Shots ring out again in Dallas

Press, 22 August 1978, Page 8

Shots ring out again in Dallas

NZPA Dallas A four-block section of downtown Dallas was on Sunday blocked off by 50 police officers as three marksmen pumped 54 rounds into sandbags placed along Elm Street, where President Ken-

nedy’s motorcade was travelling when the fatal shots were fired in November 1963. Two officers fired rifles and a third used a .38-calibre pistol in the test. Microphones carefully positioned around the assassination site recorded the sounds. They will be analysed by the same accoustics ~ experts who investigated the 18r minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Company officials say

there are sounds on the police-radio tape that indicate four — possibly five — shots might have been fired in the area where President Kennedy was slain and the Texas Governor, John Connally, was wounded. The re-enactment was for the House of Representatives Assassinations Committee, which wants to compare different gunfire sounds with a tape of a police radio that picked up noises during the 1963 shooting. The test went off with only one minor hitch. During the second sequence of firings a bystander appeared and began walking up the hill toward the targets, but a policeman ushered the man out of danger.