United States House Select Committee on Assassinations
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The United States House of Representatives Select
Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate
the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The
Committee completed its investigation in 1978 and issued its final report the
following year, concluding that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result
of a conspiracy.” The
basis for that finding of “probable conspiracy” was a since-discredited
third-party acoustic analysis of a police
channel dictabelt recording.
The Committee determined, based on available evidence, that
the conspiracy did not involve the governments of the Soviet
Union or Cuba.
The committee also stated that the conspiracy did not involve any organized
crime group, anti-Castro group, nor the FBI, CIA or Secret
Service.
Although the HSCA publicly released its findings in 12
volumes and a single-volume summary report, the majority of primary documents
were sealed for 50 years under congressional rules. Unlike the Warren
Commission investigation, the HSCA had significant amounts of “internal
squabbling and disillusioned staffers” who did not feel that all of the
relevant investigative material was published. In
1992, Congress passed legislation to collect and open up all the evidence
relating to Kennedy's death, and created the Assassination Records Review Board to
further that goal. No materials have been uncovered which significantly change
the conclusions or opinion of the HSCA. Read more >>
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