04-03-2012, 05:51 AM
First Reports, The Fort Worth =
Star-Telegram, 4/4/77 All emphasis is my own..............Michael Parks =
Start quote ASSASSINATION DAY BULLET PIECES REPORTED DALLAS (AP) - A =
Texas patrolman says he recalls seeing more than three bullet fragments =
taken from the wounds of former Texas Gov. John Connally the day =
President John Kennedy was assassinated, according to the Dallas Morning =
News. In a copyright story yesterday, the News said Patrolman Charles W. =
Harbison, who guarded Connally=E2s room at Parkland Hospital, as saying =
he recalls turning over to an FBI agent more than three fragments. =
Connally was wounded in the same shooting spree that killed President =
Kennedy here Nov. 22, 1963. The Warren Commission identified Lee Harvey =
Oswald as the assassin and asserted that he alone was responsible. The =
News said Harbison=E2s story is doubly significant when coupled with the =
recollection of Miss Audrey Bell, operating supervisor at Parkland at =
the time of the assassination. Harbison was interviewed by the News =
Saturday. However, yesterday morning he said he =E3can=E2t testify to =
the number of fragments,=E4 and is not about to be =E3pinned down=E4 as =
to the exact number. =E3I was standing there in the hall and someone, I =
don=E2t know who handed me the fragments,=E4 Harbison said yesterday. =
=E3I glanced at them, then turned and gave them to another man. And a =
second man told me to go down the hall where they were taking the =
governor.=E4 Harbison said he wasn=E2t sure who he gave the fragments =
to, but surmised it was a federal agent SINCE THEY WERE THE ONLY PERSONS =
OTHER THAN AUTHORIZED MEDICAL STAFF PERMITTED IN THAT PARTICULAR PART OF =
THE HOSPITAL. Miss Bell last week said she recalls that she was given =
FOUR OR FIVE OTHER BULLET FRAGMENTS taken from Connally. The News said =
the two separate groups of fragments now MAKE A TOTAL OF AT LEAST EIGHT =
FRAGMENTS PURPORTEDLY FOUND IN CONNALLY FROM WHAT THE WARREN COMMISSION =
DESCRIBED AS A =E3NEARLY WHOLE BULLET=E4 THAT ALLEGEDLY FELL ONTO =
CONNALLY=E2S STRETCHER WITH ONLY A FRACTION OF ITS WEIGHT MISSING. =
Investigators for the House Assassinations Committee say they believe =
the bullet, which supposedly struck Kennedy in the BACK and then passed =
through Connally=E2s body, WOULD HAVE WEIGHED TOO MUCH IF MORE THAN =
THREE FRAGMENTS WERE REMOVED, the News said. The newspaper said =
investigators have already interviewed Miss Bell and concluded her =
testimony, if proven true, COULD DISCREDIT =E3THE VERY CORNERSTONE OF =
THE ENTIRE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT.=E4 Miss Bell, however, in a =
television interview, said she did not weigh the bullet fragments and =
had no way of proving other than her recollection that there were more =
than three fragments given her in the operating room. She said she later =
turned them over to two men she believed to be FBI or Secret Service =
agents. NEITHER MISS BELL NOR HARBISON WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE WARREN =
COMMISSION. End quote Had Bell and Harbison told stories that backed the =
WC Report, I guarantee their testimonies would have been heard. Through =
selective evidence, I could prove Hoover was not a crook, LBJ was honest =
and Helms was honorable. Heck, I probably could even prove that Oswald =
killed Kennedy and Tippit. Well, maybe not. No one could believe that =
much crap. Michael Parks
Star-Telegram, 4/4/77 All emphasis is my own..............Michael Parks =
Start quote ASSASSINATION DAY BULLET PIECES REPORTED DALLAS (AP) - A =
Texas patrolman says he recalls seeing more than three bullet fragments =
taken from the wounds of former Texas Gov. John Connally the day =
President John Kennedy was assassinated, according to the Dallas Morning =
News. In a copyright story yesterday, the News said Patrolman Charles W. =
Harbison, who guarded Connally=E2s room at Parkland Hospital, as saying =
he recalls turning over to an FBI agent more than three fragments. =
Connally was wounded in the same shooting spree that killed President =
Kennedy here Nov. 22, 1963. The Warren Commission identified Lee Harvey =
Oswald as the assassin and asserted that he alone was responsible. The =
News said Harbison=E2s story is doubly significant when coupled with the =
recollection of Miss Audrey Bell, operating supervisor at Parkland at =
the time of the assassination. Harbison was interviewed by the News =
Saturday. However, yesterday morning he said he =E3can=E2t testify to =
the number of fragments,=E4 and is not about to be =E3pinned down=E4 as =
to the exact number. =E3I was standing there in the hall and someone, I =
don=E2t know who handed me the fragments,=E4 Harbison said yesterday. =
=E3I glanced at them, then turned and gave them to another man. And a =
second man told me to go down the hall where they were taking the =
governor.=E4 Harbison said he wasn=E2t sure who he gave the fragments =
to, but surmised it was a federal agent SINCE THEY WERE THE ONLY PERSONS =
OTHER THAN AUTHORIZED MEDICAL STAFF PERMITTED IN THAT PARTICULAR PART OF =
THE HOSPITAL. Miss Bell last week said she recalls that she was given =
FOUR OR FIVE OTHER BULLET FRAGMENTS taken from Connally. The News said =
the two separate groups of fragments now MAKE A TOTAL OF AT LEAST EIGHT =
FRAGMENTS PURPORTEDLY FOUND IN CONNALLY FROM WHAT THE WARREN COMMISSION =
DESCRIBED AS A =E3NEARLY WHOLE BULLET=E4 THAT ALLEGEDLY FELL ONTO =
CONNALLY=E2S STRETCHER WITH ONLY A FRACTION OF ITS WEIGHT MISSING. =
Investigators for the House Assassinations Committee say they believe =
the bullet, which supposedly struck Kennedy in the BACK and then passed =
through Connally=E2s body, WOULD HAVE WEIGHED TOO MUCH IF MORE THAN =
THREE FRAGMENTS WERE REMOVED, the News said. The newspaper said =
investigators have already interviewed Miss Bell and concluded her =
testimony, if proven true, COULD DISCREDIT =E3THE VERY CORNERSTONE OF =
THE ENTIRE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT.=E4 Miss Bell, however, in a =
television interview, said she did not weigh the bullet fragments and =
had no way of proving other than her recollection that there were more =
than three fragments given her in the operating room. She said she later =
turned them over to two men she believed to be FBI or Secret Service =
agents. NEITHER MISS BELL NOR HARBISON WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE WARREN =
COMMISSION. End quote Had Bell and Harbison told stories that backed the =
WC Report, I guarantee their testimonies would have been heard. Through =
selective evidence, I could prove Hoover was not a crook, LBJ was honest =
and Helms was honorable. Heck, I probably could even prove that Oswald =
killed Kennedy and Tippit. Well, maybe not. No one could believe that =
much crap. Michael Parks