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8 unusual facts about Warren Commission


Badge Man

The Moorman photograph was seen contemporaneously in world media through UPI, but the Warren Commission did not include it in the volumes of its Report (1964).

Dealey Plaza

One of those buildings is the former Texas School Book Depository building, from which, both the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded, Lee Harvey Oswald fired a rifle that killed President John F. Kennedy.

I as in Icarus

Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings.

Linda Willis

Willis testified to the Warren Commission in 1964 that she remembered hearing three shots, with the last two shots bunched much closer together than the first two shots.

M. Wesley Swearingen

According to Swearingen, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in assassinating Kennedy as was claimed by the FBI and the Warren Commission.

Phillip Willis

Phillip LaFrance "Phil" Willis (2 August 1918, Kaufman County, Texas – 27 January 1995, Dallas, Texas) was a witness to the assassination of President Kennedy who testified before the Warren Commission.

Twelve of Willis' color slides with descriptions served as "Willis Exhibit 1" for the Warren Commission.

Rosemary Willis

Even though she was a very close assassination witness, Rosemary was never interviewed by any Warren Commission investigators.


Blue-ribbon panel

Recent examples of high-level so-called blue-ribbon panels in the United States would be the Warren Commission investigating the Kennedy Assassination, the 9/11 Commission investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Iraq Study Group assessing the Iraq War and the Clinton Administration's White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

Henry Crown

The Warren Commission appointment of Henry Crown'a attorney Albert E. Jenner, Jr. to investigate whether either Oswald or Ruby acted alone or conspired with others remains controversial.

Michael Paine

Paine's testimony would later become a central feature of the Warren Commission's investigation of the assassination, particularly in regard to the presence of the purported assassination rifle in the garage of his family home.


see also

6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano

The cartridge has achieved some notoriety, as a World War II Italian Carcano rifle was identified by the Warren Commission as the weapon used by former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald in his assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

John McCloy

John J. McCloy (1895–1989), American public official who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of World Bank, High Commissioner for Germany, presidential advisor and member of Warren Commission