THE REPORT THAT THE WARRENNATI APOLOGISTS DEFEND

[Gil Jesus]

The Warren Commission was formed by President Johnson on November 29,
1963 amid calls for a Congressional investigation into the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Commission did not hear a
witness until February 3, 1964, some 66 days after its formation.

ATTENDANCE

The Commissioners themselves were only present at the questioning of
93 witnesses, with the other 395 witnesses being deposed by counsel in
various parts of the country.

No witness testified before all seven members of the Commission, nor
were all seven "present" at one time or another during the testimony
of any witness.

The breakdown went this way:

Earl Warren heard 71 witnesses

Gerald Ford heard 70 witnesses

Allen Dulles heard 60 witnesses

John Sherman Cooper heard 50 witnesses

John McCloy heard 35 witnesses

Hale Boggs heard 20 witnesses

Richard Russell heard 6 witnesses

Gary Shaw wrote, " It is a fact that in an ordinary case involving a
chicken theft, ALL of the jury is required to hear ALL of the
testimony before delivering a verdict". (Shaw, Coverup, pg. 2)

QUESTIONS

The Commission asked a total of 109,930 questions. Of those 109,930,
37,097 were asked by the Commissioners themselves. The remaining were
asked by staff counsel.

The 37,097 questions can be broken down this way in number and
percentage :

1. Premliminary 805 ( 2.1% )
2. To the point 1,537 ( 4.1 % )
3. Not vital 16,073 ( 43.3 % )
4. Clarification 7,354 ( 19.8 % )
5. Leading/hearsay 9,676 ( 26.0 % )
6. Conclusionary 922 ( 2.4 % )
7. Foregone conclusion 323 ( .8 % )
8. Nonsense 407 ( 1.09 % )

The Commission asked 104 questions of Secretary of State Dean Rusk and
diplomat Llewellyn Thompson, neither of whom had any knowledge
regarding the killings of Kennedy, Tippit or Oswald.

But they only asked autopsy doctor Boswell 14 questions.

The Commission asked more questions of Mrs. Mahlon Tobias' husband,
who was admittedly in a weakened mental state (229) about where the
Oswald's lived, than they did of the chief autopsy pathologist, Dr.
Humes (215).

In fact, the Commission asked less questions of the autopsy doctors
TOTAL (304) than they 342 questions they asked William D. Crowe, Jr.,
the emcee at Ruby's strip joint.

57,224 questions, or 52.05 % of the total questions asked, were asked
to people with no direct knowledge of the crime. This included Ruth
Paine, Curtis LaVerne Crafard, George Senator, Marina Oswald, Robert
Oswald, John Edward Pic, Andrew Armstrong, George DeMohrenschildt and
Jesse Curry.

To put that in perspective, neither Robert Oswald nor John Pic had
seen Lee Harvey in the year before the assassination.

2,065 questions of the 109,930 dealt with valuable data with regard to
the killing of the president.

This amounts to only 1.87 % of the Warren Commission's "work".

EXHIBITS

One of the Warren Commission exhibits had to do with the teeth marks
of Jack Ruby's mother.

Even if Ruby had intended to BITE Oswald to death, this exhibit would
not be relevent to the case.

This is just an example of the "work" of the Warren Commission.

[Phil Ossofee]

Warren was a dupe bamboozled by Johnson, so the commission was
controlled by Ford, Dulles, and a bunch of sleazy lawyers makin' a name
for themselves concocting magic bullets, and finding clever ways to deny
witneses credibilty. Nice post here Gil.

[Gil Jesus]

What amazes me Phil, is that 69.3 % of the questions the Commissioners
asked were either "not vital" or "leading/heresay" .

Their fear of Hoover was obvious. There was no way they were going to
lock horns with him.