
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, June 17, 1993                   TAG: 9306170270
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-13   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: HOUSTON                                LENGTH: Short

GET CONNALLY BULLETS, PATHOLOGIST PLEADS

The pathologist who autopsied the body of cult leader David Koresh wants fragments of the bullet that struck former Texas Gov. John B. Connally when President Kennedy was assassinated to be removed from Connally's body.

Dr. Cyril Wecht, working under the auspices of the Dallas-based JFK Assassination Information Center, has asked Connally's family and government authorities to allow removal of pieces of the so-called "magic bullet," which a federal commission ruled also struck Kennedy.

Wecht, a Pittsburgh pathologist, said he sent requests for the bullet's removal to Gov. Ann Richards, the Dallas County district attorney and the Harris County medical examiner. A similar request was hand-delivered to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in Washington.

"The examination of the metal fragments from the governor's right wrist and left thigh will tell us if the single-bullet theory is scientifically possible," Wecht said.

The Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination, ruled a single bullet struck Kennedy in the back, exited his throat, entered Connally's body and passed through his chest, arm, right wrist and left thigh.

The bullet was later found in near-perfect condition on Connally's stretcher at Dallas' Parkland Hospital. It has become the focus for many critics of the commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to kill Kennedy.

- Houston Chronicle

by CNB