The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

NIZER, Louis [Analysis and Commentary]. Historical Afterword by Bruce Catton. [Gerald R. Ford].

$750.00

Item Number: 146343

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964.

First edition prepared by Doubleday & Company, Inc. reproducing the official Government report on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece portrait of President John F. Kennedy, photographs, documents and a street plan. Signed by Gerald R. Ford on the front free endpaper. Gerald Ford was one of the seven members of the Warren Commission, the special task force appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Ford was assigned to prepare a biography of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. He and Earl Warren also interviewed Jack Ruby, Oswald’s killer. According to a 1963 FBI memo that was released to the public in 2008, Ford was in contact with the FBI throughout his time on the Warren Commission and relayed information to the deputy director, Cartha DeLoach, about the panel’s activities. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Harsh/Finegold.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130 dated November 29, 1963, created the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, to investigate the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which had occurred on November 22, 1963. 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. 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.