Marking JFK anniversary, GPO releases digital Warren Commission report

[avaistheone1]

The Government Printing Office on Monday marked the upcoming 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death by releasing the official, digital version of the Warren Commission Report into his assassination.

The release includes the 888-page report as well as the 26 volumes of hearings conducted by the commission, and contains numerous photos, maps and diagrams from the scene in Dallas where Kennedy was slain.

While portions of the report have been digitized previously by libraries, the GPO release marks “the first time the complete, official version has been made available,” said Gary Somerset, a spokesman for the agency.

The commission, established soon after Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and chaired by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, concluded in its controversial report released in the fall of 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot the president. But the report’s findings have been challenged over the years, including by a House select committee in the 1970s.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/11/18/marking-jfk-anniversary-gpo-releases-digital-warren-commission-report/


This publication is free to download. It is over 77Mb.

[Octafish]

1. Sylvia Meagher had to create her own Index in 1965...

"It was appalling to find how many of the Commission's statements were unsupportable or even completely contradicted by the testimony and/or exhibits... I began to list what is now a long list of deliberate misrepresentations, omissions, distortions, and other defects demonstrating not only extreme bias, incompetence, and carelessness but irrefutable instances of dishonesty."

More from the great DUer John Simkin:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19693

Thank you for the heads-up, avaistheone1! I'm getting my copy as soon as I hit send on this.

[avaistheone1]

3. My understanding is the HSCA would not have been able to do their work without Meagher's index.

She provided a important and indispensable service to our country imo.

Octafish, I think having the Warren Commission in a digital format will provide a valuable tool for researchers and the public alike to learn more about the inconsistencies, weaknesses and extreme bias of the Warren Report as you referenced.

[MicaelS]

2. Thanks so much! n/t

[avaistheone1]

4. You're welcome.

This certainly is an incredible resource!