The Full Warren Commission Report, 26 Volumes, Who Killed JFK?, on PDF DVD

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DVD-ROM for use only in a computer, not in a DVD player for your TV PDF files (requires latest version of Adobe Reader, available for free online) The Assassination of John F. Kennedy > 22,000 pages, including all 26 volumes with main report © The Classic Archives, All Rights Reserved. Students, Historians, Teachers G (everyone) English

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963. The U.S. Congress passed Senate Joint Resolution 137 authorizing the Presidential appointed Commission to report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, mandating the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence concerning the infraction occurring in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Its 888-page final report was presented to President Johnson on September 24, 1964 and made public three days later.  It concluded that President Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and that Oswald acted entirely alone. It also concluded that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald two days later.  The Commission's findings have proven controversial and have been both challenged and supported by later studies.

The Commission took its unofficial name—the Warren Commission—from its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren. According to published transcripts of Johnson's presidential phone conversations, some major officials were opposed to forming such a commission and several commission members took part only reluctantly. One of their chief reservations was that a commission would ultimately create more controversy than consensus, and those fears proved valid.

The Warren Commission met formally for the first time on December 5, 1963 on the second floor of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The Commission conducted its business primarily in closed sessions, but these were not secret sessions.

"Two misconceptions about the Warren Commission hearing need to be clarified…hearings were closed to the public unless the witness appearing before the Commission requested an open hearing. No witness except one…requested an open hearing… Second, although the hearings (except one) were conducted in private, they were not secret. In a secret hearing, the witness is instructed not to disclose his testimony to any third party, and the hearing testimony is not published for public consumption. The witnesses who appeared before the Commission were free to repeat what they said to anyone they pleased, and all of their testimony was subsequently published in the first fifteen volumes put out by the Warren Commission."

While these sessions were not secret sessions insofar that witnesses could be called-upon to testify without inhibition, Harold Weisberg has concluded that some of the staff on the Warren Commission itself could not examine certain evidence related to the case, but was reserved strictly for the so-called "executive sessions," which he also termed secret sessions. He then asked, "Now why, if JFK had been assassinated and the country and the world turned around by just three shots fired by Oswald alone, did this Commission have to practice such secrecy? The obvious answer is that it knew its work could not survive any critical examination."

Committee Members:

Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (chairman) (1891–1974)
Richard Russell, Jr. (D-Georgia), U.S. Senator, (1897–1971)
John Sherman Cooper (R-Kentucky), U.S. Senator (1901–1991)
Hale Boggs (D-Louisiana), U.S. Representative, House Majority Whip (1914–1972)
Gerald Ford (R-Michigan), U.S. Representative (later 38th President of the United States), House Minority Leader (1913-2006)
Allen Welsh Dulles, former Director of Central Intelligence and head of the Central Intelligence Agency (1893–1969)
John J. McCloy, former President of the World Bank (1895–1989)

The full text of the Warren Report is presented on this DVD in well organized PDF and keyword searchable format:

• Title
• Foreword
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter II. The Assassination
• Chapter III. The Shots From the Texas School Book Depository
• Chapter IV. The Assassin
• Chapter V. Detention and Death of Oswald
• Chapter VI. Investigation of Possible Conspiracy
• Chapter VII. Lee Harvey Oswald: Background and Possible Motives
• Chapter VIII. The Protection of the President
• Appendix I. Executive Order No. 11130
• Appendix II. White House Release
• Appendix III. Senate Joint Resolution 137
• Appendix IV. Biographical Information and Acknowledgments
• Appendix V. List of Witnesses
• Appendix VI. Commission Procedures for the Taking of Testimony
• Appendix VII. A Brief History of Presidential Protection
• Appendix VIII. Medical Reports From Doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas Tex.
• Appendix IX. Autopsy Report and Supplemental Report
• Appendix X. Expert Testimony
• Appendix XI. Reports Relating to the Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Department
• Appendix XII. Speculations and Rumors
• Appendix XIII. Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Appendix XIV. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Finances From June 13, 1962, Through November 22, 1963
• Appendix XV. Transactions Between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marine Oswald, and the U.S. Dept of State...
• Appendix XVI. A Biography of Jack Ruby
• Appendix XVII. Polygraph Examination of Jack Ruby
• Appendix XVIII. Footnotes
• Index
   

