THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1963 )swaid DITOR'S NOTE: The fol- ng are excerpts from an ysis of the published evi- e against Lee Harvey Os- lthe accused slayer of ident John F. Kennedy. 'rof. Staughton Lynd of man College and Jack Man- of Atlanta compiled this ment, showing some of the nsistencies in the evidence far presented, from dis- hes appearing in major spapers and from interviews reporters covering the as- nation. Case: Holes " in the Evidence UNIVERSITY CHOIR &r ORCHESTRA ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT PROF. MAYNARD KLEIN conducting GABRIELI: "Anbgels Ad Pastores" (Prof. Lynd obtained his doc- torate in history at Columbia University. Mannis is a former graduate of Tulane University where he studied political science. (Prof. Lynd explains that he wished to raise some questions that the defense attorney might have if Oswald had ever been tried. He says that if the evi- dence has inconsistencies, they ought to be confronted. Prof. Lynd indicated that he had no alternative theory to explain what happened in case the Os- wald theory is, in fact, wrong. (This report has been sent to Chief Justice Earl Warren and the four Congressional mem- bers of his investigatory mission. It also has been given to the Justice Department.) On Dec. 3, newspapers reported that the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation would confirm in all essentials the version of the Pres- ident's assassination previously presented by the Dallas police and by Gordon Shanklin, FBI agent in charge in Dallas. According to these accounts the FBI will state that: 1) Lee Oswald without accomplices, fired three shots at President Kennedy from a sixth floor window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building; 2) About five and one half seconds elapsed between the first shot and the last; 3) All three shuts came from behind and slightly to the right of the President's car; 4) The same weapon fired all three shots. These reports astonished us. Like many citizens we have at- Spratt To Discuss Embryo Studies Prof. Nelson T. Spratt of the University of Minnesota will speak on "Principles of Development Il- lustrated by Studies of the..Early Chick Embryo" in Rm. 1400 Chemistry Bldg. the emergency room of the Park- land Memorial Hospital in Dallas immediately after the shooting, described the President's wounds thus: "Mr. Kennedy was hit by a bul- let in the throat, just below the Adam's apple ... This wound had the appearance of a bullet's en- try. Mr. Kennedy also had a mas- sive, gaping wound in the back and on the right side of the head." Dr. Perry was the first physi- cian to treat the President. Dr. Clark was summoned and arrived in a minute or two. Dilemma The early news accounts re- flected some confusion about the nature of the President's wounds. We saw nowhere in the newspa- pers nor heard in any of the radio or TV accounts any attempt to reconcile a wound in the front of the President's throat with the theory that the shots came from the Texas Schoolbook Depository, 75-100 yards to the rear of tre President at the time the first shot was fired Nor did we see or hear any sug- gestion that the original accounts of where the President's car was at the time of the shooting might be inaccurate. This could, perhaps, be attrib- uted to the fact that identifica- tion of the throat wound as one of entry was tentative, and that it would be reasonable to suppose a bullet entering the back of the President's head, fired from an angle of about 45 degrees above him, might exit at the Adam's ap- ple. The examining doctors, as they were quoted in the early press ac- counts, seemed to be unsure as to whether one bullet or two had in- flicted the head and throat wounds of the President. However, John Herbers, in a fol- low-up story in the Times of Nov. 27, cleared all this up. Herbers quotes Dr. Kemp Clark, the Dallas surgeon who pronounc- ed the President dead, as saying that two bullets hit the President. One entered through the throat just below the Adam's apple and ranged downward, without exiting. The other struck the right side of the back of the President's head tangentially. Reconciliations From this description of the President's wounds, it seems clear that one bullet must have been fired from in front of the Presi- dent. Herbers tries to reconcile the frontal wound with the supposed position of the assassin in the Schoolbook Depository Building by suggesting that the gunman could have fired as the President's car was approaching the building, then swung the gun through an arc of almost 180 degrees and fir- ed twice more. This reconcilation ignores the uncontroverted accounts of many eye-witnesses as to where the President's car was at the time the first shot was heard. Well-Established We think it well-established that the first shot was fired only after the President's car was more than 75 yards past the building. Indeed, Herbers' own interpretation of the 15-second movie sequence estab- lishes this almost beyond question. In order for the assassin to have wounded the President frontally from his supposed position in the building, he would have had to fire while the presidential car was entering the turn at Houston and Elm, or before the car had halfway completed the turn. See CONFLICTING, Page 3 'HONEGER: Une Cantate de Noel" *Ann Arbor Premiere Performances HILL AUDITORIUM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 . . . 