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Patrick V. Garland collection on the reassessment of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination, 1974-1988, Date acquired: 02/15/2007

 

Summary

Creator:
Garland, Patrick V. (1937-)
Extent:
0.42 Linear Feet
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Patrick V. Garland Collection on the Reassessment of the Robert Kennedy Assassination, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of materials relating to Garland's work on the Kennedy case, including photographs, copies of court documents, working notes, correspondence, and copies of news articles. Accompanying the collection is a copy of The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means, and Opportunity by Dan E. Moldea (NY: Norton, 1995), which is located in Special Collections (General: E 840.8 K4M58 1995).

Biographical / historical:

Prompted by allegations that the bullet evidence in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination case indicated involvement by a second gunman, on September 18, 1975 Superior Court Judge Robert A. Wenke ordered a reexamination of the firearms evidence. The court appointed Patrick Garland and six other prominent forensic firearms experts to conduct the reexamination and determine if the firearms-related evidence provided any basis for the second gunman theory. Elected chairman of the expert panel by his colleagues, Garland coordinated the panel's work and presented its findings to the court. The panel concluded that, contrary to claims, there was no difference in the number of cannelures on the bullets, no difference in rifling clarity or angles not accounted for by impact damage, and that nothing in the firearms evidence indicated that a second gun was used in the Kennedy assassination.

Note written by PEC, 2007

Acquisition information:

Patrick V. Garland

Donation

Arrangement:

Alphabetically by type of document.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright.  Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Patrick V. Garland Collection on the Reassessment of the Robert Kennedy Assassination, USF Libraries - Tampa Special Collections, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Location of this collection:
The University of South Florida, Tampa Campus
4202 East Fowler Ave. LIB122
Tampa
FL
33620-5400
USA