Subject: Connally Clips 4
Date:    19-Jun-93 at 10:20   
From:    M. Duke Lane, 76004,2356

To:  Anthony Marsh,72127,2301

From today's news wires. Wonder why the quotes.... Good guess: give it up.
 
 
UPn  06/18 1856  ``researchers''
 
   AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) -- A spokesman said Friday that the family of John
Connally was "hurt and offended" by Kennedy assassination  "researchers" who
wanted bullet fragments from the 1963 shooting removed from Connally's body.
   Public relations consultant Julian Read, a long-time Connally associate,
said the family will "resist vigorously any efforts to disturb the body of John
Connally."
   Connally, who died Tuesday after a month-long battle with pneumonia, was
buried Thursday in the state cemetery following a funeral attended by more than
800 people, including former President Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretary Lloyd
Bentsen and Lady Bird Johnson.
   On Wednesday, Dr. Cyril Wecht, working for the JFK Assassination Information
Center in Dallas, said fragments of the so-called magic bullet in Connally's
right wrist and left thigh could help determine whether the single-bullet
theory of Kennedy's assassination is scientifically possible.
   Connally was wounded in the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy in
Dallas as he rode in the limousine with the president. The Warren Commission
concluded that a single bullet struck Kennedy in the back, exited his throat,
then struck Connally, passing through his chest, arm, right wrist and left
thigh.
   Wecht, a critic of the commission's findings, sent written requests to
Attorney General Janet Reno, Gov. Ann Richards, the Dallas County district
attorney and the Harris County medical examiner asking that the bullet
fragments be removed for study.
   Read said Friday that the family believes that all the bullet fragments were
removed during surgery in 1963 and turned over to the FBI. "Therefore, there is
no need for other fragments, whether they do or do not exist," he said.
   Read added that Connally's wrist has been "readily available for any
additional legitimate rsearch request for almost 30 years. In all that time,
no such request has been made for any responsible authority."
   Read said that calling for a further investigation "in an our of sorrow
represents an appalling example of poor taste. The Connally family is hurt and
offended by the opportunistic efforts of so-called 'researchers' to capitalize
on Governor Connally's death for their own promotional purposes."
   However, FBI Special Agent in Charge Buck Revell said Thursday that, "I
think it would be very helpful to the American public and to the overall
resolution of the Kennedy assassination if we could undertake a procedure to
recover that evidence."
 
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Good point, eh? In 30 years, nobody'd ever approached Connally on the idea
nor apparently asked him his intentions nor suggested that he add a clause
to his will to have the fragments removed. We just waited and hoped and
finally asked at the last moment. Dumb.