sports programs. one controversial that seemed to outlast the rest in the past half century is getting a new look. chief washington correspondent james rosen has that story. reporter: few historical events are indelibly stamped on the modern mind as the as is nation of president kennedy, yet the fact osthat have dark day face eternal double jeopardy, destined to be tried and retried with universal agreements about them as illusive as the prospect of time travel, itself. undaunted a team of historians retired secret service officers, ballistics experts and i.t. specialists all retained by the national geographic channel, sister network of fox news, undertaken new reenactment of the crime, aided by digital upgrade to home movies take than day, some not seen in decades. resulting documentary jfk, the lost bullet reaffirms that lee harvey oswalt was the lone gunman but rewrites the timeline of the assassination.
trier of fact from get to the bottom of this. overruled. and judge brown ruled in 1997 that they could retest the weapon. ballistics experts fired ray s weapon 18 times to see if they could get a match. the results were inconclusive. but farris says one of those experts privately told him something else. it was said to me that while no conclusions could be made, if they were pressed for a conclusion, they would err on the side of it not being the gun. ray never got a new trial. william pepper turned to the king family one last time. they filed a civil case against lloyd jowers and other unknown co-conspirators. all the evidence from the beginning to the end how martin king was killed and why he was killed and who coordinated the killing came out under oath. in less than an hour, the jury ruled that lloyd jowers, not james earl ray, was involved
case. first, ballistics experts could not match this bullet, which killed dr. king, with the rifle ray bought. the bullet was badly mangled upon impact and the markings made by the rifle barrel when the gun was fired fell short of scientific certainty. second, two men living in the boardinghouse could not identify the man they saw running from the bathroom after the sound of the shot. he held a hand to his face. the government s case places the shooter in the bathroom. but police had one witness at the time who did see someone else. solomon jones, king s driver that day, says he saw a man with a white hood over his head in the bushes across the street from the lorraine hotel. the next day something strange happened at the crime scene. the bushes you see here were cut back. i questioned the guy who was the head of the public works department, who ordered you to cut down the bush? he said, i was ordered immediately to get a team down
very different scenarios. three, four, five areas that clearly can t be anything but stippling. we have a handgun, which is being fired at close range. there were some little red and brown spots that looked like they could have been gunshot residue, but they weren t. nothing goes unchallenged. their ballistics experts looked at the shell casings at the scene and the .30-.30 rifle that the police officers found in mr. hicks home. now, that is a very subjective field of science. there are no standards in this state or in the united states for that type of analysis. which side will the jury believe? in march of 2002 the trial begins.