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BY STEPHEN N. AilG ASSOC' ATD PRESS WRITER

WAS UNCTON# NOV 23 LAP) DI DIRECTOR J s EDGAR HOOVER RAPPED

OUT' CS CF THE WARREVCOMM/ SS ION REPORT ON *THE ASSASSINATION OF

PEES ID ENT JO MI F KENNEDY TODAY, SATING THEY "IGNORED CERTAIN

FACTS # MIS INTERPRETED OTHERS AND EXPRESS ED PURE SPECULATION AS 1710TH

IN -A STATE/1MT, HOOVER SAID ALSO*

"...NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE HAS DIEN DEVELOPED TO LINK MY

MEV PERSON N A CONSPIRACY WITH (LEE HARVEY) OS WALD TO ASSASSV.

WU PRI:318MT KENNEDY.* •

THERE IS A -SIFF MINCE IN THE INFORMATIONON REPORTED DT

THE SIDI AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE AUTOPSY REPORT

CONCERNING THE WOE '# THERE IS NO CONF LI CT 0.

..a.THE' FE NEVER ALTERED THE F ILI! * THE ASSASSINATION TAKEN BY

ABRAHAM ZAPRUDER # A BYSTANDER

HOOVER MADE THE COMMENTS IN WOW* A LETTER FR ON A REPORTER

FOR A LOCAL NEWSPAPER # THE EVENING STAR# AND MADE AVAILAILK TO

OTHER NEWS MEDIA. HOVER DEVOTED MOST OF THE ST ATEMIXT TO EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES

BETWEEN FBI REPORTS OF THE KENNEDY AUTOPSY AND THE OFFICIAL

REPORT, "THE I DI REPORTS RECORD ORAL STATEMENTS MADE BY AUTOPS Y

PHYSICIANS WHILE THE EXAMINATION WAS BEING CONDUCTED AND BD ORE ALL

THE FACTS WERE KNOWN, THE AUTOPSY *EMT AIMS• I. FINDINGS OF THE IMAIIMATION if • HOOVER SAID*

. MONZA RECALLED THAT 111124-THE AUTOPSY WAS 010tetto At 1131011A IINAL NOS PITAL NEAR WASHINGTON ON THE EVENING OF NOV • 22 I 'GP.*

THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SHOT s• •• "TWO FM AGENTS WERE PRES INT:r

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"THEY REPORTED THAT DR s JANES j s NUNES, CHIEF AUTOPSY SURGEON, LOCATED WHAT APPEARED TO DE A BULLET HOLE 'IN THE BACK BELOW THE snow= An PRIM IT TO TEE END OF THE OPENING WITH A PRIM, THE CANNING PITS' CI ANS ME UNABLE TO EXPLAIN WHY TREY COULD'

FIND NO BULLET OR POINT CF EXIT.'

BUT BOOM SAID TWAT, eimmors THE AGENTS, THE PHYSICIANS EVENTUALLY Mt 40104 To met THE PATM'OF THE BULLET MOWN Tit BODY. •

ON THripuenio mom aft R3 Wig. HUMES CONTACTED DOCTORS wso mama Tilt PRESIDENT-AT'PARMLAND MOSPITAL ZN DALLAS, TEX., TaPIEVIOUS DAY MND "CONFIRMED MIS ASSUNPTION IMO TRACXV.. OTONY HAD BEEN PERFORMED USING A BULLET SOLE IN THE newt OF TIE NECK AS THE POINT Of INCISION.'

A TRACHEOTOMY IS AN OPERATION IN WHICH mews CUT INTO THE • VINDPIPS..,THR PRINCIPAL TUBE TNROUCH SNICK AIR PASSES TO AND FROM THE WW1

m000n-SAID THE tsreamialom REPORTED BY THE AGENTS' mew HUNG THE AUTOPSY WAS SUMMARIZED II AN ill WORT DATED DEC. $, 1,4576

aailitte Itetil it tilt Pits its SHOT WAS EXAMINED IM THE FBI LABORATORY. HOOVER SAID IRIS EXAMINATION !REVEALED A SMALL MOLE IN THE SACK OF NIS COAT AND

SHIRT AND A SLIT CNARACTERISTICOF AN EXIT MOLE FOR A PROJECTILE IN TIE FRONT OF THE SKIM? ONE INCH BELOW TIME COLLAR BUTTON. A NICK ON TEE LEFT SIDE Of THE TIE INC, POSSIBLY CAUSED BY THE SAID PROJECTILE WHIG PASSED THROUGH TEE SHIRT, ALSO WAS NOTED*.

