"Gil Jesus" <
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> 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.
Volume XXII Pages 386-410.
ALL about /Ruby's mother's Dental Charts.
24 pages.