Special to the AARC
11 May, 2026
Of the 750 witnesses along JFK’s motorcade route, the Warren Commission could muster only one to claim he saw Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository building’s sixth-floor eastern-most window with a rifle ready to shoot JFK: Howard Leslie Brennan.
Fortunately, the least amount of critical examination shows he did not. No one saw a man in that particular window for there was no one there.
Regard: he sat on a low wall across from the Texas School Book Depository building and claimed to have looked up. Heavens, a Warren Commission lawyer in 1965 told a hand full of critics Brennan’s eyesight was so bad that he could hardly make out the frame of the window. He did not wear his eyeglasses.
Moreover, he had earlier sworn when he looked at a police line-up with Oswald in it, he was unable to identify Oswald. Later he viewed another line-up and said he had. One is proof of the other’s perjury.
There were two motion picture films that showed the Texas School Book Depository building in the background and would show the alleged assassin in the window. At time of the 1st shot.
The Robert Hughes film showed the window empty. In the street below was JFK in his limousine at the time of the 1st shot. Two professional groups studied the Hughes film: Navy photographic intelligence and the FBI performed photo analysis. Both concluded beyond question that the window was empty. No Oswald! Brennan lied.
However, the FBI had to portray Oswald as the assassin. An examination of the FBI’s initial report on the assassination, Warren Commission Document No. 1, Volume 2 [Exhibits, Volume 1] Illustration #29 cropped the JFK limousine out of the picture. It shows the 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building at the moment the first shot was discharged.
Thus, the FBI supported a blind man’s assertion that Oswald was the shooter in the window.
And the Zapruder film, when the Abraham Zapruder film was examined, Howard Brennan was found to be looking over his shoulder toward Houston Street at the time he alleged he saw Oswald in the sixth-floor window.
The FBI and the Warren Commission suborned the perjury of a blind man to indict Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who assassinated JFK from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository building.
Nine Who Did Not Make It
Nine witnesses on President Joh F. Kennedy’s right side related that they saw a bullet hit him in the right temple. Six were three pairs of men and women on the grassy knoll, one pair sat approximately 20 feet from the passing limousine. Another pair stood approximately 10 feet from the limousine. A last pair was Zapruder and his secretary standing approximately 10 feet away with him filming the JFK Motorcade. The groundskeeper watched from approximately 20 feet away. Two of Kennedy’s motorcycle escorts rode their bikes three to six feet from him, looking at his face.
All saw a bullet hit, with one couple seeing it make a hole as it entered. Several said the shot came from the knoll behind them. Could you ask for more solid evidence? Three photographs relate to the right temple shot. One was the film Abraham Zapruder took that graphicly captured the temple shot and wound. The second was an image of Zapruder himself, made by a local TV station less than an hour after the murder, showing Zapruder pressing a finger pressed against his own right temple indicating where he saw Kennedy’s entrance wound. And the third is an image shot by James W. “Ike” Altgens who stood across from the Texas School Book Depository Building pointing his camera down Elm Street toward the Kennedy limousine. Altgen’s camera caught an image a fraction of a second after the bullet struck Kennedy in his right temple. The image catches the back of Kennedy’s head with a spray of blood and brain matter bursting out to the left side of his head [not to the right] from the bullet’s impact on the right.
Save for Zapruder himself, the Warren Commission ignored, deliberately, the other eight witnesses. It waited six months to interview him. As Zapruder later remarked, he was treated harshly. The two spurned motorcycle cops related to the others that they saw the temple bullet come from the front. Other witnesses related the bullet came from behind them (from the direction of the grassy knoll) and two of the witnesses told me how they saw the bullet make a hole in the temple before exploding outward.
The Warren Commission said all this was nonsense. A bullet hitting in the back of Kennedy’s head exploded and caused an illusion. Since Oswald was to the rear and declared to be the sole killer, to frame him, they had to say that.
References:
Harold Weisberg Archive [Hood College]: D.L. Jackson File
Weisberg, Harold: Whitewash: The Report of the Warren Report, 1965
Weisberg, Harold: Whitewash II: The The FBI-Secret Service Coverup, 1966
Weisberg, Harold: Photographic Whitewash, 1967
Wrine, David R., The Zapruder Film, 2003
Wrone, David R., Interviews of Two Witnesses in Harold Weisberg’s Home
By Dint of Need: A Bullet is Transmogrified by the Warren Commission
An X-ray captured the nature of the bullet residue from the temple shot of Kennedy. The Warren Commission held it was from a back of the head strike. It showed 40 or more lead fragments.
