Wow, there was actually dissention in the Commission? And here I thought the Commission memebers agreed, by consensus, to perform whitewash at breakneck speed. As for Ford colluding with the FBI, wasn’t the FBI the largest criminal info-gathering organization in the U.S.? Didn’t the FBI aid the Commission, as it would be expected to do? Why not discuss things with Jerry?
Something tells me that this little flake of dubiousness will be shuffled onto the towering pile of non-evidence that conspiracy theorists have ammassed against common sense. There is one thing I wish the buffs would think about—between cursory dismissals of the Commission as “a joke.” No credible evidence (naturally not including uncorroborated witness testimony gathered years after the fact) has ever surfaced pointing to Oswald or anyone else that did not originate with the Commission’s investigation!
Take the article’s mention of Ford’s mistaken placement of the rear-entry wound to Kennedy’s back. Forgetting for a moment that going back to the autopsy report would correct the error immediately, this is not evidence of anyone else’s guilt. It is only a dent in the already overwhelming evidence against Oswald. Same goes for criticism of the Commission in general. Forgetting for a moment that the 26 volumes of evidence gathered was one of the largest criminal investigation in all of history, an absolute corruption of the Commissioners’ ability to use proper discretion in organizing the evidence would not be evidence of anyone else’s guilt. In fact, the opinions of the Commissioners pertaining to all of the hard evidence gathered has been held up by every single reputable body that ever studied them, excepting those who believe (without evidence) that the evidence was tampered with or fabricated.
Put briefly, basically everything you and I ever hear the skeptics raise their doubts about—after 45 years and 1,000’s of books—derives from the very body that they decry embodiments of everything from laziness to evil.