The Testimony vs. the Warren Commission's Report
The Warren Commission ignored the testimony of its own witnesses, some of them experts, in order to conclude that Oswald was guilty as charged. Tests conducted at the Commission's request were often inconclusive, irrelevant or proved the opposite of the Commission's position. In addition, the Commission flat out lied in its Report about what the witnesses said.
In addition, there were numerous examples of conflicts in the description of evidence as found. Descriptions of evidence that did not point to Oswald as the perpetrator were changed after the fact. To believe that the early descriptions were simply errors by police, one must be convinced that police could not tell a .38 caliber automatic shell from a .38 special shell, even though both were clearly marked. That police could not tell a white jacket from a grey jacket and that police could not tell a 7.65mm Argentine Mauser from a 6.5mm carbine clearly marked "6.5mm Made In Italy". These are just a few examples. Not only was the description of evidence changed after the fact, other evidence had no chain of possession and at least in one case, the one of the "paper gunsack", crime scene photos showed that the evidence was not where police said it was.
The Commission took no interest in settling the questions about the conflicts in evidence. If these were honest mistakes, they could have easily been dealt with once and for all by questioning the people who handled the evidence.
Either much of the evidence in this case was substituted to make Oswald look guilty, or these were the stupidest cops in history.
I will leave such judgments to the reader.
A network television camera, there to cover the transfer, was broadcasting live at the time, and millions thereby witnessed the shooting as it happened. Ruby later said he had been distraught over Kennedy's death and that his motive for killing Oswald was "...saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfort of coming back to trial."
Ruby's murder of Oswald in front of 75 armed police officers caused an outcry of conspiracy, both from the left and the right.
Enter the Warren Commission
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963,by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Its 888-page final report was presented to President Johnson on September 24, 1964,[2] and made public three days later. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing of Kennedy and the wounding of Texas Governor John Connally, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald. The Commission's findings have since proven controversial and been challenged by later studies.
Was Lee Harvey Oswald Really Guilty ?
