THE WARREN REPORT DESTROYS THE RUMORS

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
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• Publication Date: November 27, 1964
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The Warren Commission r1!~?
serves ? special word of ecmmenda-
tion for the care with which it taxi
dovru every supposition and the.'ry_
about the Kennedy assassinatie?^,
1 however bizarre and preposterous
those theories might appear to bc..
It would have been easy to sweep
aside most of this rubbish. The es-
!sential facts 'about' the assassina-
tion f?-,rmed a pattern so clear. and
;so credible that they left no room,
:n any ratior;1 assessment, for the
clc.ubts that ;?: -rsisted in some quar-
ters and for the wild conspiratorial
theoryes th- were raised in others.
Yet despite this credible pattern of
(what happened and why, the War-
ren Commission exercised a great
deal of diligence and patience try-.
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,,to explore every theory.
An example is offered in the case
of Revilo P. Oliver, a professor at
the University of Illinois and a
;member of the John Birch Society:;`
Professor, Oliver theorized that
President Kennedy had been, col-
.laborating with the Communists,: A
t.point finally was reached, the pro-
fessor testified, at which the Presi-
dent decided to break -his Com-
munist ties and "turn American."
;,When the Communists got wind of.
this break, Professor Oliver
h
t
ey conspired to have. him assassi-
nated. .. .
This is a sample of tite"kind. of,
and doubts and off ers' a
Professor Oliver, heard him out,
rumors
,and questioned him at length. 'fhe convincing explanation of what
professor's testimony` runs to 17.000 .. The 26. Warren Report' Volume: happened on that tragic day i,
words in the commission report. It Goon Sale in Washingtan: Dallas a year agp.
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nonsense that the. Warren Commis-
sion came upon. But . instead of
1
ignoring the nonsense-and the
temptation.to do so must have been.
%strong-the commission summoned
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boils down to a curious fantasy, It "was irievitablq that.,a tragedy
concocted out of myths and lack- as shattering' '.. the assassination
ing even a shred of supporting of a President would raise doubts'.
fact. in many minds. It probably was :
Mrs. Marguerite Oswald
equally inevitable that some per-
Harvey's mother, also was. ques- sons would seek to capitalize on:
tioned at length-to the extent of those doubts.
60,000 words of tebtimony' in ? the-.
commission report. But the com- Thomas B. Buchanan, an Ameri
mission found not a whit of evi- . can living abroad, produced a book
dence to'support her idea.that Lee entitled "Who Killed Kennedy?"
Harvey was somehow connected which elaborates on many of the.
with the CIA, or that the FBI doubts. The book has enjoyed a,
knew about J acre Ruby and ques- wide sale. .
tioned her about him on the day : Mark Lane, a New:York la w er
before Lee Harvey .was slain. . thrust himself into the case earl
in the proceedings and for a brief
period served a.s attorn^_v for Mrs.
Oswald. 11e then took to.-the lec-
ture circuit advancing the ttleory.
that Lee Harvey Qs,vald coulU not
have been the assassin. The com-
mission rli d its best to hear out Mr.
Lane and pin dowli his theories: At'7
one point the commission even vaic'1
his travel expenses so Mr. Lano:,
could return from Europe to.testi
.,fy before the commission again./
But, Mr. Lane turned 'out to be a
difficult witness who was unusual-
ly secretive about his. "sources of
information."
To the great credit of the War-
ren Commission, it left no stone
unturned in its search for 'the,
truth. It examined every witn?;s
who it thought might contribute
and it tried to explore ,in detail
every doubt that had been raisd.:?
The resulting report is a splen-.
did example of painstaking re-
,search. It puts to rest the wild