Now, I can't tell that, and therefore I can only say that my opinion must be based on your assumption that there was not a deviation of the bullet through the President's body and no deviation of the bullet through the Governor's body, no deflection. On that basis then you can say that it is possible for both of them to have been hit with one bullet.
Representative Ford. Does that opinion rule out the possibility or cast doubt on the possibility of a third shot?
Mr. Frazier. It does not rule out the possibility of a third shot. No, sir; because I can only base my opinion on what I saw and my own experience, and that is that a bullet could have struck the President, if it had deflection in the President's body it could have, and he happened to be in a certain position in the car which would affect the angle, the bullet may have exited from the automobile.
Representative Ford. As I understood your assumptions there was no deviation and no deflection, and I thought I phrased my question based on your opinion under those facts, it might rule out a third shot.
Mr. Dulles. Do you mean rule out a third shot entirely or just rule out a third shot hitting in the car?
Representative Ford. Rule out a third shot in one instance or establish the possibility of a third shot that missed everything.
Mr. Frazier. As I understand your question I am now assuming these various factors to exist, that there was no deviation, no change in the path of the bullet.
Representative Ford. The bullet went through the President and through the Governor.
Mr. Frazier. Yes; then under that premise and the reconstruction showing the position of the car with reference to the path of the bullet, then it is entirely possible that these two individuals were hit with one bullet and that there was not another bullet that struck in the car other than the one that struck the President in the back of the head and exited from his head.
Representative Ford. Under these assumptions there is a possibility there was not a third shot or there was a third shot that missed everything.