FULBRIGHT URGED TO TELL 'ALL' ABOUT TONKIN GUIF

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: June 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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DAILY NEWS
JUN 3 1966
WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE
Fdbrigb1t Uri, to Tell
About Tnfrmn Gulf
C Y
bunts led to passage o
Tonkin Resolution which
-President Johnson has cited as
a congressional mandate to.flght
.communist aggression in
Southeast Asia.
QUOTES HEARING
Son. Simpson said Sen.
Fulbright, at a hearing of his
'-Senate Foreign Relations
Committee May 9, claimed
"... there has, come bo. my
attention suggestions that the
whole affair was very
i,.questionable as to the character
of the attack upon our ships on.
by, North : Vietnamese borpedp
A Republican senator,
yesterday urged Sen. J. William
Fulbright (D., Ark.), to reveal
all he knows about the 1964 Gulf
of Tonkin incident of Viet Nam.
Sen. Milward Simpson (R.,
Wyo.), told the Senate that Sen.
Fulbright. had raised a
fundamental challenge to the
Johnson Administration's
position on what happened in
,the Gulf of Tonkin in August,.
1964.
The Administration's claim
that American. destroyers were
attacked in international waters
the high seas. .
quoted Sen. Fulbright as saying
that 'the whole purpose of the
resolution was to inflame
persons during an election year.
Asked ' about the Simpson
speech, Sen. Fulbright said only'
that.. he had received a
memorandum from an
unidentified retired , admiral
questioning the validity of the
Administration's explanation of
the Gulf of Tonkin attacks.
LACKS EVIDENCE
"Obviously, 'there is3 no way.
for. me or anyone else to prove,
the contrary to . what they.
assert,". he "I :. never,
asserked 'that, I had' evidence, of
The Wyoming senator further
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