Howard Willens's History Will Prove Us Right, is a personal account of the Warren Commission's investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Willens, a Justice Department lawyer, was a key member of the investigation. For many years I thought the Kennedy investigation was the investigation to end all investigations. How wrong I was. I was unaware how muddled the case would become because of political cover-ups, bureaucratic incompetence, and a slip-shod investigation. When Vice President Lyndon Johnson assumed the office after President Kennedy was assassinated, he quickly accused Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro of the crime. Johnson claimed that Kennedy had been trying to run a "Murder Incorporated" in the Caribbean, but that Castro got him first. Now, as President, he was faced with the consequences. He knew that if the assassination had been committed by a single assassin, the American public would likely accept it and regretfully move on, but if they were told the assassination involved a conspiracy, war with Cuba or the Soviet Union might result. Nothing else would satisfy the public, and above all, Johnson did not want war.
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