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Some Southern Congressmen, one intrepid newsman (Erwin Knoll of Newhouse National News Service) reported, had said that the Administration was granting major concessions on desegregation guidelines in return for Southern support for its school aid bill. Was this kind of horse trading going...
...most trampled patch of greenery in America may well be the small knob above Elm Street in Dallas, close to the Texas School Book Depository. The grassy knoll owes its notoriety to conspiracy-peddling critics of the Warren Commission who contend that an unidentified sniper on the knoll fired on John F. Kennedy. Last week new evidence appeared to support the Warren Commission's conclusions that no bullets came from the knoll; that the two shots which killed Kennedy and wounded Governor John Connally were triggered by Lee Harvey Oswald from the book depository building...
Motion-picture film shot by Orville Nix, one of the three known amateur photographers who recorded the assassination, had made it appear to some eyes that a rifleman lay on a raised object atop the knoll. United Press International bought the film from Nix and persuaded Massachusetts' Itek Corporation, which specializes in sophisticated photographic equipment and photographic-analysis processes, to find out what Nix's camera really captured. Employing advanced methods that were not available to the Warren Commission, Itek concluded in a 55-page report that 1) no one could be discerned on the suspect area...
More provoking is the author's refusal to consider the possibility that an assassin may have been firing at Kennedy from the grassy knoll in the front of the Presidential limousine. Manchester never even confronts the possibility that the bullet which killed the President may have come from the front of the car. He does, however, speak all too graphically of parts of Kennedy's scalp flying backward...
They were the first to start arriving in Central Park, where everyone was to congregate by 11 a.m. for the parade to the United Nations building. By 9:30 there were already several hundred hippies gathered on one grassy knoll...