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This CIA Historical Review Program release, dated 1966-07-28 and released under the JFK Act, reproduces a New York Review article by Richard H. Popkin reviewing Edward Jay Epstein's Inquest and Harold Weisberg's Whitewash. The article argues that Oswald could not have fired all the shots in the Kennedy assassination. It points to FBI reports, the Zapruder film and bullet No. 399. Popkin proposes a two-assassin conspiracy involving a 'second Oswald' and calls for release of the autopsy photographs and X-rays.
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occurs, and Oswald suddenly tears up pit realizes what has been going on. Hence, the shooting. Oswald then Oswald then disappears for half an hour, and mysteriously reappears across the street from the Texas Theatre. Because he didn't buy a ticket, he attracts attention and gets arrested. THE ONLY OTHER CRUCIAL event in this early post-assassination period was the finding of bullet No. 399. As I have already indicated, bullet No. 399 was essential in connecting Oswald's gun with the assassination. If it was never tired through a human body, then someone had to take it to Parkland Hospital and plant it. The descriptions of the chaos in the hospital indicate that almost anyone could have walked in and placed the bullet where it was found. One of the conspirators could have left bullet No. 399 on a bloody stretcher, trusting it was Kennedy's or Connally's. Bullet No. 399 would again lead to making Oswald a suspect. The various clues, the shells, the brown paper bag, Oswald's prints on the boxes, the rattle, bullet No. 399, Oswald's absence from the Book Depository, would all lead to a witness evidence against Oswald use less. (Somebody did go to the trouble of making sure that the rat knew about a second Oswald by calling on November 24th and telling them about the tag in the Irving Sports Shop.) Except for the Tippit episode, Oswald's subsequent arrest and Jack Ruby's shooting, it might have been a perfect plot. Nobody could place Oswald at the scene of the crime. (What is Brennan's poor testimony worth, especially if there was a second Oswald?) The paper bag would have been worthless as a clue, especially if two bags were introduced. Oswald may well have waited in the lunchroom until Baker and Truly turned up, and then thought he had a solid alibi. The planted evidence of a second Oswald's movements would have raised reasonable doubts, by showing that another reconstruction of the crime was and is possible. MY RECONSTRUCTION IS, of course, no more than a possibility, but unlike the Commission theory, it fits much of the known data, and requires fewer miracles or highly unlikely events. Since second Oswald was an excellent shot, my theory makes the skillful marksmanship plausible. By having two assassins, this theory fits the testimony of the majority of the observers that at least the first shot came from the knoll. The theory does not require the dismissal of all of the people who saw second Oswald as mistaken, no matter how much corroboration they have. The theory accounts for bullet No. 399 and its role, and it offers some explanation for the Tippit affair. ## THE EARLY SEANISH MAIN # THE EARLY SPANISH MAIN Carl Ortwin Sauer Columbus: ignorant, blundering, vain, tyrannical, tremendously avaricious, he set the disastrous and irreversible course of Spanish colonial policy. Specialists will be fighting over the volume for years to come, but no one has to be a specialist to be excited, instructed, and entertained by it." -Virginia Kirkus in a starred review. $7.05 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY LOS ANGELES NEW YORK
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 15 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.