Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your essay about the Warren Commission [Sept. 16] was sad. Half of the editorial pointed out some of the mistakes and bungling of the commission, and then you congratulate it on a job well done. You did not have the fortitude to call the report what it was: a completely unsatisfactory attempt to explain away the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
...novel of half-truths and suppressed conclusions it presented. If half of the points that Mark Lane brings up in his book Rush to Judgment are valid questions and criticisms about the investigation, then the American public needs to take another look at the findings of the Warren Commission...
Last week's announcement brought advantages not only for the Library complex, but also for Harvard. They are all nicely summed up in one word: space. Specifically, the Littauer building will become available for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences -- possibly for the Charles Warren Center of American History. With a large lecture hall, library and lots of office space and seminar rooms, Littauer would be amply suited for the Warren Center. The prime building spot next to Littauer, originally planned for the International Studies Building, can either be used for an expanded Undergraduate Science Center or for another...
...authors all brace up their criticisms with an enormous amount of bit-by-bit documentation-nearly all of it gleaned, ironically enough, from the commission's own evidence. They not only criticize the Warren group's procedures but, in most cases, seek to cast doubt on nearly every major conclusion reached in the report. They argue that the commission was determined to prove that Oswald was the lone assassin and that it blandly ignored or distorted any information that differed significantly from that premise. Some of them say that Oswald was not involved at all. Among the facts...
...that, the Warren Commission was neither perfect in its procedure nor airtight in its presentation of evidence. There is some justice to the critics' contentions that staff lawyers felt rushed, that there were intense deadline pressures and that every loose-end lead was not neatly tied up. The commission might have prevented some of the current criticism if it had appointed a kind of devil's advocate to challenge evidence aggressively on behalf of the assassin. Many of the complaints against it, of course, concern the inevitable flaws that accompany any juridical proceeding: contradictions, loopholes, gaps of fact...