Sunday, October 03, 2004
 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER September 18, 2004g: A group of historians and researchers marked the 40th anniversary this week of the Warren Commission report by deriding the government's official investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The report, the group said, was so badly botched that most Americans have little confidence in its central conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The Warren Commission, led by then Chief Justice Earl Warren, "was a complete and utter disaster," sowing only "doubt, confusion and distrust" of government, said Jim Lesar, author and head of the non-profit Assassination Archives and Research Center.
"Why should we believe the Sept. 11 commission report, or for that matter any congressional or governmental report," when the Warren Commission report is so flawed, he said.
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A Gallup poll taken in 1963 found that 52 percent of Americans believed Oswald was part of a greater conspiracy to kill the president...
A similar Gallup poll in 2001 found that 81 percent of those polled believed there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.
Intoning the view of many Warren Commission critics, David Wrone, a former professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, called the commission's report a work of fiction...
Dr. Cyril Wecht, a renowned pathologist who served on a House committee's investigation into the assassination in 1978, said that one of the Warren Commission's greatest failures was in not challenging a poorly performed autopsy of the president.
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