New JFK File: Who Altered the FBI Director’s Testimony on Kennedy's Head Wounds?

Someone tailored J. Edgar Hoover’s statements to the Warren Commission to fit the 'lone gunman' conclusion on the assassination

Left: Cover of the 400-page summary report on the investigation prepared by the FBI and presented to the Warren Commission on Dec. 9, 1963; Right: Cover of the 1992 edition of the Warren Commission’s final report of 1964 (Credit: Longmeadow Press); Center: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, May 5, 1966 (Credit: Bettmann Archive).

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s testimony to the Warren Commission on May 14, 1964, has long been available publicly. But thanks to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14176 on Jan. 23, 2025, combined with the efforts of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), we now know that someone altered Hoover’s sworn statement to fit the “lone gunman” verdict of the Commission for publication in its final report in September 1964.