From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: First Reports, DMN, 12-13-63
Date: 7 Jul 1997 08:13:18 GMT

First Reports, The Dallas Morning News, 12-13-63

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

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QUESTIONS RAISED ON MURDER BULLETS

   Did a bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle chip the curb of Main Street near the Triple 
Underpass?
   That question remained unanswered Thursday.
   And it raised other questions:
   -If one of the three shots from Oswald's mail-order rifle struck the curb, is it possible 
that another bullet ranged through President Kennedy's body and then hit Gov. John Connally?
  -If the chip did not result from a bullet, how did it get there?

   Buddy Walthers, an investigator for Sheriff Bill Decker, found the chipped curb less than an 
hour after a sniper shot President Kennedy and the governor as their car moved slowly over Elm 
Street towards the Triple Underpass.
   "A man came up to me and asked if I was hunting for bullets fired at President Kennedy," 
Walthers related.  "He said he had stopped his car on Main Street and was standing beside it, 
watching the motorcade, when the shooting started.
   "He said something hit him on the cheek hard enough to sting.  I checked the area where the 
man said he had been standing and found the chip in the curb.  It was on the south side of the 
street."
   Main runs parallel to Elm on the south.
   Walthers and Investigator Allen Sweatt searched the area for about 20 minutes without finding 
a bullet.  They concluded that, if a bullet had struck the curb, the slug had ricocheted or 
disintegrated.
   The motorist could have been hit by a sliver from the bullet or a particle of concrete from 
the curb, they concluded.
   The chip appeared to be freshly made.
   It is in line with a path a bullet would have taken if fired from the sixth floor of the 
Texas School Book Depository building towards the Kennedy motorcade.  THE TRAJECTORY, HOWEVER, 
WOULD HAVE CARRIED IT ABOVE THE HEADS OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND THE GOVERNOR.
   Walthers and Sweatt were within a block of the slaying site when the sniper opened fire.  
They AGREE WITH OTHER WITNESSES THAT THE ASSASSIN FIRED ONLY THREE SHOTS.
   Gov. Connally SAID THE FIRST SHOT STRUCK PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND THE SECOND ENTERED HIS BODY.
   THEN, THE GOVERNOR RELATED, ANOTHER BULLET STRUCK PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
   THAT WOULD NOT, HOWEVER, ACCOUNT FOR THE CHIPPED SPOT.
   Various theories have been advanced.
   Was Gov. Connally mistaken about what happened during the 10-second period in which the 
sniper shot him and the President?  Did the rifleman fire two bullets into the car, with one 
striking both President Kennedy and Gov. Connally, and then hurriedly fired a third which passed 
over their auto?
   Or did the chipped spot have no connection with the shooting?  Couldn't the motorist have 
been struck by a speck of gravel thrown up by a car?  Couldn't the chip have been caused by 
other gravel?
   FBI and Secret Service agents may have the answers.  But, they haven't revealed what they 
learned during their intensive investigation of the murder of President Kennedy.

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The goose egg cracks open and out slivers the magic bullet theory.          MP