Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik

President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Executive Order No. 11130 dated
November 29, 1963,^ created this Commission to investigate the
assassination on November 22, 1963, of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the
35th President of the United States. The President directed the
Commission to evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding
the assassination and the subsequent killing of the alleged assassin
and to report its findings and conclusions to him.^
The subject of the Commission's inquiry was a chain of events
which saddened and shocked the people of the United States and of
the world. The assassination of President Kennedy and the simultaneous
wounding of John B. Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas, had
been followed within an hour by the slaying of Patrolman J. D. Tippit
of the Dallas Police Department. In the United States and abroad,
these events evoked universal demands for an explanation.
Immediately after the assassination. State and local officials in
Dallas devoted their