harged Clay Shaw with conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. Yet, all the evidence promised by Garrison failed to materialize and Shaw was easily acquitted. Howard Roffman writes of Garrison: ". . .his unethical behavior and the mockery of justice (involving only Shaw) perpetrated under him was 'bad press'; it left the public and the media highly suspicious of Warren Report criticism" (Roff-man, 1975, p. 25). More recently, Mark Lane, another vigorous critic of the Warren Commission was involved in the Jonestown, Guyana massacre which would also tend to make the public and the media suspicious of Lane's Warren Commission criticism.
The conclusions of the Warren Commission concerning the
evidence of Oswald and his rifle are of importance in the nonconspiracy argument. The Commission cited the whole bullet found on the stretcher, the bullet fragments in the Presidential auto-mobile, the rifle in the Depository, and the three used cart-ridges, also found in the depository, "to the exclusion of all other weapons" (Roffman, 1975, p. 49).
In contrast to these counter arguments to the conspiracy
theory, there is considerable evidence that there was indeed a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. Let us examine some of this evidence in detail.
The Warren Commission report stated:
Lee Harvey Oswald, alone and unassisted, shot President
Kennedy to death and wounded Governor John B. Connally
by firing three bullets at them from the sixth floor
eastern-most window of the southern wall of the Texas
School Book Depository Building . . . with an Italian-made Mannlicher Carcano 6.5 mm rifle.
2. Three and only three shots were fired.
All of the shots were fired within a 5.6-second time
Span (Blumenthal and Yazijian, 1976, p. 3).
It is unfortunate for the Warren Commission, however, that Abraham Zapruder recorded the presidential motorcade at the time of the assassination on his home movie ca...