ZAPRUDER ACTUALLY FILM OF DALLAS MOTORCADE, COMMITTEE PANEL MEMBERS, BARGER STANDING WITH MAPS, GRAPHS AND EQUIPMENT, COMMITTEE COUNSEL ASKING BARGER IF HE AGREED WITH FINDINGS OF TEST THAT THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A FOURTH SHOT. BARGER SAYS IT WAS A POSSIBLE CONCLUSION




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Background: IN WASHINGTON THE HOUSE ASSASSINATIONS SELECT COMMITTEE HEARD EVIDENCE YESTERDAY (MONDAY) FROM AN ACCOUSTICS EXPERT, HAMES BARGER, HE SAID IT WAS "A POSSIBLE CONCLUSION" THAT A FOURTH SHOT WAS FIRED AT JOHN KENNEDY AT DALLAS. HE HAD COMPARED A POLICE RECORDING OF THE 1963 SHOTS WHICH REVEALED FOUR SOUND IMPULSES WITH A TAPE RECORDING AND GRAPHS MADE AT A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE SHOOTING LAST MONTH. BARGER SAID THE COMPARISON TESTS WERE THE BASIS OF HIS BELIEF WHICH HE LATER QUALIFIED AS BEING A "FIFTY PER CENT POSSIBILITY."