United States House Select Committee on Assassinations

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The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established on September 15, 1976, by U.S. House Resolution 1540 to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively. The select committee was first formed by the 94th United States Congress, and expired at the end of the 95th Congress. The HSCA completed its investigation in 1978 and issued its final report in 1979, which concluded that Kennedy "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." In addition to acoustic analysis of a police channel dictabelt recording, the HSCA also commissioned numerous other scientific studies of assassination-related evidence that corroborate the Warren Commission's findings. However, the HSCA challenged the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter, while stating that it was "unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy." The HSCA likewise concluded...

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