HSCA MEMBERS
COMMITTEE STAFF
G. Robert Blakey
- Thomas N. Downing, (Virginia) First Chairman
- Louis Stokes, (Ohio), Second Chairman
- L. Richardson Preyer, (North Carolina)
- Walter E. Fauntroy, (District of Columbia)
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, (California)
- Christopher Dodd, (Connecticut)
- Harold Ford, Sr., (Tennessee)
- Floyd Fithian, (Indiana)
- Robert W. Edgar, (Pennsylvania)
- Samuel L. Devine, (Ohio)
- Stewart McKinney, (Connecticut)
- Charles Thone, (Nebraska)
- Harold S. Sawyer, (Michigan)
COMMITTEE STAFF
G. Robert Blakey
HSCA FINDINGS
I. Findings of the Select Committee on Assassination in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- I.A. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F. Kennedy. The second and third shots he fired struck the President. The third shot he fired killed the President
- I.B. Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. Scientific evidence negates some specific conspiracy allegations
- I.C. The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee was unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy
- I.D. Agencies and departments of the U.S. Government performed with varying degrees of competency in the fulfillment of their duties. President John F. Kennedy did not receive adequate protection. A thorough and reliable investigation into the responsibility of Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination was conducted. The investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination was inadequate. the conclusions of the investigations were arrived at in good faith, but presented in a fashion that was too definitive
Link to the HSCA findings in the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/