Waggoner Carr Calls Court of Inquiry on JFK Assassination (1963)

Year Published: 1963

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: November 26, 1963. In the office of the attorney general, Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr holds a joint press conference with Herbert Miller, head of the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Carr calls for for state and federal co-operation in the making public all known facts surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The original intention was that the state’s gathered facts would be turned over to the FBI and the FBI’s compiled facts would be made public after their completion. At the urging of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the inquiry was delayed indefinitely, and ultimately was never held.