8:30 P.M. ADMISSION FREE ENDS DIAL 8-6416 TONIGHT A.LLJS Shows at 7-9 P.M. margaret rutherford bernard cribbins ron moody david kossoff ' terry-thoms --- BACH: Excerpts from "Christmas Oratorio" ' BRUCKNER: "Mass in F Minor," Kyrie, Gloria I *ou'llroar at the further adventures of "The Mouse That Roared" eastmancolor .kat ... . RETURN ENGAGEMENT STARTING THURSDAY 1ST PRIZE WINNER "BEST RLM" 19639CANNES INTERNATIONAL fILM FESTIV. COLOR BYDI A CNEMASCOPE PICTURIL'A TITANUS PRODUCTION."RELEASEDSY b39UCENTURY-FMK -Daily-Kenneth Winter FATEFUL ROUTE-Above is a chart showing the route of the late President's motorcade. It pro- ceeded north on Houston St., then swung sharply to the left onto an approach to an underpass leading to a Dallas expressway. It is 220 yards between the turn at Elm and Houston Streets to the underpass; Prof. Lynd and Mannis estimate that the first shot was fired when Kennedy's limousine was heading southwest about 100 yards past the turn. tempted to follow the details of the tragic events of Nov. 22 as they have , been released to the public. We have made what seems to us a careful analysis of the evidence. We have shown this analysis to a number of research specialists, college professors and newsmen, including one reporter who cover- ed the story for a leading Ameri- can newspaper. Without exception, these read- ers felt that our analysis merited serious consideration, and that it called into question several as- pects of the FBI-Dallas police ac- count of the assassination. Four Questions. . We believe there are important contradictions between the receiv- ed version of the crime and the available evidence, which other citizens may want to consider. We think the American people have a right to know: 1) How Lee Oswald, from a posi- tion behind and slightly to the right of President Kennedy, fired a shot which entered the Presi- dent's neck just below the Adam's apple; 2) How Oswald, using a bolt- action rifle, fired three shots withI Ticket refunds for 13 O . By mail to: IN PERSON AT: Gilbert & Sullivan Soc. Lobby Box Office Student Activities Bldg. Student Activities Bldg. Ann Arbor 9 A.M.-5 P.M. self-addressed envelope Thursday, 12 ONLY ALL REQUESTS FOR REFUNDS MUST BE RECEIVED BY DEC. 13. Cancelled performances will NOT be rescheduled S -:- deadly accuracy in five and one( half seconds at a target 75-100t yards away moving about 25 milesi an hour;1 3) How the three shots could have produced four bullets; 4) How Lee Oswald did all the things he is supposed to have done in the 15 or 30 minutes (there are two different accounts) between, the time the President was assas- sinated and the time Oswald al- legedly ran into his apartment four miles away. Location of Car... At about 1230 p.m. Nov. 22,:the President's limousine made the turn at Elm and Houston Streets into the approach to the under- pass leading to Stemmons Free- way. The car was traveling about 25 miles an hour, or about 12 yards per second. The distance between the turn at Elm Street and the underpass is about 22 yards. Thus at the speed at which all witnesses agree the motorcade was traveling, the maximum time it could have con- sumed traversing this distance would have been 20 seconds. It is difficult to determine, with precision, the exact point in the traversal of the 220 yards at which the shooting occurred. However, some definite limits can be set from the available evidence. Estimates Experienced newsmen, reporting in the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Wash- ington Post, the Atlanta Constitu- tion and for both Associated Press and United Press International, estimate that the President's car was 75-100 yards past the turn at Elm and Houston when the first shot was fired. Others, persons on the spot at the time, say the President's car was midway between the turn and the underpass; Mrs. Connally says the car was almost ready to go underneath the underpass; Gov. Connally says the car had just made the turn at Elm and Hous- ton. John Herbers, writing in the New York Times of Nov. 27, com- ments on the 15-second movie se- quence of the assassination taken by an amateur photographer (from which the pictures in Life maga- zine were selected). Five-Second Interval He says five seconds elapsed from the first shot until the Presi- dent's car disappeared into the underpass. If the President's car continued at 25 miles an hour after the first shot then it trav- eled about 60 yards during this five seconds and, therefore, must have been about 160 yards from the turn at Elm and Houston when firing commenced. If, as most witnesses believe, it accelerated rapidly after the first shot, then it traversed consider- ably more than 60 yards during those five seconds. On the evidence of the movie, we would estimate the distance between the turn at Elm and Houston and the site of the first shot at something less than 160 yards, not appreciably out of line with the estimates of witnesses and newsmen, ad the anticipated conclusion of the FBI report. I Having established, with some certainty we think, the fact that the presidential car was approxi- mately 100 yards past the turn at Elm and Houston when the first shot was fired, we can move to a consideration of the wounds. Wound Contradiction. . Tom Wicker, in the New York