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  • June 23, 1964

    3:35 p.m.
    To Nicholas Katzenbach

    Johnson tried to return Attorney General Kennedy’s call, but had to settle for the deputy attorney general. This snippet is part of a 9-minute call.

    President Johnson: What do you think happened to them?

    Katzenbach: I think they got picked up by some of these Klan people, be my guess.

    President Johnson: And murdered?

    Katzenbach: Yeah, probably or else they’re just being hidden in one of those barns or something, you know, and getting the hell scared out of them. But I would not be surprised if they’d been murdered, Mr. President. Pretty rough characters.

    President Johnson: How old are these kids?

    Katzenbach: 20 and 24 and 22.

 
 
   
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