C span networks. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. 50 years ago on september 24th, 1964, Supreme Court chief Justice Earl Warren handed a report of the president s commission on the assassination of president kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. The seven commissioners pictured here with president johnson and general counsel Jay Lee Rankin concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing president kennedy. The Warren Commission worked for nine months in this building, the Washington Office of the vfw, a short walk from the Supreme Court building and the u. S. Capitol. We set up a camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative journalist philip shenon, whose book a cruel and shocking act examines the Warren Commissions work, using key phone calls, documents and artifacts, mr. Shenon explains the lingering controversies regarding the war and the report. But first we take a brief tour of the former Warren Commission offices. Hi, im b
Shes called back more than once after serious questions are raised about her truthfulness. Among other things, in her initial interviews with the fbi and secret service, she denied she had any knowledge of this mexico city trip. It turned out later she knew all about it. She knew all about it before her husband had gone there. The socalled magic bullet and what was the significance of that for the commission . Well, i think its probably the single most controversial piece of evidence from the kennedy assassination investigation. Its the bullet the Commission Staff would conclude had passed through the bodies of both president kennedy and Texas Governor connolly. That contradicted the initial fbi report on the assassination, which found three bullets had landed in the president s limousine. The first one hit president kennedy in the back. The second one hit governor connolly in the back. And the third one hit president kennedy in the head, which was the fatal shot. The Commission Staff
Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan americas. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. 50 years ago on september 24th, 1964, Supreme Court chief Justice Earl Warren handed a report of the president s commission on the assassination of president kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. The seven commissioners pictured here with president johnson and general counsel Jay Lee Rankin concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing president kennedy. The Warren Commission worked for nine months in this building, the Washington Office of the vfw, a short walk from the Supreme Court building and the u. S. Capitol. We set up a camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative journalist philip shenon, whose book a cruel and shocking act examines the Warren Commissions work, using key phone calls, documents and artifacts, mr. Shenon explains the lingering controversies regarding the war and the report. But first we take a brief tour of the former Warr