Who was right? The Warren Commision or Oliver Stone?

Question

The conspiracy theory still lingers after all these years. And so let me have your take on it.

Answer 1

The Warren Commission in its 26 exhaustive novels attempted to prove as much as was possible given the short time frame they had to work with in creating the commission and writing the report. It is unfortunate they did not have more time to investigate the many leads which later surfaced.

Until now, and historically it has been almost 44 years since the assassination of JFK, the Warren Commission has with stood the test of time and hundreds of theories. No one has ever proven it wrong in a court of law.

Oliver Stone did a movie. A dramatization of an attorney who thought he was onto something big. Maybe Garrison was, but it did not stand up in a court of law.

In reading about the death of President Kennedy, I always tell people to pick up a copy of William Manchester's Death of a President.

It is the most exhaustive account of the days in Dallas and afterward put to paper. He interviewed Mrs. Kennedy and members of the Kennedy Family, security team and many others very soon after the assassination. It is the definitive account of who remembered what and when. It is a minute by minute description of the thoughts and actions of all involved, including Marina Oswald.

Read this book and the Warren Commission report and then start out on all the rest. Start with the basics and then draw your own conclusions.

Answer 2

Warren Commision

Answer 3

The Warren Commission

Answer 4

Wow, are you serious? The Warren Commision interviewed hundreds of witnesses within a short period of time from the event so that memories were more clear. They had little to gain from a certain ruling. Oliver Stone is known for exagerating, if not outright lying, in his movies - all for the mighty dollar. He is a self-important, Hollywood type who is as much of a historian as Paula Abdul.

Answer 5

Although the Warren Commission is probably wrong, Stone could not have picked a worse subject matter than Jim Garrison for "JFK".

Jim Garrison was completely owned by the Mafia in New Orleans. If there is one single person that most historians almost immediately point out as a MAJOR suspect, it is New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello.

Garrison never questioned him once, despite David Ferrie's revelation to Garrison before Ferrie's "suicide" that joint Mafia-CIA operations had been going on for years, almost a decade before this was made official to the public.

Garrison thought that any Mafia connection to a JFK conspiracy at a high level was absurd.

Answer 6

I would say the commission was right. I mean, let's face it, Oliver Stone makes films, and he, to the best of my knowledge, is not an expert on forensics. That part about JFK's head jerking back and to the left as proof of a shooter on the grassy knoll is just total bull once you start to consider simple science. Newton's Third Law states every action has an equal and opposite reaction. That means if you shoot a person, the distance they go backward or forward is about equal to the recoil of the gun. So if you shoot someone with, say, a .45, they aren't going to go flying backwards as shown in the movies. They're just going to fall where they are. So JFK's head jerking back and to the left is not proof of a shooter on the grassy knoll.

Answer 7

Warren Commission.There where cover ups and missing evidence,this is whats documented.There were many dramatic things happening at that time.Cuban missile crisis,Gary Powers gets shot down flying over Russia.,Mafia
wars,many things.This is what starts conspiracy theories.

Answer 8

I have watched tons of documentaries on this. The majority of the evidence shows that much of the information about JFK's death was destroyed, altered or not released. Who all conspired to kill him is still a mystery, however the Warren Commision definitely were not truthful. The question is why? Because the government was involved in his death or because they were just trying to hide general information from the public, to keep Americans in the dark about what really happened?

Answer 9

Niether. The warren report attempted to sweep away many facts, and Oliver Stone went way too far in many of his claims.

Answer 10

The gray area in between them both.