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5.0 out of 5 stars
The Official Federal Government Response to an Issue Best Left to the Tomb and Endless Speculation,
By Thane Grey (Clinton, IA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Warren Commission Report: The Official Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Hardcover)
When President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed his Executive Order creating the Commission to Investigate the Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren its chairman, Johnson was not looking for a complete, turnover every stone, professional police/forensic investigation into a public official's murder. Johnson was seeking to alleviate US citizen fears of a Soviet planned, financed, and assassin furnished murder of a well-liked US president. The idea was to alleviate a potential World War III and restore confidence in domestic US institutions and government entities because both the president and his alleged assassin had been murdered within 48 hours of one another.
The Warren Commission was a ground-breaking document. It tried, in the space of its 10-months existence, to answer major questions of the assassination, the persons involved, whether a conspiracy had existed. It did lay out major investigatory leads; however, it was not as thorough or as accurate as it purports. Flaws in content abound. One glaring flaw is the final report's use of slides taken from the Zapruder film, the Rosetta Stone of President Kennedy's murder. Those slides are out of sequence, reproduced in a non-distinct manner, out of focus, and nearly worthless as evidentary material. Frames are noticeably not in sequence to give more credence to a a shot from the rear (Texas School Book Depository, from this point, TSBD) as opposed to any shots from the Grassy Knoll to the right of the President's limo in the motorcade. Another glaring flaw is the ommission of much of the testimony (in this summary volume of the Commission) of Triple Overpass witnesses who had stated seeing activity behind the picket fence prior to the shooting, a puff of smoke at the time of the shooting, and activity behind the picket fence after the shooting. These witnesses were virtually ignored. Still another flaw of the Report was the incorporation, in the Jack Ruby section, of a page and a half of information discussing Ruby's mother's false teeth. At the time of the assassination Ruby's mother was a resident in a nursing home. Further, unless President Kennedy suffered bite wounds, mention of the woman's false teeth was clearly irrelevant and not germaine to the President's death at all. Another glaring flaw was the misidentification by Warren Commission staffers of a blond-haired, heavy set (NFL linebacker type) man, who was photographed as entering the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico as the dark-haired, slender Lee Oswald. That this error is so blatant as to undermine the credibility of the document. Additionally, scant attention is paid to the widely reported Oswald citings in and around Dallas, Texas at a time that the real Oswald was known to have traveled to Mexico City is barely touched on at all. Other flaws exist in this report, notably, the Single Bullet Theory CE-399 aside (the Pristine/Magic Bullet) found on the stretcher believed to have been used by Gov. Connelly is missing a miniscule amount of lead from its base. It is well known that the surgeon attending Connelly left more lead fragments in Connelly than accounted for from the base of this Commission Exhibit. This glaring flaw is not addressed by the Warren Report or its supporters, and, thereby, undermines the Single Bullet Theory, despite former Warren Commission staffer and current US Senator Arlen Spector's assertion of "Single Bullet Fact." The Warren Commission Report should be read, but only as a starting place. The best one can say of Lee Harvey Oswald is that he is suspected of killing President Kennedy, or better, having some connection to the President's death, but errors in fact prevent a clear determination.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Historical Document,
By Acute Observer (By the Shore NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Warren Commission Report: The Official Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Hardcover)
This is a 1992 facsimile edition of the 1964 Report. Since 1964 there have been many books that questioned the findings of the Warren Commission (one lone gunman firing three shots). If more that 3 shots were fired then their findings were in error. The 1978 House Select Committee established that more than 3 shots were fired. A photograph of the Texas School Book Depository showed Oswald (or a look-alike) standing in the doorway. If Oswald, then he wasn't guilty. Photos of the southeast 6th floor window show no one at that window; this refutes the Warren Commission. Was there a cover-up? Yes, it was the Warren Commission since it prevented the city of Dallas and the state of Texas from investigating and prosecuting the crime. [Dallas prosecutor Henry Wade said that Oswald was getting money by wire.]
The experienced physicians at Parkland Hospital said JFK was shot in the throat from the front. A shot from the TSBD would have to hit the back of the head to exit through the throat, and this did not happen on the first shot. Governor John Connally always said he was hit in the back by the second shot. One shot missed the car and hit the road, a fragment struck a person on the sidewalk. One shot hit JFK in the head shot out part of his skull. Four shots, more than one shooter. Unless Oswald had a self-loading rifle (he didn't). The Warren Commission was appointed by LBJ and stopped the state investigation. The investigation was controlled by J. Edgar Hoover. There was a tight schedule to complete the report before the 1964 election. This 880 page book is the result. There were 26 volumes for all the testimony; few would buy and read it. Researchers have claimed there are statements in the 26 volumes that question the conclusions in the report. There are over a hundred books written to question the conclusions of the Warren Report. Like most people I got my news from newspapers and magazines rather than this book. You can read parts or the entire book and decide for yourself what is believable from your knowledge over the years. This book lacks an index, a serious handicap for any research. The `Contents' has 8 chapters and 18 appendices. You can read Chapter III and compare it to what has been learned since 1963. The rifle first found on the 6th floor was identified as a "Mauser 7.65" (p.235); what happened to it? "There had been a bullet hole in the front of the President's neck" (p.88). About 11-12 days after this event the newspapers reported that the investigators cut away the branches of that tree to prove the first shot came from the 6th floor window (CE No. 891). I grew skeptical of the official explanation ever since. The lack of gun shot residue said Oswald never fired a rifle that day [that is not in this book].
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The starting point for JFK enthusiasts,
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This review is from: The Warren Commission Report: The Official Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Hardcover)
The Warren Report was the official report on the assassination of JFK. Because Lee Harvey Oswald was shot 2 days after the assassination by Jack Ruby, there was no trial. The American people would not stand for this, so President Johnson authorized the Warren Commission to determine what happened on November 22, 1963.
This book is an important work in American history, regardless of which side you take: lone assassin or conspiracy. It is fairly easy to follow; the authors sum up their conclusions in each sub-chapter, make their case and then dismiss what they believe is "uncredible." Unfortunately, the book I have has no index and no table of contents. I'm not sure if this edition that I'm reviewing does or not; I suspect it also is lacking this critical apparatus. This makes reviewing their notes and conclusions somewhat muddled. Some would say that this was deliberate, all part of the conspiracy and coverup. I can't draw that conclusion. The Warren Report doesn't prove that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. It proves that Lee Harvey Oswald COULD HAVE acted alone. Many leads are dismissed out of hand. For example: a Dallas cop saw Oswald running down Houston Avenue moments after the shooting, getting into the passenger side of a station wagon. Later that afternoon, that cop saw Oswald in the captain's office being interrogated. He told his chief that's the guy he saw. The chief dismissed this and said that a little old lady saw him board a bus after the shooting. Therefore there was no getaway car. One of the reasons that Oswald was pinned down to the Kennedy killing was that he took a shot at General Walker. They pinned this crime to him in December of 1963; the shooting took place in March. The day before the shooting, a friend of Walker's saw 2 men peeking in Walker's windows. The day of the shooting, a teenager saw 2 men get into seperate cars, parked next door to Walker's house, and drive away. If Oswald did take a shot at Walker, then what of the other man? This is what I mean when I say the Warren Report proves Oswald COULD HAVE killed Kennedy. Many leads like this are not followed up. This book should be the starting point of any serious reader who wants to know what happened to JFK. Read it and take a grain of salt. Then read one of the conspiracy books that dismisses the Warren Report out of hand. Then take another grain of salt.
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