The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (1963–64), chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, which found that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Its 26 volumes of hearings and exhibits are the record Mae worked from. She spent eight years cross-indexing them. No. 288 draws on the Commission's own minutes.
Across the broadcasts
First met as the source of official secrecy, the 75-year seal, before Mae turns to its own minutes
July 1, 1972
Mae dates official secrecy to the Commission, answering Jack Anderson's complaint about Vietnam with Dallas.
"the government secret really became tight after John Kennedy was killed as soon as the Warren Commission began their work"Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 1 (1 Jul 1972), 53:10
Read against its own paper: the minutes on handling the press and the 26 volumes on Oswald become Mae's evidence against its verdict
September 26, 1977
Mae finds the cover-up's mechanism in the Commission's own minutes: a member who could manage both wire services.
Quoting Gerald Ford at an early meeting, from the bound minutes David Lifton obtained.
"gentlemen, I can handle the AP and the UPI, meaning the Associated Press and the United Press."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 9:03
Mae reads the Commission's answer to its first critics as letting the press's files stand in for an investigation.
The critics were Mark Lane, Joachim Joesten and Thomas Buchanan.
"So all the Warren Commission did was call the major media and said, gentlemen, do you have anything you see about a conspiracy? And they said no."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 11:03
Mae sets public disbelief against ABC's docudrama: the official story has lost the country, yet each generation is told it again.
"It's interesting that 80% of the population in the United States no longer believe the Warren Report."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 18:42
Mae gives her credential in her own words: an eight-year index of the Commission's record.
Telling listeners what she had put to Blakey.
"who spent eight years Cross-filing every single word of the Warren Commission documents, 26 volumes, cross-filing them into approximately 28,000 pages, about 40 or 50 spiral notebooks breaking down all of the testimony that would be useful to this commission."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 34:16
Connections
Mae says its own volumes hold no evidence that Oswald owned or fired the rifle.