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Warren Commission Appointment

United States of America · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1963

Earl Warren29 November 1963

Washington · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to chair the commission investigating President Kennedy's assassination.

Names involved

Earl Warren

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