Posted on 08/21/2006 10:34:44 AM PDT by Abathar
LIVERMORE - More than four decades after his death, John F. Kennedy's assassination remains the hottest cold case in U.S. history, and the clues continue to trickle in. Now Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientists say a key piece of evidence supporting the lone gunman theory should be thrown out.
A new look at clues gleaned from studies of crime-scene bullet fragments shows they may have been misinterpreted.
"It basically shatters what some people call the best physical evidence around," said chemist Pat Grant, director of the lab's Forensic Science Center.
Grant and Livermore Lab metallurgist Erik Randich found that the chemical "fingerprints" used to identify which bullets the fragments came from are actually more like run-of-the-mill tire tracks than one-of-a-kind fingerprints.
"I've spoken with people on both sides of the conspiracy divide and there's no question but that (Randich and Grant's) work is going to be very difficult, if not outright impossible, to refute," said Gary Aguilar, a San Francisco ophthalmologist and single-bullet skeptic who has studied the Kennedy assassination for more than a decade. "It looks impregnable."
The government's claim that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed Kennedy spawned a vitriolic debate between conspiracy theorists and lone gunman supporters that rages to this day.
In 1964, the Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Oswald fired just three shots from the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas: The first missed entirely. The second passed through the president's neck, into Texas Governor John Connally's body under his right arm, out through his chest and then splintered his wrist and wounded his left thigh. The third fatally hit Kennedy in the head.
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Not this **** again!
What? Someone questioning Arlen Spector's work?? /sarcasm
Aren't there some "secret files" on this that are marked "Not to be opened until 2013"?
I wanna know what happened to JFK's brain. It didn't just sprout legs and walk out of the autopsy room or wherever it mysteriously disappeared from, so who stole it and why?
The illustration in this article makes the same mistake as Oliver Stone did in the movie JFK where he positioned two chairs AT THE SAME HEIGHT to suggest only a "magic bullet" could have passed through Kennedy's neck and also struck Connolly in the back.
In fact, the middle seat in which Connolly was sitting was LOWER than the back seat in which Kennedy was sitting, and a bullet passing through Kennedy's neck would have struck Connolly exactly where it did strike him.
Not really.
Nic Cage found the microfilm, remember?
"...remains the hottest cold case in U.S. history..."
It is not a cold case. They caught the guy. He got killed. Case closed.
If you really look at the photo of JFK and Connally siting in the car, you might notice that the angle of the pic has the front end of the car at a downward slope. Righting the slope might just place JFK and Connally on an even plane. What do ya think?
I miss these Lone Gunmen...
or maybe the picture taker was holding the camera at a funny angle....
Warren Commission --- 9/11 Commission --- Whitewash
Bush did it!
Even if you rotate the photo so that the limo is on a straight line, you will see that Connally, a larger man than JFK, is sitting in a lower seat.
Or google JFK limousine - there are lots of photos of the limousine on the web, you will see that the middle seats in this model appear to be foldover jump seats that sit much lower than the single bench seat in the back.
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