Editing Warren Commission (section)

=== The Church Committee ===
In 1975, the [[Church Committee]] was created per US Senate after the revelations about illegal actions of federal agency as the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] on the territory of the United States of America and after the political [[Watergate scandal]]. The Church Committee carried out investigative work on the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, questioning 50 witnesses and accessing 3,000 documents.

It focuses on the necessary actions and the support provided by the FBI and the CIA to the Warren Commission and raises the question of the possible connection between the plans to assassinate political leaders abroad, in particular in relation to [[Fidel Castro]] in [[Cuba]], a huge point of international tension in the 1960s, and that of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. The Church Committee questioned the process of obtaining the information, blaming federal agencies for failing in their duties and responsibilities and concluding that the investigation into the assassination had been flawed.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=US State Senate |first=Select Committee to tudy governmental operations wit respect to intelligence Agency |url=https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1161#relPageId=1 |title=Book V - The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F Kennedy performances of the intelligence agency |publisher=US Government Printing Office |date=April 26, 1979 |edition=First |location=Washington |language=en}}</ref>

The American Senator [[Richard Schweiker]] indicated on this subject, in a television interview on June 27, 1976: ''"The John F. Kennedy assassination investigation was snuffed out before it even began,"'' and that ''"the fatal mistake the Warren Commission made was to not use its own investigators, but instead to rely on the CIA and FBI personnel, which played directly into the hands of senior intelligence"''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Marry Ferrel Foundation |date=4 March 2023 |title=Warren Commission |url=https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Warren_Commission.html |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=Mary Ferrel Foundation - preserving the legacy}}</ref>''.''

The results of the Church Committee opened the way of the creation of the HSCA, with parallelly the March 6, 1975, first time diffusion on network television in the show ''Good Night America'' of the [[Zapruder film]], which had been stored by [[Life (magazine)|''Life'' magazine]] and never shown to the public during the preceding twenty years.