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In the frantic aftermath of the assassination, Texas, Dallas and federal authorities rushed to assemble and sift through every detail surrounding the event. But all those overlapping efforts will become secondary. Last week President Johnson named a high-level commission to handle the official investigation. Members: Chief Justice Earl Warren (chairman), Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard B. Russell, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, Michigan's Republican Congressman Gerald Ford, ex-CIA Chief Allen W. Dulles, and onetime Presidential Disarmament Adviser John J. McCloy. The President's instructions to the commission: to "satisfy itself that the truth is known as far as it can be discovered, and to report its findings and conclusions to him, to the American people and the world."