Sunday, December 31, 2006
From Associated Press July 2, 1997: "Gerald R. Ford took pen in hand and changed - ever so slightly - the Warren Commission's key sentence on the place where a bullet entered John F. Kennedy's body when he was killed in Dallas.
The effect of Ford's change was to strengthen the commission's conclusion that a single bullet passed through Kennedy and severely wounded Texas Gov. John Connally - a crucial element in its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.
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"'This is the most significant lie in the whole Warren Commission report," said Robert D. Morningstar, . . . "raising the wound two or three inches. Without that alteration, they could never have hoodwinked the public as to the true number of assassins."
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 Ford's changes tend to support the single-bullet theory by making a specific point that the bullet entered Kennedy's body ''at the back of his neck'' rather than in his uppermost back, as the commission staff originally wrote.
Ford's handwritten notes were contained in 40,000 pages of records kept by J. Lee Rankin, chief counsel of the Warren Commission.
They were made public Wednesday by the Assassination Record Review Board, an agency created by Congress to amass all relevant evidence in the case. The documents will be available to the public in the National Archives.
The staff of the commission had written: "A bullet had entered his back
at a point slightly above the shoulder and to the right of the spine."
Ford suggested changing that to read: "A bullet had entered the back of his neck at a point slightly to the right of the spine."
The final report said: "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."
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