By Anthony Summers
“He was once conserving out his hand . . . He regarded questioned . . . Then he slumped in my lap . . . I saved bending over him asserting, ‘Jack, Jack, are you able to pay attention me? i admire you, Jack . . .’ The seat used to be choked with blood and purple roses . . . .” —Jacqueline Kennedy, recalling the deadly second in Dallas
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The same interpretation has been put on the description of the wound by twenty people who saw it at Bethesda Hospital in Washington, DC. Two of the technicians who X-rayed the President’s body during the autopsy recalled a posterior wound. One of them, Jerrol Custer, said it was enormous. ” The head of the Secret Service team, Roy Kellerman, who was assigned to the President that day and who attended the autopsy; two FBI agents assigned to the autopsy; and a mortician who prepared the body for burial, also recalled a wound at the back of the head.
Early one morning in 1978, guns boomed once again at the scene of President Kennedy’s murder. The results showed that impulses on the police recording matched sound patterns unique to the scene of the crime. Certain impulses, the scientists theorized, were indeed gunshots. They declared that the sounds had been picked up by a microphone moving along at about eleven miles per hour at the time of the assassination. They surmised that this was mounted on the motorcycle of a police outrider in the presidential motorcade, and that the recording had been made because the microphone button was stuck open at the time.
Blakey remained persuaded by “all the other evidence and testimony,” not least the human testimony about the day of the assassination. ” Chapter 3 How Many Shots? Where From? ” —Thomas H. Huxley, evolutionist, nineteenth century Much of the testimony of those present when President Kennedy was shot may seem old hat to readers with long memories. Yet it remains vitally relevant to any serious account of the assassination. Of 178 people in Dealey Plaza—according to an Assassinations Committee survey—no less than 132 later came to believe that only three shots had been fired.