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Panel to seek funding for JFK film analysis ncn A JEk 1Q7R C7 J By EARL GOLZ The House Assassinations Commit- tee decided Tuesday to seek funding for a computer analysis of the Charles L. Bronson film that may show two per- sons in the so-called assassin's window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository minutes before President John Ken- nedy was assassinated. The decision for a scientific exami- nation of the film coincides with new acoustical evidence of a possible con- spiracy and a possible committee daltas morning news request for a special prosecutor to con- tinue the investigation after the panel's term expires this month. The new acoustical evidence came from a Cambridge, Mass., firm. The firm told the committee last September four shots probably could be distin- guished from impulses on a Dallas police radio tape recording made dur- ing the shooting in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22,1963. The firm of Bolt, Beranek & New- man has presented the committee with deca01978 a more detailed analysis, which further strengthens the possibility of a fourth shot that would not have come from the direction of the book depository behind the president, The News has learned. Committee spokesmen said they could not comment about the closed hearings, which were Monday and Tuesday. The Cambridge firm's latest find- ings further challenge the Warren Commission's 1964 conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassi- nated Kennedy by firing three shots from a rifle on the sixth floor of the depository, striking the president twice. Dr. James Barger, chief scientist with the Cambridge group, told the committee his firm has refined its anal- ysis of the third of four shots suppos- edly heard on the police tape. The recording was made when a police motorcycle transmitter button was left open for five minutes in Dealey Plaza. The firm has measured the velocity and distance of the third shot's sound waves and determined that it came from a rifle — not a pistol as previously thought — and traveled at a distance equal from the wooden fence atop the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza to the pres- idential limousine, sources said. The timing would have had the slug striking the president's head at about the same time he was hit in the head from behind by another shot. Scientific expertise not existing in 1963 enabled the Cambridge firm to fol- low the bullet's path from the sound on a tape recording after the missile left the gun's muzzle. The Abraham Zapruder film, which showed the presi- dent's head being slammed back vio- lently on impact of a bullet or bullets, was used to precisely time when the third of four shots was fired and the spot the limousine was on Elm Street. The developments in the 2-year-old investigation occurred as committee See JFK FILM on Page 7A.
