The Warren Commission Report

“To be too certain carries dangers of its own.”
The very last line of Mishkin's afterward perfectly sums up the problems with how the JFK assassination was handled. The Warren Commission was too certain they were right and refused to acknowledge the possibility of other explanations. Even though they very well might have been right, their false portrayal of certainty and unanimity about what happened caused only greater problems in the long run. This book doesn't seek to point the blame at anyone in particular for the assassination or provide a definitive answer to what really happened. Instead, it lays out all the evidence and tells everything about what was happening on all sides at the time. Never do we see what the authors really think happened, and it's a fairly unbiased look at the mess that this became. I've always been fascinated by the JFK assassination ever since I had to create my own “Warren Report” for a project in high school explaining what I thought really happened. I'll always be curious to know what really happened, and I'll always remember the first time I watched the Zapruder film in class. It amazes me how this assassination had such a profound effect on the world, something the author and illustrators highlight at the end of the book. We will never know what really happened, but it left a lasting impact on our country and still will for a long time to come.