United States. Warren Commission

Formed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963, the Warren Commission was officially known as the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. It was chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren and included members of Congress and senior public figures such as Richard Russell Jr., John Sherman Cooper, Hale Boggs, Gerald Ford, Allen Dulles, and John J. McCloy.

In 1964, the commission issued its report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. The report concluded that Oswald acted alone, a finding that made the document one of the most influential and controversial government investigations in modern U.S. history.

Today, the Warren Report is read both as an official historical record and as the starting point for decades of public debate, re-examination, and conspiracy theories. For listeners interested in twentieth-century America, it offers a direct look at how the U.S. government tried to explain a national tragedy.