LIFE MAGAZINE DOUBTS THAT OSWALD WAS SOLE KILLER

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• Publication Date: November 21, 1966
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saying he might possibly h;n?e;ir, up from his lap in frame Know' interview over WABC-
been hit a frame or two e;u1`,e , ^'L9 as "if it were wounded. TV ,ycsteruay, Mr. Lane pro=
but, "I can begin to see myself Life said its photo interpreters posed that such a commission
slump in 234." and Governor Connally regarded get full Government support.;
The Warren commission par: the Texas Governor as looking with power of subpoena ands
put forward the theory of a:iinharnied in frame 230. power to punish witnesses for'
!single bullet wounding both Them contempt. He said it should;
(President Kennedy and Cover-; y by Bickel not have members associated
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,a problem of timing in its taken IT by Alexander 3!. Mr. Lane also reported he had
Life magazine contended in !belief that there had been only, Bickel. professor of law at Yale written to the late President's
an editorial yesterday that three shots.fired. Univir::4iLy, in the October issue brother, Senator Robert F. Ken-
there was "reasonable-and; The alleged assassination of Commentarv magazine. nedy, Democrat of New York,
weapon, a 6.5 mm. Mannlicher- Professor Bickel contended asking permission to examine
disturbing-doubt" that Lee
iCarcano carbine that Oswald that aui earlier first shot atlN-rays and photographs taken
Harvey Oswald had acted alone htid, ordered from a Chicago' Presi dent Kennedy at frames '
i I during the autopsy on the Pres-
in the assassination of Presi- ;sporting goods house by mail 185 or 186 was possible and iident.
dent Kennedy, and it called for the, preceding March, needed a could be the answer to the prob-
(a new official inquiry. '.minimum of 2.3 second:: 1-c- !ems. The New York lawyer as-11 .
tween shots,. according to tile: He suggested that the assas- serted Senator Kennedy had
commission's calculations. sin, finger on the trigger, was Inot yet responded, but said:
The commission held that tracking his victim through his I "I know Robert Kennedy sent)
President Kennedy "was not hit sight," and. "could well have a message to Professor [Hugh].
until at least frame 210 and thought" that the oak tree foli-
that he was probably hit by age had ben cleared. He added Trevor-Roper, who wrote the
frame 225." Mr. Zapruder's 8-ta query as to "how calmly and wh chuheosaidot my eboup, the
!mm. movie camera ran at 18.3 ? P P
frames a second, or a. little morn rationally" the assassin might' good work."
.tan one-twentieth of a second have been assessing his chances.); Professor Trevor-Roper ai
-.055 seconds-for each frame.' A shot at frame 186, Profes-' historian, reached last night inj
Timing on Camera. sor Bickel suggested, would give! Oxford, England, said, "No such
g message from Robert Kennedy)
Thus, the half-second interva' "ettame off for a the second same ashot,ssassinhitingto, has ever been received by, me."
between shots, which would) Governor Connally before frame Air. Lane could not be reached)
.allow President Kennedy to beio40 and then a third at frame for further comment, nor, could;
hit at frame 225 and Governorlg13," when President Kennedy Kennedy or spokesmen)
Connally at' frame 234 would' suffered a fatal head wound y' for Min.
require firing from more than "President Kennedy's reaction Another taped discussion of
one gun. Ito his first wound," Professor the Warren report took place
Even a ,hit on President Kt'n- ;Bickel wrote, "must on this hy- yesterday on the "open Mind"'
nedy at frame 210 would "All potilesi~. have been delayed a~program on WNBC-TV, after a?
have allowed only 1.3 sccr,"rda!second or so, just as on the one transcript had been released
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l until frame 234, still a v:?rn.r? bullet hypothesis, Governor
r The report of the commissions second less than the ,nin.ut',." Connally's reaction must be as-
!headed by Earl Warren, Chief time required to open an(! clo;c;surncd to have been a delayed
`Justice of the United States, the bolt of the Oswald ri;lc to one; but that is not ? at all
,held that "although it is not fire it. unusual."
