"In 1963 U.S. president Lyndon Johnson appointed a reluctant Russell to the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, or the Warren Commission, as it came to be known. Russell rejected the single-bullet theory, as did Texas governor John Connally, who had been wounded in the attack on Kennedy. Thinking “so much possible evidence was beyond [the commission’s] reach,” Russell insisted that Earl Warren qualify the commission’s findings to read that they found “no evidence” that Oswald “was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign.” Compromise with Russell was the only way Warren obtained a unanimous report."