United States. Warren Commission

The Warren Commission was the informal name for the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963. Chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, it was asked to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, along with the later killing of Lee Harvey Oswald.

The seven-member commission included leading figures from the Supreme Court, Congress, and public life, among them Earl Warren, Richard Russell Jr., John Sherman Cooper, Hale Boggs, Gerald Ford, Allen Dulles, and John J. McCloy. After months of testimony and review, it delivered its report in September 1964, concluding that Oswald acted alone.

That conclusion made the Warren Commission one of the most discussed bodies in American history. Its work remains central to any study of the Kennedy assassination, both because of the vast record it assembled and because later critics and investigations kept revisiting its findings.