Warren Commission Hearings

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, commonly known as the Warren Commission, was created by President Lyndon Johnson and chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate President Kennedy's assassination. The Commission presented their findings in a report to President Johnson on September 24, 1964. The Commission also released 26 hearing volumes on November 23, 1964 comprised of testimonies from 550 witnesses and evidence.

This volume contains testimony of the following witnesses:

• Ruth Hyde Paine, an acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife


• Howard Leslie Brennan, who was present at the assassination scene


• Bonnie Ray Williams, Harold Norman, James Jarman, Jr., and Roy Sansom Truly, Texas School Book Depository employees


• Marrion L. Baker, a Dallas motorcycle officer who was present at the assassination scene


• Mrs. Robert A. Reid, who was in the Texas School Book Depository Building at the time of the assassination


• Luke Mooney and Eugene Boone, Dallas law enforcement officers who took part in the investigative effort in the Texas School Book Depository Building immediately following the assassination


• Patrolman M. N. McDonald, who apprehended Lee Harvey Oswald in the Texas Theatre


• Helen Markham, William W. Scoggins, Barbara Jeanette Davis, and Ted Callaway, who were in the vicinity of the Tippit crime scene


• Drs. Charles James Carrico and Malcolm Perry, who attended President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital


• Robert A. Frazier, a firearms identification expert with the Federal Bureau of Investigation


• Ronald Simmons, an expert in weapons evaluation with the U.S. Army Weapons Systems Division


• Cortlandt Cunningham, a firearms identification expert with the Federal Bureau of Investigation


• Joseph D. Nicol, a firearms identification expert with the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation of the Illinois Department of Public Safety

NOTE: This is a reprint of a scan of an original copy of the Warren Commission Report, therefore some text may not be perfectly legible.