WHITEWASH-the report on the Warren Report: THE SET-UP FOR THE ASSASSINATION

March 11, 2012


WHITEWASH-the report on the Warren Report by Harold Weisberg, Chapter 3: The Set-Up for the Assassination


Knoxville, Tennessee (JFKASSASSINATION) Today this blog reports on Chapter 3 of Harold Weisberg's book "Whitewash--the report on the Warren Report", published in 1965. 

The title of Chapter 3 is The Set-Up for the Assassination.


Mr. Weisberg begins this chapter by writing that local & federal police never considered any other possibilities in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy other than that "Lee Harvey Oswald...(an) unknown, virtually friendless nobody" had committed the crime.


The "doubts", Harold Weisberg says came much later & "almost entirely from abroad."


In an effort to tie Oswald to the crime, the Warren Commission "believed only what it wanted to believe, without regard to logic or credibility."


Mr. Weisberg says that almost a year after the assassination, the hard evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald was still based on "presumptions, inferences & theories."


Weisberg writes:


"There's nothing in the Report to indicate Oswald had even...belated interest in or knowledge of (JFK's) motorcade."


He adds:


"There is no proof that Oswald ever had (the Manlicher-Carcano rifle) in his possession after getting it at the  post office."

                 Lee Harvey Oswald
                       Minsk (1959)
Warren Commission Exhibit 2892