Three powerful Southern Democrats. In three neighboring Southern states. All were anti-Communist.
Wallace and Stennis were pro-war. Boggs may have been the father of Cokie Roberts, can't really remember. His aircraft was presumed to have gone down in Alaska, I think. He's famous for reading the announcement that the Soviets had invaded Czeckoslavakia back in 1968.
"On August 22, 1968, during a Democratic Party hearing on Vietnam, Representative Hale Boggs was handed a press wire disclosing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Following Boggs's announcement, Secretary of State Dean Rusk excused himself from the proceedings, explaining "I think I'll go and see what all of this is about."
Warren Commission member Boggs also called for the removal from office of his fellow Democrat J Edgar Hoover.
"On May 2nd, 1972, J. Edgar Hoover's chauffeur found his dead body sprawled on the floor of his home, ending a spectacularly colorful and controversial career. A little over a year ago, House Majority Leader T. Hale Boggs called for his removal as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (See April 22, 1971) For some time, Boggs had begun to feel more and more uncomfortable with Hoover's investigative methods. It all began with the WARREN COMMISSION: "Despite the Warren Commission's criticism of the FBI, the director had a vested interest in defending its conclusion that Oswald had acted ALONE. By the fall of 1966, dozens of books and articles had challenged the commission's findings. Hoping to find derogatory information that could be used to discredit these efforts, Hoover, at the president's request, investigated the authors of seven books critical of the Warren Report, turning up the information that one writer had been discharged from the military for mental problems while several others had belonged to leftist organizations."
By hook or crook political power shifted in a brief amount of time after "events" occurred to all three.
