Progressive Management - Complete Guide to the 1963 JFK Assassination: The Full Text of Three Major Reports--Warren Commission, House Select Committee, Assassination Records Review Board--President Kennedy

Complete Guide to the 1963 JFK Assassination:The Full Text of Three Major Reports - Warren Commission, HouseSelect Committee, and the Assassination Records Review Board -President John F. Kennedy

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Report of the President's Commission on theAssassination of President Kennedy

President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed thePresident's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy,commonly called the Warren Commission, by Executive Order (E.O.11130) on November 29, 1963. Its purpose was to investigate theassassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22,1963, at Dallas, Texas. President Johnson directed the Commissionto evaluate matters relating to the assassination and thesubsequent killing of the alleged assassin, and to report itsfindings and conclusions to him.

The following members served on theCommission:

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the UnitedStates, former Governor and attorney general of California,Chair;

Richard B. Russell, Democratic Senator fromGeorgia and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, formerGovernor of Georgia, and county attorney in that State;

John Sherman Cooper, Republican Senator fromKentucky, former county and circuit judge in Kentucky, and UnitedStates Ambassador to India;

Hale Boggs, Democratic Representative fromLouisiana and majority whip in the House of Representatives;

Gerald R. Ford, Republican Representativefrom Michigan and chairman of the House Republican Conference;

Allen W. Dulles, lawyer and former Directorof the Central Intelligence Agency;

John J. McCloy, lawyer, former President ofthe International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, andformer United States High Commissioner for Germany.

On December 13, 1963, Congress passed SenateJoint Resolution 137 (Public Law 88-202) authorizing the Commissionto subpoena witnesses and obtain evidence concerning any matterrelating to the investigation. The resolution also gave theCommission the power to compel the testimony of witnesses bygranting immunity from prosecution to witnesses testifying undercompulsion. The Commission, however, did not grant immunity to anywitness during the investigation.

The Commission acted promptly to obtain astaff to meet its needs. J. Lee Rankin, former Solicitor General ofthe United States, was sworn in as general counsel for theCommission on December 16, 1963. He was aided in his work by 14assistant counsel who were divided into teams to deal with thevarious subject areas of the investigation. The Commission was alsoassisted by lawyers, Internal Revenue Service agents, a seniorhistorian, an editor, and secretarial and administrative personnelwho were assigned to the Commission by Federal agencies at itsrequest. Officials and agencies of the state of Texas, as well asof the Federal Government, fully cooperated with the Commission onits work.

From the first, the Commission considered itsmandate to conduct a thorough and independent investigation. TheCommission reviewed reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,Secret Service, Department of State, and the Attorney General ofTexas, and then requested additional information from federalagencies, Congressional committees, and state and local experts.The Commission held hearings and took the testimony of 552witnesses. On several occasions, the Commission went to Dallas tovisit the scene of the assassination and other places.

The Commission presented its Report, in whicheach member concurred, to the President on September 24, 1964. Thepublication of the Report was soon followed by the publication ofthe 26 volumes of the Commission's Hearings. The Commission thentransferred its records to the National Archives to be permanentlypreserved under the rules and regulations of the National Archivesand applicable federal law.

In the National Archives, the records of theWarren Commission comprise Record Group 272: Records of thePresident's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.The record group contains about 363 cubic feet of records andrelated material. Approximately 99 percent of these records arecurrently open and available for research. The records consist ofinvestigative reports submitted by the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation, the Secret Service, and the Central IntelligenceAgency; various kinds of documents such as income tax returns,passport files, military and selective service records, and schoolrecords relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby; transcripts oftestimony, depositions, and affidavits of witnesses,correspondence; manuals of procedures of federal agencies;administrative memorandums; records relating to personnel; fiscalrecords; agenda, proceedings, and minutes of Commission meetingsand minutes of staff meetings; exhibits; tape records, newspaperand press clippings, and films; indexes; drafts and printer'sproofs of the Report and Hearings of the Commission; a chronologyof events in the lives of Oswald, Ruby, and others, 1959-1963;records relating to the interrogation and trial of Jack Ruby; andother records. Most of these records relate to the period of theinvestigation of President Kennedy's assassination, November 1963to September 1964, but some records of earlier and a few laterdates are included.

The Kennedy family donated the autopsy X-raysand photographs to the National Archives under an agreement datedOctober 29, 1966. The agreement limits access to these materials topersons authorized to act for a Committee of Congress, aPresidential commission, or any other official agency of thefederal government having authority to investigate matters relatingto the assassination of President Kennedy or recognized experts inthe field of pathology or related areas of science and technologywhose applications are approved by the designated Kennedy familyrepresentative.