Gerald Ford was also on the commission. Ford later became an unelected president of the United States when Richard Nixon resigned and handed him the job. Nixon had appointed Ford to fill the slot vacated by the disgraced Spiro Agnew. Was his presidency payback for keeping his mouth shut over whatever transpired in Dallas leading up to the Kennedy assassination?

Johnson and Hoover

Hours after the assassination, all the available evidence was under the control of the FBI or the Secret Service.

Johnson arranged the virtual hijacking of the crime scene so he could take control over events. He was only able to do that with the help of another major public figure, his good friend J. Edgar Hoover.

In a conversation with President Johnson on November 29, 1963, Hoover agreed that separate shots had hit Connally and Kennedy, pointing to at least two gunmen, hence a conspiracy. He withheld this information from his testimony before the Warren Commission.

It is quite possible that Hoover supplied Johnson with incriminating evidence against John Kennedy, which enabled LBJ to blackmail his way alongside Kennedy on the 1960 ticket. Hoover must have realised towards the end of 1963 that he was living on borrowed time and that he would be out of the FBI once Kennedy was re-elected in 1964.

Hoover could only have been relieved when Kennedy was assassinated and his friend Lyndon Johnson took over. He used all of his significant power to ensure the assassination investigation was directed in one direction and one only - the one the Warren Commission, based significantly on evidence supplied by the FBI, would determine that Oswald was the sole killer.