Katzenbach's memo, written just three days after the assassination, goes like this:
"It is important that all of the facts surrounding President Kennedy’s Assassination be made public in a way which will satisfy people in the United States and abroad that all the facts have been told and that a statement to this effect be made now. The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he had no confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial...Speculation about Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off...Unfortunately the facts on Oswald seem about too pat—too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.)...We need something to head off public speculation or Congressional hearings of the wrong sort."
Regardless of the events, this was the blueprint for the final report. Also, most of the investigation was done by the FBI, and I for one, find J. Edger Hoover to be a very unreliable source. Influential former top CIA spook Allen Dulles was on the Warren Commision; Dulles, who was acrimoniously fired by Kennedy, and who, in another instance, was happy to find a fall guy to pin a murder on.
Again, they already had their answer before they started up any Warren Commission research. The politically expediant one. And that's the answer the Commission came up with. The right one? Hard to say, as everyone had an interest in covering any tracks other than the 'approved story'.