Several doctors [as well as citizen experts] who were long-time hunters scoffed at the Warren Commission claim it was an Oswald fragmented bullet. However, the Warren Commission Oswald bullets were copper-jacketed. The shot that struck Kennedy’s temple was a varmint [gopher, raccoon or armadillo] round. The implication was that a second shooter was involved, ergo a conspiracy.
When Three Became One
The Warren Commission asserted Oswald alone killed Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit. At the Tippit murder scene, the shells from three different weapons were noted: 7.5-mm Lugar, two different .38 caliber pistols. Many try to put both .38 calibers in Oswald’s pistol but that is an assumption whose predicate is his pistol worked – it did not. Also, Tippit was dead in the street long before Oswald could have reached there from his rooming house as eight citizens were rendered invisible by the Warren Commission.
References:
Buchanan, Thomas G.: Who Shot Kennedy, 1964
Ernst, Barry: The Girl on the Stairs: The Search for the Missing Witness to the JFK Assassination. 2012
Hood College: Harold Weisberg Subject Index
The Necessity for Spurning Wigmore
Every law school in the nation taught it, in every federal court room it was practiced; every major criminal defense attorney embraced it; the legal principle of prosecution and defense. The great British legal philosopher: John Henry Wigmore stated the principle was the greatest engine for discovering truth that civilization has invented. Prosecution and defense counsels shall critically examine evidence before a judge or jury to establish the truth of an allegation.
But the Warren Commission’s congress of attorneys rendered the principles of evidence moot when it chose to engage in a unilateral prosecution of Oswald with no opportunity to assert a critical examination of evidence. In the words of the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “Sentence first-verdict afterward.”’
An affirmation of the Warren Commission approach came from the Dean of Yale Law School, who within a few hours of the murder had accepted the blubber of a television commentator’s hawking of notions that Oswald alone and unaided had shot the most impressive man to stride this faulted earth.
The Dean never varied in his belief and urged his former student, the acting U.S. Attorney General of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, quaking in his shoes, scared out of his mind, to draft, on November 24, 1963, the memorandum, that would serve as the organizing principle of the Warren Commission’s report. On November 25, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was buried and Katzenbach’s memorandum set in motion the internment of a forensic examination of President Kennedy’s assassination.
References:
Carroll, Lewis: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
deB. Kaltenbach, Nicholas: 11/25/1963, Memorandum for Mr. Moyers, FBI Document No. 62-109060-1399
The Single Bullet Theory Was Just a Simple Diversionary Hoax
The Warren Commission asserted Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots. None other was possible. One shot slightly wounded Jim Tague, a citizen standing hundreds of feet away. A second shot created wounds of both President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John B. Connally seated in front of him. A third shot inflicted the Kennedy death (head) shot.
To account for the wounds, one is in the presence of a carnival side-show. The military’s and nation’s foremost wound ballistics authority said no way. He was removed and replaced by a veterinarian.
The Warren Commission in desperation to make its framing of Oswald work, asserted and manipulated the evidence. The Warren Commission had to have the bullet transit Kennedy’s throat from back to front, transit Connally’s chest back to front, shatter Connally’s right wrist leaving a lot of lead fragments and finally, create a sliver that ended up in Connally thigh. A major point was to have one copper-clad bullet inflict all the wounds. The most improbable invention was to inflict the seventh wound in the thigh with a sliver of lead. Since the lead could only have come from the base of the copper-clad bullet, the fragment had to have come from the barely-deformed bullet’s interior.
Two Parkland Hospital doctors with decades of internal medicine experience with thousands of bullet wounds, with extensive education and emergency room gunshot wound experience said the lead in Connally’s thigh was old and was from a childhood wound.
The Warren Commission lawyers whose expertise was in drafting wills, fighting parking tickets, and processing probate, simply made the Parkland Hospital doctors invisible.
References:
Warren Commission Report Appendices Volume I to XXVI
Press Conference, Number One at Parkland Hospital, 11/22/1963
Weisberg, Harold, Whitewash; The Report on The Warren Report, 1965
Weisberg, Harold, Postmortem: JFK Assassination Cover-up Smashed!, 1975