necessary to any essential find- The Warren. Commission c1l-! He continued:
?ings of the commission to deter- "culations were based ion its 1 "When exactly the President
mine just which shot hit study of the Za.prud^r fil:?:r anci began to react cannot be deter-
,Governor Connally, there is a reconstruction of the ~rteful,mined, since Mr. Zapruder's.
very persuasive evidence from motorcade, which indicated t.i:at !view leas blocked somewhere
the experts to indicate that the a gunman sighting for :? shotlnear thin, point by a street sign,
'same bullet which pierced the earlier than frame 210 t,?omland for some frames before it
President's throat also caused the sixth floor of the 'r'c:':.,sbecomes plain that the Presi-
Governor Connally's wounds." School Book Depository hi dent is reacting, the Zapruder,
At the Governor's mansion have had his view of Presu;..~clfilm does not show him."
In Austin, Tex., he was re- Kennedy blocked by foliage) Rocomnionded Step
ported last night to be away from an oak tree.
hunting In south Texas, and ' The commission said such ,:,b Like Life, Professor Bickel
unavailable for comment. Life struction by the tree would)contended -that "through somei
magazine said he had. observed have started at frame 166, a.l- ;disinterested investigative agen-,
earlier this month, "unless though it added: icy. Our Government must either
there's some purpose to be "For a fleeting instant, tltc iti:habil tit;tie the one-bullet the-
served, I just don't want to fan President came back into vir':.?lory.. or ., tablish some other
view after a new examination
by Gov. John B. Connally Jr.
of Texas of the assassination
motion picture film in Life's
possession. As a result of this
examination the Governor dis-
agreed once again with the
Warren commission theory that
he and President Kennedy had
both been hit by a single bullet.
Governor Connally, the maga-
zine said, maintained after he
and his wife, Idanell, studied
the film, "there is my absolute
knowledge, and Nellie's too,
that one bullet caused the Presi-
dent's first wound, and that an
entirely separate shot struck
T
he magazine put forward its
Life magazine said that
Governor Connally, in studying
at his home in Floresville, Tex.,
the motion pictures taken by
Abraham Zapruder, of Dallas,
on the day of the assassination,
Nov. 22, 1963, had picked the
234th frame as the probable
point at which ?a bullet struck
him.
"This is at least nine frames
'and, one half second later than
'the commission says he was
Lhiti',the magazine , said..
ast
onday.
Hart Would Oppose Inquiry
WA,SHINTGON, ? Nov. 20
(UPI)-Senator Philip A. Hart,
Democrat of Michigan, said to-;
day that he was completely
satisfied with the Warren Com-
mission report on the assassina=
tion of President Kennedy three
years ago.
Senator Hart said in an inter-
view that he would oppose a
Congressional investigation of,
the, assassination.
"We should let this one rest-
now with the poets and the,
historians," he said, and added:!
"I think the caliber of the
men who composed that' com-`
mission Insures that the verdict,?
the general verdict is sound. Ii
have no reason to think that!
the Warren Commission report
186 as lie appeared in an open- '1'h~ L:rc editorial said:
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The commission's single-hullo
theory has come under attac i, Seri es c?i,:ar resolution of the
by a number of critics. But. i,ifc'cloubis. A new investigating,
noted that District Attorncy'?'ody should be, set up, perhaps
'Arlen Specter, of Philadelphia.;:,'L the ii;ir.i.Aivc of Congress."
who as assistant counsel in thcl A leading critic of the War-;
Warren Commission was a grin-'rep report, Mark Lane, author
cipal protagonist of the theory,',--f the best-selling book, "Rush had again upheld its validity. , i^ .Tudgnir'nt," called yesterday.
Mr. Specter was quoted ,+s or creaifon of a new investi-
!saying he believed the ;;;,u ,