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JFK Assassination1

involved, or else the American people would know what really happened on that day in DallaThe Warren Commission was in charge of investigating the assassination of the President. This commission was named after its head, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. The group spent From March to June of 1964 sorting through the huge and contradictory body of evidence collected by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI (Callahan 29). In just three months they came up with their conclusion of the assassination. This seems like it was very quick with all of the evidence that the commission had to go through. This would make one think that they did not look at every possibility for the assassination. Thus they must have been hiding something.As time went on people began to feel that the government was not telling them everything that happened concerning the Kennedy assassination. CIA concerns about this were revealed in a now declassified memo released April 1, 1967. The memo stated "In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often implied that the commission itself was involved."(Callahan 65). So it is shown people were starting to doubt what the government told them about the Kennedy situation. Callahan stated:The memo presumably came about due to increasing challenge to the Warren Commission report shown in a public opinion poll at the time which stated 46% of the American public did not feel that Oswald acted alone (65). This started to worry the CIA that the people were not believing what the government told them. This was also shown in the CIA memo. It said:The people felt the government especially the CIA was directly involved because they contributed information to the investigation and because Oswald was alleged to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (Callahan 66).The agency would now tur...

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