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SC!ENTIST SAYS HIS ANALYS!S SHOWS KENNEDY SHOT FROM THE REAR
NARRAGANSETT, RHODE ISLAND, JAN THE
OF ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOEN ? KENNEDY REVEALS TEAT HE
WAS SHOT IN HEAD FROM THE REArt NOT FROM THE FRON! AS
TEEORIES CLA!E, A SA!D ON *
SATURDAYo
UNIVERSITY O? RHODE !SLAND CHEKlST KEKWETH RAEN SAID EE
3Y AND TEAT AT
THE INSTANT WAS A MAfiKEC EY TEE CL8UD OF
BLOOS THAT FACE PRESIDENT:S HEAD
2
! NC.EES (6 0 4 C::').
IT IS NOT UNTIL A 0: A SECOKD LATER, AFTER TEE
BULLET PASSED KENNEDY:S SKULL, THAT THE PRESIDENT BEGAN
TO LURCH EACKWARDS AND TO TEE RIGHT, HE SAIDo
THAT MOVEMENT HAS CONVINCED MANY PEOPLE THAT THE FATAL SHOT
MUST HAVE COME FROM A GRASSY KNOLL TO KENNEDY:S RIGHT.
BUT RAHN, wHO USUALLY STUDIES TEE PATH OF
PARTICLES IN ATMOS?EERE, SAID TEE LAWS OF PHYSICS MAKE IT
IMPOSS!BLE A BULLET TO MOVE A TARGET AFTER IT HAS F!NISHED
PASSING TEROUG:'o
KENNEDY:S LURCE BEGIN UNTIL ABOUT A lCTH OF ?
A
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CONSISTENT WITE TEE TIME IT TAKE FOR REFLEXES TO MAKE
EeDY JUMP BACK
RAHN BECA.E !NTR!GUED THE ASSASSINATION MOVIE AFTER ?
WATCRING OLIVER STCNE:S CONTROVERSIAL FILM

THERE:S NO DOUET THAT OLIVER STONE BELIEVES:: THAT THE
SHOT CAME FROM THE AND NOw NO DOUBT
BLEW BIG TIME,: SA.ID RAKN.
A SAID THE FILMMAKER WAS TIED UP WITH A NEW
PROJECT AND DECLINED TO COMMENTo
KENNEDY. WAS KILLED IH DALLAS OK HOVEMBER 22. 1563. WAS ALSO D
STRUCK IN THE TEROAT BEFORE BEING SHOT IN THE HEAD.
ZAHN:S THEORY IS CONSISTENT WITH THE WARREN COMMISSION:!
FIND!NGS, WHICH SAID THE SEOT TEAT HIT KENNEDY IN THE HEAD CAME D
FRCM ABOVE AND TO THE REARo THE COMMISSION CONCLUDED THAT
KENNEDY WAS KILLED BY A LONE GUNMAN, L&E OSWALDo D
MANY CONSPIRACY THEORIES ASSERT THAT KENNEDY WAS KILLED B! A D
SHOT FROM THE FRONT, BUT RAHN SAXD THE OF D
HEAD. SEEN ON FRAMES 312 AND :;1], 3, THE ZAPRUlJEl:! FILM 0 DESTROY S
MOST OF THESE THEORIESo
RAHN SAID IT IS STILL POSSIBLE THEl:!E HORE OWE
ASSASSINo BUT IF OTHER ASSASSINS PULLED THE HE SAID o

UNCLASSI?iE:n
THERE IS NO CONVINCING SVIDENCE SHOTS MADE ANY DIFFERENCEo
RAHH SAID ElS ANALYSIS REQUIRED L!TTLE MORE THAN A BASIC
BACKGROUND IN ?F.YSICS, A LhSERD!SK OF
WHICH PERMITTED TEE DETAILED, FRAHE-EY-FRAF.E ANALYSIS OF
ZhPRUDER FILM -- AND TRACING PAPER TO COMPARE THE MOTION OF
HEAD TO IMMOBILE OBJECTS !N THE SCENEo
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