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Part 2 of two part reply to Matthew Jones
True, the copper jacketed round, known as "the magic bullet" did not shatter and was in near pristine condition when found on Governor Connally's stretcher at the hospital. Pictured in the below photo as CE 399, there is only a small nick at the tip end at left, and this was admittedly caused by the FBI having removed material for testing purposes.
I would ask how in the world it is "plausible" to you that this single magic bullet could have caused 7 wounds in two men. The Warren Commission had to go with this theory, since without it the notion of a single shooter would have collapsed. In their report, to buttress the single magic bullet theory, the Commission misleadingly stated that, “In their testimony, the three doctors who attended Governor Connally at Parkland Hospital expressed independently their opinion that a single bullet had passed through his chest; tumbled through his wrist with very little exit velocity, leaving small metallic fragments from the rear portion of the bullet; punctured his left thigh after the bullet had lost virtually all if its velocity; and fallen out of the thigh wound.” Sylvia Meagher was the first to observe that the Commission’s claim accurately reflects what these witnesses had said during their first, 3/23/64, Commission interview. But that was before they had seen the Zapruder film, the stretcher bullet (CE #399), and other key physical evidence. The Commission’s account, however, doesn’t reflect the fact that they radically altered their views after they were allowed to see this evidence. During his second Commission interview on 4/21/64, and being questioned by Commission counsel Arlen Specter, Dr. Shaw said, “I feel that there would be some difficulty in explaining all of the wounds [both Kennedy and Connally had sustained] being inflicted by bullet Exhibit 399 without causing more in the way of loss of substance to the bullet or deformation of the bullet.” Dr. Gregory, who followed Dr. Shaw in testimony, said, “I am not persuaded that this (the Single Bullet Theory) is very probable ... .” Dr. Shires, the third physician involved, was, as Meagher put it, “never recalled, never shown the Zapruder film or the stretcher bullet, or given the opportunity to reconsider his opinion in the light of physical evidence he had never seen or taken into account. In spite of the contrary statements by Shaw and Gregory, two years later Arlen Specter was still telling the press that, as he put it in a U. S. News Report interview, “all of the doctors who attended the Governor thought [the same bullet had inflicted all of the nonfatal wounds]."
When Arlen Specter asked Dr. Humes, “could that missile [Warren Exhibit CE #399] have made the wound on Governor Connally’s right wrist?” Humes answered, “I think that most unlikely … The reason I believe it most unlikely that this missile could have inflicted either of these wounds [Connally’s wrist wound or JFK’s head wound] is that this missile is basically intact; its jacket appears to me to be intact, and I do not understand how it could possibly have left fragments in either of these locations [JFK’s head or Connally’s wrist].” Humes also said, “ I think that extremely unlikely” that it was CE 399 that had lodged in Connally’s thigh, which was the seventh of the seven wounds required of CE 399 by the Commission’s theory. Humes’ forensic consultant, Pierre Finck, MD, backed him up. Specter asked Pierre Finck, “[Could [CE #399] have been the bullet which inflicted the wound on Governor Connally’s right wrist?” “No,” Finck replied, “for the reason that there are too many fragments described in that wrist,” the problem being, as Finck put it, “there was practically no loss of this bullet.”
Now let's see what was said about Kennedy's fatal head shot skull wound. In an artist's drawing of the head wound made under direction of Dr.McClelland of Parkland Hospital, we see the below left illustration, which shows a blowout exit wound in the back of Kennedy's head. Compare this to the Commision's flesh-colored explanation diagram, showing only a small entry hole in that location.
Some difference, huh? Now look at the Commission diagram that purports to show the trajectory of the bullet through Kennedy's head:
To obtain this trajectory angle, which would support a shot possibly fired from the Texas School Book Depository's 6th floor window, Kennedy's head is depicted as slumped way forward, and this has no basis in truth. Below left is a photo taken from frame 312 of the Zapruder film, just one frame before the fatal shot, and at right you see the above image having been rotated so as to very closely reflect the actual angle of Kennedy's head.
Note how, at the actual angle of slump, a rear-to-front bullet would be traveling upward, rather than downwards! Thus Kennedy could not possibly have been shot as the Commission stated. Furthermore, even at the corrected trajectory, Kennedy would have to have been shot from inside the trunk of the car, and up through the seat back, to satisfy this corrected slump angle. The commission's drawing was based upon the false head wound evidence supplied to them by the FBI, and J Edgar Hoover had effectively closed the department's investigation by the time that Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby. Hoover had called LBJ's presidential adviser Walter Jenkins on November 24th, and had said to him, “The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach [assistant Attorney General], is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.” See the House Select Committe on Assasinations (HSCA) report, HSCA Appendix to Hearings, volume XI, page 3 (indented paragraph) for confirmation about Hoover's statement.
Without making this post overly long, I will stop here, but there is plenty more damning evidence which tells us that the "official story" of JFK's assassination, as told in the Warren Commission report, is pure bunk. For starters, there's the fact that Hoover had his FBI dig up dirt on all the Warren Commission members and their staff, which he used to intimidate the Commission members into not questioning anything provided to them concerning the JFK assassination. This was uncovered by the Senate's Church Committee, chaired by Frank Church. And then there's the fact that 3 different rifles were said to have been the assassination weapon. One was photographed by the Dallas PD, another appears in the National archives photo, and still another in a photo by the FBI for the Warren Commission. All are side profiles, and they don't match up when scaled identically! More on that soon. I don't want to overwhelm anyone now, and simply want you to see that what at first may seem "plausible" is really just a blind alley of misinformation.