Also included is the full Warren Commission Hearings & Exhibits, setup in 26 volumes, totaling about 20,000 pages:

• Volume 1: The first of 5 volumes of testimony taken by the Commission members in Washington DC consisting largely of testimony by the Oswald family, including Lee Oswald's wife Marina, his mother Marguerite, and his brother Robert. Also contains testimony of James Martin, Marina's business manager for a short time in the aftermath of the assassination.
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• Volume 2: Testimony from prominent Warren Commission critic Mark Lane, Secret Service agents, Dealey Plaza witnesses to the assassination, associates of Lee Oswald and witnesses to his purported flight, the three autopsy physicians, and others.
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• Volume 3: Testimony from Texas School Book Depository employees, Dallas policemen, eyewitnesses to the assailant of slain police officer J. D. Tippit, physicians from Parkland Hospital involved in the futile attempt to save President Kennedy's life, ballistic experts, and others.
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• Volume 4: Testimony from fingerprint experts and other expert witnesses, physicians from Parkland Hospital involved in the treatment of Governor Connally's wounds, Texas Governor Connally himself and his wife, Dallas Police officers, Secret Service representatives, FBI agents who dealt with Oswald prior to the assassination, and others.
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• Volume 5: Testimony from the directors of the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service and their senior subordinates, ballistics experts from the FBI and from the Army's Edgewood Arsenal, the head of the State Department and employees of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Dallas Police Department officers, and others including Marina Oswald, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Jack Ruby. Ruby was interviewed in his Dallas jail cell by Commission members Earl Warren and Gerald Ford, accompanied by general counsel J. Lee Rankin and staff members Arlen Spector and Joseph Ball.
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• Volume 6-15: 10 volumes of testimony and affidavits taken in various locations by staff attorneys for the Warren Commission. Also contains a helpful index of the Commission Exhibits published in the remaining 11 of the 26 volumes of Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits (16 through 26).
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• Volume 16: Most of the exhibits in this volume were introduced during the testimony of the Oswald family: wife Marina, mother Marguerite, and brother Robert. The remainder consists of some primary police evidence photos and some of the medical exhibits introduced during the testimony of the autopsy physicians.
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• Volume 17: The exhibits in this volume consists of medical exhibits related to both President Kennedy and Governor Connally, letters between Ruth Paine and Marina Oswald, photographs of the Paine and Randle homes, photographs of the Texas School Book Depository building, various ballistics evidence, cards carried by Lee Harvey Oswald, photographs from the Secret Service re-enactment of the assassination, and more.
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• Volume 18: The exhibits in this volume consists of black-and-white frames from the Zapruder film and other films taken in Dealey Plaza, State Department documents relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and his defection to the Soviet Union, Secret Service reports and letters, and various documents relating to General Walker, Larrie Schmidt, and other right-wing persons in the Dallas area.
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• Volume 19: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. It covers those whose last names begin with the letters A through F.
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• Volume 20: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. It covers those whose last names begin with the letters G through O.
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• Volume 21: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. It covers those whose last names begin with the letters P through Z.
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• Volume 22: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. Volume 22 contains a large variety of documents generated by the FBI, Secret Service, INS, and other government agencies, as well as newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials.
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• Volume 23: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. Volume 23 contains mostly of a large number of FBI reports, along with other documents including schooling and employment records of Lee Harvey Oswald.
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• Volume 24: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. Volume 24 consists of a variety of reports from the FBI, Secret Service, and Dallas Police, as well as transcripts of a few dozen television and radio broadcasts from the assassination weekend.
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• Volume 25: One of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. Volume 25 consists of a variety of FBI reports, photographs, and other documents. It includes a number of reports related to the FBI investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City. Also included are excerpts of testimony from the trial of Jack Ruby, photographs taken in the Soviet Union and Dallas, phone call records relating to Jack Ruby, and more.
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• Volume 26: Last of the eleven exhibits volumes in this set. Volume 26 consists of a variety of reports from the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies including the Secret Service and the State Department. It also contains miscellaneous items such as reprints of newspaper articles, transcripts of radio transmissions, and so on.

 

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