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DALLAS (Reuters) - A film crew used laser beams Thursday to
retrace the path of the bullets that killed President John
Kennedy in 1963, in a re-enactment to test the official theory
that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin.
"We haven't come here with any agenda. We are just trying
to use modern technology to help establish the facts," said Dan
Goldman, producer of "The JFK Assassination Files"
documentary, being made by Associated Television International
and to be shown on the TNT cable channel in November.
His television crew fired laser beams with the same angle
and trajectory as the bullets Oswald allegedly fired from the
sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository as
Kennedy's limousine drove through Dallas' Dealey Plaza on Nov.
22, 1963.
But other laser beams were fired from key vantage points on
the so-called grassy knoll and two other buildings that
conspiracy theorists have claimed were where Kennedy's real
killers opened fire.
For added authenticity, the producers used an exact replica
of the dark blue Lincoln Continental that carried Kennedy
through Dallas.
The car contained two life-sized foam mannequins in the
seats occupied 35 years ago by Kennedy and then-Texas Gov. John
Connally, who was wounded in the shooting.
The documentary team hired ballistics and firearms experts
to examine data collected from the laser beam experiments to see
if the results validated the government investigation of the
assassination.
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when
he killed Kennedy, but the report has been widely criticized,
with many historians, including some who believe Oswald was the
lone killer, saying key questions remain unanswered.
Among those advising the documentary is Robert Groden, a
conspiracy theorist who has written several books on the
subject.
"We are doing this to determine the accuracy of the single-
bullet theory. As far as I'm concerned, the Warren Commission
was a total cover-up. I say there was more than one shooter and
Oswald was not one of them," Groden said Thursday.
But the documentary producers said Groden's involvement was
only part of their effort to include all points of view.
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