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Rolled out in September 1964, the Warren Report was the government’s official story of the assassination of President John F

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The report’s key finding was that an odd, angry, 24-year-old assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had acted alone, for reasons nobody could figure out.

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Sylvia Meagher was 44 years old in the fall of 1965 and lived alone, except for her cat, Allegra, named after the ballet dancer Allegra Kent. She commuted from her one-bedroom apartment in the West Village to the United Nations, where she’d been working for nearly two decades at the World Health Organization. Only a few hundred private citizens in the United States purchased a copy of the 18,000-page, 54-pound series as soon as the Government Printing Office made it available. Released in September 1964, the Warren Report was the government’s official story of the assassination of President John F. During the year since she’d received delivery of her crate of the volumes, Meagher had been reading and rereading. Meagher was neither a conspiracy theorist nor a wannabe detective.

Through twists and turns of curiosity (and mid-pandemic boredom), the reporter ended up reading Meagher’s papers and becoming obsessed with her obsession.

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