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this material. An' independent investigator, Richard E. Sprague, has also done a brilliant job of analysis. Mentesana 2 and Willis 10 (photos) indicate presence and "discovery" of one 8 and possibly two more rifles besides the one found on the sixth floor. Why was that discovery not the basis for action? The Mary A. Moorman photo shows a possible total of four men behind a concrete wall, the fence and cupola structure at the west end of the arcade The Hughes film and the Dillard photo show the sixth floor Depository window from which Oswald allegedly did his shooting within seconds of the assassination, and there is neither Oswald nor anyone else at that window. What we might call hard physical evidence, that relating to angles of entrance of wounds, of positions from: which shots might have been fired, the phsyical reactions of Kennedy and Connally, the direction of flying skull matter which resulted from the fatal wound in the President's head, the medical testimony of Parkland doctors and photographic evidence all provided impressive for the assumption of a conspiracy. Even if we would now regard such evidence as questionable, there was a time at which author- ities had such material as their best evidence, and were therefore duty bound to but did not act upon it. If there existed evidence for a conspiracy, and dangerous criminals who assassinated the President of the United States were on the loose, then all of us would be in danger. Surély our government in: not reacting to evidence of conspiracy could not have felt the assassins a threat or "a danger Why not? -38- 38

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