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To: American Spirit who wrote (11294)	5/30/2005 7:14:29 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12762

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 New research shows Oswald alone killed JFK Experts say their work dispels more than 100 conspiracy theories tied to death. By Paul Davis / Providence Journal For years, Americans have viewed President John F. Kennedy's assassination through conspiracy-colored glasses. Writers, filmmakers and Web site authors have blamed his death on a sinister network of shady operators: Cuba's Castro, the Mafia, the CIA -- even Lyndon Johnson. But two experts say new research shows Kennedy was killed by two bullets fired by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Relying on chemical, ballistic and statistical analyses, they say their work dispels more than 100 conspiracy theories tied to Kennedy's death. "It's preposterous on the face of it to believe that a mousy little guy with a $12.95 rifle could bring down the leader of the free world," said Kenneth A. Rahn, a retired University of Rhode Island atmospheric chemist. "Yet, that's exactly what Lee Harvey Oswald did 41 years ago." Rahn, who lives in Narragansett, R.I., and ballistics expert Larry M. Sturdivan, who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., published their findings in two articles in last month's Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. Kennedy, 46, was fatally shot Nov. 22, 1963, as he rode in a motorcade through Dallas. A year after his death, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald was the sole assassin. But conspiracy theorists continue to advance alternative plots involving other shooters and planted evidence. Gallup polls show that roughly three out of four Americans believe the conspiracy theorists.

To: American Spirit who wrote (11294)	5/30/2005 7:23:34 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12762

Ya, so what happened to the file? Was it like the rest of the Clinton files? They just disappeared? Yeltsin Gives Clinton JFK File The Associated Press Sunday, June 20, 1999; 12:14 p.m. EDT COLOGNE, Germany -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin came to Sunday's meeting with President Clinton bearing one gift -- a report on declassified Russian information relating to the assassination of President John Kennedy. Sandy Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, termed the report a ``very interesting gift.'' But he refused to speculate on whether it contained any new information on the Kennedy assassination, saying it was in Russian and U.S. officials had not reviewed it. The documents will ``be reviewed carefully and all interesting elements will be made public,'' Berger told reporters traveling with Clinton to the economic summit in Cologne. Berger said the document was the result of Yeltsin's order several years ago for various Russian agencies to review all of their material related to Kennedy, covering military, civilian and private archives. In 1991, Russia's intelligence agency declassified its files on Lee Harvey Oswald, the man the Warren Commission report identified as the gunman who killed Kennedy as he was riding in a motorcade in Dallas in 1963. In 1992, the files were shipped to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, so that Belarusian officials could review them. Oswald lived in Minsk in the early 1960s. The Izvestia newspaper reported in 1992 that the reformist Russian intelligence chief Vadim Bakatin wanted to release the files but was blocked by veteran spies who feared disclosure of their names and tactics. © 1999 The Associated Press washingtonpost.com