Subject: Warren Commission Gropes Toward SBT - 2
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 04:47:27 GMT
From: 6489mcadamsj@vms.csd.mu.edu (John McAdams)
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                                                April 22, 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM:   Melvin A. Eisenberg

SUBJECT:

                Conference of April 21, 1964, to determine which
frames in the Zapruder movies show the impact of the first and second
bullets.

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        On Tuesday April 21, 1964, a conference was held to determine
which frames in the Zapruder film portray the instants at which the
first and second bullets struck.

        Present were: Dr. F.W. Light, Jr., Deputy Chief of the
Biophysics Division and Chief of the Wound Assessment Branch of the
Biophysics Division at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland; Dr Oliver, Chief of
the Wound Ballistics Branch of the Biophysics Division at Edgewood
Arsenal, Maryland; Dr Joseph Dolce, Consultant to the Biophysics
Division at Edgewood Arsenal; Dr. Charles F. Gregory and Dr. Robert
Shaw of Parkland Hospital, Dallas, Texas; Messrs. Geuthier,
Shaneyfelt, and one other unidentified agent of the FBI; and Messrs.
Redlich, Spector, Belin and Eisenberg.  Later in the proceedings,
Governor and Mrs. Connally, Mr. Rankin and Mr. McCloy joined the
conference.

        A screening was held of the Zapruder film and of slides
prepared by LIFE from the films.  Each slide corresponded with a
separate frame of film, beginning with frame 171.
The consensus of the meeting was as follows:

        (a) The President had been definitely hit by frame 224-225
when he emerges from behind a sign with his hands clutching at his
throat.

        (b) After the Governor Connally straightened up at frames
224-225 he starts to turn to the right.  As a result of this turn, at
no time after frame 236 was Governor Connally in a position such that
a bullet fired from the probable site of the assassin would have
caused the wound in the chest cavity which Governor Connally sustained
-- that is, after frame 236 the Governor presented a side view to the
assassin rather than a back view.(1)

(1) Mr. Specter disagrees.

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        (c) In many frames up to 250, the Governor's wrist is held in
a position which exposed him to the type of wrist wounds he actually
received.

        (d) After viewing the films and slides, the Governor was of
the opinion that he had been hit by frame 231.

        (e) The Governor stated that after being hit, he looked to his
right, looked to his left and then turned to his right.  He felt the
President might have been hit by frame 190.  He heard only two shots
and felt sure that the shots he heard were the first and third shots.
He is positive that he was hit after he heard the first shot, i.e., by
the second shot, and by that shot only.

        In a discussion after the conference Drs. Light and Dolce
expressed themselves as being very strongly of the opinion that
Connally had been his by two different bullets, principally on the
ground that the bullet recovered from Connally's stretcher could not
have broken his radius without having suffered more distortion.  Dr.
Oliver withheld a conclusion until he has had the opportunity to make
tests on animal tissue and bone with the actual riffle.

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