President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130 dated November 29, 1963, created this Commission to investigate the assassination on November 22,1963, of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. The President directed the Commission to evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding the assassination and the subsequent killing of the alleged assassin and to report its findings and conclusions to him.

The subject of the Commission's inquiry was a chain of events which saddened and shocked the people of the United States and of the world. The assassination of President Kennedy and the simultaneous wounding of John B. Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas, has been followed within an hour by the slaying of Patrolman J.D. Tippit of the Dallas Police Department. In the United States and abroad, these events evoked universal demands for and explanation. --from the Foreward

Since its release in 1964, the Warren Commission Report has been at the heart of an ever-growing debate on the events surrounding the assassination of JFK. Long unavailable, this is perhaps one of the most important and controversial documents of the twentieth century. Now available again-complete and unabridged-this is the essential document of the Kennedy assassination.

Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History" is an excellent book, and well worth the long read. It is a good overview of all of the events of November 22, 1963, here in Dallas, and a good overview of many of the problems with the Warren Commission and other theories.

However, the reader should keep in mind that Mr. Bugliosi is a Prosecutor, and not a researcher or investigator. His tendency is to build a case to prosecute the defendant, and explain away, or debunk any information that counters his case.

Unfortunately, like a Prosecutor, this includes discrediting any witness that puts forth any information that points elsewhere. Vincent often addresses the background of the witness, instead of answering or explaining the information the witness presents.

Vincent spends the first half of the book rehashing the 1986 trial of Oswald, where he was the Prosecutor against Gerry Spence. He uses 53 points of evidence to prove that Oswald was guilty of shooting the President from behind. He then goes on to review the many problems with the evidence, but bases the evaluation of these problems on the premise that he has already proven Oswald guilty. Since he has already proven Oswald guilty, the problems can be disregarded.

By  Lee Oswald "Lee Oswald" (Dallas TX)

The film is great also. You will see 50 eyewitnesses that saw and heard shots from behind the fence on the grassy knoll. There were witnesses who saw 2 men shoot officer Tippit and neither of them was Oswald. One of those witnesses was shot in the head and the other was threatened if she talked. 

Oswald was seen by a Dallas Policeman on the 2nd floor of the TSBD only seconds after the shooting. The rifle found on the 6th floor was a german MAUSER 7.65mm,not a manlicher 6.5mm.There are many news reports on youtube of reporters stating that a MAUSER was found but it magically became a Manlicher 6.5mm later when they realized that Oswald owned a Manlicher. 

Go research "Operation Mockingbird" and you will realize that the US media & television has been controlled by the CIA since the 1940s. There is NO CREDIBLE evidence that proves Oswald fired ANY shots. Also it is a known FACT that Jack Ruby was an FBI informant for Richard Nixon and had ties to the New Orleans mafia who were heavily involved in Cuba. 

Richard Nixon as vice president played a major role in planning the Bay of PIgs invasion. Go to youtube and see for yourself Jack Ruby in his own words blaming LBJ for the murder.

By Michel Baudin (Palo Alto, CA USA) 

You read this book not for the basic chronology of the JFK assassination and funeral but for their emotional impact, on the author, the Kennedy family, JFK's associates, the nation, and the world.
American Caesar, Manchester's biography of Douglas McArthur, is a history book; Death of a President, a song full or longing and nostalgia for a man Manchester worshipped. His depiction of a White House dinner for the Supreme Court in the beginning of the book feels like the dinner scene in James Cameron's Titanic. Later parts of the book also reminded me of the atmosphere of Stephen Frears' The Queen.
How do you make a 200-page blow-by-blow depiction of a state funeral readable? Manchester does it masterfully, often by focusing on details and glitches that humanize the participants: Robert McNamara getting drenched in the rain while checking out the Arlington grave site, the seating plan at the cathedral that forgot to account for account for participants wearing overcoats, chaos with limousines on the way out... none of which were visible to TV viewers. And Manchester concludes that this was consistent with JFK's life "of achievement, not tidiness."
Manchester's JFK is flawless: a perfect husband and father, as well as a brilliant statesman. While more modern historians have not knocked JFK off his pedestal, they have at least made a more nuanced portrait of him. But, for the sake of this book, it doesn't matter.
Manchester's vocabulary choices are sometimes surprising. JFK's circle of close associates, for example, is referred to as his "mafia," without any sinister meaning. This is apparently how they were referring to themselves, but I don't think a modern writer would use it in this way today.
Like another reviewer, I had never heard of this book before reading about the conflict it caused between Manchester and Jacqueline Kennedy in Vanity Fair. Today, this book is out of print and hard to find. It shouldn't be.