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profile.)
Assassin i::My personal feeling is that the assassin would have
Escape
had to undergo no risk at all if he simply remained in
or
the sewer cavern (the inlet. ) No one could see him from
Remain
the street and later in cover of darkness he could slip
away easily with the aid of someone coming to pick him
up. It is apparent to me that the crawl from the inlet
on the North side of Elm St. up under the knoll to the
cavern behind the wooden fence (photographs to be sent
showing this inlet and its possibilities) would have been
nearly impossible because of the severly cramped space
in the pipe which is also 15" and the very long distance
from the street inlet to the grate behind the fence. It
would also seem unreasonable to go from the street inlet
to behind the fence, after the assassination, since the
attention of the search was concentrated on the area
behind the fence.
The testimony of Julia Ann Mercer*certainly suggests
Mercer
the possibility that a truck, of the kind she described,
testimony
stopped on or about the location of the Northside Elm St.
Storm Drain Inlet. This is visible in some pictures taken
immediately after the assassination which you already
have and some more which I am sending you. * (Vol.XIX, 483)
Miss Mercer stated that the truck parked with its
wheels up on the curb. We know that the Green Ford pick-
Green
up was parked illegally on two counts: there is no stópping
Ford
at all allowed on that part of Elm St. and certainly not
Pickup
in the manner of parking with the wheels on the sidewalk.
Truck
If the conspirators wished to conceal this storm drain
or its cover for a short period of time this was an ideal
Meaning
act. A rifle, a message, or possibly even a person could
of its
have passed through the street opening of the inlet or in
Parking
the case of a man, through the uncovered hatch of the
over Curb
inlet. I think that the coincidence of the location at
which the truck stopped, the manner in which it parked,
and the blatant type of distraction of a man strolling up
the grassy incline in daylight with a gun case is more
than one can accept. All of the Report is too but we've
established that.
The most compelling of all evidence is in two
Zapruder
parts and has been included in your thoughts already.
Film
The Zapruder film seen in its running, projected form
(as most films are usually shown except this most im-
Testimony
portant of all films, which we are forced to watch in
Clint
"serial" form on the pages of Life Magazine.) and fin-
Hill
ally the explicit testimony of agent Clint Hill.
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