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Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Commission report

By: Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

Date: September 27, 1964

Source: "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy," as published by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

About the Author: On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) established a committee, led by Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Earl Warren (1891–1974), to evaluate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, TX, on November 22, 1963, and the killing of his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963. "The Warren Commission" released its findings in...