WHO SHOT JFK?
“We have a palmprint . . . we have discovered a palmprint on the rifle.” –Curry, shortly after Hoover’s memo
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Bob Harris’s Who Shot JFK? is not what you usually think of as theater. If it were a scripted show–with fictional characters spouting fabricated dialogue and with such a bizarrely intricate plot–you probably wouldn’t find it believable. There are too many unknowns, you might say, too many deceptions, too many loose ends that aren’t tied up. Then there’s the improbable cast of characters. And besides, would a government agency really conspire (with the mob yet) to assassinate the president?
As most experts now do, he disputes the single-bullet theory that was central to the Warren Commission’s findings. To demonstrate the improbability of a single bullet killing Kennedy before hitting Governor John Connally in three places, he brings in a wire that shows the angles the bullet would have had to take. The wire has more slopes and inclines than a roller coaster. He uses many such examples, and the conclusions he draws seem plausible and frightening.
