Warren Commission

DALLAS -- Robert Gemberling, a former FBI special agent who investigated President Kennedy's assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's role, died Dec. 4 of stomach cancer. He was 82. In his 20 years of service as a Dallas FBI agent, Mr. Gemberling focused primarily on coordinating Dallas investigations of the 1963 JFK assassination and Oswald. He prepared reports for the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination.Following his retirement from the FBI in 1976, Mr. Gemberling continued to contend that Oswald acted alone.

NEW YORK - Sid Moody, a longtime feature writer for the Associated Press who chronicled major events of the 20th century from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the Iranian hostage crisis, has died. He was 83. His son Clarke said Tuesday that his father died Sunday in a hospital in Morristown, N.J. A longtime resident of Bernardsville, N.J., Mr. Moody spent his last years at a retirement community in Bernards Township, N.J. He joined the AP in Newark in 1956 and later moved to the news features department in New York City.

NEW YORK - Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and who reported the chaotic scene live on the air, died Sunday in an Arlington, Va., hospital of complications from heart disease, his family said. He was 75. Mr. Pappas also covered major events like the Vietnam War and antiwar demonstrations at home. A New York City native, Mr. Pappas was in Dallas after John F. Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination, reporting for New York radio station WNEW, when police brought the manacled Oswald into the...

NEW YORK - Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and who reported the chaotic scene live on the air, died Sunday in an Arlington, Va., hospital of complications from heart disease, his family said. He was 75. Mr. Pappas also covered major events like the Vietnam War and antiwar demonstrations at home. A New York City native, Mr. Pappas was in Dallas after John F. Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination, reporting for New York radio station WNEW, when police brought the manacled Oswald into the...

The mere thought of enduring another documentary on the assassination of John F. Kennedy should drive anyone to the Cartoon Network.. Anything but more stale air about the horrid particulars of that day in Dallas in 1963. This is less because those particulars are shocking than because they're tired. Most of us old enough to remember them long ago stopped asking others where they were on Nov. 22, 1963, except perhaps on first dates. It was once the question of the '60s, but we're in another millennium.

NEW YORK - Sid Moody, a longtime feature writer for the Associated Press who chronicled major events of the 20th century from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the Iranian hostage crisis, has died. He was 83. His son Clarke said Tuesday that his father died Sunday in a hospital in Morristown, N.J. A longtime resident of Bernardsville, N.J., Mr. Moody spent his last years at a retirement community in Bernards Township, N.J. He joined the AP in Newark in 1956 and later moved to the news features department in New York City.

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Sept. 11 Commission denies that panel members are grandstanding or showing partisanship, but says they plan a more low-key approach as they put together recommendations for a final report. "There will be a lower profile," Thomas Kean, the Republican chairman and a former New Jersey governor, said in an interview. "Trying to do anything in Washington is very, very difficult because the atmosphere is so poisonous. " "But I believe we'll steer through the distractions and write a fair and balanced report.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush, under mounting political pressure, will sign an executive order to establish an investigation of US intelligence failures in Iraq, modeled on the inquiry into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a senior White House official confirmed yesterday. The investigation will look at what the United States believed it knew before the war against Saddam Hussein's regime and what has been determined since the invasion. Former chief weapons inspector David Kay has concluded that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, a chief rationale for the...

The events of Nov. 22, 1963, have been echoed, reenacted -- even presaged -- by a number of assassination movies. Here is a sample: "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962, MGM/UA). Released less than a month before President Kennedy's assassination -- then virtually buried by United Artists until 1988 -- John Frankenheimer's film mixes black humor and prescient Cold War commentary to tell the story of a Korean War hero (Laurence Harvey) who becomes a lethal pawn in the hands of the Chinese.

