November 29, 1963: LBJ Stitches Up the JFK Inquiry

Hoover's FBI assigned to do the heavy lifting for the executive-branch panel that would become known as the Warren Commission

The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, from left to right: Gerald Ford, Hale Boggs, Richard Russell, Earl Warren, Sherman Cooper, John McCloy, Allen Dulles and J. Lee Rankin (Credit: Abdon Daoud Ackad)

Exactly one week after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 1…