Warren Commission

Examples of Warren Commission in the following topics:

• Kennedy's Assassination

  • President Johnson created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination, which concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin.
  • The ten-month investigation by the Warren Commission concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand trial.

• The Lyndon B. Johnson Administration

  • Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination.
  • Further, it barred discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or gender, and established an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  

• The Warren Court

  • The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
  • When Warren joined the Court, all the justices had been appointed by Franklin D.
  • Warren's priority on fairness shaped other major decisions.
  • In Warren's California, Los Angeles County had only one state senator.
  • The Supreme Court in 1953, with Chief Justice Earl Warren sitting center.

• Harding's Policies

  • President Warren G.
  • Harding also advocated the establishment of an international commission to improve race relations between whites and blacks, but strong political opposition by the Southern Democratic bloc stopped the launch of the commission.

• The Paris Peace Conference

  • It would not be until 1921, under President Warren Harding, that the United States finally signed separate peace treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
  • Wilson's successor, President Warren G.
  • President Wilson recommended an international commission of inquiry to ascertain the wishes of the local inhabitants.
  • Eventually it became the purely American King-Crane Commission, an investigatory commission that toured all of Syria and Palestine during the summer of 1919, taking statements and sampling opinion.

• The Republican Era

  • With the exception of favoring increased tariffs, Coolidge disdained regulation, and carried on this belief by appointing commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission who did little to restrict the activities of businesses under their jurisdiction.

• The Battle of Bunker Hill

  • The Massachusetts Committee of Safety, seeking to repeat the sort of propaganda victory it won following the battles at Lexington and Concord, commissioned a report of the battle to send to England.
  • This painting illustrates the Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

• Gender and Politics

  • For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
  • Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution.
  • While topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men, Warren was an exception.
  • Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.
  • While politics remained the domain of men during the Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren challenged this assumption.

• Groups

  • Take, for example, Elizabeth Warren's 2012 campaign for the United States Senate.
  • In public remarks, Warren declared that she had Native American heritage and was part Cherokee.
  • Warren was not Cherokee until she could prove otherwise.
  • Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren claimed membership to Native American groups in her 2012 campaign, raising questions about what it means to belong to a group.

• Brown v. Board of Education and School Integration

  • Chief Justice Earl Warren convened a meeting of the justices and presented to them with the argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was an honest belief in the inferiority of African-American citizens.
  • Warren further submitted that the Court must overrule Plessy to maintain its legitimacy as an institution of liberty, and it must do so unanimously to avoid massive southern resistance.
  • Warren drafted the basic opinion and kept circulating and revising it until the opinion was endorsed by all the members of the Court.
  • The members of the Warren Court that unanimously agreed on Brown v.