Experts Try to Save JFK Assassination Tape

[Rose Siding]

DALLAS -- Archivists are trying to preserve and copy the only known sound recording of the gunshots that killed President John F. Kennedy -- a recording that has fueled conspiracy theories.

The recording, made by a police motorcycle radio, is now too fragile to be played and has never been authentically copied, officials said. Researchers at the National Archives in Washington hope optical scanning will help.

The recording became a focus of a 1979 report by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Committee members said it indicated four shots were fired at the Dallas motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, including one from a separate location from where Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots, suggesting more than one shooter. The committee concluded that Oswald probably did not act alone.

The recording was not used during the Warren Commission investigation.............

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-jfk-assassination-tape,0,5865461.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[PATRICK]

1. Wasn't someone in the UK

supposed to be working on that tape with state of the art techniques? Now, a couple years (tape rotting meantime) later THIS story?

Good old memory hole. Still collapsing to a void.

[D-Notice]

3. There was a programme on the BBC

a few years ago - as far as I could tell the guy doin the PC graphics ignored the fact that Kennedy's head moved back.

He said proved that only Oswald could've shot him & so there was no "2nd gunman on the grassy knoll"

[stickdog]

2. Great idea to store this critically important recording only on

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Tape.

[fob]

4. I'm sure they'' find this is made of the same material the microfilm

of bush*s records are made of. Too bad you can't copy them or they fall apart.