PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON JFK ASSASSINATION ESTABLISHED
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On November 29, 1963, The President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, best known as the Warren Commission (named after its chairman, Earl Warren*), was established.
The final report. including 469 pages with 410 pages of appendices, would be presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1964 and made public three days later. The Warren Report included 26 volumes of supplementary documents.
94 witnesses testified before the Commission and all were given the opportunity to be interviewed in open session but only one chose to do so.
A total of 395 witnesses were questioned under oath by the legal staff while 63 others gave affidavits or statements.
The Commission's conclusion that the shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor John Connally of Texas were fired only by Lee Harvey Oswald remain controversial to this day.**
The Warren Report states...
"On the basis of the evidence before the Commission, it is concluded that Oswald acted alone."
While a majority of American's surveyed do not agree with the basic conclusion of the Commission, Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center For Politics at the University of Virginia, says..."Despite everything, a large part of the Commission's basic conclusion turns out to be true."
Sabato, however, does believe that the investigation was.." inadequate, rushed and manipulated..." Warren Commission assistant counsel Arlen Specter, on the other hand, said..."I have never seen the resources devoted to the determination of the truth as were the resources of the United States of America devoted in this case..."
Larry Sabato writes...
"The right time came long ago for complete disclosure. Transparency cannot bring President Kennedy back but at long last it can help bring America to terms fully with November 22, 1963."
*Earl Warren (1891-1974) was born in Los Angeles & received his BA & JD at the University of California Berkeley. EW served in WWI & as governor of California & Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1953-1969.
**One of the key questions of the case involves the fatal head wound. Evidence shows that JFK had a massive blow out in the right rear of the skull. The WC says LHO was shooting from the 6th floor of the TSBD above & behind the president. A bullet entering the rear of the skull (JFK was facing forward with his back to the TSBD) would logically exit the front but there was no exit wound in that location.
SOURCES
"Is there more to JFK's assassination?," by Larry J. Sabato, November 21, 2013, CNN Opinion, www.cnn.com/
"Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," by Vincent Bugliosi, W.W. Norton and Company, New York
The Warren Report in Book Form
United States Government Printing Office
September 27, 1964
