http://hnn.us/articles/8059.html
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Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 18:59
The Warren Commission Report: 40 Years Later It Still Stands Up
Mel Ayton
Mr. Ayton is the author of The JFK Assassination: Dispelling The Myths
(2002) and Questions of Controversy: The Kennedy Brothers (2001)
Forty years ago this month President Lyndon B. Johnson’s commission to
investigate his predecessor’s assassination published the results of its
ten-month inquiry. The Warren Commission, named after its chairman
,Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded that President
Kennedy had been killed by a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald and there
was no evidence of conspiracy. The findings were accepted by a majority
of the American public. However, a significant minority greeted the
findings with instant skepticism. A public opinion poll immediately
afterwards revealed that only a slight majority, 56 percent, accepted
the Commission's conclusions. And, within a year of the report’s release
two American best-sellers, Mark Lane’s Rush To Judgement and Edward J
Epstein’s Inquest, created enough doubt about the Warren Commission’s
conclusions to persuade a majority of Americans that the president’s
panel had gotten it wrong.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-29/entertainment/ca-61990_1_warren-commission-report
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Warren Commission Report Is Proving True
Counterpunch
November 29, 1993|RICHARD M. MOSK | Mosk is a Los Angeles attorney who
served on the staff of the Warren Commission. He was also a member of
the Christopher Commission and a judge on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal
Historians some day may find the reaction to, and treatment of, the
assassination more interesting than the actual events of Nov. 22, 1963.
The Warren Commission Report was widely accepted shortly after its
release. Thereafter, thousands of books, films and articles came out
espousing various conspiracy theories. Even though it should have been
apparent that writers, book publishers and film companies had an
economic incentive to promote conspiracy theories, these works appear to
have reversed public opinion.
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Lastly, your hero, Mark Lane himself has said
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKlaneM.htm
that (only) “almost half of the American people believed” there was a
conspiracy.
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More than a decade after the assassination, when I won a lawsuit against
various police and spy organizations in the United States district court
in Washington, D.C., pursuant to the order of the court, I received many
long-suppressed documents.
Among them was a top-secret CIA report. It stated that the CIA was
deeply troubled by my work in questioning the conclusions of the Warren
Report and that polls that had been taken revealed that almost half of
the American people believed as I did.
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