Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (The Warren Report)

The Warren Report is the official 888-page investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, conducted by Chief Justice Earl Warren and a bipartisan commission over ten months beginning in December 1963. Published in September 1964, it remains the most authoritative government account of the murder in Dealey Plaza, the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the conclusions regarding the assassins' actions and motives. The report endeavored to give the American people "full and truthful knowledge" of these events, presenting its findings with what the commission called "the light of reason and the standard of fairness." What followed was not closure but controversy: the report's conclusions have been debated, questioned, augmented, and contested for six decades, spawning countless alternative theories and keeping the truth of Dallas perpetually contested. This is essential primary source material for understanding how America processed its greatest trauma, and why that processing remains unfinished.