JFK ASSASSINATION

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JFK ASSASSINATION
Summary of 1st. Warren Commission Report

• Oswald acted alone

• 3 shots, 3 cartridges

• Oswalds palm print on rifle

• Fired bullets matched to rifle

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Warren Commission
3 Shots fired from behind
1st. Hit Kennedys Neck
2nd. Governor
3rd. Hit Kennedys Head
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Timing Problem
Takes 2.3 to 3 secs to fire a single shot, 4 secs
realistically
Zubruder film shows that it took about 6.5 secs
to fire shots
Conclusion Not enough time to fire three shots.
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Warren Commission-- New Report

• Two shots fired by Oswald

• Second shot hit Kennedy in the head

• First shot hit Kennedy in neck and wounded
  Governor called Single bullet theory

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Other Physical Evidence

• Bullet on stretcher found in pristine condition

• Neutron Activation Analysis of Bullet and
  fragments

• The Magic Bullet

Angle of trajectory

• Photographic evidence from Grassy knoll

• Head bob of president

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Second Investigation By Congress 1977

• Acoustic evidence from dicta-bell

• Three shots fired, based on eye-witness accounts

• Conclusion A second gunman

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Other physical evidence

• FBI Acoustic evidence of four shots fired

• Steve Barbers interpretation of acoustic
  evidence cross-talk

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The Body

• Body transferred from Dallas funeral home in
  sheets and bronze casket

• Body received in Bethesda in body bag and gray
  casket

Conclusion Body did not make an uninterrupted
journey
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Autopsy

• Done by an inexperienced doctor

• Clothes not examined

• Diagrams of wounds size and location wrong on
  many points

• Brain disappeared

• Original notes burned

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Altered Wounds

• Major discrepancies between Dallas hospital and
  Bethesda

• Exit and entrance wounds were different