Over six decades ago, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. A few days later, Oswald himself was killed by Jack Ruby. A week later, President Lyndon B. Johnson tasked the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (commonly known as the Warren Commission, after named after chairman, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Earl Warren) with investigating the assassination.

Recently, we interviewed a lawyer who worked on that commission: Burt W. Griffin. Judge Griffin was assistant legal counsel to the Warren Commission. He was especially tasked with investigating issues related to Ruby. He recently authored a book on his experience investigating the murder: JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth. He spoke to us about his initial reaction to the assassination, why the lawyers on the commission wanted there to be a conspiracy afoot, and what he learned as he dug into the case.

Support your local book stores! Check out JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth here or wherever you buy your books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/jfk-oswald-and-ruby-politics-prejudice-and-truth-burt-w-griffin/19990053?ean=9781476687766

Check out other books from Griffin's publisher McFarland at McFarlandBooks.com.

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The JFK Assassination: A Conversation with Warren Commission Lawyer and Author Burt Griffin On the Mysteries of Jack Ruby