Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report

By Harold Weisberg

Harold Weisberg’s Whitewash was originally self-published in 1965, at a time when few publishing houses would consider a book challenging the Warren Report. Written in Harold’s fiercely passionate yet scrupulously honest style, and relying on the government’s own evidence and documentation, Whitewash destroys the Warren Commission’s claims about Oswald and shows that the Commission knowingly engaged in a cover-up.

Weisberg diligently researched the government’s unpublished evidence and played a major role in forcing disclosures via the Freedom of Information Act. A watershed publication and one that established the author as one of the premier JFK assassination researchers, Whitewash (as well as the subsequent books in the Whitewash series) has become of the essential assassination publications, and nearly five decades later his work has lost none of its bite.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Release date: Oct 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781628735710

Harold Weisberg

Harold Weisberg is the author of a number of books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including the Whitewash series, Oswald in New Orleans, Post Mortem, Never Again!, and Case Open. Weisberg was a journalist, investigator for the Senate Committee on Civil Liberties, and analyst for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II. He died in Maryland in 2002.

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WHITEWASH

THE REPORT ON THE WARREN REPORT

HAROLD WEISBERG

Copyright © 1965 by Harold Weisberg

Reprinted with permission of Hood College

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ISBN: 978-1-62636-110-2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

A Word About Investigations

Part I

1.   Death in Dallas

2.   The Assassin

3.   The Set-Up for the Assassination

4.   The Marksman

5.   At the Depository: The Tangible Evidence

6.   The Tippit Murder

Part II

7.   Oswald’s Legal Rights

8.   Oswald’s Murder: The Press and the Police

Part III

9.   The Witnesses and Their Treatment

10.  The Oswalds’ Government Relations

11.  The False Oswald

12.  The Number of Shots

13.  The Doctors and the Autopsy

Conclusion

Postscript

Appendix