HSCA Counsel
Serves as the committee's first chief counsel.
Role range: 1976-1977
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Richard Sprague Biography and Timeline
Follow Richard Sprague through 5 dated historical records for United States of America.
Richard Sprague, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1976–1977Years on this page
1976
1977
HSCA Resignation
Resigns after disputes over committee procedure and secrecy rules.
Role range: 1977-1977
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
Shortly after Chief Counsel Richard Sprague declined to sign CIA secrecy oaths and began asking pointed questions about Oswald's visit to Mexico City, he began to be denounced in the press and by his own committee chairman, Henry Gonzalez.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
The Church Committee's unfinished business fell to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)
The committee was almost terminated before it got started, rescued only by the resignations of Gonzalez and Sprague, and the apparent suicide of key witness George de Mohrenschildt
Records, sources and methodology
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