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Five-Shot Possibility

United States · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1963Date range
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Chronological records

1963

Jefferson Davis TippitNovember 1963

Dallas · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

The firearms evidence led the Warren Commission to conclude that five shots may have been fired even though four bullets were recovered from Tippit's body.

Names involved

Jefferson Davis Tippit

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