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USC student adv reoDeninaf TFK i jL ?-3 v k> wKK.in "The Zapruder l.umecock Stall Writer Showed real COT Should the investigation into With What Kennedy's assassination be re- Warren RGport opened? c ;nc*3nrD Richard McColman, a broadcast ? inSTdilce/ journalism major, feels it should. report says 0? Unlike a majority of the public, 20- shot Kennedy year-old McColman does not . . . . . simply sit back and talk of the Denino,- yei/ II" investigation being re-opened. He film Kennedy's has been researching the jerks backwar assassination for two vears A native Columbian, McColman the left 3S if became interested in the bullet entered assassination in 1974 after seeing fi^P riaht front ' the Zapruder film. ^ "The Zapruder film showed real conflicts with what the Warren ?Richard McCc Report said," McColman com- USCStl mented. "For instance, the report ^ says Oswald shot Kennedy from behind, yet, in the film Kennedy's head jerks backward to the left as ignore most of the evid< if the bullet entered from the right had. front." Many aspects The Zapruder film is a 22-second assassination have com strip of home movie film showing through the research of p< Kennedy's assassination. It was satisfied with the Warre taken by the late Abraham which became known to Zapruder, a children's dress the "Fairy Tale" and manufacturer in Dallas. Bullet Theory." McColi many aspects show th< MeColman has discovered the Report to be unreliable, film to be one of several areas of conflict found within the Warren The rifle, which the co ? * 1 * v uiiuikisaiuu a i trpui l. ill till Ul- siiys WSWaiCl USCQ, WclS tempt to bring a greater awareness as "a cheap old weapi to the public McColman made TV firearms expert. The f appearances this summer in South was rusty, the telescopic Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia defective, and the comp; and Tennessee. Another Carolina manufactured the ammu student, Car' Strange, assisted in 1944 told the commi McColman in some appearances, reliability of such an would be questionable. "Its difficult to cover the was manufactured in Ita assassination in more than a Besides the evidence c general way within the samll the rifle's condition, T amount of time we were given. We said Oswald was knowi use a slide and tape presentation to poor shot by associates z discuss the evidence as it exists," passed his military shoo McColman said. Four witnesses workin The evidence as it exists for Texas School Book I McColman shows the Warren from which the shots ' Report to be untrue. McColman posedly fired, swore Osv said the 26 volumes of evidence and not have carried or did other documents concerning the the rifle into the buili aooaMiiwuun &iiuw me warren warren commission di Commission simply decided to tempt to show how or if ( I OFFER GOOD FOR 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 OR 6 PERSONS ^ ? DINNER SERVED MON. THRU SAT. 4 PM-8:30 PM i SUNDAY ?11 AM-8:30PM / j * LUNCH SERVED | 11-4 P.M. AAon.-Sat. y c?^o I $1.99 J VALID ANY DAY ^ I THRU MON, SEPT. 20, 1 976 (not valid for banquets) i I ! -J5T FOREST ACR I ^k: 2120 BELTLINE I | Phone 782-63i i ' iiiiiJiAJiikij.mjiumiiJiM.ii ocates 131 > inquiry mam film take the rifle to the sixth floor. i if I if tc Another aspect of the rifle, McColman said, is the rifle the Dallas , *C-v? "ft;?'' ThG police had was different from the _ ^ :?i ,.;n? .?i ?u~ ?:fi? w**" S m ^ ?l I # tint nit i ui uciu auu uic i ll it; lliu ^ tho ^ac* was different from the ' n e rifle the Commission had. This was ^. i'4& j* >wald proven through the superimposing ; ^ {' from ph?to&raphs of what was said to Vn .. be the same rifle. The test showed \;r\f 1 Trie differences up to two inches in head barren length. Y;X:*s _J A _ _ _ _ - i*'"- : ' ^ u TO McColman also sited the bullet "J*/Vjj the as Questionable evidence. "Sup- v ' . posedly one bullet hit Kennedy f from from behind, exited through the -/* t V ' front of his neck and continued to ' \ , * V' inflict Governor Connally's '//5 ,/v )lman wounds, a punctured lung, a smashed wrist and a thigh wound. * Udent 'I'he bullet after all of this was only ^ slightly damaged, almost in ' perfect condition." snce they As a result of his research into I (he 26 volumes of evidence, of the documents concerning the e to light assassination, Oswald's jP ersons not background and other in- HsBj n Report, vestigators' material, McColman j ! manv ;ik stronslv boliovos; tho invn^ficmtinn the "One needs to be re-opened. WBjf man said "My most immediate goal is Pp 2 Warren informing people about the * jjjjH evidence as it really exists. 1 have Jm another TV appearance scheduled mmission in Charleston for later this month." described The Assassination Information iPS -V?i" II -r ^ ?- ' uy a nureau 01 ^ainunage, Mass.,, has W iring pen offered McColman the use of their ^8 sight was name to help him get public apiny which pearances to speak about the nition last Kennedy assassination. ssion the "I am trying to organize a local J|jfl imunition chapter of the Citizens Commission The rifle of Inquiry. It is an organization ly in 1940. based in Washington whose puroncerning pose is informing the public about iflcColman the real evidence in Kennedy's i to be a assassination and lobbying in ind barely Congress for the investigation to be ting tests. re opened." *fl || ir* ig in the Far from what one would label JJ )epository an ordinary student, McColman is . , i were sup- presently trying to schedule lee- . , k 3a ? vald could tures at area colleges and backgamm ... . r Ti njimonk t v/v vw?i j uiiivcisuics, jusi one 01 me many Mik'pShp ling. The things he plans on doing when not " f d not at- working at USC's Campus Shop l_n? u )swald did this semester. SP (9 i *CH | j >f ! i mpioimeer i * I ! Stereo Cassette De< | [ | with j ! PIONEER DEALER of the YEAi I 1973 - 1975 ^Uf. I i WE LISTEN-WE SERVICE SLYUo | j LI i 5 i 1 fl&PlOMt Ii ?vfv?n you w?nl g I~? 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