Richard E Sprague graduated from Purdue University in 1942 and received a commission as a Naval Officer during World War II. He then went to work as an engineer with Northrup Aircraft. Around 1950 he and several other formed Computer Research Corporation. Toward the end of the decade he went to Touche, Ross, Bailey And Smart as Director of Computer Consulting – later it became Touche Ross.

After viewing the Zapruder film Sprague was convinced something didn't seem right. He began gathering photographic evidence and analyzing the relationships of objects in the photos and film. Using his technical skills he began seeing evidence of things no one had noticed before – or if the did, chose to ignore.

Sprague came to the conclusion that there were four shooters and six shots were fired. Four hit Kennedy, one hit Connally and one missed – the one by James Tague. In 1975 he worked with Fletcher Prouty and showed that with the position and size of the tree along the road, it was virtually impossible for Lee Oswald to have hit much of anything from the sixth floor window.

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