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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Warren Commission's Report

The Assassination of President Kennedy: Report of the Warren Commission (HC, 1964,  776 pages, $3)

"The first printing for 700,000 copies of this 800-page  low-priced edition of the Warren Commission Report has been made available to the public just 80 hours after Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson released it. This establishes a new milestone in book publishing. A force of over 150 skilled men and women at W. F. Hall Printing Company in Chicago, Illinois, one of the largest printing plants in the world, accomplished this gigantic task by working in 8-hour shifts around the clock.

Since Pres. Johnson felt it was of vital importance that the whole truth about Pres. Kennedy's death be given to the world as quickly as possible, special arrangements were made to airlift the books all over the world. Thus, the Warren Commission Report in this edition will be read in London, Paris, Tokyo and Melbourne and other cities throughout the world almost as soon as it appeared in Los Angeles."

Too bad the Warren Commission Report did not end the questioning. Will we ever really know? Look for this book in the american history section on the 1960s.