The Warren Commission also said that Oswald had fired 3 shots in 5 seconds; even experts were unable to accomplish this. Also, it has now become clear that in actual fact 6 shots had been fired; we know this as in 1978 the Dallas Police released an audio tape from that day in which 6 shots can clearly be heard. The HSCA believe that the shots occurred like this: the first was fired from Oswald, it missed the President, the second was fired from the man on the grassy knoll; this is the smoke that people saw coming from the grassy knoll it hit the president in the throat and exited via his back, the third came from behind the President and hit Governor Connelly in the back, the fourth came from the grassy knoll and struck the President in the head, this was the shot that killed him, the fifth came from behind and hit Connelly in the wrist and the sixth may have been either a shot that missed and hit the car dashboard or one that struck a ricocheted and hit a spectator.
It is also known that although Oswald served in the marines he was a very poor shot and so it is unlikely that he would have had the necessary skills to assassinate the President from the position he was alleged to have been in. Also, it is unlikely that so much damage could have been achieved with three shots.
Also, the wounds that these shots left on the President were tampered with before the official autopsy. A person’s brain is like plastercine, it will mould to the shape of something. This means that when the bullet entered his brain it would have left the angle and direction of where the shot had came from, this could have potentially shown that there was another gun man if the angle did not match up with the book depository. This is why the brains of the president had been removed from the body before the autopsy. Also, exit wounds were changed to make them look like entry wounds and vice versa. This was most likely done so that the injuries matched up to the theory that the shots came from behind the president; which reflected what the Warren Commission found. This way there would be no proof that there had been shots coming from the grassy knoll.
There are also a lot of other things that are very suspicious which contribute to the theory that there was a conspiracy. Thirty two witnesses have died violently, been murdered or committed suicide, three men were arrested in the car park behind the grassy knoll, and the files on this arrest were lost by the police, several bullets were taken by the FBI and were never seen again. Also, the CIA, FBI and Air Force have refused to release all their files on the assassination.
There are several people who would have benefited from JFK’s assassination; the two in particular are the mafia and the vice president Johnson. JFK was very anti-mafia and was cracking down on preventing their crimes going on; this was unlike any President that came before him; with JFK out of the way the mafia would have been able to continue what they were doing without opposition. The other person to benefit from the assassination; vice president Johnson; may have wanted JFK out of the way so he could have became President; he would also have the necessary connections to pull off the assassination; landing him in the President’s office without any questions.
In conclusion, the HSCA could have suggested that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy in 1963 because there is strong evidence that there were two gunmen which immediately contradicts the findings of the Warren Commission. Also, as the wounds of the President were tampered with it indicates that what the wounds were originally were not what had actually happened. Also the fact that key evidence was somehow lost and that Oswald lacked the means to assassinate the President all add up to the fact that it is unlikely that the findings of the Warren Commission were correct.
