2nd Floor Gunman In Dal Tex

The texas school book depository building the grassy knoll and the second floor of the dal tex building.

2nd floor gunman in dal tex. Nicoletti and rosselli set up in the dal tex building possibly in a second floor utility room. The shot struck jfk in the back about 5 3 4 down from the collar line penetrated to a depth of about two inches and stopped. A fragment either of the bullet or the curbstone that it hit flew up and slightly wounded a spectator named james tague. The gunshot most likely came from a near horizontal position such as the second floor of the dal tex building rather than higher up 2 groden cites no evidence for these claims.

In november 1967 i shot photos at three spots in dallas dealey plaza where we suspected kill squads had fired upon jfk. The first shot not a single eyewitness reported any shots coming from the dal tex building. This was a rusted shell casing found on the roof of the dal tex building at the assassination site in 1977 with crimped edges suggesting either a handload or a sabot round. But back in new orleans i felt something eluded me.

The actual assassination shots. The dal tex building is a seven story office building located at 501 elm street in the west end historic district of downtown dallas texas the building is located on the northeast corner of elm and north houston streets across the street from the texas school book depository in dealey plaza the scene of the assassination of united states president john f. Kennedy on november 22 1963. Moreover as noted in the jfk 100.

The angle of the shot indicates it came from the dal tex building not the book depository according to witness james tague. The reconstruction was featured in the 1998 documentary the secret kgb jfk assassination files. The third of these three shots was fired from the second floor window of the dal tex building went through the limousine s windshield and then hit the curbstone down by the triple underpass and commerce street. This was a separate bullet listed as submitted for testing to the hsca but it does not appear in any of the evidence.

The walder bullet. A shooter at the north end of the fence on the grassy knoll gkf also had a 30 30 rifle with the special ammunition. An on site laser trajectory analysis in dealey plaza conducted by acknowledged experts in wound ballistics and crime scene investigation determined that one of the shots that struck kennedy traced back to a second floor window of the dal tex building.