The
Warren Commission claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone, and was motivated by hatred for the political ideology represented by Kennedy.
It was a little uncanny to see memorabilia like the gray fedora hat worn by Ruby when he shot Oswald, the corner window at the sixth floor where the assassin must have waited for the presidential motorcade to pass, the Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle similar to the one found by investigators, and the scale model of the Dealey Plaza that was prepared by the FBI during the investigations conducted by the
Warren Commission in 1964, because these are stark reminders of a sad legacy in America's history.
President Lyndon B Johnson set up the
Warren Commission to investigate President John F Kennedy's assassination.
Surely the call made to The Cambridge Evening News should have been brought to the attention of The
Warren Commission. Fifty four years after the shots that changed history, Americans are talking about the Kennedy assassination all over again.
The
Warren Commission in 1964 concluded that Oswald had been the lone gunman, and another congressional probe in 1979 found no evidence to support the theory that the CIA had been involved.
An official inquiry, the
Warren Commission set up by President Johnson, determined that Oswald acted alone.
Every government authority that has examined the investigation of his death, from the
Warren Commission to congressional investigators, concluded that Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, who fired three shots with a mail-order rifle from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository when the presidential motorcade passed by on November 22, 1963.
His 8 mm images initially helped guide
Warren Commission investigators to their conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Many of the records regarding the killing and
Warren Commission investigation into it have already been released.
The
Warren commission's finding was challenged in 1979 by a special House investigative committee that concluded Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy" and there were likely two shooters.
The FBI and the
Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, but various groups believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy.