Why was the Warren commission so widely accepted in 1964

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Why was the Warren commission so widely accepted in 1964?

The warren commission were a group of very important American people that were very high up on American life, this made them more believable because they had a lot of power and were an important, respectable group of people.

The warren commission had substantial: - a palm print taken from the barrel of the rifle was identified as belonging to Oswald, as were the prints on the brown paper bag that the rifle had been transported in to the book depository in.

Paraffin tests on Oswald's hands suggested he had fired a gun recently. The rifle (Mannlicher Carcano, serial number C-2766) had been purchased under the assumed name 'A.Hiddell'; handwriting experts matched the writing on the order form and the signature with Oswald's handwriting. Oswald had used the name Hiddell and when arrested Oswald was carrying a forged identity card bearing the name Alek J. Hiddell.

The mail order company had sent the rifle from Chicago to P.O box 2915, Dallas Texas. The post office box belonged to Lee Oswald.

Fibres found on the brown paper bag were matched with the fibres of the blanket found in the Payne's garage. Police obtained photographs showing Oswald with a holstered Pistol on his hip, holding a rifle in one hand, and in the other hand two left-wing newspapers.
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American people felt that if they knew Oswald was a lone assassin they were safer than if the killer of their president was still on the streets, because someone that is capable of killing the president is surely capable of killing anyone at any time.

The bullet found on the stretcher, the warren commission suggested that three shots had been fired during the assassination and concluded that all the effective shots had come from the sixth floor window of the Texas book depository. Police reconstructed the Kennedy assassination, driving a car along the president's route and viewing ...

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