Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fl.) announced on Tuesday that she will lead a task force focused on declassifying federal documents including those related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
At the press conference announcing the decision, Luna was asked about potential witnesses she would like to hear from at upcoming hearings.
“I’m looking to actually bring in some of the attending physicians at the initial assassination,” Luna answered, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
“Then also people that had been on the various commissions looking into it, like the Warren Commission looking into the initial assassination,” she continued. “There’s been conflicting evidence.”
The Warren Commission was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of JFK. The commission’s report concluded that the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine and defector to the Soviet Union, acted alone, though skepticism persists.
But, Luna’s insistence on talking to members of the commission might prove difficult since they are hard to reach these days, because they are all dead.
The last living member of the commission, the 38th President Gerald R. Ford (who at the time was House Minority Leader and US Congressman, R-Michigan) died on December 26, 2006.
Also the doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas who examined Kennedy after he was fatally shot are dead as are the doctors who performed the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
