THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Warren Commission report delivered to President Johnson – 1964

Via History.com

On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson receives a special commission’s report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

Since the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed by a man named Jack Ruby almost immediately after murdering Kennedy, Oswald’s motive for assassinating the president remained unknown. Seven days after the assassination, Johnson appointed the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy to investigate Kennedy’s death. The commission was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and became known as the Warren Commission. It concluded that Oswald had acted alone and that the Secret Service had made poor preparations for JFK’s visit to Dallas and had failed to sufficiently protect him.

The circumstances surrounding Kennedy’s death, however, have since given rise to several conspiracy theories involving such disparate characters as the Mafia, Cuban exiles, military leaders and even Lyndon Johnson. The Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald was a “lone gunman” failed to satisfy some who witnessed the attack and others whose research found conflicting details in the commission’s report.

Critics of the Warren Commission’s report believed that additional ballistics experts’ conclusions and a home movie shot at the scene disputed the theory that three bullets fired from Oswald’s gun could have caused Kennedy’s fatal wounds as well as the injuries to Texas Governor John Connally, who was riding with the president in an open car as it traveled through Dallas’ Dealey Plaza that fateful day. So persistent was the controversy that another congressional investigation was conducted in 1979; that committee reached the same conclusion as the Warren Commission.

During its almost year-long investigation, the Warren Commission reviewed reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, Department of State and the attorney general of Texas. It also pored over Oswald’s personal history, political affiliations and military record. Overall, the Warren Commission listened to the testimony of 552 witnesses and even traveled to Dallas several times to visit the site where Kennedy was shot.

The enormous volume of documentation from the investigation was placed in the National Archives and much of it is now available to the public. Access to Kennedy’s autopsy records, though, are highly restricted. To view them requires membership in a presidential or congressional commission or the permission of the Kennedy family.

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CCRider
CCRider
September 24, 2018 7:21 am

There were several major cracks in the constitutional republic experiment along the way in America’s history. The Alien and Sedition Act, Appomattox (certainly), the creation of the fed but the Kennedy coup took the lid off. He was gunned down in plain sight, even had a movie showing the actual murder….and THEY got away with it, even profited from it. It taught them that as long as they could cook up some fairly convincing bullshit story-plausible denial-they could skate no matter the scope of the depraved act. They knew that would eventually end the grand idea that was America but that would be some future generation’s problem to deal with.

Are we finally at the tipping point when enough of us who have lost faith in the farce that has become the federal government now withdraw our support to the point that it collapses? God I hope so.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 24, 2018 9:16 am

Kennedy was threatening to bring back honest money, go after the MIC and require the AZC (now known as AIPAC) to register as a foreign agent. Sorry, but they won’t allow an independent USA.

https://israellobby.org/azcdoj/

turlock
turlock
September 24, 2018 9:45 am

The lead investigator for the Warren commission was John Dullas, the same guy Kennedy fired from the CIA for the botched Bay of Pigs disaster. HMMM

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  turlock
September 24, 2018 11:08 am

And future president Ford was on the Commission as was future US Senator Arlen Spector (assistant council). There is also evidence that Nixon (in on the plot) and George H.W. Bush (working for the CIA) were BOTH in Dallas the day of the assassination. Amazing how well the Deep State REWARDS their minions.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
September 24, 2018 11:05 am

Must have been a lot of flies flying around that giant pile of manure.

BL
BL
September 24, 2018 11:44 am

Right up three with the moon walk and 9/11.

BL
BL
  BL
September 24, 2018 12:00 pm

(right up there) oops…..

Braga
Braga
  BL
September 24, 2018 7:10 pm

…and the rms titanic and rms olympic swap and sinking. JP Morgan made enough off the insurance to fund the birth of FED the following year – to finance WW I.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 24, 2018 12:53 pm

From the article:
“Access to Kennedy’s autopsy records, though, are highly restricted. To view them requires membership in a presidential or congressional commission or the permission of the Kennedy family.”

Book that got me skeptical and intrigued by the Dallas narrative:
“Best Evidence” by David Lifton.
i.e., in murder investigations, the best evidence for mysteries is always the remains of the victim, for telltale clues and accurate conclusions.

After thorough inspection by the ER doctors at Parkland Menorial, his body was quickly placed on AF1, and flown back to Bethesda MD naval hospital, where another autopsy was performed.
Notes written by the medical examiner in charge stated: “there appeared to be major surgery performed on the President’s skull and brain matter”
…none of which was observed by the ER doctors in Dallas.
The Bethesda Dr. subsequently burned his notes, and couldn’t say why.

To gauge a new acquaintance and their gullibility, simply ask: “Do you believe the narrative that Lee H. Oswald acted alone, in the Kennedy assassination?”

The answer will reveal either someone too young, someone too stupid and lazy to seek out truth, or someone you can respect who questions the lies we’ve been told.