HOOVER SAYS FACTS SHOW OSWALD ALONE WAS KENNEDY KILLER

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• Publication Date: November 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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?~GW swci1dAlone Pounds in the Jan. 13 F.I$J.
? ~ 1 aS moody illei "Medical examination of the s' n's conclusion that'.the same.
resident's body had revealed+b lief struck President Kennedy
liar the bullet which entered a d Governor Connally was cru-
Text of Hoover's,; statcincut
is printed on Page 25.
is hack had penetrated to a. c I to its explanation of the
istance of less than a finger- c imc. The commission has de-;
ength." n d that it is necessary.
I{dove: explained that The Zapruder film showed
hi; had ben f-ilov-ed by tat the two men were struck,
By FRED P. GRAHAM
Special to The New York Times
Edgar Hoover said today that
no evidence had been found to
indicate that Lee Harvey Os-
wald had had an accomplice in
the assassination of President
Kennedy.
{ All available evidence and
facts point to one conclusion-
IIII that Oswald acted ' alone In his
crime," the director of the Fed-
e.ral Bureau of Investigation
said in a statement.
"Not one shred of evidence
has been developed to link any
other person in a conspiracy
with Oswald to assassinate
President Kennedy," Mr. Hoo-
ver p id.
Explains Discrepancies
Commenting for the first
time on the controversy over
the adequacy of the Warren
Commission's report of the as-
!
sassination, Mr. Hoover said
the critics had ignored or mis-
interpreted the facts.
He also gave the first official
explanation of the'discrepancies
between the two F.B.I. reports
on the assassination and the
,Warren Report.. The F.B.I. re-
ports said the bullet that struck
Ir. Kennedy below the back of
plic neck had not passed through
the President's body, The War-
ren Report concluded that the
bullet had passed through Pres-
ident Kennedy and had wounded
the Texas Governor, John B.
Connally Jr.
Mr. Hoover said that state
,rtients in the first F.B.I. re-
port, dated Dec. 9, 1983, had
been based upon comments made
-b,? the patlioldigists during ill
autopsy at Bethesda Nava
Medical Center on,Nov. 22, th
day of the assassination. A
that time ' the doctors be
lieved that the bullet had no
gone through the body, but ' in
formation obtained the next
;morning disclosed that it had
Mr. Hoover said,
.. 13y -the time the F.B.I. sub
milted its supplemental' report
on Jan. 13, 1964, it knew the
commission had been given
copy. of the official 'autopsy re
port that said the bullet ha
-passed t.hrodgh the President':
`.body, Mr. Hoover said.
Therefore. he explained, the
F.B.I, dici not mention this i
the Jan.`13 report.
Critics of the Warren Itepor
have poi~tgc~q>~~L th
referencL~'gq,,bb~~ ~!{fin . ,
statement that Mr. Kennedy = a nest simultaneously. Since
shirt had an entrance bullet hole ?wald's bolt-action rifle could
in Hie back and an exit nolc t. fire two rounds in less than
in the front. lie said this hail 2 seconds, the commission con-:
heen intended to point up the uded that the same round had
act that the. doc.tnrs' findings l t both nren, and that Governor.
contained in the first report had -,nnally had had a delayed re-
r?gable been in error; '.tion to his wound.
:fir, 1-Ioover. . concluded that, Mr. Epstein and other critics
"While there is a difference in l ve. insisted that, if the first.
the information reported by the', illet had lodged in Mr. Ken-
F.B.I. and the information con-I i dy's back and had later fallen
ained in the autopsy report it. as the, doctors first'
oncerning the wounds, there is sumcd, than Mr. Kennedy and,
no conflict." overnor Connally must have;
Mr. Hoover's statement was' cen hit by two riflemen firing
directed to The Washington ' mrost simultaneously.
Evening Star, which had askedt'
hint to comment on the rash of.. French TV' Weighs Report
bunks and articles that have Sperlal to The New York Times
criticized the. Warren Poport. PARIS, Nov: 2 i- -The Govern-
The statement was later release intoned French televaion
to other news media,. oadcast tnnight'a grahic, 4u-
Criticism for Critics inute examination of the con-
In an accompanying letter to? oversy over ja Warren Report.
'Coo Star, Mr. Hoover said. ghat.,!The framework of the sllow
while the critics had every right;'provided by. interviews of
to state their?vicws, they "should!' French - speaking United
show more regard for the fac.tsi t l t,,es : lawyer upholding the
on record.' arren Commission's findin s nd it listed ' those "coon cte
d crtain
t who'
th
e even
"They have ignore
;rd a French journalist prose - ear or far with
{acts, ed crproled ethers, and the case of the critics I ave met deaths under "suspic
g
l
tion as
expresssed pure specula truth
" he sairl.
,
Mr. Hoover branded as "totally
false" allegations that the F.B.I.
had altered the film of the as-
sassination taken by an amateur
Abraham Zapru-
her
ra
to
h
p
g
p
o
,der.
"The F.B.I. never hail the
original Zaprudcr film in its
possession - it was purchased;
by a national magazine," he
he 1?.B.I. v
of the original uncut film ands roversy were injected verba ly
reproduced this for the com- lid then demonstrated.
mission, which since has turned ; Spot footage was introdu d
it over to national archives," hey; o provide the scale for viewe s.
added. 1 .ibr?ary. footage and still p c-
The disci'epandy between the i urea were shown to fix the;
'Warren Report's description of vent, its actors and their .im-.
dr; Kennedy's body wound and ! laments. 'Sketches and dia-
rams were used for additional
'the two F.B.I. reports has ?
fanned the controversy over the 'larity.
uence
ti
i
on seq
na
adequacy of the Warren Com- The assass
vaw used with slow-motion car-
ous" conditions.
Over-all, the show induced a
II
ompelling impression of dou t
at Oswald had acted alone.
The show faded out at the e d
n 'a studio mock-up of t c
cone of the assassination in
alias as an announcer spe i-
ted about whether the tr h
ould ever be known.
The scale model appeared e-
eatedly during. the. program s
vestigators set the scene a rd
F0IAb3b
-CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
New Inquiry Opposed
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25
(AP)-A Tillane University law~
rofessor, Leon D. Hubert Jr.,1
who served as a Warren . Corn-
nission investigator, said today:
that he believed a new inquiry;
into the assassination of Presi-:
dent Kennedy-would be a waste;
. ?
of time.
Mi.?..Hubert, a former District,
ttorney of Orleans Parish)
(County), worked with"tee cone-.
fission on conspiracy aspects
o Lie assassination.,
'mission's investigation. to give viewers the tins
In his book "Inquest," Edward cons lement a
ainst which were
.
s 'Jay Epstein pointed out that osed views and explanations
;the F.B.I. had rcpdated in its crdin to demonstrte, that
t that the bullet
-
Jan 13 repor
.t h fie
. swald could noaver had not passed through the
in
.
accuratel
t
h
s
y
s so
hree s
o
President's body without star- hort a time. Spot interview
ing that this view might be in rought in suggestions that fou
error and without mentioning hots may have been fired, two
the contrary view expressed in n close succession.
;.the official' autopsy. ' , The program was the lea`
hfr. Epstein said a person
aright ' find it "inconceivable subject 'of net
weekly ly news
zinc
.
that the F.B.I. would make a
," entitled
repeated error . of this mag'ni-? zinc," hlcd innuendo and
tude and import in Its final, Througgh - sug
'report to the President." Jack the program cast doub
on on Jack Ruby's role in the event
id
ence,
After analyzing the ev
'Ile concluded that "all the evi-
dence" indicated that the F.B.I.
and that the\
version waa,s true
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