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"THE BULLET WAS CLEAN
" cont.
hazardous no-blood-on 399/blood-on-the fragments testimony; or at least, to
soften its troublesome effect by confusing the record?
To make such an accusation is, of course, a serious charge. Un-
fortunately, the Commission's behavior leaves the objective researcher
little choice but to make it. For the Commission repeatedly -- in scores and
perhaps hundreds of important instances -- conducts its "investigation" in
such a fashion as to allow for only two possible interpretations: Either it
consistently and deliberately selects, bends, and rejects facts and testimony
so as to fit a preconceived conclusion -- that the assassination was the
work of one man, and one man only -- or else it is guilty of incompetence so
shocking as to be virtually incredible. Since there is no reason to believe
that the experienced and highly trained attorneys who comprised the
Commission's staff were incompetent, the former alternative emerges as the
more likely.
As to Frazier's failure to correct Eisenberg's erroneous quotation
of himself, the record reveals no definite reason. Perhaps he thought it
wiser not to make an issue of it; perhaps he was confused by it, and was still
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thinking of the previous question regarding blood on the fragments.
That the latter may have been the case is possibly indicated by
his reply, "No, there was no test made on the materials"; for if Frazier was
referring to the fragments -- which, it appears indisputable, were found in
the President's car and did result from bullets which had struck the victim(s)
- it would not be disturbing that tests were not made of the adhering
substances.
But, if, in total contradiction to his earlier statement, Frazier's
reply did refer to his having wiped blood from 399 -- a bullet whose back-
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