Word: oswald
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After spending two years and $6 million on its investigation, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that John F. Kennedy "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." It said it did not know who might have conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald in the shooting, but it specifically excluded such familiar scapegoats as the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, the Soviet government, the Cuban government, all anti-Castro Cuban groups and the Mafia...
...fact: acoustics experts who examined a tape recording of sounds made in Dallas' Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, testified that they can detect four shots being fired and that one came from the grassy knoll lying ahead of the President's limousine. The committee insisted that Oswald's second and third shots hit Kennedy from behind, while the mysterious second gunman missed...
Last week, however, the committee received a disturbing new analysis suggesting that Oswald might have had an accomplice. A pair of acoustics experts testified in closed session that they had found a high probability that there was a fourth shot fired at Kennedy, and that it came from the grassy knoll in front of the presidential...
...looks like pretty strong evidence," said Richardson Preyer, Democrat of North Carolina and chairman of the subcommittee dealing with the Kennedy assassination. "It doesn't point to who might have been involved. I think it's pretty clear that Oswald just fired three times. So if there was a fourth shot, then somebody else had to be there shooting...
Trapnell did not give up. Last May a woman named Barbara Oswald tried to rescue him from the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill. She commandeered a St. Louis helicopter at gunpoint, but the pilot seized her gun and killed her. Oswald's daughter Robin, 17, was shattered. She dropped out of high school but continued corresponding with Trapnell, whom a friend said she regarded as "a father figure." Last week Robin Oswald boarded TWA Flight 541 in St. Louis, then announced that she was carrying three sticks of dynamite and took over the airliner. With 87 passengers aboard...