Times of Nov. 23, wrote that Doc- tors Malcolm Perry and Kemp Clark, who attended Kennedy in DIAL 2-6264 y* STARTING TODAY * I BOLD! POWERFUL wu w~aaj'..r m r aw srw w -. .m. .m DIT~~ C1 THEME OF SHOCKING REALISM DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ":~.::"1~"' :"r':1" .: "M" fM4 " .r.. tr.' ~.1"t " Jf"11.'A:::Vlr:rM' . :'. :T,,Y :V":V r.:e. 6V "M1.V::.SV"T MEIRO-6OLBWYN-MAYER A PERIABER6SEATON PRODUCTION, RICHARD ClAMBIEIN gee The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editorial t responsibility. Notices should be written in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3564 Administration Building before 2 p.m. of the day preceding publication, and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 1 Day Calendar Short Course for Assessing Officers-- Rackham Bldg., 9 a.m. Dept. of Anatomy Seminar-Edith A. Maynard, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Anatomy, "Multiple Cholinesterases in the Crustacean Nervous System": 2501 E. Medical Bldg., 1:10 p.m. Dept. of Zoology Seminar-Nelson T. Spratt, Chairman, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Minn., "Principles of Develop- ment Illustrated by Studies of theEarly Chick Embryo": 1400 Chemistry Bldg., 4 p.m. Professional Theatre Program-Assoc. of Producing Artists in Gorky's "The Lower Depths": Trueblood Aud., 8:30 p.m. (Replacing cancellation of Nov. 22.) Faculty-Doctoral Student Seminar: In 229 W. Engrg. at 3:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Alan S. Galbraith, Dir. of Mathe- matical Division of the Army Research7 Office. Topic: "Program of Army Re- search Office." Recital by Piano Majors: Piano ma- jors in the School of Music, Dennis Sweigert, Christine Paraschos, and Bar- bara Nissman, will present a recital this afternoon, 4:15 p.m., in Lane Hall Aud. No admission. Botanical Seminar-Donald T. Kowal- ski, U-M, will speak on "Development' and Cytology of Didymocrea Sadasa- vanii and Preussia Typharum" at 4:15 p.m. in 1139 Natural Science Bldg. General Notices Attention December Grads: College of Lit., Science, and the Arts, School of Education, School of Music, School of Public Health, and School of Business Admin.: Students are advised not to request grades of I or X in Dec. When such grades are absolutely imperative, the work must be made up in time to allow your instructor to report the make-up grade not later than 8:30 a.m., Mon., Dec. 30, 1963. Grades received after that time may defer the student's graduation until a later date. Newcomer's Reception for faculty and staff, originally scheduled for Sun., Nov. 24, will be held Sun., Dec. 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the President's House, 815 S. University. A Valid Identification Card will be required for the spring registration, Jan. 13-15. Those students who have lost their cards may secure a replace- ment by making application at Win- dow A of the Office of Registration & Records prior to Jan. 3. Students who require a new card because of marriage, may have their cards changed at the Diploma Office, Room 555, prior to Jan. 3. Freshman Hopwood Contest: All man- uscripts must be in the Hopwood Room, 1006 Angell Hall, by 4 p.m. Wed., Dec. 11. The Student Automobile Regulations will be lifted on the last day of classes this semester, Thurs., Dec. 12. The reg- ulations will be resumed again the first day of classes of the second semester, 8 a.m., Jan. 16, 1964. Navy College Aptitude Test: Candi- dates taking the Navy College Aptitude Test on Dec. 14 are requested to report to Room 130 Business Admin. Bldg. at 8:15 Sat. morning. Placement ANNOUNCEMENTS: U.S. Coast Guard-If you graduate in Dec., you may apply for a commission as a Reserve Officer. The next Officer Candidate Sch. class starts Feb. 9, 1964. 17-wk. trng. prog. at Yorktown, Va. Cur- riculum covers courses in leadership, navigation, seamanship, communica- tions, ordnance & gunnery, damage control, etc. As an Officer Candidate you will be able to specify the kind of duty & location you desire upon grad- uation. Announcing 1964 Summer Session in Japan at Sophia Univ. in Tokyo. The following courses avail.: Contemporary Japan, Art Hist. of Japan, Comparative Religion, Modern Hist. of Far East, Comparative Govt., Japanese Language, Japanese Literature in Translation. For further information come to Bureau of Appointments, General Div., 3200 SAB. POSITION OPENINGS: U.S. Civil Service-1) Engrg. Aide-2 yrs, college with mapor study in draft- ing, math, tech., phys. sci., or engrg. 2) Soil Conservation Aide-2 yrs. col- lege in agriculture or civil engrg. 3) Soil Conservationist-BS Soil Conserva- tion or related agri. science (including forestry) or civil engrg. 3) Soil Scientist -BS in Soil Science or closely related field. Conn. Civil Service-Clerk III - BA degree or combination of college & office work totaling 4 yrs. Has responsi- ble charge of the clerical or record keeping functions of a State dept. of a large unit within a dept. Apply by Dec. 18 for the exam on Jan. 18. Scott Paper Co., Philadelphia, Pa.- Opening for Editorial Assistant-Oppor. for "entry" level position on the edi- torial staff in the Publications Dept. of an integrated Public Rels. Div. Re- sponsibilities include assisting in the organization & publication of a com- pany newspaper & a corporate maga- zine. 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