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On Sept. 24, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson received a special commission’s report on the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Since the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed by a man named Jack Ruby almost immediately after murdering Kennedy, Oswald’s motive for assassinating the president remained unknown. Seven days after the assassination, Johnson appointed the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy to investigate Kennedy’s death. The commission was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and became known as the Warren Commission. It concluded that Oswald had acted alone and that the Secret Service had made poor preparations for JFK’s visit to Dallas and had failed to sufficiently protect him. The circumstances surrounding Kennedy’s death, however, have since given rise to several conspiracy theories, and the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald was a “lone gunman” failed to satisfy some who witnessed the attack as well as others whose research found conflicting details in the commission’s report. Critics of the Warren Commission’s report believed that additional ballistics experts’ conclusions and a home movie shot at the scene disputed the theory that three bullets fired from Oswald’s gun could have caused Kennedy’s fatal wounds as well as the injuries to Texas Gov.John Connally, who was riding with the president in an open car as it traveled through Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. So persistent was the controversy that another congressional investigation was conducted in 1979, which reached the same conclusion as the Warren Commission.
(History.com)
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