Richard E. Sprague

Richard E. Sprague was an American computer technician, researcher and author. According to American journalist Dick Russell, who dedicated seventeen years to the investigation of John Kennedy assassination, Sprague was "the leading gatherer of photographic evidence about the Kennedy assassination". Sprague published his investigation in 1985 as The Taking of America.

Life

Sprague graduated from Purdue University in 1942 and after World War II was employed as an engineer at Northrup Aircraft. Sprague began investigating the Kennedys' assassination on his own in 1966 upon Zapruder film.

Sprague served a year as photographic expert advisor in the investigations conducted by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. In 1968 he co-founded the Committee to Investigate Assassinations with Bernard Fensterwald. Sprague later worked as a full-time consultant to Battelle Memorial Institute of Frankfurt.

Research

In the May 1970 issue of Computers and Automation, Sprague said he used computer analysis of still photographs and movie film from Dealey Plaza to determine that four gunmen and at least 50 conspirators in Kennedy's assassination.[1] He stated that the evidence indicated six shots were fired at Kennedy.[1] According to Sprague, the President was hit by four of the shots, Connally was hit by another, and one missed.[1] Five years later in September 1975, Sprague and L. Fletcher Prouty stated that their study of still photographs and film of the assassination revealed that no shots were fired from the Texas School Book Depository's sixth floor window and that Lee Harvey Oswald was framed by planted and altered evidence.[2]

Much of the information in The Taking of America had been published by Sprague before in the magazines Computer and Automation and People and The Pursuit of Truth. According to Sprague's research, because of great oak with dense crown that crossed the trajectory of the shot it is unlikely that Oswald could fire from the window where the rifle was subsequently found.[3]

Sprague's analysis of Zapruder's film was used in "The Guns of Dallas" article by L. Fletcher Prouty.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Computer "Clears" Oswald; Kennedy Case Studied". Spokane Daily Chronicle (Spokane, Washington). AP. May 2, 1970. p. 1. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ "2 Claim Conspiracy Proof in JFK's Death". Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). UPI. September 4, 1975. p. 2. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Антиснайперы и снайперы (in Russian). Bratishka magazine. Retrieved 2009-03-24.

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