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THE BATTALION
New Inconsistencies Found In Warren Report
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
Part II of a two-part article con
cerning new inconsistencies found
by Cyril Wecht of Duquesne Uni
versity in the Warren Commis
sion Report.
The easiest way out was to
match up the wound six inches
below the shoulders in his back
and the wound in his throat. “But
you couldn’t very well have a
bullet entering six inches below
the neck, then make a sudden U-
turn and exit out the throat,”
said Wecht. “So they simply al
tered the sketches that had pin
pointed the wounds. I’ve seen the
first sketches made of the wounds
they showed a wound six
inches below the shoulders. I’ve
also seen the holes in Kennedy’s
shirt and jacket and everything
matches up. But in their testi
mony for the Warren Commission
the doctors simply moved the hole
up several inches” to make every
thing plausible. “Nobody chal
lenged them. They said they
hadn’t drawn the first sketches to
scale but now they could remem
ber where the wound was. Every
other hole, scar, incision and
mark was drawn in exactly. Only
this hole was several inches off.”
Wecht said that in December,
1966, he was allowed to view the
Zapruder film of the assassina
tion, which he did over 100 times
in addition to examining blow
ups of each frame. He said that
using this film, the FBI was able
to gauge the length of time be
tween the first and last times the
President was struck, which
turned out to be six seconds. They
also test-fired Lee Harvey Os
wald’s rifle (a single-shot, bolt-
action Manlicher Carcano) and
found that the quickest it could
be loaded and fired—never mind
aimed—was 2.3 seconds. This
presented a bit of a problem in
that four bullets apparently were
fired, and the length of time be
tween them purportedly was six
seconds. Yet it would take nearly
seven seconds just to get off that
many shots.
The results indicated it was “an
impossibility that one person
could have done all the shooting.”
Wecht said it was this contradic
tion that led to the Commission’s
“single” or “magic” bullet theory
—which affirmed that one bullet
“entered John Kennedy’s back
and exited through his neck, went
into Governor Connally’s right
back (breaking a rib), exited
from his right chest into his right
wrist where it shattered a large
bone, then went into his right
thigh, only to be found later on
the stretcher at Parkland Hos
pital.”
“Whatever needed to be done
to correct their inconsistencies
was done,” Wecht charged, “be
cause no one else knew what was
going on and it w a s not until
years later that private investi
gators had a chance to see the
evidence.”
Warren Commission exhibit
number 399 is the bullet that was
found on the stretcher at Park
land Hospital. Wecht says his ex
amination of the Archive X-rays
shows particles of metal in Ken
nedy’s chest and also in Connal
ly’s chest—traces of the bullet
that passed through them. This
same bullet, according to the
Warren Commission, was also
supposed to have broken one of
Connally’s ribs and shattered a
bone in his wrist. The bullet is a
6.5 mm. shell with an original
weight of 161 grams. Two more
inconsistencies presented them
selves, said Wecht, because the
bullet found at Parkland has a
weight of 159 grams:
(1) According to the Commis
sion’s report, the bullet lost only
two grams of weight in passing
through both Kennedy and Con-
nally and leaving traces behind
in both;
(2) and after doing all this
damage to both men, the bullet
has “no deformities in its upper
two-thirds at all and the bottom
one-third shows only very mini
mal flattening with no loss of
substance.”
In addition, one small section
of the base of the bullet was re
moved by the FBI for examina
tion, which brings up the ques
tion of how the bullet could have
lost any substance in passing
through the two men and still
weigh 159 grams after the FBI
sample was removed.
Still another impossible conse
quence of the Commission’s find
ings was that the bullet was mov
ing from right to left as it passed
through Kennedy, then had to
turn abruptly in mid-air and go
into Connally’s right back (Con-
nally was seated directly in front
of Kennedy at the time). “Bul
lets only do that in comic books,”
said Wecht.
“There is not one forensic pa
thologist I have talked to who
believes the Warren Commission
findings,” Wecht said. “And
without the single-bullet theory,
the Warren Commission conclu
sion of a lone assassin is de
stroyed. The evidence clearly in
dicates that at least more than
one person was involved in the
shooting.”
Wecht claimed no special infor
mation about who the other as
sassin^) might be, but implicat
ed Dallas Patrolman J. D. Tippet
as part of the conspiracy. Ac
cording to Wecht, 45 minutes
after the assassination Tippet,
“who was in a place he had no
business being” (since all police
had been ordered to Dealey Pla
za), spotted Oswald walking
down a street, “decided that he
was the assassin,” and went after
him—only to be himself killed.
“J. D. Tippet was there to do
a job that because of his failure,
Jack Ruby had to complete two
days later,” Wecht said.
“By legal definition we’re deal
ing with a conspiracy,” he said.
And who is behind it all? Wecht
points to members of the CIA.
