House Select Committee Biography

Receives authority to investigate the Kennedy and King assassinations.

The House created the Select Committee on Assassinations to conduct a new investigation of the Kennedy and King assassinations.

The committee included possible Cuban government, pro-Castro, and anti-Castro connections within its renewed investigation of the Kennedy assassination.

The House reauthorized the Select Committee on Assassinations, allowing the Kennedy investigation to continue in the new Congress.

The reconstituted committee created a Kennedy assassination subcommittee and staff task force to pursue conspiracy and agency-performance questions.

Investigates possible anti-Castro Cuban links to the assassination.

The committee conducted interviews and depositions concerning anti-Castro Cuban networks that had operated in New Orleans, Miami, and elsewhere.

Reviews the authenticity and evidentiary value of Oswald backyard photographs.

During its Cuba investigation, the committee directly raised with Fidel Castro the question of Cuban government involvement in Kennedy's assassination.

Examines CIA handling of information connected to Oswald and Mexico City.

Investigates whether the Cuban government was involved.

The committee reported that Cuban authorities supplied written material and made citizens available for interviews during the assassination inquiry.

Reviews FBI investigative performance after the assassination.

Former Cuban consuls Eusebio Azcue and Alfredo Mirabal were permitted to testify publicly about the Mexico City consulate and Oswald's visa effort.

House investigators reviewed federal records on Frank Sturgis, his aliases, Cuban revolutionary service, and later anti-Castro activities.

Reviews Jack Ruby's contacts and possible organized crime links.

Reviews Marina Oswald testimony and related evidence from prior investigations.

Investigates whether organized crime had a role in the assassination.

Studies Oswald's Mexico City visit and related agency records.

Reviews Secret Service protection failures before the assassination.

Reviews the single bullet theory and timing evidence.

Investigates whether the Soviet government was involved.

Committee investigators traveled to Cuba to pursue allegations of Cuban involvement and to seek documents, witnesses, and official responses.

The committee requested access to prior Senate intelligence testimony, including material involving Frank Sturgis and Warren DeBruey.

The HSCA specifically requested CIA records concerning Carlos Bringuier, his DRE role, and his earlier testimony about Oswald.

The committee asked CIA for files on numerous anti-Castro Cuban activists and organizations relevant to its Kennedy investigation.

The HSCA requested CIA files concerning Orlando Bosch and his leadership of the anti-Castro MIRR organization.

The committee took Bringuier's deposition and compared his account of Oswald's 1963 New Orleans contacts with Warren Commission evidence.

The committee's final findings stated that anti-Castro Cuban groups, as groups, were not involved in Kennedy's assassination.

The committee concluded from the available evidence that the Cuban Government was not involved in Kennedy's assassination.

Finds anti-Castro Cuban groups were not involved as groups.

Finds the Cuban government was not involved in the assassination.

Concludes Oswald's third shot killed President Kennedy.

Finds the FBI and CIA were not involved in the assassination.

Criticizes earlier investigation of possible conspiracy as inadequate.

Finds organized crime as a group was not involved.

Concludes Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President Kennedy.

Finds Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of conspiracy.

Cites acoustical evidence suggesting a high probability of two gunmen.

Finds the Secret Service was not involved in the assassination.

Finds the Soviet government was not involved in the assassination.

The committee submitted its final report, preserving its findings on Oswald, possible conspiracy, Cuba-related allegations, and the performance of federal agencies.