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Congressman Moakley Papers Documents

The following digitized content includes materials that document Congressman Moakley's early life, his World War II service, his work in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate, and the U.S. Congress.

For a full list of the collection, including non-digitized items, consult the Moakley Papers Collection Guide.

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Program of the vigil service "Martyrs in a Martyred Land: A Religious Vigil Service to Remember Six Jesuits and Their Two Co-Workers Murdered by the Salvadoran Army," 16 November 1989

Quixote Center
Excerpt of report on the United Nations' responses and criticisms to human rights violations in South America,1 December 1989

Fred Salvucci
"The Jesuit Murders: A report on the testimony of a witness," a report by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights to The Jesuit Conference, The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, and The Jesuit Secondary Education Association regarding interviews of Lucia Barrera de Cerna and her husband Jorge Cerna. Page 16 of this document is missing, 15 December 1989

Fred Salvucci
"The Jesuit Murders: A report on the testimony of a witness," a report by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights to The Jesuit Conference, The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, and The Jesuit Secondary Education Association regarding interviews of Lucia Barrera de Cerna and her husband Jorge Cerna, 15 December 1989

William Twomey
United Nations Security Council report on Resolution 637, 27 July 1989

United Nations. Security Council and Javier de Cuelllar

Report was faxed to Sophie Hayford from Nancy Carter on 8 February 1990 and includes remarks by Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar after his meeting with Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani on 31 January 1990.
Congressional Record article, "El Salvador No Longer a Country, but a Battlefield," 14 November 1989

United States. Congress
Congressional Record article, "Salvador Killings Rise Despite U.S. Plea," 16 March 1989

United States. Congress
Information sheets on the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project that provide project summaries, funding, facts, newspaper clipping and map, January 1989

United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Task Force on El Salvador.
Speaker's Task Force on El Salvador trip briefing materials binder, 1989-1990

United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Task Force on El Salvador.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memorandum regarding progress of Jesuit murder investigation, 13 December 1989

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Memorandum regarding British involvement in investigation of Jesuit murders and reaction to the questioning of the witness to the murders, 23 December 1989

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Memorandum to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director from Cincinnati division's Special Agent in Charge regarding request for Bureau to review materials related to El Salvador, 13 December 1989

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Request to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) laboratory from the Washington Metropolitan Field Office's Special Agent in Charge to analyze spent shell casing from scene of Jesuit murders, including documentation of chain of custody for casing, 1 December 1989

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chronology of judicial developments in the Jesuit murder case, 1989-1990

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Letter from William Twomey, director of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project, to Massachusetts congressional aides regarding "Briefing on federal-aid funds for CA/T", 21 June 1989

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Memoranda to John Joseph Moakley from Vic Johnson and Heather Foote with suggestions for next trip to El Salvador and afternoon appointment with Deputy Minister of Defense Colonel Cav. Juan Orlando Zepeda, 11 January 1990, 6 December 1989

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Includes handwritten notes.
Memorandum detailing actions by military against churches in El Salvador from 11-25 November 1989, including copy of flyer distributed in town, 25 November 1989

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Memorandum to James P. McGovern from Vic Johnson regarding the El Salvador Task Force, 11 December 1989

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"Notes on El Salvador" report with handwritten notes summarizing the Jesuit murder case and investigation, 18 December 1989

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"The Witness," Lucia Barrera de Cerna testimony report, circa 1989-1990

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"Fred Salvucci: the evolution of the largest construction megaproject in Boston's history...from construction to reality," from Construction Outlook magazine

James Borghesani
Statement by John Joseph Moakley regarding the Senate's treatment of the John Joseph Moakley-DeConcini bill that would suspend Salvadoran deportations until the violence in El Salvador has calmed, 4 October 1988

John Joseph Moakley
Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs Public Information Series entitled "El Salvador: The Battle for Democracy," November 1988

United States. Department of State
ACCESS Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel newsletter, volume 1, number 3, summer 1987

Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project
The Comptroller General of United States's decision regarding a case involving the National Fire Protection Association (File B-224221, B-224221.2), 2/5/1987

Comptroller General of the United States

This document is part of the literature produced or received by Congressman Joe Moakley's office related to his effort to pass legislation requiring the manufacture of fire-safe cigarettes.