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 tasked with investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, along with the later killing of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Its seven members included Earl Warren, Senators Richard B. Russell and John Sherman Cooper, Representatives Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford, and former officials Allen Dulles and John J. McCloy. The commission gathered testimony from hundreds of witnesses, reviewed thousands of reports, and delivered its final 888-page report to President Johnson in September 1964.

The commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy and acted alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone in killing Oswald. Even so, the Warren Report quickly became one of the most debated documents in American public life, with critics, later investigations, and generations of readers continuing to revisit its findings.