Nov 28 1963: LBJ backs Commission to investigate the assassination

Three days earlier, President Johnson had resisted the idea of a Presidential Commission inquiry into President Kennedy's assassination, telling Joe Alsop "we don't send in a bunch of carpetbaggers" and "the President must not inject himself into, ah, local killings." To which Alsop had replied "I agree with that, but in this case it does happen to be t…