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Evidence backs
Warren report
WASHINGTON (AP) - Relying
heavily on science, House investigators
are answering some of the nagging
questions about President John
Kennedy's assassination. The answers
so far point to a lone assassin.
With a major portion of the scientific
evidence in hand, the House
assassination committee seems headed
toward an endorsement of the major
finding of the Warren Commission:
there was no conspiracy.
REP. LOUIS STOKES (D-Ohio), the
committee's chairman, insists that
members will reach no final judgment
until all the evidence is in. But the bulk
of the testimony in last week's hearings
supported the Warren Commission's
major findings.
Some witnesses pointed out, however,
that the commission probe 14 years ago
was less than thorough, and some
committee members showed with their
questions that they cannot yet accept
certain aspects of the official findings.
A Stetson hat, for instance, bothers
Rep. Harold Sawyer (R-Mich.). Time
and again, he has asked how John
Connally, then governor of Texas, could
have held onto that hat after his wrist
was supposedly shattered by a bullet as
he rode with Kennedy. Scientists say
Connally could have, but they can't
prove to a mathematical certainty that
he actually did.
LIKE HIS committee colleagues,
Sawyer is trained in law and politics,
not physics, chemistry and anatomy.
All have displayed the wrinkled brows
of confusion as they tried to absorb the
complex scientific evidence presented
during the opening week of hearings.
At sea with such subjects as neutron
activation analyses and drag force
formulas,- committee members fall
back on "common sense" to interpret
the meaning beneath the murky
language.
And that, suggested Rep. Richardson
Preyer, (D-N.C.), is a pitfall to be
avoided.
AS SCIENTISTS testified that a
single bullet could have passed through
Kennedy's neck and then struck
Connally, Preyer remarked that
''common sense tells us that no bullet
can do anything like that. Yet common
sense tells us the world is flat, and we
know the world is round. This evidence
impresses upon us the limits of
common sense."
Throughout the years since Kennedy
was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22,
1963, the "common sense" of laymen
has failed to settle the very real
questions surrounding the
commission's conclusion that Lee
Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.
With Oswald murdered and with
several other key figures in the case
now dead, the committee is relying
heavily on new tests in four scientific
areas.
PATHOLOGY AND ballistics
findings were presented last week.
Acoustics and photoanalytic results will
be offered tomorrow and Tuesday.
The key aspects of the studies
described last week focus on "the
single-bullet theory" - that one bullet
passed through Kennedy's neck, then
wounded Connally in the back, chest,
wrist and thigh.
The Warren Commission adopted this
theory, though saying it could not prove
it conclusively. The commission
identified the missile that caused those
wounds as a nearly intact bullet found
on Connally's stretcher at the hospital
where he was treated.
SARCASTICALLY dubbing this the
"magic bullet," skeptics say a single
missile could not be so nearly whole
after causing all these wounds.
The scientists' answer: The bullet
was fully jacketed in copper, hard and
designed to stay whole upon striking
flesh. The bullet struck nothing but soft
flesh in Kennedy's neck. The entrance
wound in Connally's back shows the
bullet that struck him was undamaged.
Bullets are damaged when they strike
bone and Connally's rib was broken but
that doesn't mean the bullet went
through the rib; it could have only
grazed it. The bullet exited Connally's
chest and went on to hit his wrist.
There, it clearly shattered a bone and
left fragments, causing the only
damage to the bullet. Then it lodged in
the flesh of his thigh.
That, at least, is the scientists'
explanation. They buttress it with
-sophisticated new tests matching the
bullet found on the stretcher with the
fragment taken from Connally's wrist;
with a review of the Kennedy and
Connally X-rays, enhanced through
computer techniques not available 15
years ago, and with ballistics studies by
independent analysts with no previous
exposure to the Kennedy case.
The single-bullet theory is an
important facet of the conflusion that
there was only one gunman.
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Ballistics expert Monty Lutz displays the Mannlicher-Carcao rifle found in
the Texas Schoolbook Depository after the assassination of President Kennedy.
Lutz testified Friday before the House assassinations Committee.
Nixon may travel
to Europe this fall
WASHINGTON (AP) - If the
absence of welcome mats in some
countries doesn't dissuade him,
Richard Nixon this week will announce
an around-the-world trip to begin at the
end of the month.
Although it would be a private
undertaking, such a trip would return
Nixon dramatically to the diplomatic
stage he left when he resigned as
President four years ago.
CHINA, THE land of his greatest
foreign policy achievement, and
Western Europe are not on the
' proposed itinerary. But South Asia,
Eastern Europe and Africa are.
Some of Nixon's closest advisers are
counseling him to stay home because
. Australia is not the only country that
views a visit by the former President as
less than a boon - although the
Australian government is the only one
so far to make noise about it.
Nixon's decision will be made early
this week and probably announced
while he is in New York to sign a
contract for a book on foreign policy
and balance of power relationships that
he has said will "look to the future,
rather than the past."
ALTHOUGH he would visit countries
that are important and strategic, a
friend said, they are "not ones in which
he might be considered meddling in
foreign policy which is being carried
out by the President."
Thus, while he would go to Oman on
the Arabian peninsula, Nixon would
bypass neighboring Saudi Arabia.
Egypt and Israel also would not be on
the tour.
The countries under consideration as
stopping-off points include Iran,
Romania, the Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand and some in Africa.
NIXON, 65, became a world traveler
and steeped himself in foreign affairs
while he was vice president. In the
1960s, during the eight years he was out
of office, Nixon made trips out of the
country annually.
Now, as then, he plans courtesy calls
on chiefs of state. His aides in San
} Clemente went through long-standing
invitations, then contacted various
governments to feel out current
attitudes.
Many national leaders sent word
they'd be pleased to see him, but there
were some cool receptions.
The most publicized rejection was
that of the Australian government,
which said a Nixon call on Prime
Minister Malcolm Frazer would be
inopportune, because of other official
visits the next two months.
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