He said it is a well-known fact
in Washington that Oswald had
been on the payroll of the CIA
up to the time of the assassina
tion. “The CIA has pulled bloody,
cut-throat operations all around
the world,” he said, “yet no one
wants to believe that it could
happen here.”
Wecht’s conclusions, as limited
as they are, parallel former New
Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison’s conclusions. Garrison
(with whom Wecht has conferred
on the assassination investiga
tion) claims that a group of
rightwing CIA members along
with members of the Cuban exile
community and others plotted
and carried out the assassination,
believing that President Kennedy
was beginning a leftward drift
that threatened national security,
and was also considering an eas
ing of relations with Fidel Cas
tro.
Lee Harvey Oswald lived for
36 hours after the assassination.
All that time he was being inter
rogated by federal, state and lo
cal authorities. Yet, said Wecht,
we are told that not one note,
tape recoi'ding, or transcript was
made in all that 36 hours of in
terrogation.
Yet the Dallas police force was
reputed at the time to be one of
the most experienced in handling
homicide cases.
“Yet who listens to all this?
complained Cyril Wecht. His vis
it to the National Archives and
his important findings resulted in
a brief flurry of headlines around
the country and little else. No
one has come forth to challenge
anything he has said, even his
most damning indictments of the
Warren Commission findings.
Government policy seems to he
to ignore the critics and hope
they eventually go away.
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Corps To Visit Dallas For A&M-SMU Game
American Dream Pursued
By Blacks And Chicanos
The Corps of Cadets will make
its first Corps Trip of the year
this weekend when the 2,650
members travel to the SMU
game in Dallas.
Activities in Dallas will begin
Saturday at 9:30 a.m. with the
Corps of Cadets parade. Corps
units led by Col. Ronald Krna-
vek, his staff and the Aggie
Band will assemble on Market
md Austin Sts. and the parade
will move north on Main to Pearl
and Elm Sts. to the dismissal
area.
Air Force Maj. Gen. William
B. Campbell, commander of the
Army-Air Force Exchange Serv
ice headquartered in Dallas, will
take unit salutes at the review
ing stand on Main St. as the
Corps passes.
The Dallas A&M Club has
sponsored a party Saturday night
following the SMU-A&M football
clash in the Cotton Bowl. Tickets
are $10 per couple and can be
purchased at the Student Pro
grams Office and from class of
ficers. The ticket includes live
entertainment and set-ups.
The after game party will be
held in the Northpark Inn Ex
hibit Center in Dallas.
Cadet Corps headquarters for
the weekend will be at the Sands
Motel on North Buchner Blvd.
At one time a major operation
involving rail-transported cadets
numbering more than 5,000, the
Aggie Corps trip traces its be
ginnings to before the turn of
the century. Letters written by
a freshman cadet from Wills
Point in 1888-89 requested pa
rental permission to leave cam
pus for a group trip to Dallas
and the state fair. Former A&M
Board President L. F. Peterson
of Fort Worth acquired the let
ters for the TAMU Archives.
A Corps Trip is also scheduled
for the Texas game in Austin
Thanksgiving Day.
Young rural blacks and chi
canes still follow the “american
dream” of success even though
most of them have poor chances
of realizing it, according to Dr.
William P. Kuvlesky, a rural so
ciologist with the Prairie View
A&M Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
Current research clearly shows
that most rural youth have high
hopes of success and are willing
to use education to realize them,
Kuvlesky, also on the staff of the
Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Rural Sociology at
A&M, recently told a national
meeting of the Rural Education
Association and American Associ
ation of School Administrators in
Philadelphia.
“The aspirational frames of
reference of most rural youth,
including blacks and chicanos,
look like portraits of contempo
rary middleclass, urban life,” he
said. Most rural youth want to
move into or near a city and even
more expect to. Most want and
expect post-high education. Boys
who once wanted to be farmers
are turning to professional and
technical jobs and the girls want
to have small families and work
after marriage.
In trying to fulfill their hopes,
many young rural blacks and
chicanos turn away from their
local communities to take their
chances in the cities. Whether
they do or do not leave, few real
ize their high aspirations, Kuv
lesky said.
To combat the disadvantages
rural youth have, Kuvlesky advo
cates the development of a mas
sively funded, high priority na
tional policy aimed at serving
rural youth’s educational and em
ployment needs.
He also believes that educators
need to review the concept of for
mal education and be flexible and
broad in their view of educational
programs. Educators should not
be reluctant to use advanced tech
nology, “open schools” and non
school opportunities tkat have
educational potential.
One of the saddest lacks of cur
rent schools is the failure to pro
vide counseling and continuous
assistance to the student for fig
uring out his life ends and plan
ning for them, Kuvlesky said.
Evolving a “student-oriented,”
rather than educator or commun
ity oriented, framework for edu
cation and school operations is
necessary, he added.
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men each year before the A&M-SMU football game. Members of Squadron Four were
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