Posted on 05/13/2007 11:34:05 AM PDT by tpaine
Who really did kill Kennedy?
BROTHERS THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS BY DAVID TALBOT
Reviewed by Dan Cornford
THE AUTHOR WILL CONVINCE MANY NOT WEDDED TO THE WARREN COMMISSION FINDINGS THAT THE LIKELIHOOD OF A CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE JFK (AND MAYBE RFK) IS SIGNIFICANT.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE DEFICIENCIES OF SOME SOURCES, TALBOT'S HIGHLY READABLE, AT TIMES GRIPPING BOOK MAKES THE CASE FOR RELEASING THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION.
TALBOT SUMMARIZES MORE COMPELLING AND TROUBLING EVIDENCE. IN PARTICULAR, QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT THE ROLE CIA AGENT GEORGE JOANNIDES MAY HAVE PLAYED.
DECLASSIFIED JFK FILES REVEAL THAT IN 1963, JOANNIDES WAS THE AGENT IN CHARGE OF ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL CUBAN ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATIONS IN MIAMI, THE REVOLUTIONARY STUDENTS DIRECTORATE, OR DRE. A FEW MONTHS BEFORE JFK'S ASSASSINATION, THE DRE HAD SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AND OSWALD ATTEMPTED TO INFILTRATE THE NEW ORLEANS BRANCH OF THE DRE.
IN THE COURSE OF FOUR INTENSIVE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION, HOWEVER, THE CIA FAILED TO DIVULGE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CONNECTION, OR EVEN THAT JOANNIDES WAS THE CIA OFFICER ASSIGNED TO MANAGE THE DRE, AND REFUSED TO RELEASE IMPORTANT PARTS OF JOANNIDES' PERSONNEL FILE.
AMONG OTHER THINGS, TALBOT'S BOOK IS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO A RECENT AND GROWING CHORUS OF KENNEDY AUTHORS AND RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING GERALD POSNER, THE MOST OFT-CITED AUTHORITY FOR THE "ONE GUNMAN/NO CONSPIRACY" THESIS, CALLING FOR A REOPENING OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE JFK ASSASSINATION OR, AT MINIMUM, FOR THE CIA TO RELEASE PERTINENT, IDENTIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT MIGHT SHED LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT.
IN SEPTEMBER, ON GROUNDS OF NATIONAL SECURITY, THE CIA SUCCESSFULLY THWARTED A REQUEST FOR SUCH INFORMATION.
UNTIL IT IS RELEASED, MANY AUTHORS OR CITIZENS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE ISSUE WILL REASONABLY SPECULATE THAT CRUCIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE JFK ASSASSINATION IS BEING CONCEALED.
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Very neat attempt but I’m not buying it. Oswalt was on the 6th floor. The car was on the ground.
Oh well. Never mind. I've been asking that same question for 40 years and really didn't expect you to answer it.
...is an idiot and gives new meaning to the term "etard".
I didn’t change the subject. I gave my answer and I also gave you the exact views Oswald had from the sixth floor. If you don’t understand which shot is the easiest, I can’t help you there. Buy a rifle and learn to shoot.
The question was:
Why would a lone assassin in that particular 6th floor school book depository window pass up all the obvious to anyone who has actually been there advantages offered by shooting when the car in which the target was riding turned right onto that stretch of Houston Street and was coming straight at him with no angular deflection and wait until his intended target was accelerating away at a declining angle to shoot unless he HAD to do so for the target to be within a pre designated kill zone?
YOU are indeed changing the subject.
Hmmm? Let me see now. First we have the so called "magic bullet" shot that did all the things it was purported to have done, only looses three grains from it's original weight and acquires a slightly bent tip in the process and the very next bullet fired, within seconds, from the same rifle and same lot of ammunition DOES fragment and does all of that? Isn't that interesting?
I’ll put an end to ALL of this speculation. I killed Kennedy. That’s right, ME. Let that be the final word on the matter.
If it wre only that simple.
That would have been the position when the second bullet hit ar Zapruder frame 224, with Connally's right arm resting on his lap.
He said this was the time he heard the first shot and looked behind him to the right, as he did so his he raised his right arm. But because it was a FMJ round, his body didn't react to the second shot until about ZF232 when he gasps. THis is when "magic bulleters" claim he was hit, his body being in such a postion that a mavouvering bullet is needed to esplain the wounds.
However at ZF224 it is a straight through path.
