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Daily Bread for 9.27.14

Good morning, Whitewater.

Saturday in the Whippet City will be partly cloudy with a high of eighty. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 6:43 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with eleven percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Tim Bell, while racing in the Circuit of the Americas, lost the brakes on his Nissan 370z and took evasive action — finally hitting a barrier at around one-hundred miles per hour. Amazingly, and fortunately, he walked away unharmed:

On this day in 1964, the Warren Commission report becomes public:

The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963[1] to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963. Its 889-page final report was presented to President Johnson on September 24, 1964[2] and made public three days later.[3] It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy and wounding Texas Governor John Connally[4] and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed Oswald two days later.[5] The Commission’s findings have proven controversial and have been both challenged and supported by later studies.

The Commission took its unofficial name—the Warren Commission—from its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren.[6] According to published transcripts of Johnson’s presidential phone conversations, some major officials were opposed to forming such a commission and several commission members took part only reluctantly.[7] One of their chief reservations was that a commission would ultimately create more controversy than consensus, and those fears proved valid.[7]

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