Volume 16 , Issue 22

House Select Committee On Assassinations (HSCA)

As the History Matters Archive states, "In the wake of Watergate and President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974, a reform Congress undertook investigations of the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies -- the Church Committee published 14 reports containing its findings. With the public airing of the Zapruder home movie of the JFK assassination showing Kennedy reacting to an apparent shot from the front, there were calls for reinvestigation of this and other political assassinations of the 1960s."

It was in 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassinations undertook reinvestigations of the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. There was a single report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination, published in 1979, by the Congress.

The HSCA found in the JFK case that there was a probable conspiracy, but they was unable to determine the nature of that conspiracy or other participants, besides Oswald. Their findings were based in part on acoustics evidence from a tape purported to record the shots. It was also based on other evidence including an investigation of Ruby's underworld connections.

Those massive internal files of the HSCA were unsealed in the wake of the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, which is still being digested by researchers today.

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