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51. Gerald Blaine with Lisa McCubbin, The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (New York: Gallery Books, 2010), 21617.

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56. Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 67.

57. Affidavit of Seymour Weitzman, appendix VI in Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992), 409.

58. Telephone interview with Eugene Boone, September 14, 2012. Boone also added some comments worth considering on the possible presence of a second gunman; I have included them on my website, TheKennedyHalfCentury.com.

59. Bertrand Russell, "16 Questions on the Assassination," The Minority of One (6 September 1964), 68.

60. Telephone interview with Wesley Buell Frazier, April 16, 2013.

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65. Frazier's friendship with Oswald initially convinced police that he was involved in the assassination, and they tried to force him to sign a confession. "Captain Will Fritz, after quite a few hours of interrogation ... [came] through the door, and that was the first time I'd ever seen him, and he had this red-ribbon paper, 8.5" by 11", and he had a pen with him. He put this [confession] down in front of me and said, 'I want you to sign this.' And I looked at him and said, 'I'm not signing that. That's ridiculous.' Well, he drew back his hand to hit me and I put my left arm up for a block. And I told him, 'There's policemen on the other side of that door but we're gonna have a hell of a fight before they get in here.' He got real red-faced. He snatched the paper up in front of me and the pen and walked out the door. I don't think I was treated properly because I never had been in any type of [trouble before]." Frazier says that he had difficulty sleeping in the days that followed. "This was a very terrifying thing for me."

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67. Anthony Summers, The Kennedy Conspiracy (London: Sphere Books, 1989), 391.

68. Interview with James T. Tague, March 30, 1999, conducted by Bob Porter, Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. However, Vincent Bugliosi says that bullets "consist of 98 to 99 percent lead, the rest being trace elements" (Bugliosi, 813). Chris Kincheloe, owner of Nuckols Gun Works in Staunton, Virginia, told me that copper residue would probably not show up in a scar caused by a copper-encased lead bullet.

69. Cliff Spiegelman, one of the researchers involved in the study, credits a high school government teacher named Stuart Wexler with piquing his interest in the assassination's ballistic evidence. "Wexler and a friend of his had bought some bullets of the same type believed to have been used in the Kennedy assassination," Spiegelman explains. "They were Mannlicher-Carcanos, which were only manufactured in 1954 and are now antiques, mainly because most surviving bullets have been bought up by conspiracy buffs. He was looking for someone to analyze them. I thought it was interesting and that it would be a neat project, so I agreed." Spiegelman told me that Dr. Vincent Guinn, a chemistry professor at the University of California, "testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, that he knew what kind of ammunition was used ... We disagree that he would know that from the chemical composition ... He also said that he could count the bullets in the Kennedy party ... From the chemical analysis it's just impossible to count." Telephone interview with Cliff Spiegelman, July 27, 2011. Using a technique known as neutron activation analysis, Guinn told the HSCA that all of the bullet fragments recovered on 11/22 came from just two bullets and that those two bullets closely matched ammunition made by the Western Cartridge Company for Mannlicher-Carcano rifles. But Spiegelman told me, "If Dr. Guinn's wrong and bullets aren't chemically unique [which is what Spiegelman's team basically concluded], then those five fragments could be five different bullets." Telephone interview with Cliff Spiegelman, August 3, 2011. See also Gary L. Aguilar, "Is Vincent Bugliosi Right that Neutron Activation Analysis Proves Oswald's Guilt?", Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

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71. The wound at the base and rear of the president's neck also showed a bullet channel that had terminated at the throat, in the area obliterated by the tracheotomy.

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73. See G. Paul Chambers, Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination (New York: Prometheus Books, 2010). See also David R. Wrone, The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 1; Richard B. Trask, Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy (Danvers, MA: Yeoman Press, 1994), 124. Professor Wrone's argument is especially noteworthy. Wrone used advanced forensic techniques to examine the Zapruder film and concluded that more than one person fired on Kennedy. He doubts that Oswald was one of these gunmen.

74. See Barr McClellan, Blood, Money, and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011); Joseph P. Farrell, LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2011); L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011); and Roger Stone, The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013).