Editing Warren Commission (section)

== Skepticism ==
[[File:WC Vol18 CE903 SBT alignement.jpg|[[Arlen Specter]] reproducing the assumed alignment of the [[single-bullet theory]]|thumb]]
Many independent investigators, journalists, historians, jurists, and academics issued opinions opposing the conclusions of the Warren commission based on the same elements collected by its works.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=LENTZ |first=Thierry |title=L'assassinat de John F. Kennedy: Histoire d'un mystère d'Etat (Assassination of John F. Kennedy : history of State mystery) |publisher=Edition Nouveaux Mondes |year=2010 |isbn=978-2847365085 |location=Paris |language=Fr}}</ref> 

These skeptics and their works included Thomas Buchanan, [[Sylvan Fox]], Harold Feldman, Richard E. Sprague, [[Mark Lane (author)|Mark Lane]]{{'}}s ''Rush to Judgment'', [[Edward Jay Epstein]]{{'}}s ''Inquest'', Harold Weisberg's ''Whitewash'', Sylvia Meagher's ''Accessories After the Fact'' or Josiah Thompson's ''Six Seconds in Dallas''. English historian [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] wrote: "The Warren Report will have to be judged, not by its soothing success, but by the value of its argument. I must admit that from the first reading of the report, it seemed impossible to me to join in this general cry of triumph. I had the impression that the text had serious flaws. Moreover, when probing the weak parts, they appeared even weaker than at first sight."<ref name=":0" />

In 1992, following popular political pressure in the wake of the film ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'', the [[Assassination Records Review Board]] (ARRB) was created by the JFK Records Act to collect and preserve the documents relating to the assassination. In a footnote in its final report, the ARRB wrote: "Doubts about the Warren Commission's findings were not restricted to ordinary Americans. Well before 1978, President Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and four of the seven members of the Warren Commission all articulated, if sometimes off the record, some level of skepticism about the Commission's basic findings."<ref name="ARRB-ES">{{cite book |author=Assassination Records Review Board |author-link1=Assassination Records Review Board |title=Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/review-board/report/arrb-final-report.pdf |access-date=June 10, 2015 |date=September 30, 1998 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |page=11 |chapter=Chapter 1: The Problem of Secrecy and the Solution of the JFK Act}}</ref>