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Report of the Committee on Ballistic Acoustics

National Research Council report of 1982 on the Dallas police recordings and the House committee’s acoustic analysis.

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The debate

What it found

Therefore, reliable acoustic data do not support a conclusion that there was a second gunman.1

Who disputes it

Echo correlation analysis and the acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination revisited 2001
Alleged asynchroneity of the sounds with the time of the assassination stemmed from several incorrect assumptions. Whatever their origin, the gunshotlike sounds occur exactly synchronous with the time of the shooting.2

What it disputes

Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations (Kennedy) 1982
Therefore, reliable acoustic data do not support a conclusion that there was a second gunman.1

Each side is quoted in its own words. Whether a finding holds is not decided here.

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Timeline 4 dates

Proof 2 sources

Report of the Committee on Ballistic Acoustics, National Academies Press, 1982. Scholarship & press
Therefore, reliable acoustic data do not support a conclusion that there was a second gunman.
This book reviews the methodology employed in the evaluations of the recorded acoustic data and of the conclusions about the existence of a shot from the grassy knoll.
Report of the Committee on Ballistic Acoustics studied these reports and the Dallas Police recordings on which they are based.
Echo correlation analysis and the acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination revisited, Science & Justice 41, 2001. Scholarship & press
Alleged asynchroneity of the sounds with the time of the assassination stemmed from several incorrect assumptions. Whatever their origin, the gunshotlike sounds occur exactly synchronous with the time of the shooting.

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