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    "ocrText": "The best of the Warren Commission\njust over the knot of the president's tie\ninterestingly enough, when Groden\ncritics are as serious as Hoch and their\n-then entered the right side of Gov-\nshowed this film at Bernard Fenster-\nnames may well go down some day on\nernor Connally's back (breaking his\nwald's home in November 1973, nei-\nan honor roll of those who cared\nright rib), emerged from his chest,\nther he nor anyone else made any men-\nenough to get involved: Vincent Sal-\nshattered a bone in his wrist and en-\ntion of a rifleman on the knoll. Groden\nandria, Harold Weisberg, Sylvia Meag-\ntered his left thigh. After all this the\nsays it wasn't until January 1974 that\nher, Josiah Thompson, Edward Jay Ep-\nbullet had only lost two grains from\nstein, David Lifton, Lillian Castellano,\nits original weight and, said Wecht,\nhe started scanning the last 18 frames\nFred Newcomb, Perry Adams, Ray\nthe upper two centimeters of the bullet\nof his Zapruder film and then began to\nMarcus, Marjorie Field, Shirley Mar-\n\"show no grossly visible deformities,\nsee that what he thought was the wheel\ntin, Mary Ferrell, Richard Popkin, Bill\nareas of mutilation, loss of substance\nwell of the presidential Lincoln wasn't\nTurner, Richard Sprague and the early\nor any kind of significant scathing.\"\nthe wheel well at all, but the rifleman-\nMark Lane.\nThere is one small piece that was re-\n\"because the car was moving forward\nAmong the most important critics\nmoved from the bullet's jacket by an\nand the 'wheel well' was moving back-\nstill hard at work and making new con-\nFBI agent \"for spectrographic analysis\"\nward.\"\ntributions are:\n(which analysis might show that JFK\nDavid Lifton is an engineering-\nBernard Fensterwald, a successful\nand Connally were not hit by the same\nphysics graduate of Cornell and a drop-\nWashington D.C. lawyer, who out of\nbullet).\nout from graduate school at UCLA who\nhis own well-haberdashered pocket,\nFurthermore, says Wecht, there was\nought to have three doctorates by now\nfinances the activities of something he\nsomething strange about the trajectory\nin the disciplines he has picked up dur-\ncalls the Committee to Investigate As-\nof that bullet from the sixth floor of the\ning ten years of work on the assassina-\nsassinations, a loose confederation of\nTexas School Book Depository. It was\ntion: history, political science and his-\ncitizens whose worry about the assas-\nsupposed to have been traveling down-\nsination of two Kennedys and a King\nward and passing through JFK from\nwas once signalized by the flag they\ntoriography (a study of the way history\nright to left. It should, therefore, have\nprinted on their metered mailings: WHO\nis written). In 1967 Lifton did a 30,000-\nmissed Governor Connally completely.\nIs KILLING OUR LEADERS? Fensterwald\nword analysis (with David Welsh) in\nUnder the Warren Commission's hy-\nhelped set up a special assassination\nRamparts which argued that there were\npothesia the bullet may have made an\narchive at Georgetown University and\nthree assassins firing in Dealey Plaza on\nacute angular turn in midair. Wecht\nwas the chief honcho for a conference\nNovember 22nd, 1963.\nbelieves a second assassin may have\nat Georgetown on the tenth anniversary\nIn 1968, shortly after most of the\nbeen firing at JFK from the rear, pos-\nof JFK's assassination. With attorney\ntranscripts of the Warren Commission\nsibly even from the front, but he says\nexecutive sessions were declassified, Lif-\nJames Lesar, he is handling legal ap-\nhe cannot know for sure until he ex-\npeals for James Earl Ray, having been\nton published them privately as Docu-\namines the materials that are missing.\nbrought into the Ray case by Harold\nment Addendum to the Warren Report.\nRobert Groden, a young expert\nLifton has served as a consultant to Dr.\nWeisberg. Though Fensterwald has\nin optics from New York City, has\navoided entangling his assassination\nCyril Wecht and it was he who pro-\nmagnified the central part of each\nconspiracy theories with the Ray case,\nvided the producers of Executive Ac-\nframe of the Zapruder film and pro-\nWeisberg says that was the strategy be-\ntion with the documentary record which\nduced what he calls a reframed copy.