The Assassination Chronicles Vol. 1. Issue 4 Winter '95
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Best Witness: JFK's Limousine
Anthony Marsh
The best witness to the JFK assassination was the Presidential limousine.
As other JFK researchers have pointed out, eyewitness testimony can be unreliable. Witnesses can be confused, lie, misremember events, or can be susceptible to suggestion. The damage to the limousine tells a story of its own, an accurate and truthful account of the events in Dealey Plaza.
One of the most important points of damage to the limousine was the dent of the chrome topping above the windshield. Was it caused by a direct hit of a bullet or a bullet fragment? Six Seconds in Dallas, (footnote 16 of chapter 5) cites a letter from Chief of the Secret Service James Rowley, who claimed that the dent was caused way in November 1, 1961, by routine maintenance. The Warren Report was ambiguous about the dent. It appears that the Warren Commission did not attempt to examine any photographs to determine if the chrome topping was undented before the assassination. They might have examined several photographs which could have resolved the issue. Many photographs and films were taken in Dealey Plaza before the shooting started. Several were taken at Love Field which showed the limousine in its pristine condition, such as the one by Tom Dillard (Figure 1).
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