Richard Dudman Writes Mark Lane
- Fred Litwin
- 8 hours ago
- 3 min read
Richard Dudman was a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Here is what he wrote in The New Republic in December 1963:
A few of us noticed the hole in the windshield when the limousine was standing at the emergency entrance after the President had been carried inside. I could not approach close enough to see on which side was the cup-shaped spot that indicates a bullet had pierced the glass from the opposite side.
Note that he couldn't get that close.
Here is what he wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of December 1, 1963:
Here he says "This correspondent and one other man saw the hole, which resembled a bullet hole ..."
Robert Branson's column from the December 15, 1963 issue of the Battle Creek Enquirer, mentions the other reporter:
Other reporters did not get that close either.
And Richard Dudman walked back the claim in an article in the November 22, 1988 edition of the Bangor Daily News:
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