As a US representative, Ford was a member of the #WarrenCommission, which investigated the #assassination of President #JohnFKennedy. The experience affected him profoundly. During a site visit to the Texas School Book Depository, the members of the committee took a rifle similar to the one used by Lee Harvey Oswald & looked through its scope at the traffic below. “Kennedy had been my friend,” Ford later recalled. “The thought we were reconstructing his assassination sent a chill down my spine.”

As a US representative, Ford was a member of the #WarrenCommission, which investigated the #assassination of President #JohnFKennedy. The experience affected him profoundly. During a site visit to the Texas School Book Depository, the members of the committee took a rifle similar to the one used by Lee Harvey Oswald & looked through its scope at the traffic below. “Kennedy had been my friend,” Ford later recalled. “The thought we were reconstructing his assassination sent a chill down my spine.”