The Warren Commission Report issued in 1964 was doomed for failure before it got to work. The reported purpose of the investigation headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren was to reveal who was responsible for the assination of President John F. Kennedy. In fact, the purpose of the report was to confirm that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and the only three shots fired into the Lincoln that day came from the gun of the designated assassin.
Any discovery that refuted that theory was discarded in favor of landing on the preconceived premise of a single gunman acting alone. An episode of a Dick Wolf crime drama would discard this conclusion before the first commercial. The facts just didn’t support that Oswald acted alone or that only three shots, the number of shells found from where Oswald fired from a book depository building perch, were the only ones discharged.
Thus, to stick with their theory in light of conflicting evidence, the report submitted by the committee in 1964 not only discarded conflicting evidence but also created the concept of the magic bullet that bounced around in the open air Lincoln and left all the wounds the three-bullet premise couldn’t support. This contention would have been better written by Walt Disney than the Chief Justice of the United States because it was pure fantasy.
The Warren Commission Report had a preconceived mandate to prove what they wanted to prove, and the facts be damned.
Tonight’s football game is like that.
Before the teams even arrive at the stadium the opinion of most football followers is that the Buffalo Bills are going to beat the Detroit Lions tonight while they open their new stadium.