New Study Claims Multiple Shooters Possible in Kennedy Assassination

A research team that includes a former FBI scientist believes there is evidence of multiple shooters in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, according to MSNBC.

The finding directly challenges the official government report that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the event.

According to the report, written by former FBI lab metallurgist William A. Tobin and Texas A & M University researchers Cliff Spiegelman and William D. James, the evidence used to rule out a second assassin was "fundamentally flawed." The report was published in the Annals of Applied Statistics.

Kennedy was assassinated while driving in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963. He was struck by two bullets and died 30 minutes later. Texas Governor John Connally was struck by one bullet and survived.

Police arrested Oswald 80 minutes later and charged him with the assassination. Two days later, he was shot and killed in a Dallas police station. His murder was witnessed on live television.

Oswald reportedly denied the allegations against him and, on Nov. 29, Lyndon B. Johnson organized the Warren Commission to determine if more than one gunman was involved. The commission later determined Oswald was the lone gunman. A later investigation in the 1970s by the House Select Committee on Assassinations also came to a similar conclusion. However, there are many who believe more than one gunman was involved and the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy.

The Select Committee on Assassinations based their finding, in part on research conducted by deceased chemist Vincent P. Guinn. Guinn conducted lead analysis on the bullet fragments and concluded they came from just two bullets; both of which were traced back to the batch of bullets Oswald owned.