Post by John Duncan on Nov 27, 2020 21:44:56 GMT -5
The Warren Commission Cover-up
By Gil Jesus
3/3/09
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, Cover-up, 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. Preliminary 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 (229), 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 the 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 relevant to the case.
This is just an example of the "work" of the Warren Commission.
By Gil Jesus
3/3/09
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, Cover-up, 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. Preliminary 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 (229), 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 the 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 relevant to the case.
This is just an example of the "work" of the Warren Commission.