Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Biographical Profiles

This section includes concise biographical summaries of 9 individuals affiliated with the Commission’s work, spanning historians, legal professionals, and government investigators. Each entry outlines birth date and location, educational credentials (undergraduate, graduate, and law degrees where applicable), professional experience (including military service, academic roles, and government positions), and notable accomplishments such as editorial appointments, bar admissions, and publication contributions. Key figures include U.S. Air Force historians Alfred Goldberg and Arthur Marmor, legal professionals Murray J. Laulicht, Richard M. Mosk, Stuart R. Pollak, Charles N. Shaffer Jr., and Lloyd L. Weinreb (many with federal judicial clerkships and roles in the Department of Justice), Internal Revenue Service investigator John J. O’Brien, and Alfredda Scobey, a law assistant for the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Acknowledgments

This section documents the Commission’s formal acknowledgments of support received during testimony collection across the United States. It extends special gratitude to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. and his assistant Martha Joe Stroud for their dedicated assistance, followed by a list of 62 lawyers, secretaries, and clerks who contributed extensive effort to the Commission’s operations.

List of Witnesses

This section presents a full roster of 552 witnesses who provided testimony to the Commission, organized in a table with columns for witness name, brief description of their role or connection to the events under investigation, and the volume and page number of their testimony in the Commission’s official records. Notation codes indicate the format of each witness’s contribution: “C” for in-person appearances before Commission members, “D” for depositions taken by Commission legal staff, “A” for submitted affidavits, and “S” for provided statements. The included excerpt features entries for a wide range of individuals, including law enforcement officers, medical personnel, acquaintances of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, government officials, and subject matter experts.