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I would ask how in the world it is "plausible" to you that this single magic bullet could have caused 7 wounds in two men. The Warren Commission had to go with this theory, since without it the notion of a single shooter would have collapsed. In their report, to buttress the single magic bullet theory, the Commission misleadingly stated that, “In their testimony, the three doctors who attended Governor Connally at Parkland Hospital expressed independently their opinion that a single bullet had passed through his chest; tumbled through his wrist with very little exit velocity, leaving small metallic fragments from the rear portion of the bullet; punctured his left thigh after the bullet had lost virtually all if its velocity; and fallen out of the thigh wound.” Sylvia Meagher was the first to observe that the Commission’s claim accurately reflects what these witnesses had said during their first, 3/23/64, Commission interview. But that was before they had seen the Zapruder film, the stretcher bullet (CE #399), and other key physical evidence. The Commission’s account, however, doesn’t reflect the fact that they radically altered their views after they were allowed to see this evidence. During his second Commission interview on 4/21/64, and being questioned by Commission counsel Arlen Specter, Dr. Shaw said, “I feel that there would be some difficulty in explaining all of the wounds [both Kennedy and Connally had sustained] being inflicted by bullet Exhibit 399 without causing more in the way of loss of substance to the bullet or deformation of the bullet.” Dr. Gregory, who followed Dr. Shaw in testimony, said, “I am not persuaded that this (the Single Bullet Theory) is very probable ... .” Dr. Shires, the third physician involved, was, as Meagher put it, “never recalled, never shown the Zapruder film or the stretcher bullet, or given the opportunity to reconsider his opinion in the light of physical evidence he had never seen or taken into account. In spite of the contrary statements by Shaw and Gregory, two years later Arlen Specter was still telling the press that, as he put it in a U. S. News Report interview, “all of the doctors who attended the Governor thought [the same bullet had inflicted all of the nonfatal wounds]."
When Arlen Specter asked Dr. Humes, “could that missile [Warren Exhibit CE #399] have made the wound on Governor Connally’s right wrist?” Humes answered, “I think that most unlikely … The reason I believe it most unlikely that this missile could have inflicted either of these wounds [Connally’s wrist wound or JFK’s head wound] is that this missile is basically intact; its jacket appears to me to be intact, and I do not understand how it could possibly have left fragments in either of these locations [JFK’s head or Connally’s wrist].” Humes also said, “ I think that extremely unlikely” that it was CE 399 that had lodged in Connally’s thigh, which was the seventh of the seven wounds required of CE 399 by the Commission’s theory. Humes’ forensic consultant, Pierre Finck, MD, backed him up. Specter asked Pierre Finck, “[Could [CE #399] have been the bullet which inflicted the wound on Governor Connally’s right wrist?” “No,” Finck replied, “for the reason that there are too many fragments described in that wrist,” the problem being, as Finck put it, “there was practically no loss of this bullet.”
Now let's see what was said about Kennedy's fatal head shot skull wound. In an artist's drawing of the head wound made under direction of Dr.McClelland of Parkland Hospital, we see the below left illustration, which shows a blowout exit wound in the back of Kennedy's head. Compare this to the Commision's flesh-colored explanation diagram, showing only a small entry hole in that location.
Some difference, huh? Now look at the Commission diagram that purports to show the trajectory of the bullet through Kennedy's head:
To obtain this trajectory angle, which would support a shot possibly fired from the Texas School Book Depository's 6th floor window, Kennedy's head is depicted as slumped way forward, and this has no basis in truth. Below left is a photo taken from frame 312 of the Zapruder film, just one frame before the fatal shot, and at right you see the above image having been rotated so as to very closely reflect the actual angle of Kennedy's head.
Note how, at the actual angle of slump, a rear-to-front bullet would be traveling upward, rather than downwards! Thus Kennedy could not possibly have been shot as the Commission stated. Furthermore, even at the corrected trajectory, Kennedy would have to have been shot from inside the trunk of the car, and up through the seat back, to satisfy this corrected slump angle. The commission's drawing was based upon the false head wound evidence supplied to them by the FBI, and J Edgar Hoover had effectively closed the department's investigation by the time that Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby. Hoover had called LBJ's presidential adviser Walter Jenkins on November 24th, and had said to him, “The thing I am concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach [assistant Attorney General], is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.” See the House Select Committe on Assasinations (HSCA) report, HSCA Appendix to Hearings, volume XI, page 3 (indented paragraph) for confirmation about Hoover's statement.
Without making this post overly long, I will stop here, but there is plenty more damning evidence which tells us that the "official story" of JFK's assassination, as told in the Warren Commission report, is pure bunk. For starters, there's the fact that Hoover had his FBI dig up dirt on all the Warren Commission members and their staff, which he used to intimidate the Commission members into not questioning anything provided to them concerning the JFK assassination. This was uncovered by the Senate's Church Committee, chaired by Frank Church. And then there's the fact that 3 different rifles were said to have been the assassination weapon. One was photographed by the Dallas PD, another appears in the National archives photo, and still another in a photo by the FBI for the Warren Commission. All are side profiles, and they don't match up when scaled identically! More on that soon. I don't want to overwhelm anyone now, and simply want you to see that what at first may seem "plausible" is really just a blind alley of misinformation.
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