Picked-up pieces while wondering if anyone at the Super Bowl thought to get a photograph of John Hannah standing next to Joe Montana . . . Bill Belichick's answer when asked about leaving the field early was vague and unsatisfying. "I wasn't really sure of the time. Everybody started on to the field," he said yesterday during a conference call. "There really wasn't much left at that point. " There was one second left, and every photo of the Belichick-Tom Coughlin handshake shows an official standing between the coaches, speaking to Belichick.

Picked-up pieces while wondering if anyone at the Super Bowl thought to get a photograph of John Hannah standing next to Joe Montana . . . Bill Belichick's answer when asked about leaving the field early was vague and unsatisfying. "I wasn't really sure of the time. Everybody started on to the field," he said yesterday during a conference call. "There really wasn't much left at that point. " There was one second left, and every photo of the Belichick-Tom Coughlin handshake shows an official standing between the coaches, speaking to Belichick.

The mere thought of enduring another documentary on the assassination of John F. Kennedy should drive anyone to the Cartoon Network.. Anything but more stale air about the horrid particulars of that day in Dallas in 1963. This is less because those particulars are shocking than because they're tired. Most of us old enough to remember them long ago stopped asking others where they were on Nov. 22, 1963, except perhaps on first dates. It was once the question of the '60s, but we're in another millennium.

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy By Vincent Bugliosi Norton, 1,612 pp., illustrated, $49.95 Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years By David Talbot Free Press, 478 pp., illustrated, $28 Some murder mysteries seize the public's imagination. And then there is the murder of John F. Kennedy, which is in a class by itself. If Vincent Bugliosi has counted right, the assassination of the nation's 35th president has been the subject of almost 1,000 books.

DALLAS -- Robert Gemberling, a former FBI special agent who investigated President Kennedy's assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's role, died Dec. 4 of stomach cancer. He was 82. In his 20 years of service as a Dallas FBI agent, Mr. Gemberling focused primarily on coordinating Dallas investigations of the 1963 JFK assassination and Oswald. He prepared reports for the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination.Following his retirement from the FBI in 1976, Mr. Gemberling continued to contend that Oswald acted alone.

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Sept. 11 Commission denies that panel members are grandstanding or showing partisanship, but says they plan a more low-key approach as they put together recommendations for a final report. "There will be a lower profile," Thomas Kean, the Republican chairman and a former New Jersey governor, said in an interview. "Trying to do anything in Washington is very, very difficult because the atmosphere is so poisonous. " "But I believe we'll steer through the distractions and write a fair and balanced report.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush, under mounting political pressure, will sign an executive order to establish an investigation of US intelligence failures in Iraq, modeled on the inquiry into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a senior White House official confirmed yesterday. The investigation will look at what the United States believed it knew before the war against Saddam Hussein's regime and what has been determined since the invasion. Former chief weapons inspector David Kay has concluded that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, a chief rationale for the...

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy By Vincent Bugliosi Norton, 1,612 pp., illustrated, $49.95 Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years By David Talbot Free Press, 478 pp., illustrated, $28 Some murder mysteries seize the public's imagination. And then there is the murder of John F. Kennedy, which is in a class by itself. If Vincent Bugliosi has counted right, the assassination of the nation's 35th president has been the subject of almost 1,000 books.

It is not often that the fourth mammoth installment of a multivolume biography has an initial print run of 300,000. Journalist-turned-historian Robert Caro's series on Lyndon Johnson is an exception. Titled "The Years of Lyndon Johnson," it is the most celebrated political biography of its era. The previous three volumes have won major literary awards, and the newest serving promises to be a prize winner as well. Caro is famously obsessive about his work. He has spent 38 years working on these four books, and a final fifth volume will cover most of the LBJ presidency...

The events of Nov. 22, 1963, have been echoed, reenacted -- even presaged -- by a number of assassination movies. Here is a sample: "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962, MGM/UA). Released less than a month before President Kennedy's assassination -- then virtually buried by United Artists until 1988 -- John Frankenheimer's film mixes black humor and prescient Cold War commentary to tell the story of a Korean War hero (Laurence Harvey) who becomes a lethal pawn in the hands of the Chinese.