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Morgan,
Route 1, Box 275
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
Vincent Salandria
January 5, 1967
Dear Vince:
I have been to track down the reasons for the lifference
in reconstruction of the assassination between Josiah Thompson
and most of the others working on the case. I thought you
could >robably help me with this.
Thompson's theory about the "bastard bullet" coming from
Orwald's Carcano was an obvious one that first occurred to
LLC
as it must have to many others. There is a good deal to
support it, but there is also much to refute it, and all
reference to such other evidence was left out of Lompson's
article (I have not seen the book). This to S led to suspicion
and confusion which does not help in the clarification of the
case.
The evidence left out of Thompson's article includes the two
or three bullets that missed "the Teague bullet, and the
bullet that witnesses testified hit to the left and rear of
limousine that [sconfirmed by the FBL
finding of a bullet mark that traced to the west window of
the Depository Building, the window at which Rowland ta d
seen a rifleman with another man) There is also the
mark on the west wall of the jail that Penn Jones located
that might have been a miss. The one located by the FBI
would have corresponded in time with the bullet that hit
Connolly, thus maintaining the time coordination of shooting
from different locations that would have been necessary to
make it appear that the cross fire had and could have come
from but one location.
Other major evidence against Thompson's reconstruction is
that Weisberg has shown that the Willis photo, presumably
taken immediately after chefirst shot, corresponds with
Zapruder's 202nd frame; and that the autopsy finding as
reported by the FBI tells of the angle of entry into Kennedy's
back as 45 to 60 degrees, which would correspond with
45 to 30 degrees from the horizontal in shooting. This
could not have been met by a shot from the sixth floor of
the Depository Building, and could only have been fulfilled
from the top of the Records Building.
I respect Thompson for his overcoming preconceptions about
Oswald being the rifleman and for a good job on the fatal
shot evidence. Yet he le ft out the rather important evidence
mentioned in the CBS four hour documentary that each jiggle
that caused a blur in the Zapruder pictures might be attributed
to
noise as from a shot. This alone would help in
the reconstruction. For the blurrings are reparted to be at
frames 90, 95, 203, 227 and what would correspond to the time
of the fatal shot, allowing about five frames for the
passage of sound and the respanse of the nervous system.
This would tend to confirm Glen Bennett's testenomy that
he heard a shot before ha saw a bullet hit the President's
C
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