mera. After ten years of careful analysis of the Zapruder film, Robert Groden offers evid-ence that conflicts with the Warren Commission conclusions. Groden builds a careful case which indicates that there were as many as four assassins involved in the shooting of President Kennedy. In order to disprove the conspiracy theory, the Warren Commission was forced to rely on the story that the first shot fired struck both President Kennedy and Governor Connally.
The first shot struck the President in the base of his neck and exited from his throat. This same bullet then proceeded to hit Governor Connally in the back, shattering his fifth rib. It emerged from his chest, passed through his right wrist, shattering bones, and finally came to rest in
Connally's left thigh. The bullet (some call it superbullet) that inflicted these seven wounds and broke numerous bones was found in nearly perfect condition on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital (Blumenthal and Yazijian, 1976, p. 4).
At the same time, Groden's examination of the Zapruder film shows that President Kenn
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