Will newly declassified docs shed light on JFK's assassination?
Appointed by President Lyndon Johnson a week after the assassination, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren’s commission spent ten months investigating the murder.
Acting alone, deranged ex-Marine Lee Harvey Oswald hid on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. After Kennedy’s limousine passed, he fired three shots with a bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. One missed; a second struck Kennedy in the back and exited through his throat, then hit Texas governor John Connally — riding in the front seat — in the rib, wrist, and thigh. Oswald’s third shot hit Kennedy in the back of the head. He died 30 minutes later.
Oswald was killed in police custody 48 hours later by Jack Ruby — an anguished Kennedy admirer also acting alone.
Persistent chatter and inconsistent evidence prompted Congress to convene the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1978. Contradicting Warren, it found an additional unknown shooter likely fired from the front, possibly from the infamous “grassy knoll” up Elm Street.
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