The example at the beginning of the chapter reads about Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's negative report to Lyndon Johnson about what was happening in Vietnam, and the very different, very positive reports he gave to the public. The authors of the book wrote "The press reported accurately what McNamara said in his press conferences, but did not get at the truth of what he knew." ... In any case, it is the duty of journalists to report factual information, and truthful/evident interpretations of how that information came to be. ...

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The crucial difference between the two reports was that the Warren Commission believed the president was killed by the shots fired by Oswald, while the House committee suspected two gunmen were involved, based on "various scientific projects." ... "The 888-page report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and later returned, had fired three shots from the window of the Texas School Book Depository, inflicting all of Kennedy's and Connally's wounds- (Cullather 178). ... Congress undertook investigations of the FBI, CIA, and...

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Witnesses at the scene of the assassination claimed they had seen shots being fired from behind a wooden fence on the Grassy Knoll and from the Texas School Book Depository. ... The police soon found out that Oswald worked at the Texas Book Depository. ... Oswald's hand prints were found on the book cartons and the brown paper bag. ... He immediately set up a commission to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John F. ... The Warren Commission reported to President Johnson ten months later. ...

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The Warren Commission also stated in the final report that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the three shots from the book depository, hitting his targets in less than eight seconds. ... Kennedy, President of the New Frontier, the report characterized Oswald as a "crazed loner who acted alone." ...

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The latter third of his book traces efforts by government and industry in America, Europe, and Japan during the 1980s and 1990s to produce an environmentally friendly and economically successful SST, and to probe the relative outcomes of multi-billion dollar investment in developing either very fast SSTs, or very large (upwards of 800 passengers) subsonic airliners. The Concorde began with a 1958 report on the possibilities of SST by British aircraft designers and with the 1959 commitment to SST by Harold M. ... FAA reports and memoranda, and presidential records, especially at the Lyndon ...

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In addition, they reported that Oswald acted alone in the assassination, as there was no evidence found of a conspiracy involving anyone else. Also, concluded was that only three bullets were fired during the assassination and that they were all fired from the sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository by a rifle owned by Oswald. ... On October 15, 1963, Oswald took a menial job at the Texas School Book Depository. The Warren Report stated that Oswald went through life in a continuous state of anger. ...

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As the Presidents open top motorcade traveled down past The Texas School Book Depository shots were fired, the President was killed. ... As the Presidents open top motorcade traveled down past The Texas School Book Depository shots were fired, the President was killed. ... This causes people to believe that Oswald was desperate to find a place in history (Warren Commission: Report (1964), n.p.)....

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Some of the president's actions, including a negotiating letter sent directly to Ho Chi Minh, were a direct result of anti-war activities that included protests by academics and elites and a flood of anti-war media reports. ... Although Small briefly mentions problems with researching and analyzi...

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Ruby had links to both the mafia and the CIA, but the Warren Report concluded he too acted alone. ... On the 24th of September 1964, the Warren Commission finally issued a report of their findings. ... The report concluded that the shots that killed Kennedy were fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building, and no other site. ...

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Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president from the sixth-floor window in the Texas School Book Depository. ... According to Parmet, "As early as December 2, 1963 the United States Information Agency reported the widespread belief that the assassination resulted from a conspiracy. ...

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