The Oswald File: Exhibit A in the Failure of the Warren Commission

The CIA's pre-assassination file, not fully declassified until 2023, refutes the story of a 'lone gunman'

President Lyndon Johnson accepts the Warren Commission report, Sept. 30, 1964. (Credit: Cecil W. Stoughton /Wikimedia Commons)

As the 60^th anniversary of the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approaches later this week, it’s worth asking a simple question: What do Americans know now that they didn’t know when they first heard the official story that the liberal commander in chief had been killed by a “lone gunman”?

To put a finer point on the question: What can we say with confidence about the CIA and the violent end of JFK’s liberal presidency that the Warren Commission did not report 60 years ago?

The short answer to my question, is “plenty,” although no one outside the CIA knew at a time when the nation and the world were still recovering from the shock of the broad daylight ambush on Nov. 22, 1963 that left the vital young leader dying in the arms of his wife.

JFK Facts will be conducting an autopsy on the Warren Report in the run-up to the 60^th anniversary of its publication on Sept. 30, 1964. We will examine the key failures of the Commission, which require open-minded observers (and journalists) to reject its conclusions.