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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

I. Findings of the Select Committee on Assinations in the in the Assasination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Tex. November 22 1963

A. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F Kennedy The second and third shots he fired struck the President The third shot he fired killed the President

1. President Kennedy was struck by two rifle shots fired from behind him 2. The shots that struck President Kennedy from behind him were fired from the sixth floor window of the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository building

3. Lee Harvey Oswald owned the rifle that was used to fire the shots from the sixth floor window of the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository building

4. Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the assassination had access to and was present on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building

5. Lee Harvey Oswald's other actions tend to support the conclusion that he assassinated President Kennedy

B Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F Kennedy Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President, Scientific evidence negates some specific conspiracy allegations

The committee believes on the basis of the evidence available to it that President John F Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy

1. The committee believes on the basis of the evidence available to it that the Soviet Government was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy

2. The committee believes on the basis of the evidence avail able to it that the Cuban Government was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy

3. The committee believes on the basis of the evidence available to it that anti-Castro Cuban groups as groups were not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved

4. The committee believes on the basis of the evidence available to it that the national syndicate of organized crime as a group was not involved in the assassination of President Kennedy but that the available evidence does not preclude the possibility that individual members may have been involved.

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