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In the Sights of Logic

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Sixty years after the Dallas shootings - and despite more and more documents becoming available - a multitude of myths continue to surround the most famous assassination attempt of the 20th century. With his work, the author tries to bring a little more light into the thicket of conspiracy theories and facts, especially for the layperson. The aim should be to be able to form an opinion based on undisputed facts, even without any specialist knowledge and purely on the basis of common sense.

Peter Engels was born in 1967, lives and works in Germany and has been interested in John F. Kennedy since he was 11 years old. Since 2008, he has been presenting as many data and facts as possible on this topic in a clear manner on the Internet with the "Kennedy Infoportal". There he also offers corresponding lectures and supports pupils and students with their elaborations. He describes himself as a hobby historian and has traveled several times to all locations in the USA that are relevant to the topic. For him, the assassination has always been a major focus. Thus, he was able to get an idea of the local conditions in Dallas and has been in active exchange with The Sixth Floor Museum ever since. As a member of the Kennedy Library in Boston, he also takes advantage of the relevant opportunities for his research here. With connections into the Kennedy dynasty, he has even been a guest at the family estate in Hyannis Port. When asked about the possible background to the attack, he admits to having doubted himself over the decades. It was only after the turn of the millennium and due to the increasing possibilities in the subject-relevant disciplines that the opinion that he represents in this work was consolidated.mehr
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KlappentextSixty years after the Dallas shootings - and despite more and more documents becoming available - a multitude of myths continue to surround the most famous assassination attempt of the 20th century. With his work, the author tries to bring a little more light into the thicket of conspiracy theories and facts, especially for the layperson. The aim should be to be able to form an opinion based on undisputed facts, even without any specialist knowledge and purely on the basis of common sense.

Peter Engels was born in 1967, lives and works in Germany and has been interested in John F. Kennedy since he was 11 years old. Since 2008, he has been presenting as many data and facts as possible on this topic in a clear manner on the Internet with the "Kennedy Infoportal". There he also offers corresponding lectures and supports pupils and students with their elaborations. He describes himself as a hobby historian and has traveled several times to all locations in the USA that are relevant to the topic. For him, the assassination has always been a major focus. Thus, he was able to get an idea of the local conditions in Dallas and has been in active exchange with The Sixth Floor Museum ever since. As a member of the Kennedy Library in Boston, he also takes advantage of the relevant opportunities for his research here. With connections into the Kennedy dynasty, he has even been a guest at the family estate in Hyannis Port. When asked about the possible background to the attack, he admits to having doubted himself over the decades. It was only after the turn of the millennium and due to the increasing possibilities in the subject-relevant disciplines that the opinion that he represents in this work was consolidated.
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III. The Warren Report

The Warren Report (Report of The President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy) was the first book I got my hands on at the end of the 1970s. Before that, I had only repeatedly leafed through an illustrated book from a German publisher. This book roughly contained the course of events of that day in Dallas, but details were completely left out. As I mentioned before, I used to borrow a German-language summary from the public library. I was a mere eleven or twelve years old and for me the written word was plain fact. Especially since the language used was very formal. At the time, no other sources, no Internet and no critical publications existed.

It took a few more years until they were available, but eventually I had to deal with them. Of course, the lecture of these new sources influenced my opinion, and I was fascinated by Stone's "JFK". After watching this movie, I also devoured Garrison's book and the crossfire theory became more and more plausible to me. Though I did not understand everything at that time, my conviction grew that Kennedy had not simply fallen victim to a misguided single perpetrator. Today, I can no longer tell how long this phase lasted. But at some point, it probably bothered me that there were so many different theories about the assassination. Above all, more and more suspects appeared, and I soon wondered how this could be. Every author or other expert seemed to accuse someone else, but they all had equally plausible arguments. I m generally uncomfortable with such unsolved mysteries, and I was annoyed that I did not have the right answers to the questions of my friends and acquaintances. So, I wanted to delve deeper into the matter and took a closer look at one version after the other. I compared them all with the official account and it quickly became apparent that there is always a lot of criticism of the Warren Report and even more questions are asked. But alternative answers were and still are hard to find.

Much of what is said in my book refers to the Warren Report. The reason for this is obvious: to this day, it is the only officially accepted version. Accordingly, all alternative theses must be measured against it, if they want to convince us at least to some extent. Thus, this work would be incomplete, if I did not also deal with the Warren Report and its history.

On November 29, 1963, just a week after the fatal shooting in Dallas, Kennedy's successor in office convened a commission to clarify the exact circumstances of the assassination via Executive Order 11130. Not all of the members chosen by President Lyndon B. Johnson himself were enthusiastic about the establishment of such a commission, and they participated only reluctantly. At this point it was probably already predictable that such a procedure would lead to more controversy than tangible results in the end. Earl Warren, after whom the commission was finally named by the public, had also first to be persuaded to take over the chairmanship. He decided to hire the commission's lawyers from outside the government to avoid undue influence on their work. The Commission consisted of the following gentlemen:

Earl Warren - Chief Justice of the United States. Warren was born in California in 1891, was a law graduate, and was also active in the political arena.

