENCED BY COL. CROWN'S POLITICAL

CONTRIBUTIONS?; WAS I T FOR PURPOSE OF BAILING OUT COMPANY IN

DISTRESS? (END CAPS)

WASHINGTON.--SENATE RACKETS CHAIRMAN JOHN MCCLELLAN, WHO HAS BEEN

INVESTIGATING LABOR RACKETEERS9 HAS TURNED TO THE PROBE OF A

$62,000,000 RESEARCH CONTRACT TC7 GENERAL DYNAMICS6 HE HAS EVEN ASKED

THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO HOLD UP THE CONTRACT UNTIL HIS INVESTIGATORS

CAN LAY THEIR CARDS ON THE TABLE.....

.....EFFECTIVE I N

THE BACK ROOMS, CROWN IS CREDITED WITH HOOKING THE DESPERATELY NEEDED

CONTRACT.

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Possibility of a Johnson Role in TFX Contract Raised by Senator at... - New York Times - Nov 20, 1963

The fact that the winning contractor plans to do most of the production of ... and inconsequential examples" of hia work for General Dynamics over two and ...

Deputy Says TFX Choice ' Right One ' WASHINGTON (#> ) —...

Daily Collegian (1940 - 1987) - Penn State University - Nov 19, 1963

... I - ed Read Findings Gilpatric said he read a - page summary of findings by Navy and Air Force experts on the competing bids over the weekend of Nov. ...

GILPATRIC'S ROLE IN TFX QUESTIONED; McClellan Raises an Issue of... - New York Times - Nov 19, 1963

... from the initial order of 23 planes may rise to $8 billion or $9 billion. ... denied that he had intended to equate his work for the two companies. ...

http://dspace.wrlc.org/doc/bitstream/2041/50074/b18f08-1123xdisplay.pdf

"DREW PEARSON MERRY-GO-ROUND, RELEASE SAT,, NOV, 23, 1963 JACK ANDERSON

WASHINGTON--IT WILL BE interesting TO SEE WHETHER SEN, JOHN MCCLELLAN, D-ARK,, REALLY tries to find OUT HOW MUCH BOBBY BAKER

KNOWS ABOUT THE TFX CONTROVERSY, THE STERN SENATE Investigation CHAIRMAN HAS PROMISED TO LOOK INTO published reports THAT BAKER

THREATENED T O EXPOSE SOME TFX SKULDUGGERY if his OWN GET-RICH-QUICK activities ARE scrutinized TOO CLOSELY, MCCLELLAN'S investigators WILL HAVE quite a trail TO FOLLOW. BUT IF THEY FOLLOW IT CAREFULLY IT WILL TAKE THEM THROUGH THE QUORUM CLUB, WHICH BOBBY FOUNDED, AND LEAD THEM IN THE direction of Vice President LYNDON JOHNSON.

Long Before the TFX contract was awarded to General Dynamics, the lobbyists and contractors has begun pulling and tugging on every

possible political string to land this biggest military contract with the Kennedy administration -- $5,600,000,000.

General Dynamic's board chairman, Henry Crown, slipped around Washington buttonholing Politicians he knew. One was Lyndon Johnson.

Crown, who contributed money to Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952 and 1956 when they were certain to win, hedged his political bets in

1960 by putting money on both sides. He also took pains to put $1,000 behind LBJ's campaign for the democratic nomination. The

vice president had friends at General Dynamics' Ft. Worth plant and was anxious to have the contract go to Texas."

Three shots and three weeks late, "problem" all gone...:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D16FE3F5B1A7B93C7A81789D95F478685F9

TFX Inquiry Seems Ended as McClellan Delays Hearings Indefinitely;...

New York Times - Dec 15, 1963

Senator John L. McClellan has indefinitely postponed hearings on the TFX airplane contract. The Arkansas Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Permanent ...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909713,00.html

The Colonel's Second Battle

Nov. 02, 1970

Few episodes in his half-century as an industrialist and financier have made Chicago's Henry Crown prouder than the work he did a decade ago at General Dynamics Corp. As executive committee chairman he helped manage the company's recovery from a $435 million loss on its Convair jetliners; it was the largest financial setback on a single product line ever sustained by a U.S. corporation.