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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]octoberlib
(14,971 posts)The House Select Committee on Assassinations's results, while public record, were never widely publicized. Interestingly, the Committee officially stated that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't act alone, and that yes, there were additional shots fired by an unknown person located at the infamous "grassy knoll." The Committee stated that there WAS, indeed, a 4th shot, as shown by accoustical evidence analysis put forth by the National Academy of Sciences. Finally, the Committee Report was highly critical of the FBI and Secret Service, not only for their unusual and aberrant behavior during the day of the assassination (All of the traditional tactics, routines and procedures for Presidential protection, procedures that had been in place for 30 years prior to the assassination and most of which are still in-place today, were oddly abandoned on that day in Dallas), but also for their behavior after the assassination, particularly, the impetuous manner with which they propounded the "single gunman" theory, the speed with which they announced it was Lee Harvey Oswald, their immediate insistence that there was no conspiracy and their ruling-out the existence of any potential accomplices (something that no sensible law enforcement investigation, even in a normal homicide, ever does).
These criticisms extended to the CIA as well. Indeed, the Chief Counsel for the Committee, G. Robert Blakey, accused the CIA of very sketchy behavior throughout the course of the investigation and hearings. At various times, Chief Counsel Blakey issued official complaints to the Justice Department, officially charging the CIA with Obstruction of Justice. Usually such complaints would result in an investigation, but this was one of the rare circumstances in which the DOJ did nothing. http://www.open.salon.com/blog/rw005g/2010/05/01/congress_admits_lee_harvey_oswald_didnt_act_alone
Copy of the final Report from the House Select Committee on Assassinations http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0001a.htm