Kennedy killing: new evidence

Press, 22 December 1978, Page 5

Kennedy killing: new evidence

NZPA-Reuter Washington A United States Congressio n a 1 committee investigating President John Kennedy’s assassination has heard new evidence from experts “95 per cent certain” that four shots —- not three — were fired at Mr Kennedy.

A Republican representative, Harold Sawyer, a member of the House of Representatives Assassinations Committee, said yesterday that the new evidence was presented to the committee at a closed meeting on Monday by two acoustics experts hired by the committee.

Mr Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, and previous reports were that three shots were fired.

The experts now think it may have been four shots, and that one of them came from a grassy knoll in front of the Presidential limousine rather than from the building behind the car where the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was- said to have lain in ambush.

The grassy knoll has long been thought by many people to have been the lurking place for a second assassin.

The Warren Commission, which investigated the shooting, found that Oswald acted alone in killing Mr Kennedy.

The new evidence is based on a tape recording made by the Dallas Police Department from a police motor-cycle radio which was open at the time of the shooting. Until recently, the quality of the tape was too poor to determine anything.