FBI report, October 1947: interview of Parole Board Chairman T. Webber Wilson (Vault Roselli Part 06)
Judge T. Webber Wilson, chairman of the federal Parole Board, told FBI agents on October 6, 1947 that letters from priests and citizens in Chicago recommending the five paroles were accepted in good faith without inquiry into the writers.
- Date
- 1947-10-06
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the FBI Vault. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
Part of the 1947 parole investigation: a report made at Memphis, Tennessee, on October 8, 1947. The synopsis says that Judge T. Webber Wilson, chairman of the federal Parole Board, told agents on October 6, 1947 that letters received from priests and citizens in Chicago recommending paroles for the five subjects (Campagna, Ricca, Gioe, D’Andrea and Roselli) were accepted in good faith, without inquiry into the character and reputation of the writers, and that the proposed advisers for all five were investigated by the chief probation officer in Chicago.
It records that he had been contacted by a number of congressmen about paroling prisoners, but was not contacted by any congressman in this case, and that he said his decision on any parole had never been influenced by a congressman, an official of the Department or anyone else. The synopsis says he had resigned for reasons of health. Only the opening synopsis and interview pages of this part (about 180 pages) were read closely. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).
