ABC: Oswald did it

Dallas Morning News ^ | 11/1/2003

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Network debunks conspiracy theories with digital re-creation

Using a computer-imaging process roughly akin to video games, ABC News has constructed a forensic tableau that it says proves Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

"What it does is prove unequivocally that Oswald was the only person in Dealey Plaza that day to fire," ABC anchor Peter Jennings said this week.

The digital reconstruction, created for the upcoming Nov. 20 special Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy , was the result of a decade of work by author and animator Dale Myers.

Using maps, blueprints of Kennedy's limousine, measurements, about 500 photographs and each frame of the 16mm amateur film shot by Abraham Zapruder in Dealey Plaza, Mr. Myers created a virtual reconstruction of the assassination that can be viewed from multiple viewpoints.

The technique is based on new imaging technology and is beginning to be applied as an evidentiary tool in courtrooms. ABC said Mr. Myers' assassination reconstruction was independently evaluated and endorsed by other forensic analysts.

By viewing the assassination from multiple perspectives, it is an "inescapable conclusion" that the shots that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally came from Oswald's perch in the former Texas School Book Depository, said Tom Yellin, executive producer of the special.

In the video re-creation, only Kennedy and Connally are shown in the open limousine they rode in Nov. 22, 1963. "It will be shocking to people to see it. It is not our intent to shock people or use this gratuitously," Mr. Jennings said.

"But in order to have people understand the point we're making – that Oswald acted alone in Dealey Plaza that day, to use this to prove what we are able now to prove – this technique is indispensable," he said. "I am amazed how the animation invokes the real event."

Although the Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Oswald acted on his own, the Kennedy assassination has been the focus of conspiracy speculation for four decades and has spawned about 500 books. Part of the reason for the public's suspicion is because of government secrecy that for years shrouded details of the event, Mr. Jennings said.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Uh-oh! Incoming!

[South Dakota]

yawn,,BS

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I never had any doubt that Oswald did it, and that he acted alone. Of course, now that ABC and Peter Jennings are saying that, I might have to reconsider.

[ladyinred]

Yeah right, and Islam is a peaceful religion.

[rdb3]

I don't believe Oswald did it all by his lonesome.

[Jewels1091]

NO ONE will ever convince me that Oswald did it...there is too many questions. I've been there and looked out the window he was suppose to have shot out of...don't buy it. I still think that alot of people were involved in this.

[Scenic Sounds]

I've never felt that I had enough information to seriously doubt that the Dallas police found the lone assassin.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Assassination theories. Must be a slow news day.

[Ken522]

The case is finally solved - Petah sez so!!!

[PaulJ]

I always laugh when people say the government is keeping the truth secret. Since when can the governmnet keep anything secret?

[tpaine]

"But in order to have people understand the point we're making – that Oswald acted alone in Dealey Plaza that day, to use this to prove what we are able now to prove – this technique is indispensable," he said. "I am amazed how the animation invokes the real event."

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"Animation" in, animation garbage out.

It'll be great fun tho, to pick it apart for flaws..

[Adrastus]

I'm sure ABC will be able to show us definitively how four precise (not just accurate) shots could be fired in the time allotted from a rifle that is representitive of the lowest ebb in the gunmakers art, complete with loose sights and standard ammuniton of the day.

And following this bit of ballistic legerdemain they will show us where all the hanging, pregnant and otherwise deformed chads went.

The lib magic show goes on...and on...and on.

[LisaFab]

Read "Case Closed" by Gerald Posner and you'll conclude the same.

[CWOJackson]

LOL!

I've always wondered the same thing. When he was young one of my sons was convinced that the Air Force had alien space craft and bodies in Hanger 51 or whatever number it was. This was about the same time Jimmy Carter told the world about our stealth fighter.

[Nitro]

It was Kaiser Souza...

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[ikka]

I am curious whether the animation speaks to the supposition that all the street signs were replaced soon after the assassination - due to some of them having bullet holes.

[Ff--150]

Several years ago a color film that day had the famous window in view and two men in white shirts were hustling about up there as the motorcade was turning, which was shown on local Dallas TV.

It was shown only once--and hasn't been mentioned since.

[Cacophonous]

And wrong ones to boot. Anyone knows that it was the Reptilians; their MO is to impersonate foreign leaders and gain power that way. Which is the reason LBJ, Castro, et al were able to avoid detection.

[gg188]

now that ABC and Peter Jennings are saying that, I might have to reconsider.

Yup, this investigation is agenda-ized, if Jennings, ABC and liberal media are involved. Whatever their agenda may be. We know that every thing liberal media reports is based on the furtherance of their agenda.

(I don't know how Jennings can repudiate the historian-of-record on the assassination, Oliver Stone. I thought libs wanted it to be a cross-dressed J.E. Hoover and right-wing Cubans opposed to the enlightened reign of Castro.)

What we DO know about how the leftist media reports and does "investigations": They start with their conclusion and then miraculously the evidence supports their theory. (Which is how universities and science work today.)

Motto of post-modernism (media, business, academia):

If the data don't support the theory, change the data.