Montana Kaimin, May 28, 1975 Associated Students of the University of Montana

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Editor's Note: This is the first of a two part series concerning the Kennedy Assassination and the movement for a new investigation. Part II will cover theories concerning the in nocence of Lee Harvey Oswald and background for current conspiracy theories. COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE By Curt Koehler and Chip Belief kaimin When John F. Kennedy died in Dallas over UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA • STUDENT NEWSPAPER 11 years ago, theworld changed. Camelot was shattered, and in its place came the turmoil of Wednesday, May 28,1975 Missoula, Mont. Vol. 77, No. 115 the 1960s and early 1970s: race riots, the nightmare of Vietnam, protests and counter- protests tearing the nation apart, still more as dition.” Joling said if it were possible to weigh sassinations, the Nixon presidency and the lead fragments found in Kennedy and Watergate. Connally and add them to the weight of the An increasing number of people, prodded unscathed bullet, the total weight would ex by a group of dedicated, sometimes fanatical ceed the normal weight of a single bullet. "conspiracy researchers,” have come to There are other reasons to label this lone believe that history had some help that day. bullet the Superbullet. Examination of They reject the Warren Commission’s finding Kennedy’s shirt and jacket, the initial autopsy that Lee Harvey Oswald, aloneand unassisted, sketches and testimony of witnesses present shot President Kennedy. at the autopsy have indicated the Superbullet Instead they have aruged that the Warren entered Kennedy’s back six inches below the Commission, during its ten month inves wound in the President's throat from which the tigation, succeeded only in offering a timid bullet allegedly exited. and flawed defense of suppositions formed in Since Oswald was firing from above the hours immediately following the shooting, Kennedy, this means the Superbullet must that Kennedy was indeed murdered as part of have turned in midair before striking the a well-planned conspiracy and that the President, passed through him on an upward murderers still remain at large today. path, and then made a second, downward turn . These claims are based, in part, upon before striking Connally. analysis of photographic evidence which in The final autopsy sketches, however, show dicates the President may have been fired the initial entrance wound above the exit upon by from two to four gunmen and reex wound, where it would have to be to uphold amination of medical evidence used by the the Superbullet theory. Warren Commission to support the single as- sassain theory which indicates the original “THEY ALTERED THE SKETCHES” autopsy results were ineptly prepared, forged, According to Dr. Cyril Wecht, past president or both. of the American Academy of Forensic Much of the controversy starts with a home Sciences and the American College of Legal movie of the assassination made by Abraham Medicine, the autopsy doctors changed their Zapruder, a Dallas dressmaker who captured sketches to suit this theory. the moments during which Kennedy died. “They (the autopsy doctors) simply altered By timing the film speed, investigators have the sketches that pinpointed the wounds," established that the shots fired at the Wecht said. “I’ve seen the first sketches made Presidential motorcade were fired during a 5.6 of the wounds and they showed a wound six second interval. Tests conducted by the com inches below the shoulder. I've also seen the mission on the rifle popularly believed fired by holes in Kennedy's shirt and jacket and Oswald determined it was impossible to load everything matches up. But in testimony and shoot the clumsy, single shot weapon before the Warren Commission the doctors more than three times during those 5.6 simply moved the hole up several inches." seconds. Wecht has since described the Kennedy The Zapruder film consequently becomes wounded during those critical 5.6 seconds. wrist, breaking at least one bone, and finally autopsy as “one of the most incomplete, crucial to any analysis of the shooting. For if it The Warren Commission aruged that the first came to rest in Connally’s left thigh. This superficial, incompetent, medical-legal autop could be shown that more than three shots bullet struck Kennedy and Connally, the bullet, commonly called the Superbullet, in sies that I have ever seen.” were fired that day in Dallas, it woujd follow second missed the motorcade completely, hit. flicted seven wounds, broke at least two Testimony of witnesses present during the instantly and irrefutably that someone other a curb and sent a concrete splinter flying into bones, and was found in near perfect con autopsy has indicated the Superbullet may than Oswald fired upon the President. And if Tague’s cheek, while the third, fatal bullet dition by a janitor on a stretcher in Parkland never, in fact, have exited from Kennedy’s someone other than Oswald fired, it also struck Kennedy in the head, literally blowing Hospital. back after inflicting the initial wound. Secret follows that there was a conspiracy to kill his brain apart. But the president of the American Academy Service agent Roy Kellerman has described Kennedy. The first bullet, said the commission, struck of Forensic Science finds this thesis extremely how one of the autopsy doctors probed the the President in the base of his neck, exited doubtful. Dr. Robert Joling told CPS, “It is to bullet entrance wound as Kellerman asked, FLIGHT OF THE SUPERBULLET from his throat, slammed into Connally’s back me inconceivable that the bullet in question President Kennedy, Texas Gov. John Con- shattering his fifth rib, emerged from the could have passed through Kennedy and Con nally and spectator James Tague all were Governor’s chest and passed through his right nally and then be found in such a pristine con • cont. on p. 5 AT SPORTS CONFERENCE Autopsy finds alcohol Resolutions ignored in blood of student most of the individual council’ meetings, he said. By KARL KNUCHEL Montana Kaimln Reporter However, he added, student body presidents or their of killed in car wreck ficial representatives finally were allowed to attend the meetings. The student body presidents were told that individual By LARRY ELKIN concentration of .113 per cent in the The Big Sky Conference meeting held last weekend in blood of a 200 pound man, while four Missoula, virtually ignored the resolutions proposed by council meetings were closed to everyone except people Special to the Montana Kaimln on the council, Nockleby said. bottles of beer or four ounces of the student body presidents of Big Sky schools, ASUM whiskey would produce a level of President John Nockleby said yesterday. After the general meeting that opened the conference It appears that alcohol played a Thursday, the athletic directors and faculty represen role in the auto accident that killed a .083 per cent. Jensen was described The three-day conference, held to decide policy as weighing “around 200 pounds." changes in the Big Sky Conference, was comprised of tatives held a joint meeting, Nockleby said. University of Montana student last councils representing student body presidents, athletic The students asked to remain, he said, but were told by week. faculty, athletic directors and university presidents. Big Sky Commissioner John Roning that the meetings Mark Jensen, freshman in Another report on the accident Nockleby said proposed changes were brought out of were closed in accordance with the Big Sky Conference journalism from Dagmar, died when was filed by the Highway Patrol. The the individual councils and then proposed to the constitution. a board, which sheared off a bridge, spokesman termed this report “con presidents’ council, which had the final vote. When the students told Roning there was no mention of penetrated below the dashboard of fidential.” The student body presidents' council introduced six closed sessions in the constitution, Roning agreed to ask his car, striking him in the chest. resolutions and the university presidents did not adopt the councils to let students attend the meetings, Noc The bridge runs above an Other sources close to the inves any of them. kleby said. irrigatibn ditch on Johnson Street, tigation believe the vehicle to have The proposals were: Attending the meetings would help student body between Fifth and Sixth streets West. been traveling "at least" 50 miles an • To put athletic scholarships on a need basis to be presidents make decisions, Nockleby said. He said the in Jensen’s car struck the bridge while hour at the time of the accident. The determined by the Financial Aids Office. formation from the meetings would have prepared the traveling north. auto continued moving 519 feet beyond the point of impact. There • To allow student representation on the boards that students for the final meeting where the university An autopsy report by county govern athletic facilities financed by student fees. The presidents made the final decisions. coroner John Malletta indicates that were no tire skid marks to indicate representation would be proportional to the fees.

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