Warren Commission
From The Kennedy Assassination Resource
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[edit] Executive Order 11130
"President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130 dated November 29, 1963, 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."
[edit] Areas of Enquiry
The Warren Commision designated six areas of enquiry that would be investigated by an attorney and his assistant. These areas were:
- Oswald's activities on 22nd November;
- Oswald's background;
- Oswald's career in the Marine Corps and his stay in the USSR;
- Oswald's murder;
- Jack Ruby's background;
- The procedures employed to protect President Kennedy.
But what happened to investigating whether Oswald was guilty? There was no impartial investigating or inocent until proven guilty. The commision had made up it's mind before it started.
[edit] Commission Members
The Commission:
- Earl Warren - Chief Justice.
- Allen Dulles - Ex head of CIA who was sacked by Kennedy.
- Hale Boggs - A conservative congressman.
- John Sherman Cooper - Senator.
- Richard Russell - Senator.
- John McCloy - Close friend of Nelson Rockefeller.
- Gerald Ford - Close friend of Hoover.
Assistants:
- J Lee Rankin - General Counsel, liased between CIA and FBI.
- Arlen Specter - Assistant Counsel, developed The Magic Bullet Theory.
- Leon Jaworski - Special Counsel, in charge of investigating Oswald's intelligence connections.