\nhind the move to get a new trial for\nThe result is like a new film of the\nRay. \"If we walk Ray, then the govern-\nsupported that movie's attempt to prove\nassassination, made through a zoom\nment will have to find Dr. King's real\nhow several assasination teams might\nlens, with much of the jiggle removed.\nkillers.\" This seems to be the commit-\nhave worked in Dallas. Lifton is a 35-\nNow, even more starkly than before,\ntee's basic thrust: to push the govern-\nto the lay observer at least, it appears\nyear-old bachelor whose Brentwood\nment to find the real killers-of JFK;\nthat the shot which took off the top\napartment has 22 filing drawers on the\nMLK, RFK.\nassassination.\nof the president's head and splattered\nDr. Cyril H. Wecht, coroner of\nLifton has a work in progress which\ntwo trailing police motorcycles came\nAllegheny County (Pittsburgh) and di-\nfrom the front. The president's head\nchallenges the authenticity of the evi-\nrector of the Institute of Forensici Sci-\ndence on which the Warren Commis-\nclearly snaps back and to the left. Mrs.\nences at Duquesne University, is the\nKennedy's description of the president\nsion based its major findings.\nfirst pathologist outside the federal\nat that moment was deleted from her\nGeorge Toole, a former com-\ngovernment to examine the assassina-\ntestimony as published by the Warren\nputer analyst for the CIA, has turned\ntion evidence at the National Archives.\nCommission, but her actual words, re-\nto a new technological tool as an impor-\nTrouble is, he reported in August 1972,\nleased by the Archives in 1972, may be\ntant adjunct in his assassination re-\nthe president's brain is missing from\nsearch. The tool is\n[Cont. on 37]\nsignificant here: \"I was trying to hold\nthe medico-legal exhibits at the Ar-\nhis hair on. But 'from the front there\n[ Cont. from 33 something called a\nchives. So are certain important skin\nwas nothing. I suppose there must have\nPsychological Stress Evaluator (PSE),\nsections taken from the point where\nbeen. But from the back you could see,\na machine which a skilled operator can\nbullets were supposed to have entered\nyou know, you were trying to hold his\napply to anyone's recorded words and\nthe scalp and upper back of JFK. So\nhair on and his skull on.\"\ntell, by evaluating the stress patterns in\nare photos of the sections. Neverthe-\nGroden, who reconstituted the Zap-\nthe speech (seen on the machine's scan-\nless, even without the missing materials,\nruder film from a pirated copy belong-\nners as a series of mountains and val-\nDr. Wecht concludes that the physical\ning to Time Inc., has had his film shown\nleys), whether that person is telling the\nevidence which he has examined\nrecently. on scattered TV stations all\ntruth or lying.\ndoesn't support the Warren Commis-\nover the U.S. and Canada. According\nThe PSE presents advantages over\nsion's findings. \"More than one per-\nthe old polygraph exam (which is why\nson,\" he says, \"was involved in the\nto Groden, his blowup shows not only\nold-time polygraph examiners don't\nshooting of President Kennedy.\"\nthat President Kennedy was killed by\nlike it). A skilled PSE examiner can\nWecht says he bases his conclusion\na shot from the front (and therefore\nplay the PSE game with remote subjects\non an analysis of the famous single\nfrom a shot on or near the grassy\nwho don't even know they're partici-\nbullet (Commission Exhibit 399)\nknoll); it also shows the rifleman stand-\npants. All O'Toole needed in order to\nwhich the Warren Commission said\ning there on the grassy knoll holding\nfind out whether some of the actors in\nwas supposed to have entered the right\nthe rifle up in the air as the presidential\nthe JFK assassination scenario were\nside of 'the president's back, coursed\ncar disappears through the railroad\ntelling the truth was access to old taped\nthrough the uppermost portions of the\nunderpass.\ninterviews they'd given out years ago.\nthorax and mediastinum and emerged"
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