Presidents, prime ministers may age faster, die sooner

Leading a country comes with extraordinary privileges but also, apparently, a price: new research suggests that heads of state age faster than normal and that the stress of the job may shave almost three years off their life expectancy.

Doctors analyzed how long presidents and prime ministers in 17 countries - including Britain, Canada, France, Germany and the U.S. - survived after leaving office, compared to the losing candidates. They also observed the number of years that heads of state lived versus what was expected for someone of the same age and gender.

After considering the fates of 279 heads of state and 261 runner-ups, they concluded former leaders lived for almost three fewer years than expected. The study was published online Monday in the medical journal, The BMJ. ...

Utter crap?

Let's see if you can correctly use a calculator.

There are two points in the Zapruder film that can be identified as times shots were fired.

1. Zapruder frame 313, the time that a shot hit President Kennedy in the head.

2. Zapruder frame 224, the time that we first see John Connally BEGIN to react to a shot. It has been said that Connally's jacket bulges out at that point (you can see that is true IF you have a decent set of digital frames available to review).

The film speed of Zapruder's camera was measured as 18.3 frames per second. To calculate the time between events in the Zapruder film you simply divide the number of film frames by 18.3

Time between Z frames 313 and 224 = (313 - 224)/18.3 = 4.8 seconds

There is a second way to determine the time between shots. That information has been viciously attacked as invalid but before you make a FINAL judgement, look at the figure below. The time between shots #3 and #4 is 4.8 seconds!

The FACT that there is 4.8 seconds between shots in the Zapruder film and 4.8 seconds between shots from the acoustical study of the only audio recording is NOT sufficient to PROVE that the audio recording did capture the sounds of the shots BUT it is a fact that was never mentioned in Vince Bugliosi's RECLAIMING HISTORY nor has it been mentioned very many times before (except by me of course because I understand the significance of that information). No, to prove that the audio evidence is valid (i.e. the sounds of the shots were recorded on the Dallas police radio channel) you have to show more than one match in both the Z film and the audio recording. That would take a few more minutes of typing to show the next match and you probably wouldn't understand it and even if you do, you probably won't believe it.

Utter crap OR have Americans been made into the biggest set of fools in history? The correct answer is fools.

What I showed is SIMPLE.

There are TWO INDEPENDENT ways to determine the times between shots fired in the JFK assassination.

1. The Zapruder film since we know the film speed.

2. The audio recording of the Dallas police radio channel that was analyzed by acoustical experts for the HSCA (House Committee on Assassinations) in 1978.

OBVIOUSLY, if the times between shots is the SAME in BOTH the film AND the recording, it means that the sound recording is likely valid. The more intervals that match, the more likely it is that the sounds of the shots were recorded.

And here's the bottom line, once you know that the audio recording is valid, you then know that the US government lied, forged evidence, harassed witnesses..... to hide the truth. Not everybody in the US government was a scumbag traitor but the ones leading the conspiracy that killed President Kennedy were. And they had enough power to make the typical American government employee do what needed to be done to hide the truth.

The audio recording proves LH Oswald did NOT kill President Kennedy. The audio evidence doesn't tell us WHO killed JFK but it tells us WHERE the shooter was.

Once you learn how to prove all of this to yourself, it will finally make sense how our government was hijacked to hide the truth. To fool Americans you don't have to do anything but fool the presstitutes. The presstitutes will step up 24/7 to fool the public.

Apparently you believed what you were told.

And here's the bottom line, once you know that the audio recording is valid, you then know that the US government lied, forged evidence, harassed witnesses..... to hide the truth.

Non Sequitur. That an audio recording (if I remember correctly, recorded from an open mic on a police radio with the recording equipment at the dispatch headquarters) matches the timing that can be gleaned from the video does not prove any such thing.

Where do you get this idea that the timing match between the audio and the video proves the government lied about something?

Apparently you believed what you were told.

No I don't, and that's why I am arguing with you.

That an audio recording (if I remember correctly, recorded from an open mic on a police radio with the recording equipment at the dispatch headquarters) matches the timing that can be gleaned from the video does not prove any such thing.

What you are saying is that the audio experts hired by the HSCA investigators were looking at random noise and just happened to find noise patterns on the actual police recording made during the shooting that matched the echo patterns made from the test shots AND they also got the timing between shots on the audio recording to MATCH the times between shots seen in the Zapruder film.

What does that statement mean? Look at the figure again. If you have good enough resolution you can see that some of the noise spikes are numbered, those noise spikes generally MATCH the TIMING of the noise spikes seen on the actual recording. This figure shows just ONE of the shots, they found matching echo patterns for each of the shots (for a total of five shots).

The audio experts were familiar with echo correlation analysis because during the Kent State shooting investigation, they wanted to know WHO fired the first shot. By determining WHERE the first shot was fired from the investigators were better able to determine what happened.

How do you determine where shots were fired from if you only have an audio recording? A shot makes a LOUD very short duration noise that radiates outward in all directions. When the noise energy hits large objects such as buildings, it is reflected off and arrives at a microphone at a later time than does the initial noise spike because reflected waves have to travel further. The audio experts did NOT rely on trying to identify a "BANG" on a recording as most people would, they looked for echo patterns with amplitudes high enough above the ambient noise level to be repeatable (i.e. they fired many test shots from two locations in Dealey Plaza where it was thought based on witness testimony that a gunman might have been located). The timing of the echo patterns would be unique for each of the shooting locations and for each of the microphone locations (the microphone was located on a moving motorcycle).

So what do we have?

1. A study done by audio experts that showed the echo patterns from test shots fired from two locations generally matched what was seen on the actual police radio recording

2. The times between shots on the Zapruder film match the times between shots seen on the audio recording.

#1 is difficult to understand and VERY difficult to actually do. #2 is very easy to understand and very easy to do.

Here's a question for you: If it is so easy to determine that 4.8 seconds is the time between two of the shots in the Zapruder film AND the police audio recording, how come Vince Bugliosi's book RECLAIMING HISTORY did NOT address that seemingly significant bit of information? In fact, look at all the books, all the documentaries you wish to explore and you won't find that information anywhere (except for what I have written). How is that possible? This is probably the most written about "mystery" in history and 4.8 seconds has been hidden?

The answer is yes, it was buried. Once you understand how this was hidden from the public you will be well on your way to understanding what happened during the shooting.

The Gunshots would have been recorded exactly as they occurred. Noise pops would have occurred whenever. I imagine in 1963, Dallas was probably using lowband VHF equipment which is very prone to exactly this sort of noise. It was probably one of these. I used to work on them.

those noise spikes generally MATCH the TIMING of the noise spikes seen on the actual recording.

Which is a perfectly reasonable thing because there were actual gunshots occurring. Noise spikes matching known gunshots is not amazing, or even interesting.

The answer is yes, it was buried. Once you understand how this was hidden from the public you will be well on your way to understanding what happened during the shooting.

Your dive into acoustical analysis does not prove your claims to any reasonable degree. You make a mountain of conclusions out of a mole hill of evidence. Evidence which can have other explanations which are even more probable.

Your argument basically looks like this:

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