The scandal overshadowed Thomas Dodd's re-election bid three years later, and he lost his seat.

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Five days after Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, Thomas Dodd, a Democratic senator from Connecticut, introduced legislation restricting mail-order sales of shotguns and rifles.

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Shortly before Thomas Dodd's death, a reporter had asked him whether, knowing that his public life would end in disgrace, he would still run for office again.

NPR: Dodd's First Race Was Call to Service, Legacy

Dodd reminded colleagues that his father, Thomas, who was also a senator, once served as a prosecutor at the Nazi war criminal trials in Nuremberg, Germany.

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