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October 05, 2004

Warren Commission botched investigation

Historians and researchers marked the 40th anniversary of the Warren Commission report by deriding the government's official investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The group said the report was so badly botched that most Americans have little confidence in its central conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

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Dr.Wecht says one of the greatest failures of the Warren Commission was in not challenging a poorly performed autopsy of the president. He has said the autopsy was replete with deficiencies, ineptitude and incompetence, and that the attending physicians who conducted the autopsy were not even experienced in gunshot trauma. Dr. Wecht served on a House committee's investigation into the assassination in 1978.

For more, see "History buffs, scholars deride JFK inquiry".

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