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  Warren Report
 
Title  (PDF: 491 K)
Foreword  (PDF: 533 K)
Contents  (PDF: 399 K)
Chapter 1. Summary and Conclusions  (PDF: 2082 K)
 
Narrative of Events
 
 
Conclusions
 
 
Recommendations
 
Chapter II. The Assassination  (PDF: 4743 K)
 
Planning the Texas Trip
 
 
Advance Preparations for the Dallas Trip
 
 
Dallas Before the Visit
 
 
Visits to Other Texas Cities
 
 
Arrival at Love Field
 
 
Organization of the Motorcade
 
 
The Drive Through Dallas
 
 
The Assassination
 
 
Parkland Memorial Hospital
 
 
The End of the Trip
 
Chapter III. The Shots From the Texas School Book Depository  (PDF: 10234 K)
 
The Witnesses
 
 
The Presidential Automobile
 
 
Expert Examination of Rifle, Cartridge Cases, and Bullet Fragments
 
 
The Bullet Wounds
 
 
The Trajectory
 
 
Number of Shots
 
 
The Shot That Missed
 
 
Time Span of Shots
 
 
Conclusion
 
Chapter IV. The Assassin  (PDF: 9405 K)
 
Ownership and Possession of Assassination Weapon
 
 
The Rifle in the Building
 
 
Oswald at Window
 
 
The KIlling of Patrolman J. D. Tippit
 
 
Oswald's Arrest
 
 
Statements of Oswald During Detention
 
 
Prior Attempt to Kill
 
 
Oswald's Rifle Capability
 
 
Conclusion
 
Chapter V. Detention and Death of Oswald  (PDF: 5476 K)
 
Treatment of Oswald in Custody
 
 
Activity of Newsmen
 
 
The Abortive Transfer
 
 
Possible Assistance to Jack Ruby in Entering the Basement
 
 
Adequacy of Security Precautions
 
 
News Coverage and Police Policy
 
 
Responsibility of News Media
 
Chapter VI. Investigation of Possible Conspiracy  (PDF: 15830 K)
 
Circumstances Surrounding the Assassination
 
 
Background of Lee Harvey Oswald
 
 
Possible Conspiracy Involving Jack Ruby
 
 
Conclusion
 
Chapter VII. Lee Harvey Oswald: Background and Possible Motives  (PDF: 4536 K)
 
The Early Years
 
 
New York City
 
 
Return to New Orleans and Joining the Marine Corps
 
 
Interest in Marxism
 
 
Defection to the Soviet Union
 
 
Return to the United States
 
 
Personal Relations
 
 
Employment
 
 
Attack on General Walker
 
 
Political Activities
 
 
Interest in Cuba
 
 
Possible Influence of Anti-Kennedy Sentiment in Dallas
 
 
Relationship With Wife
 
 
The Unanswered Questions
 
 
Conclusion
 
Chapter VIII. The Protection of the President  (PDF: 3555 K)
 
The Nature of the Protective Assignment
 
 
Evaluation of Presidential Protection at the Time of the Assassination of President Kennedy
 
 
Recommendations
 
 
Conclusion
 
Appendix I. Executive Order No. 11130  (PDF: 40 K)
Appendix II. White House Release  (PDF: 51 K)
Appendix III. Senate Joint Resolution 137  (PDF: 89 K)
Appendix IV. Biographical Information and Acknowledgments  (PDF: 566 K)
Appendix V. List of Witnesses  (PDF: 1005 K)
Appendix VI. Commission Procedures for the Taking of Testimony  (PDF: 180 K)
Appendix VII. A Brief History of Presidential Protection  (PDF: 901 K)
Appendix VIII. Medical Reports From Doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas Tex.  (PDF: 3747 K)
Appendix IX. Autopsy Report and Supplemental Report  (PDF: 464 K)
Appendix X. Expert Testimony  (PDF: 5799 K)
 
Firearms and Firearms Identification
 
 
Fingerprints and Palmprints
 
 
Questioned Documents
 
 
Wound Ballistics Experiments
 
 
Hairs and Fibers
 
 
Photographs
 
Appendix XI. Reports Relating to the Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Department  (PDF: 3374 K)
Appendix XII. Speculations and Rumors  (PDF: 2462 K)
 
The Source of the Shots
 
 
The Assassin
 
 
Oswald's Movements Between 12:33 and 1:15 P.M.
 
 
Murder of Tippit
 
 
Oswald After His Arrest
 
 
Oswald in the Soviet Union
 
 
Oswald's Trip to Mexico City
 
 
Oswald and U.S. Government Agencies
 
 
Conspiratorial Relationships
 
 
Other Rumors and Speculations
 
Appendix XIII. Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald  (PDF: 5865 K)
 
Early Years
 
 
Marines
 
 
Soviet Union
 
 
Fort Worth, Dallas, New Orleans
 
 
Mexico City
 
 
Dallas
 
Appendix XIV. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Finances From June 13, 1962, Through November 22, 1963  (PDF: 227 K)
Appendix XV. Transactions Between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marine Oswald, and the U.S. Dept of State...  (PDF: 2448 K)
 
Issuance of Passport in 1959
 
 
Oswald's Attempts to Renounce His U.S. Citizenship
 
 
Return and Renewal of Oswald's 1959 Passport
 
 
Authorization for Marina Oswald to Enter the United States
 
 
Oswald's Letter to Senator Tower
 
 
The Loan From the State Department
 
 
Oswald's Return to the United States and Repayment of his Loan
 
 
Issuance of a Passport in June 1963
 
 
Visit to the Russian Embassy in Mexico City
 
 
Conclusion
 
Appendix XVI. A Biography of Jack Ruby  (PDF: 2092 K)
 
Family Background
 
 
Childhood and Youth (1911-33)
 
 
Young Manhood (1933-43)
 
 
Military Activities (1943-46)
 
 
Postwar Chicago (1946-47)
 
 
Dallas (1947-63)
 
 
Character and Interests
 
Appendix XVII. Polygraph Examination of Jack Ruby  (PDF: 602 K)
 
Preliminary Arrangements
 
 
Administration of the Test
 
 
Interpretation of the Test
 
Appendix XVIII. Footnotes  (PDF: 5036 K)
 
Foreword
 
 
Chapter II
 
 
Chapter III
 
 
Chapter IV
 
 
Chapter V
 
 
Chapter VI
 
 
Chapter VII
 
 
Chapter VIII
 
 
Appendix VII
 
 
Appendix X
 
 
Appendix XII
 
 
Appendix XIII
 
 
Appendix XIV
 
 
Appendix XV
 
 
Appendix XVI
 
 
Appendix XVII
 
Index  (PDF: 610 K)

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Warren Report

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy was announced by President Johnson on November 29, 1963, one week after the shots rang out in Dallas, and five days after alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was killed while in police custody. A little under 10 months later, the "Warren Commission" delivered this 888-page Report. The Report found that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, alone and unaided, and that similarly Oswald's killer Jack Ruby was a "lone nut."

This Report was followed up a couple of months later by the publication of 26 volumes of Hearings and Exhibits. The Warren Report was widely hailed by the media as an exhaustive study produced by honorable and prestigious men, and was fairly widely accepted by the American public. It was not until a few years later, with the publication of several critical books and magazine pieces, that this acceptance began to turn into widespread disbelief and even ridicule of the Commission's conclusions.

The Warren Report remains the definitive statement of the "lone nut" theory of the assassination of President Kennedy.