Why The Failure Of The Warren Commission

Because of the key role the Warren Commission played and the acceptance of its conclusions by many people, it is worth noting the key facts and questions it failed to pursue, contradictions with the very evidence provided to it and the unsupported conclusions it arrived at. They are as follows.
1. The Commission never questioned the Dallas police about the first rifle found at the School Book Depository.
2. They never asked the FBI to explain how no prints were found on Oswald’s rifle, and then Oswald’s palm print was found on the rifle.
3. They stated that the ammunition Oswald possessed for his rifle was of current manufacture but Mark Lane obtained a letter from the manufacturer stating that the ammunition had not been manufactured since 1945. Ammunition this old would be of very doubtful accuracy.
4.
The Commission in its report did not mention an FBI report from a witness placing Oswald in the second floor lunchroom of the depository at 12:15. They did report Oswald being in the lunchroom between 12:31 and 12:32. It would be difficult for anyone to believe that Oswald ran up to the 6th floor to assassinate Kennedy and then returned to the lunchroom at 12:31. Since Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30, the Commission actually presents evidence that Oswald was in the lunch room at the time of the assassination as he could not possibly hide his rifle and get down to the lunch room within two minutes.
5. They didn’t question the Dallas police how they could issue a description of the assassin at 12:45, before they would even have had time to get such an identification from the supposed
witness.
6. They didn’t question the Dallas police how Officer J. D. Tippit could be sent to the area of Oswald’s rooming house unless the police already knew who Oswald was.
7. They didn’t question why the Dallas police had a silent press conference at midnight, to present Oswald to the press, and why Jack Ruby was there.
8. There was no corroborating evidence that the bullet found on a stretcher at Parkland hospital had actually been found on Connally’s stretcher, or who found it, yet the Commission concluded that it had been found on Connally’s stretcher.
9. The Commission waited six months to interview Jack Ruby and when he asked to be moved from Texas, so he could tell them more, they did not move him.
10. They never closely checked if Oswald had been a CIA agent, even though the Texas Attorney General reported that this was so.
11. Spokesmen for the Commission said they were not trying to determine the guilt of anyone, but they concluded that Oswald, acting alone, had killed Kennedy.
12. They concluded that the only credible witnesses stated that all of the shots had come from the School Book Depository. There was no explanation given why these witnesses were credible and witnesses stating that shots had come from the grassy knoll and the direction of the overpass were not credible.
13. The Commission reported that there had been a flurry of shots yet concluded that Oswald had fired all of the shots. This was in contradiction with the fact that Oswald owned a bolt action rifle and such a rifle could not rapidly fire a flurry of shots as the bolt would have to be worked for each round.
14. Connally stated that Kennedy was hit and then he was hit by a second bullet, yet the Commission concluded that they had been hit by the same bullet.
15. The doctors at Parkland hospital stated that Kennedy had sustained an entry wound to his throat, yet the Commission concluded that it was an exit wound.
16. The autopsy report on Kennedy indicated a back wound near the top of the right shoulder blade but the Commission concluded that his wound was at the base of Kennedy’s skull. This enabled them to say that this same bullet exited Kennedy’s throat.
17. In their hearings, the Commission reported the testimony of secret service agents that Kenndy had suffered an entrance wound to his right temple, but this wound is not mentioned in the Commission’s final report. Such a wound could not have been inflicted by a shot from the rear of the motorcade.
18. Doctors at Parkland Hospital and corpsmen at Bethesda autopsy reported that Kennedy had a massive, gaping wound in the back of his head but the Commission only mentioned a small entry wound. The wound was described as being about 5 inches in diameter and thus could not be an entry wound.
19. The Commission reported that Jack Ruby had no mafia connections but he actually did, in Chicago and New Orleans.
20. The Commission reported that Jack Ruby was not familiar with the Dallas Police but he was as they could drink for free at his club and he knew many of them.
21. Many people have concluded that one bullet could not have transited Kennedy’s body, Connally’s chest, Connally’s wrist, and lodged in Connally’s thigh and be in such good condition, with no trace of blood, as the bullet that the Commission concluded did just that.
22. The Commission concluded that only three shots had been fired at Kennedy even though some witnesses reported more shots.
23. Though at least three shots were fired at Kennedy, only one bullet was recovered. The Commission never pursued the question of why these other bullets were not recovered and given to the Commission