Conflicting Conclusions: The Government Assassination Investigations

The U.S. government conducted two major investigations into the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. In 1979, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations concurred that Oswald killed President Kennedy, but concluded that the President “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” For the first time ever, Howard P. Willens, Assistant Counsel on the Warren Commission and G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel on the U.S. House Select Committee, will publicly discuss these investigations and why questions remain still today.