The Warren Commission's major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald
was the "lone assassin" of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald
McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating
dissection of the Commission's work.
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy was officially established by Executive Order to
investigate and determine the facts surrounding JFK's murder. The
Warren Commission, as it became known, produced 26 volumes of
hearings and exhibits, more than 17,000 pages of testimony, and a
912-page report. Surely a definitive effort. Not at all, McKnight
argues. The Warren Report itself, he contends, was little more than
the capstone to a deceptive and shoddily improvised exercise in
public relations designed to "prove" that Oswald had acted
alone.
McKnight argues that the Commission's own documents and
collected testimony--as well as thousands of other items it never
saw, refused to see, or actively suppressed--reveal two
conspiracies: the still very murky one surrounding the
assassination itself and the official one that covered it up. The
cover-up actually began, he reveals, within days of Kennedy's
death, when President Johnson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and
acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach all agreed that any
official investigation must reach only one conclusion: Oswald was
the assassin.
While McKnight does not uncover any "smoking gun" that
identifies the real conspirators, he nevertheless provides the
strongest case yet that the Commission was wrong--and knew it.
Oswald might have knowingly or unwittingly been involved, but the
Commission's own evidence proves he could not have acted alone.
Based on more than a quarter-million pages of government
documents and, for the first time ever, the 50,000 file cards in
the Dallas FBI's "Special Index," McKnight's book must now be the
starting point for future debate on the assassination.
Among the revelations in "Breach of Trust: "
Both CIA and FBI photo analysis of the Zapruder film concluded
that the first shot could not have been fired from the sixth
floor.
The Commission's evidence was never able to place Oswald at the
"sniper's nest" on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting.
JFK's official death certificate, signed by his own White House
physician and contradicting the Commission's account of Kennedy's
wounds, was left out of the official record.
The dissenting views of the naval doctors who performed the
autopsy and those of the government's best ballistic experts were
kept out of the official report.
The Commission's tortuous "Single Bullet" or "Magic Bullet"
theory is finally and convincingly dismantled.
Oswald was probably a low-level asset of the FBI or CIA or
both.
Commission members Gerald Ford (for the FBI) and Allen Dulles
(for the CIA) acted as informers regarding the Commission's
proceedings.
The strong dissenting views of Commission member Senator Richard
Russell (D-Georgia) were suppressed for years.
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