Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis
Multiple Shooters Possible, Study Says
By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 17, 2007; Page A03
In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top
FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President
John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The "evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed," concludes a new article in the Annals of Applied Statistics written by former FBI lab metallurgist William A. Tobin and
Texas A&M University researchers Cliff Spiegelman and William D. James.
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