On November 29, 1963, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson established, with Executive Order 11130, the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He named the following men to head the research panel:
- The Chief Justice of the United States, Chairman (the eponymous Earl Warren)
- Senator Richard B. Russell
- Senator John Sherman Cooper
- Congressman Hale Boggs
- Congressman Gerald R. Ford
- The Honorable Allen W. Dulles
- The Honorable John J. McCloy
Note that one of these men had been fired by the assassinated president as Director of the CIA, and hated JFK’s guts, while another went on to become the only president of the United States to receive no votes in the Electoral College.