Baku-APA. A new book “blows apart” the conclusions of a 1970s' Congressional committee that US President John F. Kennedy’s assassination 50 years ago was a conspiracy involving gunmen other than former Soviet defector Lee Harvey Oswald, the book’s author said Tuesday, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
Larry Sabato, a prominent US political analyst and author of “The Kennedy Half Century,” said he and a team of researchers “have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt for the first time” that the committee’s conclusion that four shots, not three, were fired when Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 “is absolutely wrong.”
Sabato led a team of researchers who for five years analyzed audio recordings from a Dictabelt recorder mounted on a Dallas police officer’s motorcycle on the day Kennedy was shot as his motorcade drove through the Texas city.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations reopened a probe into the assassination in 1976 and three years later said its investigators heard four gunshots fired at the motorcade on the police recording, an impossible feat for a single gunman in the eight seconds in which the shots were fired.