Editing Warren Commission (section)

==Meetings==
The Warren Commission met formally for the first time on December 5, 1963, on the second floor of the [[National Archives Building]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Warren Commission Meets |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19631206&id=ZWgzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=7094,4971217 |newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel |location=Lodi, California |agency=UPI |page=2 |date=December 6, 1964 |access-date=November 12, 2014}}</ref> The Commission conducted its business primarily in closed sessions, but these were not ''secret'' sessions.

{{blockquote|Two misconceptions about the Warren Commission hearing need to be clarified...hearings were closed to the public unless the witness appearing before the Commission requested an open hearing. No witness except one...requested an open hearing... Second, although the hearings (except one) were conducted in private, they were not secret. In a secret hearing, the witness is instructed not to disclose his testimony to any third party, and the hearing testimony is not published for public consumption. The witnesses who appeared before the Commission were free to repeat what they said to anyone they pleased, and ''all'' of their testimony was subsequently published in the first fifteen volumes put out by the Warren Commission.<ref>{{harvnb|Bugliosi|2007|page=332}}</ref>}}