The Warren Commission's report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released in 1964.

Conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy and the later assassination of the man accused of killing him continue to be topics of discussion around the nation. However, the Warren Commission Report, the result of an official ten-month investigation into the assassination of JFK, released on this day in 1964, found no evidence of a conspiracy in either murder. The presidential commission was headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. The Commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the assassination and that the three bullets involved had all been fired by Oswald from a rifle out of a sixth floor window in the Texas School Book Depository. The report also stated that Jack Ruby, the man who later shot Oswald on live television, had had no prior contact with Oswald and was not part of a conspiracy. However, the report did not stop rumors of a conspiracy theory or of mysterious shots fired from the "grassy knoll" along the route of Kennedy's motorcade. So prevalent were the rumors that the House Select Committee on Assassinations found in a 1978 report that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." Today, the findings of both the Warren Commission and the Committee on Assassinations continue to be disputed.

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Do You Always Own Your Own Private Property? (9–12) examines the issue of whether the government can claim eminent domain over property belonging to individuals. Students learn about a film of the Kennedy assassination taken by a private citizen and about the controversy over whether it should be given to the government or kept by the family. Students investigate the cost of editing and duplicating videos, advertising costs and other related expenses and revenues.

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In the Science Update JFK Analysis (6–12), atmospheric chemist Ken Rahn describes how he and a ballistics specialist have re-analyzed the data from two major forensic studies of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

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One of the most historically important events during the Kennedy administration was the Cuban missile crisis, which many experts believe was closest the U.S. has ever come to nuclear war. “The Missiles of October”: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 (9–12) examines how this crisis developed, how the Kennedy administration chose to respond and how the situation was ultimately resolved.