"A BULLET RIGHT THROUGH THE HEAD"

"KENNEDY SHOT DEAD, GUNNED DOWN DURING DRIVE THROUGH DALLAS"

Dallas, Texas (JFK+50) On Friday, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy "was shot as he drove through" the city of Dallas "in an open car." Texas Governor John B. Connally, riding in the same car, "was seriously wounded." The President and Governor were taken to nearby Parkland Memorial Hospital where attempts to save the life of the 35th POTUS failed. 

The Christchurch Star reports the President died at "7 a.m. 11/23/63," New Zealand date/time*. Vice-President, Lyndon B. Johnson, also riding in the motorcade, was unharmed and became the 36th POTUS. The Christchurch Star, published November 23, 1963, reports "three bursts of gunfire, apparently from automatic weapons, were heard." The Star says that the murder weapon was reported to be a 30-30 rifle**. 

A White House medical officer***, the Star reports, said President Kennedy "was shot in the right temple****." He stated... "It was a simple matter of a bullet right through the head." The First Lady, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and the Governor's wife, Nellie Connally, held their wounded husbands as the car sped away. Both women escaped injury.

 In a separate front page article, the Star reports a man who worked in the building where the alleged murder weapon was found, Lee Harvey Oswald, had been arrested and, according to police, was the "prime suspect" in the assassination. 

It is further reported that Mr. Oswald once lived in Russia. According to the Christchurch City Council Libraries website, preoccupation with the Star's reporting of the JFK assassination "intensified with the release in 1991 of Oliver Stone's movie JFK which used, as part of its evidence, the front page of The Star of 23 November 1963." 

 The website cites the Star's Chief Reporter Bob Cotton as saying that theories of the newspaper's involvement in a conspiracy behind the assassination "are based on incorrect assumptions" about the Star's production in 1963. According to Cotton, information and photos used in the Star's November 23, 1963 editions came from overseas wire services "fast" & effectively. 

*JFK was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. (CST), 2 p.m. (EST). The Star's report of death at 7 a.m. NZ time is incorrectly based on EST. New Zealand is 17 hours ahead of EST, but 18 hours ahead of CST. The correct time should have been 8 a.m. NZ time. 

**While the majority of witnesses heard 3 shots, there were multiple witnesses who heard 4 or more shots. The weapon found on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository was also identified as a German Mauser. It was actually an Italian Manlicher-Carcano bolt action (non automatic) rifle.

 ***This was not reported to the press by a White House medical officer, but by Malcolm Kilduff, assistant press secretary. His information had been given to him by the President's personal physician George Burkley. Automatic rifles can be fired rapidly simply by pulling the trigger while a bolt-action is a manual fire weapon requiring, after firing a shot, pulling the bolt back & ejecting the empty shell then pushing it forward to ready a new round. 

****One of the closest eye witnesses, Bill Newman, who was standing with his family on the curb along Elm Street, reported JFK was shot in the temple. A shot, if fired from the Texas School Depository (behind JFK) could not have struck him in the temple. 

SOURCES 

"CST to NZST Converter," Savvy Time, www.savvytime.com/" "Kennedy Shot Dead," The Christchurch Star, November 23, 1963, www.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ "The Christchurch Star and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963," Christchurch City Libraries, www.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ 

JFK+50 NOTE 

The Warren Commission (1964) found no evidence of conspiracy "foreign or domestic" saying that JFK was killed by a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. A majority of Americans to this day disagree with that finding. Having read and studied most of the books written on the assassination over the years, I welcomed Oliver Stone's "alternative" viewpoint to the Warren Report.

 If you take a hard look at the evidence, there can be no reasonable conclusion but that JFK was hit by more than one shooter. The Warren Report, in my opinion, is filled with multiple inaccuracies and omissions. For example, they didn't call witnesses like Bill Newman to testify. Oliver Stone's "JFK" is a motion picture. It also has inaccuracies and omissions, but it is a movie not a government report. JFK was murdered 59 years ago today. I was 15 years old in November 1963, but remember it as though it was yesterday. It is one of the most tragic events of my lifetime. 

We know so much more about the assassination now than we did then, but while we have our suspicions, we do not know for certain who was involved in the conspiracy or why JFK was killed. Perhaps we never will.