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...Judge Wenke to determine if the bullets recovered from Kennedy's neck and from the wounded bystanders, Ira Goldstein and William Weisel, were fired from the same gun. The "two gun" advocates had relied heavily upon the 1970 findings of Pasadena Criminologist William W. Harper; using a Balliscan, a specialized camera used to photograph a cylindrical object rotated in front of it, he decided that the recovered Kennedy bullet had only one cannelure-a groove imprinted by the manufacturer - while the others had two concentric grooves. If so, that would at least raise the possibility that two guns were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASSASSINATIONS: Some Answers and Questions | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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