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    "ocrText": "have been the lone assassin. Whatever subsequent discovery might\nhave been made to have justified the assumption of the \"neck\"\nwound of President Kennedy was in fact an exit wound, there was:\na point at which the neck wound was believed by federal police to have\nbeen an entrance wound. Why no action at that time to apprehend\nthe assassins who may have shot the President in the TrontSof the\nneck? Weeks later there were experiments by federal police designe d\nto discover how the President could have been hit in the front\nfrom the back. It would have been more. logical to have wondered\nwho hit the President in the front from the front, and to have\nundertaken to look for such a person.\nThe F.B.I. report found the bullet that the Commission main-\ntained entered Kennedy, exited through his neck and wounded Governor\nConnally actually never exited from Kennedy. We know the time of\nthe assassination shots was such that if more than three bullets\nhad been fired, there had to have been a minimum of two assassins\nfiring. Assume the F.B.I. was mistaken in its conclusion about that\nbullet not exiting from Kennedy, the incriminating question concerns\nwhy they failed to act on that mistake. To conclude there was a\nsecond assassin, all the F.B.I. had to know was how to count beyond\nthree. For assuming competency in elementary arithmetic the F.B.I.\nwas aware of a bullet in Kennedy that did not exit, at least one\nbullet in Connally, the fatal head wound bullet, the neck wound,\nand bullet, and another bullet Or bullet fragment twhich struck\nfirst a curb and then nicked a bystander, James I. Tague. Ignoring\nevidence of damage to the Presidential limousine and other eyewitness\nevidence of misses, we have a minimum of (five |bullets. Five bullets\nheans at least two assassins. It doesn't matter that the figures\nthe F.B.I. were working with might have been wrong, the point is\nhey were the figures. Those figures would have required the F.B.I\nto\nbe seeking a second assassini What the F.B.I. was finally in-\ntructed were the facts of the case is irrelevant, If we are to\nsuppose the F.B.I. didn't kmow the \"real\" autopsic, then we must\n-33-\n33"
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