On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed
a special commission to investigate the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred a week earlier,
on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

Johnson issued an Executive Order appointing the President’s
Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy which
became referred to as the Warren Commission, after its leader,
Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Gerald Ford (left) looks on as Chief Justice Earl Warren
presents the Commission’s report to President Lyndon
Johnson.

TIM MAGUIRE

CBS-TV anchorman Walter Cronkite as he removes his
glasses and prepares to announce the death of President
John F. Kennedy. 

TIM MIGUIRE

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)

On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was
mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles. Earlier that evening, the 42-year-old junior senator from
New York was declared the winner in the South Dakota and
California 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries during
the 1968 United States presidential election. He was pronounced
dead at 1:44 a.m. PDT on June 6, about 26 hours after he had been
shot.