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http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/20/magazine/the-warren-commission-why-we-still-dont-s-believe-it.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]THE WARREN COMMISSION: Why We Still Dont's Believe It[/font]
By David W. Belin; David W. Belin, a senior partner in the Des Moines law firm of Belin Harris Helmick Tesdell Lamson McCormick, was counsel to the Warren Commission. He adapted this article from ''Final Disclosure: The Full Truth About the Assassination of President Kennedy,'' to be published this month.
Published: November 20, 1988
[font size=3] THE TRUTH IS that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman who murdered President John F. Kennedy and Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit on that tragic Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Yet 25 years after the event, a majority of the American public does not believe the truth. Rather, polls have shown that most Americans believe President Kennedy was assassinated as an outgrowth of a conspiracy.
Over the years, conspiracy theories have ebbed and flowed. During the late 1960's, claims focused on an alleged conspiracy by so-called right-wing conservatives. In the 1970's, the conspiracy buffs concentrated on the Central Intelligence Agency. More recently, the dominant theme has been that the Mafia was in some way involved, with Jack Ruby as the ''hit man.'' A common effect of many of these allegations has been to tarnish the name of the late Chief Justice Earl Warren and to create the conviction that the Warren Commission was a ''blue ribbon cover-up.''
Having served as counsel to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy, and as executive director of the Rockefeller Commission investigating the C.I.A., in which capacity I had access to all C.I.A. files relating to the Kennedy assassination, I know that the right-wing conspiracy theories, the C.I.A. conspiracy theories and the Mafia conspiracy theories are pure fiction. Why are they believed by a majority of the American public? How can it be that an investigation headed by Earl Warren - a man whose integrity was above reproach - has failed to gain the public's confidence?
The easy answer is that there is a general mystique about conspiracy - a mystique encouraged by the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on Nov. 24, 1963. In fact, when I first went to Washington to serve as counsel to the Warren Commission, I felt that the killing of Oswald by Ruby, a man with underworld connections, might have been some sort of a ''hit'' ordered to silence the President's assassin.
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