Commentary (October 1966).

Excerpt:

The Warren Commission (known formally as the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy) was born of rampaging suspicions and worldwide controversy. It was charged “to evaluate all the facts and circumstances” surrounding the assassination, “to satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered,” and thus to satisfy everyone else. For a season, the task seemed accomplished. The Commission’s Report was generally received, in this country at least, with rhapsodic relief. The few remaining voices of dissent sounded increasingly remote and implausible, and there was every apparent prospect that they too would finally be still. Yet today, two years after the publication of the Report, new voices of dissent are heard, and it has become clear that far from having “satisfied itself that the truth is known,” the Commission scarcely even evaluated “all the facts and circumstances.”

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