Long after JFK assassination, gunshot forensics still limited

Excerpt from the October 10, 1964, Science News Letter

cover of the October 10, 1964 issue of Science News LetterWarren Commission Report — A new way to fight crime, called neutron activation analysis, uses penetrating neutron radiation to help catch a criminal from only a speck of evidence. The Warren Commission included the results of a neutron activation analysis test of Lee Harvey Oswald in their recent assassination study.