The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 40 The Warren Commission Report, Inscribed By President Gerald Ford 38. (KENNEDY ASSASSINATION) FORD, Gerald. Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. New York, London and Toronto, 1964. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $2500. Click for more info Special “New York Times Edition,” issued same year as the first, of the official— yet perpetually controversial—report on the assassination of President Kennedy, boldly signed and dated “1/9/97” by Warren Commission member (and future president) Gerald R. Ford, in scarce dust jacket. On November 29, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson created a Commission “to ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President JohnF. Kennedyand the subsequent violent deathof themanchargedwith theassassination.”GeraldR. Ford’s seat on thepanel put theMichiganCongressman in the national spotlight. Light edge-wear, tiny bit of tape reinforcement to verso of price-clipped dust jacket. A scarce near-fine inscribed copy.