Itiugya4 coylgionAm rfq A40/ wl t1444,14 h At ,74447- tivwtm wil4t A - PAGE B4 / WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988 * Zip Student's film explores front of the limousine on Dealey The theory is that a first bullet hit By Matt Neufeld Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Mr. Kennedy in the neck, passed THE WASHINGTON TIMES His film, "Reasonable Doubt: The through his throat, then struck Single-Bullet Theory and the Assas- Texas Gov. John Connally — who sat Chip Selby does not remember sination of John F Kennedy," how-. in the forward jump seat — in the where he was when John F Kennedy ever, is not being dismissed as just back, wrist and thigh. was shot 25 years ago. another speculative entry in the long The commission said that a sec- Of course, the 26-year-old Univer- line of conspiracy theorists. ond bullet missed. A third bullet sity of Maryland graduate student "It is by far the most effective struck Mr. Kennedy in the head, fa- was a mere babe then. But Mr. Selby, thing. that had been aired" during tally wounding him. who has produced an award-winning this anniversary period, said Harold Some conspiracy theorists main- 5I-minute documentary that ex- Weisberg, a leading assassination tain that possibly four shots were plores the much-debated "single- expert and publisher of six books on fired, and not in the order and bullet theory," says he does know the Kennedy assassination. "It is a placement stated by the commis- where nearly all the key players in solidly researched job." sion. Mr. Selby, a native of Baltimore the assassination were — including According to the single-bullet the- who now lives in Greenbelt, said the a second gunman. ory, which the Warren Commission commission's findings are bunk. He And he says that ballistic tests, based its conclusions on, three bul- claims he has facts to support his autopsies and exhaustive interviews lets were fired by Lee Harvey Os- view. prove there was a second gunman on wald from the sixth floor of the Mr. Selby said a well-known film a grassy knoll that was located in Thxas School Book Depository. shot by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas

Wasilingtott Eames ME TROPOLII4Is JFK 'single bullet theory' garment worker, shows that Mr. Ken- sented in the film that gave the work and Entertainment cable television nedy moved back and to the left the credibility that others lacked. network. It was reviewed favorably when struck in the head, indicating "It's factual," Mr. Weisberg, of in The (Baltimore) Sun. the Council on Interne- someone fired from in front of Ken- Frederick, said. "He takes some of In October nedy's limousine, from the grassy the basic facts as they were alleged t i o na Non-theatrical Events knoll; doctors operating on Mr. Ken- by the government and addresses awarded the film its Golden Eagle nedy said his throat wound was an them. He does not go for all this idle award for best in the history doc- entrance wound, but the commission theorizing, which is good because umentary category. said it was an exit wound; and that there's no basis in fact for any of it." He said he did the film "because not enough time lapsed for Oswald I had something to say. I had some- to have fired three shots. Mr. Selby, a communications arts thing to say about the single-bullet major, worked on the film for 31/2 theory, that the single-bullet theory "The evidence shows there had to years and spent 523,000 of borrowed was impossible, and the evidence be at least two people involved," Mr. money — $7,000 from his girlfriend showed there was a conspiracy to Selby said. And that's all we will Sandy Svoborda; $2,000 from his kill the president." know." brother Mike, who co-wrote and co- Although his efforts have been ex- All of these points, and others that filmed; and the rest from credit hausting and expensive, Mr. Selby, Mr. Selby raised, have been talked cards. like others, said he still does not have about for most of the past 25 years. The piece, which Mr. Selby did for all the answers. "I don't think we'll But Mr. Weisberg said it was the his master's degree, ran for the first ever know who they [the other gun- manner in which they were pre- time during the weekend on the Arts men] are."