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...challenges to that official conclusion have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling...
...William Harper, an independent ballistics expert, has been quoted as saying that the bullet taken from Kennedy's neck could not have been fired by the same gun that wounded a bystander. At the trial, Sirhan's gun, taken from him in the pantry, was never positively tied to either bullet...
...interview left the ballistics issue as the major unexplained item. The Post also located Harper and got him to qualify his earlier statement. A recognized forensic specialist, Harper prepared an affidavit for Sirhan's attorneys in 1970 noting discrepancies between markings on the bullet taken from Kennedy's neck and those on a bullet that struck a bystander. Last week, however, Harper admitted that the markings do not prove that the bullets came from separate weapons. Differences in the markings, Harper said, are too insignificant to be conclusive...
Green Ghost. In the Ukrainian city of Donetsk (pop. 900,000), youthful would-be deejays adopted such sprightly call signs as "Buzz Saw," "Green Ghost," "Graveyard Goon," "Bullet Hole," "Spark of Love" and "The Invisible Man." The police were not amused. In an effort to make a clean sweep of the cluttered airways, 1,000 amateur Donetsk broadcasters-called "organ grinders" by the police-were arrested and fined 50 rubles ($69) for "violating rules governing the use of radio frequencies." There have been similar efforts to clamp down on underground broadcasts in other major cities...
...children think that a gun must be an enormous thing because of what it did to their father," she said. "But a handgun is a small thing that shoots a small bullet that can do terrible damage...