From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: First Reports, DMN, 9-13-78
Date: 7 Jul 1997 08:01:39 GMT

First Reports, The Dallas Morning News, 9-13-78

All emphasis is my own.........Michael Parks

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POLICE TAPE SITE DISPUTED
By Earl Golz

   The Dallas police open microphone thought to have picked up the sounds 
of four shots when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 
"was nowhere near Dealey Plaza," says an acoustical expert whose Chicago 
firm made its own analysis of the tape recording.
   Anthony Pellicano said the sound of sirens heard on the tape after Kennedy 
was shot was "the most devastating" to the finding of the Cambridge, 
Mass. firm that presented its analysis of the tape Monday to the House 
Assassinations Committee.
   The firm of Bolt, Beranek & Newman said the tape revealed four shots may have been fired 
during the 6-second period in which the president was assassinated in Dealey Plaza.
   Pellicano was an expert witness in connection with the 18-minute gap in President Richard 
Nixon's White House tape recordings in the Watergate case.  HE CHALLENGED THE CAMBRIDGE FIRM'S 
ANALYSIS THAT THE GAP WAS INTENTIONAL.  His firm, Voice Analysis and Interpretation, also has 
acquired a national reputation for analysis of electronic evidence in plane crashes and wiretap 

cases.
   The background noises during the six seconds "just do not dictate that it (open microphone) 
was in the motorcade," Pellicano said.
   Spectators cheering the president along Houston and Elm streets in Dealey Plaza could not be 
heard during the six seconds, he said, but the noise of heavy traffic and police sirens - not 
present in the plaza at the time - could be heard.
   Using a computer, Pellicano said he determined how far away from the open microphone the 
motorcade sirens would have been at certain speeds.
   "At the rate they were traveling, you can hear that they start off softly when they come into 
range of the microphone, get louder and then start to get softer again as they go off in the 
distance," he said.
   "It is nowhere near Dealey Plaza.  And the most conclusive evidence was the sound of the 
sirens.  The sirens - if you clock them - came after the time the president was shot, just about 
a minute or two after....You can hear sirens coming down Stemmons Freeway somewhere (after the 
presidential limousine left Dealey Plaza and started towards Parkland Memorial Hospital).  So, 
whoever he was, he was somewhere along Stemmons or somewhere in that area in range of hearing 
those sirens go by."
   "There are a lot of noises in there (entire police radio tape available for Nov. 22, 1963) 
that sound like gunshots," Pellicano said.  "A lot of it is flaws in the original Dictabelt 
which caused the absence of noise which sounds like gunshots.
   "The impulses that the man (Dr. James Barger, chief scientist for the Cambridge firm) was 
talking about could have been a million and one things, not necessarily gunshots.
   "The correlation studies I used is a mathematical correlation; it's not a hearing 
correlation.  And we can find a lot of noises that sound and correlate like gunshots but are 
not."
   Pellicano said the police Dictabelt was worn and had many scratches on it which made "all 
kinds of sounds on the tape that sounded like gunshots" at points other than the six seconds 
when Kennedy was shot to death.
   "You can use your imagination," he said.
   The noises the Cambridge firm said were motorcycles also could have been a bus running 
alongside a police car with the car's window down and its microphone open, he said.
   ON THE OTHER HAND, THE OPEN MICROPHONE DIDN'T HAVE TO BE A POLICEMAN'S AND COULD HAVE BEEN 
HELD OPEN INTENTIONALLY, HE SAID.
   "In other words, let's say the assassin wanted to try to jam the communications, but he 
didn't really know too much about it," Pellicano said.  "But he thought if he could get a radio 
transmitter and get a crystal for the same frequency and held that button open and generate some 
noise over that thing he would be able to mask a lot of the communications.  It all depends on 
how close he was to the receiver."
   "I'M SURE THERE WAS A CONSPIRACY," said the electronics investigator.  "And I would love to 
say there were four or five shots but I can't say it was based on any of my findings.  I can' 
say there were any more than three shots."
   Pellicano said his firm used $300,000 in sophisticated equipment for three weeks of 
acoustical analysis of an excellent copy of the tape obtained from a Dallas resident.
  He said the House Assassinations Committee "knows of my findings and somebody is supposed to 
contact me."

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