Hitting different material at different speeds. The second bullet finally hit Connelly’s front rib after going through Kennedy and Connelly. The first thing the third bullet hit was the back of Kennedy’s skull at 2000 feet a second.
Buy a rifle and learn to shoot.
Frame 223 and 224. Notice the label is pulled outward within two movie frames.
Even if one supposes that Oswald had a better shooting angle at an earlier point in time than when he actually took his shots, I don't think this necessarily suggests anything in favor of multiple shooters.
First, Oswald was, after all, a human being and not a robot. Oswald had successfully managed to position himself in his little nest undetected. He must have thought that, until he actually squeezes off that first shot, he very likely could change his mind, wrap up the rifle and walk away, and never be caught. But once that first shot is fired, he probably knew there was no going back, and could very easily quickly end up dead himself. It may well have taken a little while for the obnoxious little loser to screw up his courage, and as opportunity was slipping away he finally decided it was "now or never" and with the first shot squeezed off, knew he was in it for good.
Or perhaps he figured he would get more shots off undetected waiting until after the presidential car had passed below. If he fires his first shot with the procession coming towards him, the attention of the secret service agents and occupants of the vehicles is facing forward and he might think he ran a greater risk of someone detecting his firing location from the first shot, than if he waited until they had passed and fired from the rear, with everyone in the procession facing away from him.
So even if one were to assume he had the opportunity to fire earlier, I don't think that necessarily means much in terms of the "multiple shooter" theories.
The military industrial complex took him out, no question. He was going to splinter the CIA, sever the ties that the Federal reserve had with their very evil scheme since 1913....and he was going to pull out 1,000 American troops from Vietnam by 1965, but; obviously wasn’t able to put it into effect. Then, the one of the most idiotic and evil presidents we had, several more to follow, LBJ reversed this plan and sent more to Vietnam as they had planned all along.
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The JFK assassination was a demonstration by the Military Industrial complex that they were in charge. It is the same organization that Eisenhower told us about in his last address to the American public.....it is also the same organization that JFK talked about....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4340349985118918525&q
CAPS LOCK KEY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Why would a lone assassin in that particular 6th floor school book depository window pass up all the obvious to anyone who has actually been there advantages offered by shooting when the car in which the target was riding turned right onto that stretch of Houston Street and was coming straight at him with no angular deflection and wait until his intended target was accelerating away at a declining angle to shoot unless he HAD to do so for the target to be within a pre designated kill zone?"
Allow me to answer.
Check the simulation yourself that I posted above in #56: The motorcade's path coming down Houston towards the TSBD not only has quite a bit of angular deflection, there's even more deflection than the shot down Elm from behind as the street slowly dips and gradually turns to the right. At 88 yards, the range of the killing shot on JFK, it's almost a dead-on shot as seen from the 6th floor window of the TSBD's south east corner. See for yourself at the Dealey Plaza live webcam during daytime hours.
The oncoming shot down Houston as the motorcade approached Oswald's position actually provides the least best opportunity. Kennedy is shielded by the visual clutter in the sight picture of the low-powered Ordnance Optics telescope mounted on Oswald's rifle: There's the very large vehicle he's in, the high windshield, two rows of human beings directly in front of him, and the vehicle he's riding in is pathing through the scope picture at a 45-degree S-SW angle. It's just a rotten shot.
Another good reason as to why Oswald didn't choose to shoot as the motorcade approached him may be that he relied on his USMC training for springing a hasty ambush: You let the column of targets pass by before opening fire from behind. Doing so tends to confuse and disorient the target(s) and their ability to respond. In fact, that's exactly what happened at Dealey Plaza that day, considering the conflicting testimonies of those who were there.
Yes, that's right. Here's why:
The third round fired by Oswald ('The kill shot') hit Kennedy in the head and deflected over the head of Gov. Connally, missed the Secret Service man in the front passenger seat and hit the inside of the windshield, thoroughly fragmenting. The second bullet fired by Oswald, the so-called 'Magic Bullet', passed through comparatively softer tissues with the exception of Gov. Connally's wristbone. It barely embedded in his right thigh and was found later at Parkland Hospital amongst the confusion on the gurney that carried Connally into the emergency room.
The lead and copper particles extracted from Kennedy's cranium at the Bethesda autopsy matched the rounds fired by Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of every other round on Earth, based upon research done with a nuclear accelerator focusing on the lead antimony and bismuth mixture of the bullets, the copper jacketing alloy, and evidenced by metallurgic particles from the barrel lands from Carcano serial C2766 remaining in the spent bullets' rifled grooves.
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