From the year 1925 he was active as district attorney of Alameda County. In this role, he gained a national reputation as a tough, no-nonsense jurist who fought corruption in government and ran his office impartially. Warren strongly supported the autonomy of law enforcement agencies, but also believed that police and prosecutors should act with fairness. Unlike many other local law enforcement officials in the 1920s, Warren vigorously enforced alcohol prohibition. In 1927, he launched a corruption investigation against Sheriff Burton Becker. In 1930, after a trial which some press members called »the most sweeping exposé of graft in the history of the country«, Warren won a conviction against Becker. When one of his own undercover agents admitted that he had perjured himself to get convictions in bootlegging cases, Warren personally took over the prosecution of the agent. Warren's efforts brought him national attention. A 1931 nationwide survey of law enforcement officials found Warren to be »the most intelligent and politically independent district attorney in the United States«.

From 1943-53 he was in office as Republican governor of California and in between, he was even a candidate for the vice presidency in Thomas E. Dewey's election campaign in 1948. The latter, however, lost to Truman. In the following election in 1952, the party decided in favor of Eisenhower who appointed Warren as Chief Justice after his move into the White House.

During the following sixteen years in office, Warren was involved in many controversial and notable legal decisions, first and foremost desegregating schools and strengthening civil rights. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential Supreme Court justices and political leaders in the history of the United States. It was he who administered the oath of office to newly elected President John F. Kennedy on the steps of the Capitol on January 20, 1961. The two got closer after the inauguration. Warren later wrote that »no American in my long life has ever set his sights on a better America or focused his attacks more accurately on the ills and shortcomings of our society than [Kennedy]«.

Warren was personally involved in several aspects of the investigation. He supervised the testimony of Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina Oswald, for four days and was widely criticized for telling the press that while her testimony would be made public, »it might not happen in your lifetime«. He was present at the interview behind closed doors of Jacqueline Kennedy and insisted on attending the testimony of Jack Ruby in Dallas, where he also visited the School Book Depository.

Although Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, Warren eventually resigned in 1968. Fearing that Republican Nixon would win the upcoming election, Warren wanted to give President Johnson the opportunity to appoint a successor while he was still in office.

Allen Welsh Dulles - former director of the CIA. Dulles grew up in a Republican diplomatic family and knew how to use all ways and means available for climbing the ladder. However, his own advantage was always his first priority, so he did not even shy away from a rapprochement with Nazi Germany. He opposed the USA's entry into the war for a long time, until it could no longer be avoided after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Dulles was a member of the foreign intelligence service OSS when it was replaced by the newly founded CIA in 1947. Here he took over as director of special operations in 1950. Dulles transformed the agency, founded as an intelligence service, into a costly military instrument whose covert military operations became the CIA's primary mission. President Eisenhower finally installed him as director in 1953, making him the first civilian at the head. He quickly succeeded in building up a degree of immunity from public inquiry, but as a result he also attracted the attention of the press. Contrary to his convictions and purely out of political concessions, newly elected President Kennedy left Dulles in office for the time being. But Kennedy felt betrayed and misinformed by the CIA after the failed invasion of the Cuban Bay of Pigs in April 1961. He threatened to smash the intelligence agency »into a thousand pieces«. Although he did award Dulles the National Security Medal, he dismissed him and his deputy in November of the same year.

President Johnson eventually appointed Dulles to the Warren Commission. This probably happened with the approval of Robert Kennedy. The intention behind the appointment was probably to ensure that the CIA's interests, especially in connection with American activities against Fidel Castro, would not become a focal point of the commission. This decision was strongly opposed in many quarters manner. Because of the previous history of tense relations between Dulles and Kennedy, it was doubted that the latter could really act in a truly objective manner. In fact, Dulles pushed the sole perpetrator theory from the beginning and probably actively suppressed all efforts to investigate Oswald's relationship with the secret services more intensively. Some conspiracy versions even see him as the actual wirepuller behind Kennedy's assassination.

John Sherman Cooper - Lawyer, Republican politician and, among other things, former U.S. ambassador to East Germany. Cooper was elected to the Senate a total of three times with several interruptions. During his time on the Warren Commission, he held the Senate seat for the state of Kentucky.

Cooper attended 50 of the 94 hearings. He was an opponent of the "single-bullet theory" and initially did not believe Oswald was the sole perpetrator either, informing the president's widow and his two brothers in this regard. In a later interview, however, he defended the commission's findings and described Oswald as the sole perpetrator.

Richard Brevard Russell Jr. - former Democratic governor and senator for the state of Georgia.

Russel too initially pursued a career in law, running a law firm with his father. From the 1920s, he was drawn...
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