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of 42 frames. If one shot were fired and then another in a shorter interval than 42 frames, that would add up to two assassins. For there to have been but one assassin there would have had to been an even spacing of the shots with a minimum of 42 frames between each shot. As a matter of fact, the Warren Report iuforms us, a majority of the witnesses stated the shots were not evenly fired, but that the second and third shots were "bunched! together. Indeed, even Secret Service agent Roy H. Kellerman testified that shots were bunched He was in the President's car and stated "...a flurry of shells came into the car " Kellerman described these shots as so bunched as to be like "a plane breaking the sound barrier, bang, bang. " (II H 74 & 76) With the unfortunately slow weapon of Oswald's in their possession, and testimony concerning "bunching," immediate action should have ensued aimed at finding two or more assassins and other weapons. What the government was really s'aying was that, irrespective of what its honest agents such as Roy H. Kellerman concluded, there was to be one assassin and he was to be Oswald. No Governmental Response to the Unwanted Conspiracy Evidence Still, evidence of more than one assassin having been involved in the assassination continued to pour into the Dallas police authorities. Whether two assassins or many, it seemed clear that the escapé . had been well planned. Local police agencies and the F.B.I. normally respond to bank robberies and other crimes by setting up road blocks and by mobilizing dragnets. But, in this case, which involved the assassination of a President and the wounding -17- 17

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