Überprojects/Warren Commission
Introduction
From Wikipedia's article about the Warren Commission.
- The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963 by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy. The Commisson's findings have since proved extremely controversial and have frequently been challenged since then.
- The Commission took its unofficial name—the Warren Commission—from its chairman, Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren."
While there are several independent transcriptions of the Warren Commission available, having this in Project Gutenberg will provide a great resources for researchers, historians, conspiracy theorists and generally curious people for millennia to come.
DP History
Several of the Warren Commission projects started going through DP in November 2003. However, due to having to rescan some of the exhibit volumes at a higher resolution, the project was put on hold for a little while. Proofing resumed in May 2006 with previously proofed projects going through the site as "retread" projects.
Projects
The Warren Commission published 28 volumes of their findings, which includes:
- The Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (aka Warren Commission Report) (1 Vol.)
- Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (15 volumes - 5 volumes of testimony before the commission, 10 volumes of testimony/affidavits taken by staffers)
- Commission Exhibits (11 volumes)
- Executive Session Transcripts (1 volume)
For ease of processing through the DP site, the volumes have been put into 39 separate projects, with each volume consisting of one project, except for the exhibit volumes which each are split into two projects each. The status of each project is listed below. Use the "discuss" link for each project to go to the project's discussion thread in the DP forums.
List of WC projects
| Project # | Volume # | Project Name | Status | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | n/a | Report | Needs missing pages | discuss |
| 2 | Vol. I | Hearings (1) | Waiting - P1 | discuss |
| 3 | Vol. II | Hearings (2) | Waiting - P1 | discuss |
| 4 | Vol. III | Hearings (3) | P1 | discuss |
| 5 | Vol. IV | Hearings (4) | Waiting - P1 | discuss |
| 6 | Vol. V | Hearings (5) | Waiting - P1 | discuss |
| 7 | Vol. VI | Testimony/Affidavits (1) | Waiting - P1 | discuss |
| 8 | Vol. VII | Testimony/Affidavits (2) | Waiting - P1 | discuss |
| 9 | Vol. VIII | Testimony/Affidavits (3) | Have images | discuss |
| 10 | Vol. IX | Testimony/Affidavits (4) | Have images | discuss |
| 11 | Vol. X | Testimony/Affidavits (5) | Have images | discuss |
| 12 | Vol. XI | Testimony/Affidavits (6) | Have images | discuss |
| 13 | Vol. XII | Testimony/Affidavits (7) | Have images | discuss |
| 14 | Vol. XIII | Testimony/Affidavits (8) | Have images | discuss |
| 15 | Vol. XIV | Testimony/Affidavits (9) | Have images | discuss |
| 16 | Vol. XV | Testimony/Affidavits (10) | Have images | discuss |
| 17 | Vol. XVI | Exhibits (1.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 18 | Vol. XVI | Exhibits (1.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 19 | Vol. XVII | Exhibits (2.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 20 | Vol. XVII | Exhibits (2.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 21 | Vol. XVIII | Exhibits (3.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 22 | Vol. XVIII | Exhibits (3.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 23 | Vol. XIX | Exhibits (4.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 24 | Vol. XIX | Exhibits (4.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 25 | Vol. XX | Exhibits (5.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 26 | Vol. XX | Exhibits (5.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 27 | Vol. XXI | Exhibits (6.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 28 | Vol. XXI | Exhibits (6.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 29 | Vol. XXII | Exhibits (7.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 30 | Vol. XXII | Exhibits (7.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 31 | Vol. XXIII | Exhibits (8.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 32 | Vol. XXIII | Exhibits (8.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 33 | Vol. XXIV | Exhibits (9.1) | OCR'd | discuss |
| 34 | Vol. XXIV | Exhibits (9.2) | OCR'd | discuss |
| 35 | Vol. XXV | Exhibits (10.1) | OCR'd | discuss |
| 36 | Vol. XXV | Exhibits (10.2) | OCR'd | discuss |
| 37 | Vol. XXVI | Exhibits (11.1) | need to scan | discuss |
| 38 | Vol. XXVI | Exhibits (11.2) | need to scan | discuss |
| 39 | n/a | Executive Session Transcripts | need to scan | discuss |
Proofing Notes
Keep text as close to original as possible!
We've had some mention of people changing things like "* * *" to "...". Please do not make such substitutions! Please keep all text as close to the original as possible.
Deleted and Crossed-out Words
In some places, words have been crossed out, removed, or redacted in some other way. Please mark these in one of the following two ways:
- If the word is readable, please print the word and put a note after it like, [**word crossed out]
- If it is not readable, please just put a [**note] where it occurs.
Copyrighted Materials
Some of the content in the Warren Report and its supporting exhibit volumes is still under copyright. As a result, we are not allowed to include this copyrighted material in Project Gutenberg. Most (if not all) of this material has been identified, and place-holders have been included in the page images to indicate where these copyrighted materials occur.
If you come across any materials (e.g., photographs, movie stills, etc.) that you think may need to be removed, please post a comment in the project thread.
Formatting Notes
Image Captions
Please put the image caption at the front of the [illustration tag]], even if the caption itself is below the image's text. For example:
[Illustration: COMMISSION EXHIBIT NO. 350 Windshield of Presidential limousine.]
Footnotes
All of the footnotes are kept in a single volume. Please mark the place where footnotes are referenced using standard out-of-line footnote markers. For example:
Some note[3].
Superscripts
In some places, there are superscripted letters that don't refer to footnotes. (This may be in the Report only, but we're not entirely sure.) Please mark these using LaTeX-style markup, e.g.,
^{A}
Multiple superscripts may be combined into one:
^{A B}
Underlined text
Use <u> and </u> to mark underlined text.
Non-Standard Formatting
Many of the exhibits (which are given in the later volumes) are things like forms and charts which will be very hard to format using only ASCII text. We just ask that you do your best. Don't worry about trying to make sure all the lines are exact – it's the text and meaning of the documents that are important.
Questions and Discussion
Please jump over to the Warren Commission Uberproject forum thread if you have any questions or want to discuss the Warren Commission projects further.