Special to the AARC
19 April, 2026
Squirreled away in the heart of the 912-page Warren Report is a single fallacious sentence by the Warren Commission lawyers that masked the reality of the investigation of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. That sham, that forgery, that knowingly dishonest communique to the public hides a grim fact that the investigation failed. It could not find out who killed Kennedy and framed Lee Harvey Oswald as a way out. The sentence roots in the results of a paraffin test cheek and hands.
The Dallas Police Department created paraffin casts of Oswald’s cheek and hands for the presence of gunshot residue. The Dallas police indicated that they found gunshot residue on the casts. After pressure from outside the Warren Commission and FBI, the original paraffin cast were sent to Oak Ridge National Laboratory for neutron activation analysis. As a part of the analysis protocol, seven control subjects were directed to fire Oswald’s alleged murder weapon, a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, and have their cheeks and hands coated with paraffin to trap any gun shot residue. The theory was that the rifle, when fired, would exhaust gaseous and particulate matter onto the shooter’s cheeks and hand that held the weapon, and warm paraffin would collect the residue in a paraffin cast. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the casts would be exposed to a source of neutron radiation which would be absorbed by the gun shot residue [lead, bismuth and antimony] embedded in the paraffin and detected at the atomic level.
The results indicated that the paraffin casts of the rifle shooters all had gun shot residue on their cheeks and the hands that held the rifle. The Dallas Police paraffin casts of Lee Harvey Oswald, subjected to the same analysis, showed that Lee Harvey Oswald did not fire a rifle.
The Warren Commission Report drafters wrote that the tests did not establish proof of guilt. In fact, they proved the negative. The FBI accepted the results as incontrovertible. This evidence was disclosed in documents surrendered in a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by Harold Wesberg and his attorney, James H. Lesar, Civil Action 75-0226. Oswald was innocent of shooting a rifle.
As for college professors and the establishment intellectuals, they accept the Warren Commission report, chose to avoid the underlying facts that underpin the Warren Report’s conclusions. Indeed, an obsequious embrace of the Warren Commission’s conclusion is a classic doctrine of feudalism: Rex non potest peccare [The king can do no wrong].
Sources:
Civil Action 75-0225
Harold Weisberg, “Whitewash: The Report on The Warren Report” (1966)
Harold Weisberg, “Never Again!” (1995)
Harold Weisberg, “Waketh The Watchman” [Editors: Dennis McDonald; Gerald Ginnocho (2026)
David R. Wrone, “The Zapruder Film” (2003)
