{"product_id":"breach-of-trust-how-the-warren-commission-failed-the-nation-and-why-9780700619399","title":"Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why","description":"The Warren Commission's major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the \"lone assassin\" of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of the Commission's work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy was officially established by Executive Order to investigate and determine the facts surrounding JFK's murder. The Warren Commission, as it became known, produced 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits, more than 17,000 pages of testimony, and a 912-page report. Surely a definitive effort. Not at all, McKnight argues. The \u003ci\u003eWarren Report\u003c\/i\u003e itself, he contends, was little more than the capstone to a deceptive and shoddily improvised exercise in public relations designed to \"prove\" that Oswald had acted alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcKnight argues that the Commission's own documents and collected testimony--as well as thousands of other items it never saw, refused to see, or actively suppressed--reveal two conspiracies: the still very murky one surrounding the assassination itself and the official one that covered it up. The cover-up actually began, he reveals, within days of Kennedy's death, when President Johnson, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach all agreed that any official investigation must reach only one conclusion: Oswald was the assassin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile McKnight does not uncover any \"smoking gun\" that identifies the real conspirators, he nevertheless provides the strongest case yet that the Commission was wrong--and knew it. Oswald might have knowingly or unwittingly been involved, but the Commission's own evidence proves he could not have acted alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on more than a quarter-million pages of government documents and, for the first time ever, the 50,000 file cards in the Dallas FBI's \"Special Index,\" McKnight's book must now be the starting point for future debate on the assassination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong the revelations in \u003ci\u003eBreach of Trust: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth CIA and FBI photo analysis of the Zapruder film concluded that the first shot could not have been fired from the sixth floor \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Commission's evidence was never able to place Oswald at the \"sniper's nest\" on the sixth floor at the time of the shooting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJFK's official death certificate, signed by his own White House physician and contradicting the Commission's account of Kennedy's wounds, was left out of the official record. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dissenting views of the naval doctors who performed the autopsy and those of the government's best ballistic experts were kept out of the official report. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Commission's tortuous \"Single Bullet\" or \"Magic Bullet\" theory is finally and convincingly dismantled. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOswald was probably a low-level asset of the FBI or CIA or both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommission members Gerald Ford (for the FBI) and Allen Dulles (for the CIA) acted as informers regarding the Commission's proceedings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe strong dissenting views of Commission member Senator Richard Russell (D-Georgia) were suppressed for years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald D. McKnight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.22w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700619399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerald D. McKnight is professor emeritus of history at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Crusade: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40925807378547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":31.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_15f56081-ead5-4358-b40e-b4310b9da792.jpg?v=1692277850","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/breach-of-trust-how-the-warren-commission-failed-the-nation-and-why-9780700619399","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}