Herbert Leslie Packer (1925 – December 6, 1972)[1] was an American law professor and criminologist.
in government and international relations in 1944 from Yale University and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
Packer was a law clerk for Judge Thomas Walter Swan from 1949 to 1950.
[3] His first book, Ex-Communist Witnesses: Four Studies in Fact Finding (1962), discussed the testimony of four individuals involved in legal investigations into Communism in the United States: Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz, and John Lautner.
[1][4] In an article in The Nation called "A Measure of Achievement" (1964), Packer concluded that the Warren Commission did a "conscientious and at times brilliant job" compiling the Warren Report and concurred that it proved "beyond a reasonable doubt" that U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.