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Since the shots fired form the Depository appeared to have come from
the sixth floor, Oswald séemed to have had an alibi
By
late in the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963
the following was the
0
state of affairs:
John F. Kennedy was dead and his body had been illegally taken from
9 1515
Dallas ostensibly because of the concern for the protection of
Jacqueline Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. But what possible excuse
.
of
could be provided for the removal of his Presidential car which was
damaged in the firing on the motorcade and constituted vital evidence
in the anticipated trial of Oswald? Until proven otherwise, the
Secret Service was duty-bound to assume that there was a conspiracy
to kill Kennedy and other high officials.
2
The available evidence overwhelmingly indicated that there had
been a conspiracy to kill at least the President. There had appar-
(ently been enough gunmen strategically placed in Deally Plaza to
have also killed Lyndon Johnson. There was no way of telling at the
time whether the plans had been to kill Johnson also, which plans
may have been frustrated by the fast action of Secret Service
men who pushed him down in the seat and covered his body with theirs.
3 A number of suspects had been arrested. Of these suspects, we
know only of Oswald, against whom at the time of the assassination
there was no evidence for participation in the crime and who was not
charged with the crime until 1:30 the next morning.
What is most disturbing about the investigation of the assassih-
ation is that is seemed to proceed with the lone, assassin thesis at the
outset. If such is the case, than one is face with prim facie evi-
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