OWX --1100VER ADDED "THESE FINDINGS CLEARLY INDICATED THE EXAMINING PHYSICIANS' EARLY OBSERVATION TEAT Tit ROLM PENETRATED ONLY A SHORT DISTANCE INTO TIE PRESIDENT'S DACE PROBABLY WAS IN ERR IR ."

MOWER SAID THAT SINCE THIS OBSERVATION MAD BEEN mum IN TIE DEC. D FE REPORT, ANOTHER REFERENCE WAS MADE TO IT IN A REPORT OF sem. ts, 1,054,-611 commellOP WITH THE 4000140111T Moms TO PUNTUPIBIS-PROBABILITY.f • t

TRE.SECRET SERVICE GAVE TO TIE FBI AND THE lAUD temmisslem EACH ON. DEC. 23, 1,43, A COPT OF ?NE mum AUTOPSY REPORT Ma DOTN MAD RINVESTED.--NOOVER SAID THAT SINCE THE Fin KNEW TIE COM-MISSION HAD A.COPY-OF TIE OFFICIAL AUTOPSY, ITS CONTENTS WERE NOT

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IASHINCTON.....1ST ADD NIGHT LEAD HOOVERASSASSINATION (AMU)

I I I AN FBI REPORT.

CONCERNING THE ZAPRUDER FILM or THE ASSASSINATIONS HOOVER SAID

THE FBI NEVER HAD THE ORIGINAL IN ITS POSSESSION...-IT WAS PURCHASED

BY A NATIONAL MAGAZINE. THI FBI OBTAINED A COPY'OF THE ORIGINAL

UNCUT FILM ,AND REPRODUCED IT FOR THE COMMISSION.

THE FILM7-ALONG PITH THE AUTOPSY PHOTOGRAPHS AND HUNDREDS or . ,

OTHER WARREN - COMMISSION EXHIDITS-RECENTLT VAS TURNED OVER TO THE

NATIONAL ARCHIVES. UNDER ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE KENNEDY FAMILY'

THE AUTOPSY PHOTOS MAY NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYBODY BUT OFFICIAL"

GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATIVE BODIES Fla 41FETIMES OF KENNEDY'S

IMMEDIATE FAMILY.

SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY Is alituntp ttroms THE

ARCHIVES NAY RELEASE THE AUTOPSY PICTURES.

DR, JAMES D. RHOADS, DEPUTY ARCHIVIST' SAID SEVERAL RE-

autsTs HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM PERSONS WISHING TO SEE THE - AUTOPSY

PHOTOS. WHILE HE REFUSED TO DISCLOSE THE NAMES OF THOSE ASKING

TO SEE THE PICTURES, RHOADS SAID THEY INCLUDED AUTHORS OF

SEVERAL RECENT BOOKS CRITICAL OF THE WARREN COMMISSION FINDINGS.

RHODES SAID NONE, HOWEVER, HAS RECEIVED t54404$1 01 WWI THEM. PHOTOS.

CONCERNING OSWALD, ROO SAID ?RE rtt livielerth A POD, INTENSIVE, OBJECTIVE AND THROUGH INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSASSINATES,'

THE RESULTS, HE SAID *WERE ACCURATELY REPORTED TO THE WARREN "-

COMMISSION.

*NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO LINK ANY OTHER

PERSON IN A CONSPIRACY WITH OSWALD TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT KENNEDY.

ALL AVAILABLE EVIDENCE AND FACTS POINT TO ONE CONCLUSIONTHAT

OSWALD ACTED ALONE IN HIS CRIME,' HOOVER SAID.

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