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Warren Commission Subpoena Authority

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

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Chronological records

1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson13 December 1963

Washington · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Johnson's Warren Commission received statutory authority to subpoena witnesses and obtain evidence when Congress enacted Public Law 88-202.

Names involved

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Provenance

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