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11/29/2007, 07:59 AM
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November 29, 1963: President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission
44 years ago, on this day in 1963 and one week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, President Lyndon Johnson establishes a special commission to figure out what, how and why it all happened and who was involved.
Headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission had broad authority and responsibility to investigate the assassination and prepare a report of its findings.
Earl Warren and members of the Warren Commission present completed Report to President Lyndon Baines Johnson on September 24, 1964. In the photo are (left to right): John McCloy, J. Lee Rankin (General Counsel), Senator Richard Russell, Congressman Gerald Ford, Chief Justice Earl Warren, President Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles, Senator John Sherman Cooper, and Congressman Hale Boggs.
After 10 months of gathering evidence and questioning witnesses in public hearings, the Warren Commission report was released, concluding that there was no conspiracy, either domestic or international, in the assassination and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, acted alone. :rolleyes:
The presidential commission also found that Jack Ruby, the nightclub/titty bar owner who murdered Oswald on live national television, had no prior contact with Oswald.
According to the report, the bullets that killed President Kennedy (and injured Texas Governor John Connally) were fired by Oswald in three shots from a bolt-action rifle fired at intervals of less than two seconds from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza.
As an aside, Oswald bought the war surplus Italian military carbine by mail order from a catalog. More than anything else, Oswald's act led to federal legislation that made mail-order purchase of firearms illegal in the US.
Oswald's life, including his visit and attempted immigration to the Soviet Union, was described in detail, but the report made no attempt to analyze his motives.
Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime.
The committee's findings, as with the findings of the Warren Commission, continue to be widely disputed.
Postscript:
To this day, official attempts to investigate sordid happenings are commonly labeled "Warren Commisions." The latest was an attempt to get to the bottom of whether a USC "Song Girl" was actually going "Britney" at a recent televised college football game.
There was widespread shock and horror when live ESPN coverage revealed the appearance of a USC cheerleader apparently sans cullotes.
The blogosphere accepted the challenge of proving/disproving the allegation so the nation could have closure on this vitally important issue. It turns out, as this still shot proves (unless it has been altered of course) the cheerleader merely had a "wedgie."
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/01/USCsonggirlHD1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://deadspin.com/sports/college-football/perhaps-now-we-can-put-all-of-this-behind-us-227633.php&h=337&w=600&sz=82&hl=en&start=96&um=1&tbnid=I9OCWgKAA2ahbM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwarren%2Bcommission%26start%3D80%26nd sp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3 D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
November 29, 1963: President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission
44 years ago, on this day in 1963 and one week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, President Lyndon Johnson establishes a special commission to figure out what, how and why it all happened and who was involved.
Headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission had broad authority and responsibility to investigate the assassination and prepare a report of its findings.
Earl Warren and members of the Warren Commission present completed Report to President Lyndon Baines Johnson on September 24, 1964. In the photo are (left to right): John McCloy, J. Lee Rankin (General Counsel), Senator Richard Russell, Congressman Gerald Ford, Chief Justice Earl Warren, President Lyndon Johnson, Allen Dulles, Senator John Sherman Cooper, and Congressman Hale Boggs.
After 10 months of gathering evidence and questioning witnesses in public hearings, the Warren Commission report was released, concluding that there was no conspiracy, either domestic or international, in the assassination and that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, acted alone. :rolleyes:
The presidential commission also found that Jack Ruby, the nightclub/titty bar owner who murdered Oswald on live national television, had no prior contact with Oswald.
According to the report, the bullets that killed President Kennedy (and injured Texas Governor John Connally) were fired by Oswald in three shots from a bolt-action rifle fired at intervals of less than two seconds from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza.
As an aside, Oswald bought the war surplus Italian military carbine by mail order from a catalog. More than anything else, Oswald's act led to federal legislation that made mail-order purchase of firearms illegal in the US.
Oswald's life, including his visit and attempted immigration to the Soviet Union, was described in detail, but the report made no attempt to analyze his motives.
Despite its seemingly firm conclusions, the report failed to silence conspiracy theories surrounding the event, and in 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in a preliminary report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" that may have involved multiple shooters and organized crime.
The committee's findings, as with the findings of the Warren Commission, continue to be widely disputed.
Postscript:
To this day, official attempts to investigate sordid happenings are commonly labeled "Warren Commisions." The latest was an attempt to get to the bottom of whether a USC "Song Girl" was actually going "Britney" at a recent televised college football game.
There was widespread shock and horror when live ESPN coverage revealed the appearance of a USC cheerleader apparently sans cullotes.
The blogosphere accepted the challenge of proving/disproving the allegation so the nation could have closure on this vitally important issue. It turns out, as this still shot proves (unless it has been altered of course) the cheerleader merely had a "wedgie."
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/01/USCsonggirlHD1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://deadspin.com/sports/college-football/perhaps-now-we-can-put-all-of-this-behind-us-227633.php&h=337&w=600&sz=82&hl=en&start=96&um=1&tbnid=I9OCWgKAA2ahbM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwarren%2Bcommission%26start%3D80%26nd sp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3 D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN