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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
KENNEDY

[Illustration: JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

35th President of the United States

May 29, 1917-November 22, 1963]




  THE WARREN
  COMMISSION
  REPORT


  Report of President’s Commission on the Assassination
  of President John F. Kennedy


  St. Martin’s Press
  New York





Foreword


PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, by Executive Order No. 11130 dated
November 29, 1963,[F-1] created this Commission to investigate the
assassination on November 22, 1963, of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the
35th President of the United States. The President directed the
Commission to evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding the
assassination and the subsequent killing of the alleged assassin and to
report its findings and conclusions to him.[F-2]

The subject of the Commission’s inquiry was a chain of events which
saddened and shocked the people of the United States and of the world.
The assassination of President Kennedy and the simultaneous wounding
of John B. Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas, had been followed within
an hour by the slaying of Patrolman J. D. Tippit of the Dallas Police
Department. In the United States and abroad, these events evoked
universal demands for an explanation.

Immediately after the assassination, State and local officials in
Dallas devoted their resources to the apprehension of the assassin.
The U.S. Secret Service, which is responsible for the protection
of the President, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation began an
investigation at the direction of President Johnson. Within 35 minutes
of the killing of Patrolman Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested
by the Dallas police as a suspect in that crime. Based on evidence
provided by Federal, State, and local agencies, the State of Texas
arraigned Oswald within 12 hours of his arrest, charging him with the
assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Patrolman Tippit.
On November 24, 1963, less than 48 hours after his arrest, Oswald was
fatally shot in the basement of the Dallas Police Department by Jack
Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. This shooting took place in full view
of a national television audience.

The events of these 2 days were witnessed with shock and disbelief
by a Nation grieving the loss of its young leader. Throughout the
world, reports on these events were disseminated in massive detail.
Theories and speculations mounted regarding the assassination. In many
instances, the intense public demand for facts was met by partial
and frequently conflicting reports from Dallas and elsewhere. After
Oswald’s arrest and his denial of all guilt, public attention focused
both on the extent of the evidence against him and the possibility of
a conspiracy, domestic or foreign. His subsequent death heightened
public interest and stimulated additional suspicions and rumors.


THE COMMISSION AND ITS POWERS

After Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, it was no longer
possible to arrive at the complete story of the assassination through
normal judicial procedures during a trial of the alleged assassin.
Alternative means for instituting a complete investigation were widely
discussed. Federal and State officials conferred on the possibility of
initiating a court of inquiry before a State magistrate in Texas. An
investigation by the grand jury of Dallas County also was considered.
As speculation about the existence of a foreign or domestic conspiracy
became widespread, committees in both Houses of Congress weighed the
desirability of congressional hearings to discover all the facts
relating to the assassination.

By his order of November 29 establishing the Commission, President
Johnson sought to avoid parallel investigations and to concentrate
factfinding in a body having the broadest national mandate. As Chairman
of the Commission, President Johnson selected Earl Warren, Chief
Justice of the United States, former Governor and attorney general of
the State of California. From the U.S. Senate, he chose Richard B.
Russell, Democratic Senator from Georgia and chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, former Governor of, and county attorney in,
the State of Georgia, and John Sherman Cooper, Republican Senator
from Kentucky, former county and circuit judge, State of Kentucky,
and U.S. Ambassador to India. Two members of the Commission were
drawn from the U.S. House of Representatives: Hale Boggs, Democratic
U.S. Representative from Louisiana and majority whip, and Gerald R.
Ford, Republican, U.S. Representative from Michigan and chairman of
the House Republican Conference.

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Most of
the speculation and attempted reconstruction of these events by the
public centered on these basic questions: Was Lee Harvey Oswald really
the assassin of the President; why did he do it; did he have any
accomplices; and why did Ruby shoot Oswald? Many of the theories and
hypotheses advanced have rested on premises which the Commission feels
deserve critical examination.

Many people who witnessed the assassination and the killing of Oswald
or were present in the area were a major source of diverse and often
contradictory information. As is easily understood under such
circumstances, all of the witnesses did not see and hear the same thing
or interpret what they saw and heard the same way and many changed
their stories as they repeated them. Moreover, they were interviewed
at different times after the event by different people and often under
circumstances which made accurate reporting extremely difficult.

Even the occupants of the cars in the Presidential motorcade were not
entirely in agreement in their accounts because they, too, saw and
heard what happened from different positions. Moreover, those closest
to the assassination were subjected to a physical and emotional strain
that tended to affect their recollections of what they thought they
saw or heard. Consequently, the presentation of the news from Dallas
included much misinformation. This, to some extent, was unavoidable,
but the widespread and repetitive dissemination of every scrap of
information about the President’s assassination and its aftermath
has helped to build up a large number of erroneous conclusions. The
manner in which local authorities released information about the
investigation, sometimes before it could be verified in all detail, has
further contributed to the fund of ill-founded theories. Typographical
mistakes in the press and failure to transcribe sound accurately from
tapes resulted in errors, some of which have remained uncorrected in
print at the time of the publication of this report.

Much of the speculation that has persisted in one form or another since
November 22-24 came from people who usually spoke in good faith. Some
of the errors have resulted simply from a lack of complete knowledge at
the time of the event. In this category are the statements attributed
to doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital who attended the dying
President and described his wounds to the press afterward. It remained
for the autopsy in Washington, completed early the next morning, to
ascertain the full facts concerning the wounds. The correction of
earlier assertions of fact on the basis of later and fuller analysis
or investigation is a normal part of the process of accumulation of
evidence. But it is not often that the process is conducted in such
an intense glare of worldwide publicity, and later corrections have
difficulty overtaking the original sensational reports.

There is still another category of speculation and rumor that
complicated and broadened the work of the Commission. Numerous people
claimed to have seen Oswald or Ruby at various times and places in
the United States or abroad. Others insisted that during the days
following the assassination, they had detected significant actions on
television that were witnessed by no one else. Still others assumed
from a widely published picture that Oswald was standing on the steps
of the entrance to the Texas School Book Depository at the time the
President was shot. Throughout the country people reported overheard
remarks, conversations, threats, prophesies, and opinions that seemed
to them to have a possible bearing on the assassination. More than a
few informants initially told their speculations or professed firsthand
information to newspaper and television reporters. Later, many of
them changed or retracted their stories in telling them to official
investigators.

The U.S. investigative agencies expended much valuable time and effort
inquiring into these leads. Investigations of a vast number of rumors
and speculations reached into almost every part of the United States
and to most of the other continents of the world.

The Commission’s work was also handicapped by those witnesses and other
persons connected with the investigation who sold for publication
evidence pertinent to the investigation. These persons sold pictures
and documents and even recollections, sometimes before the Commission
had an opportunity to receive their evidence. Some of the evidence
thus published was changed from its original form and gave misleading
impressions to the public. The piecemeal release of this evidence,
sometimes in distorted or exaggerated form, and often out of context,
provided the basis for new speculations and rumors or served to
reinforce already current ones. The practice was frequently harmful to
the work of the Commission and a disservice to the public.

This appendix is intended to clarify the most widespread factual
misunderstandings.

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CONCLUSION

This Commission can recommend no procedures for the future protection
of our Presidents which will guarantee security. The demands on the
President in the execution of his responsibilities in today’s world are
so varied and complex and the traditions of the office in a democracy
such as ours are so deepseated as to preclude absolute security.

The Commission has, however, from its examination of the facts of
President Kennedy’s assassination made certain recommendations which it
believes would, if adopted, materially improve upon the procedures in
effect at the time of President Kennedy’s assassination and result in a
substantial lessening of the danger.

As has been pointed out, the Commission has not resolved all the
proposals which could be made. The Commission nevertheless is confident
that, with the active cooperation of the responsible agencies and with
the understanding of the people of the United States in their demands
upon their President, the recommendations we have here suggested would
greatly advance the security of the office without any impairment of
our fundamental liberties.




APPENDIX I

  IMMEDIATE RELEASE      NOVEMBER 30, 1963

Office of the White House Press Secretary


THE WHITE HOUSE

EXECUTIVE ORDER

NO.11130

APPOINTING A COMMISSION TO REPORT UPON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY

Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United
States, I hereby appoint a Commission to ascertain, evaluate and report
upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John
F. Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the
assassination. The Commission shall consist of--

  The Chief Justice of the United States, Chairman;

  Senator Richard B. Russell;

  Senator John Sherman Cooper;

  Congressman Hale Boggs;

  Congressman Gerald R. Ford;

  The Honorable Allen W. Dulles;

  The Honorable John J. McCloy.

The purposes of the Commission are to examine the evidence developed
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and any additional evidence
that may hereafter come to light or be uncovered by federal or state
authorities; to make such further investigation as the Commission finds
desirable; to evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding
such assassination, including the subsequent violent death of the man
charged with the assassination, and to report to me its findings and
conclusions.

The Commission is empowered to prescribe its own procedures and to
employ such assistants as it deems necessary.

Necessary expenses of the Commission may be paid from the “Emergency
Fund for the President”.

All Executive departments and agencies are directed to furnish the
Commission with such facilities, services and cooperation as it may
request from time to time.

            LYNDON B. JOHNSON

  THE WHITE HOUSE,

  November 29, 1963.

[Illustration: APPENDIX I]




APPENDIX II

  IMMEDIATE RELEASE      November 29, 1963

Office of the White House Press Secretary


THE WHITE HOUSE

The President today announced that he is appointing a Special
Commission to study and report upon all facts and circumstances
relating to the assassination of the late President, John F. Kennedy,
and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the
assassination.

The President stated that the Majority and Minority Leadership of
the Senate and the House of Representatives have been consulted with
respect to the proposed Special Commission.

The members of the Special Commission are:

  Chief Justice Earl Warren, Chairman
  Senator Richard Russell (Georgia)
  Senator John Sherman Cooper (Kentucky)
  Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana)
  Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan)
  Hon. Allen W. Dulles of Washington
  Hon. John J. McCloy of New York

The President stated that the Special Commission is to be instructed
to evaluate all available information concerning the subject of the
inquiry. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, pursuant to an earlier
directive of the President, is making complete investigation of the
facts. An inquiry is also scheduled by a Texas Court of Inquiry
convened by the Attorney General of Texas under Texas law.

The Special Commission will have before it all evidence uncovered by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and all information available to
any agency of the Federal Government. The Attorney General of Texas
has also offered his cooperation. All Federal agencies and offices are
being directed to furnish services and cooperation to the Special
Commission. The Commission will also be empowered to conduct any
further investigation that it deems desirable.

The President is instructing the Special Commission to satisfy itself
that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered, and to report
its findings and conclusions to him, to the American people, and to the
world.

[Illustration: APPENDIX II]

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CHAPTER I

Summary and Conclusions


The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963,
was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a
family, a nation, and against all mankind. A young and vigorous leader
whose years of public and private life stretched before him was the
victim of the fourth Presidential assassination in the history of a
country dedicated to the concepts of reasoned argument and peaceful
political change. This Commission was created on November 29, 1963,
in recognition of the right of people everywhere to full and truthful
knowledge concerning these events. This report endeavors to fulfill
that right and to appraise this tragedy by the light of reason and the
standard of fairness. It has been prepared with a deep awareness of
the Commission’s responsibility to present to the American people an
objective report of the facts relating to the assassination.


NARRATIVE OF EVENTS

At 11:40 a.m., c.s.t., on Friday, November 22, 1963, President John
F. Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, and their party arrived at Love Field,
Dallas, Tex. Behind them was the first day of a Texas trip planned
5 months before by the President, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson,
and John B. Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas. After leaving the White
House on Thursday morning, the President had flown initially to San
Antonio where Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson joined the party and
the President dedicated new research facilities at the U.S. Air Force
School of Aerospace Medicine. Following a testimonial dinner in Houston
for U.S. Representative Albert Thomas, the President flew to Fort Worth
where he spent the night and spoke at a large breakfast gathering on
Friday.

Planned for later that day were a motorcade through downtown Dallas,
a luncheon speech at the Trade Mart, and a flight to Austin where
the President would attend a reception and speak at a Democratic
fundraising dinner. From Austin he would proceed to the Texas ranch of
the Vice President. Evident on this trip were the varied roles which
an American President performs--Head of State, Chief Executive, party
leader, and, in this instance, prospective candidate for reelection.

The Dallas motorcade, it was hoped, would evoke a demonstration of the
President’s personal popularity in a city which he had lost in the 1960
election. Once it had been decided that the trip to Texas would span 2
days, those responsible for planning, primarily Governor Connally and
Kenneth O’Donnell, a special assistant to the President, agreed that
a motorcade through Dallas would be desirable. The Secret Service was
told on November 8 that 45 minutes had been allotted to a motorcade
procession from Love Field to the site of a luncheon planned by Dallas
business and civic leaders in honor of the President. After considering
the facilities and security problems of several buildings, the Trade
Mart was chosen as the luncheon site. Given this selection, and in
accordance with the customary practice of affording the greatest number
of people an opportunity to see the President, the motorcade route
selected was a natural one. The route was approved by the local host
committee and White House representatives on November 18 and publicized
in the local papers starting on November 19. This advance publicity
made it clear that the motorcade would leave Main Street and pass the
intersection of Elm and Houston Streets as it proceeded to the Trade
Mart by way of the Stemmons Freeway.

By midmorning of November 22, clearing skies in Dallas dispelled the
threat of rain and the President greeted the crowds from his
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