ABC: Oswald did it

Dallas Morning News ^ | 11/1/2003

[sinkspur]

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.

[Centurion2000]

There isn't a clay bird at 65 yards that's safe.

You can do that with high caliber pistols too ? like a 500 ?

[Eastbound]

Okay, thanks. That's a fair explanation. I never did debate how many shooters there were, though it was a real maze to go through all the variations and scenarios presented through the years. Strange, but any one of them could be true, but the only thing we can know for sure is only one of them is. I guess it's 'ya pays your money and takes your pick.' Works for me. Gives us all something to argue about for another 40 years. Some are more believable than others, depending on the level of one's trust or mis-trust of government and inside knowledge of the players.

The reason I asked you the question is because I suspected you might be an insider and was ready to start talking after all these years. That wouldn't be unusual, as there are others who have done exactly that, both in books they authored and signed web articles.

I fully believe the truth has been told in bits and pieces, and it only remains for someone that knows the big picture to confirm the truth of the matter and to put the pieces together. I think it was FDR who said, "Nothing happens by accident in politics," which to me was a hint that another saying is true, 'Guilty knowledge is the glue that holds the truth in bondage.'

In the case of JFK, I don't think we'll ever know which version of the 'truth' is true.

[Shooter 2.5]

Fiveshooter owns the big ones. I don't. I also don't have the experience with them to avoid getting hurt. He plinks with .454's, .475's and 500's. He easily shoots 300 rounds a session with the standard loads. Nothing is down loaded.

That video that I showed you that time is real. Do you want to see it again or did you bookmark it?

[LisaFab]

Sorry, I disagree.

[MinuteGal]

Historically, virtually every assassination of notable political or public figures worldwide have been perpetrated by lone nuts driven by their own twisted political or cultural agendas.

Just stating a fact.

Leni

[elbucko]

In the case of JFK, I don't think we'll ever know which version of the 'truth' is true.

I agree.

Maybe you already know of Barr McClellan's new book suggesting that LBJ and associates did do it -- and it wasn't for the trivial reason of making LBJ president.

Yes, but I haven't had a chance to read it, only reviews. I don't have a lot of emotional investment in the JFK assassination, but I do hate Lyndon Johnson. I believe he was afraid South Vietnam would fall to the communists before LBJ's re-election in 1968. I think the fall of Saigon in 1975, on the 6 o'clock news, was what defeated Gerald Ford, not Jimmy Carter or Fords pardon of Nixon. Ford lost the election because he was president when Vietnam was lost. LBJ knew that the fall of Vietnam would put him out of the White House, so LBJ drafted people like me to fight to keep him in office, nothing more. Vietnam had no strategic value, one way or other. But Kennedy, Johnson, the assassination and the Vietnam War are historically linked together forever.

However, I think Vietnam too, is an example of governments intrinsic incompetence and its tendency to be part of "Passive Conspiracies". Just as the failure of the CIA and FBI to keep an eye on Oswald appears either conspiratorial or incompetent. The failure of the FBI,CIA, and INS to detect and deport the 9/11 hijackers is a good example of government acting like government by being too late, with too little, to do any good. Government did the same in Vietnam.

Maybe, or great grandchildren will know something true about the assassination. I don't think that those alive at the time ever will. But I know this; the bullet that killed Kennedy also indirectly killed 58,000 more Americans in South East Asia.

Lest we forget.

[Petronski]

Theoretical physics can prove an elephant
can hang from a cliff with it's tail tied to a daisy,
but use your eyes - your common sense -

[Oztrich Boy]

And "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit"

Actors speaking liars lawyers rhetoric: not the best argument.

[Nitro]

Great movie. Think others here know what you are referring to?

I don't think it, I know it...

the folks and friends on this site are some of the most intelligent people it has been my priveledge and my terror to meet.

The level of smarts sometimes scares me!!

[Shooter 2.5]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist.