On Friday, December 29, 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations published its “Summary of Findings and Recommendations.” The orchestration was perfect. The release was embargoed “until 12:00 midnight, Saturday, December 30, 1978 or for publication in a.m. editions of newspapers dated Sunday, December 31, 1978.”
The Committee wanted to make sure every Sunday morning paper in the United States carried a front-page story on the dramatic conclusion it had reached: There was an unseen second gunman standing in an area known as the grassy knoll who, according to the Committee, fired a single shot at President Kennedy. Although the shot was from close range, it missed President Kennedy; it missed Governor Connally and everyone else in the presidential limousine; it even missed the limousine. Nevertheless, a second gunman automatically meant that there was a conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy.
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