PSC482G, Spring 2000
Assignment 6, due Wednesday 2 February 2000
Warren Commission Report 2
Read: Warren Commission Report Chapter II (pp. 28–60), Appendix VIII (515–537; optional), and Appendix IX (538–546).
Answer these questions (briefly):
1. Describe the presidential motorcade’s route through Dealey Plaza and why a dog-leg onto Elm Street was needed. What was the motorcade’s next stop to be?
2. Give the dates when: (a) the trip to Texas was decided; (b) the trip was first publicized in the Dallas area; (c) the Secret Service was notified of the trip; and (d) the full route of the motorcade was first announced in the Dallas papers. Compare these dates with the dates when: (a) Lee Harvey Oswald first heard of the job available in the Texas School Book Depository; (b) he interviewed for the job; and (c) he started to work there. What is the point of this question?
3. Describe the precautionary measures taken for the motorcade and who was responsible for them.
4. What was the order of cars in the motorcade?
5. Compare how the various occupants of the presidential car recalled the sequence of major events at the moment of the assassination (shots, hits, and reactions of passengers). Were there any significant differences?
6. Same as Question 5 but for Secret Service agents.
7. What efforts were made in Parkland Hospital to save the president’s life? What was his condition when the car arrived?
8. Describe the president’s large head wound as reported by the autopsy doctors. Use the diagram of skull bones handed out in class. How would you summarize in nonmedical terms where the wound was?
9. How was the President’s body removed from Dallas? Why was it done this way? Was it legal?
10. Who conducted the autopsy of JFK? Where? Why there? What were its major findings