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Date Posted: 12:01:00 02/06/02 Wed
Scientist: Two Gunmen Involved in JFK Assassination
Reuters
Mar 26 2001 3:26PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Two gunmen were almost certainly involved in the assassination of U.S. President John F Kennedy in 1963, a British forensic scientist has said.
In a peer-reviewed paper published in the British Forensic Science Society's journal "Science and Justice," scientist D.B. Thomas adds weight to the so-called "grassy knoll" theory that a second gunman shot at the president at almost exactly the same moment as assassin Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the Book Depository building.
Thomas said based on an analysis of echoes on acoustic recordings from the Dallas police radio channels at the time of the shooting, there was a 96.3 percent chance that a shot was fired by a second person on the knoll.
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
His death gripped the world and sparked countless conspiracy theories, ranging from a Mafia hit to a Soviet KGB plot.
Eyewitness Jean Hill, known as "The Lady in Red" in footage of the assassination, always maintained she heard a shot from the grassy knoll, not the Book Depository. Hill, who died last year, said she ran toward the knoll to see the shooter but was stopped by two policemen.
In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only three shots were fired by a single assassin -- Oswald -- from the Book Depository at the northeast corner of Dealey Plaza which was above and behind the president's limousine. The grassy knoll was to the right and in front of the limousine.
Oswald was himself shot dead shortly afterwards by an assassin, Jack Ruby, who insisted he had acted alone.
A 1978 investigation by the U.S. Congress House of Representatives' Select Committee on Assassinations, which examined the radio evidence, found that the assassination was probably a conspiracy but a later study by the U.S. National Research Council dismissed the gunshot noises as static.
But Thomas' findings support the committee's view. He said the National Academy of Sciences made mistakes in lining up conversations on two police frequencies, making it sound as if a gunshot noise heard through the radio of a patrolman with the motorcade occurred long after the president had been shot.
"The unambiguous cross-talk evidence indicates that the gunshot-like sounds...were recorded over the police radio at the precise instant the president was being assassinated by gunfire," Thomas said.
G Robert Blakey, the former chief counsel for the House Committee on Assassinations welcomed Thomas's findings.
""This is an honest, careful examination of everything we did, with all the appropriate statistical checks," Blakey was quoted as saying by the Washington Post.
""The main thing is when push comes to shove, he increased the degree of confidence that the shot from the grassy knoll was real, not static. He puts it at 96.3 percent...that's beyond a reasonable doubt."
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