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Very nice.

There was also a reporter (I'm too tired to look up his name right now, but will if anyone's curious) who actually was making an audio tape at the time of the assassination and captured the sounds of the gunshots. Unfortunately, the tape was accidentally recorded over by the station when he ran off to cover the developing stories that day. Nonetheless, he listened to it once before leaving it at the station, and (unlike everyone who heard the shots live as they happened) he knew they were coming and listened intently to them and counted as they played on the tape. He states that there were clearly three shots, no more, no less.

That's also the number reported by the majority of the "earwitnesses", although some people reported fewer and some reported more.

Maybe not the time or place to say this, but I still think Kennedy was killed because he was ready to unleash the hounds of hell on communism. Didn't Oliver Stone have it exactly backwards? Should it surprise us that Hollywood could try to persuade us that it was patriotic Americans who killed the nation's foremost patriot?

As Aloha Ronnie says, "NEVER FORGET." Bobby Kennedy denied that his brother planned to stop the escalation of US forces in Vietnam. If Kennedy had been reelected, he would have made certain that we fought the war to win.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, my copartners in Government, gentlemen-and ladies:
The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to "from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union." While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times.
These are extraordinary times. And we face an extraordinary challenge. Our strength as well as our convictions have imposed upon this nation the role of leader in freedom's cause.
No role in history could be more difficult or more important. We stand for freedom.
That is our conviction for ourselves--that is our only commitment to others. No friend, no neutral and no adversary should think otherwise. We are not against any man--or any nation--or any system--except as it is hostile to freedom. Nor am I here to present a new military doctrine, bearing any one name or aimed at any one area. I am here to promote the freedom doctrine.

http://klabs.org/richcontent/Speeches/KennedySpeech.htm Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs President John F. Kennedy Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961

Court TV's The JFK Assassination: Investigation Reopened, Examines Alleged Audio Evidence of Second Shooter

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2003--
Forensic Files(TM) Special Uses Digital Audio Forensic Technology to Show That "Gunshot" Famous Sounds on Police Tape Took Place After the Assassination; Premieres Wednesday, November 19th at 9:00 PM ET/PT

It was a crime that shocked the world - and sparked an investigation that is still going on today. Even after 40 years, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains one of the 20th century's most enduring and controversial mysteries. Was there a conspiracy? A cover-up? Was Lee Harvey Oswald the only gunman? As the network of record in forensics and criminal investigations, Court TV's(R) signature series Forensic Files(R) will take a fascinating new look at the forensics behind the Kennedy assassination investigation, including a controversial piece of evidence that may hold clues to whether there was just one gunmen - or more. The JFK Assassination: Investigation Reopened premieres on Wednesday, November 19th at 9:00 PM ET/PT on Court TV. The one-hour special airs three days before the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's killing.

The explosive theory of an additional gunman first gained wide acceptance during a 1978 congressional investigation into the assassination. Those who supported the theory pointed to a newly discovered recording. It was believed that during the fateful motorcade, a Dallas police motorcycle's microphone was stuck in the "on" position and was recorded on a dictaphone, subsequently recording all the sounds of the assassination. Some experts believed the recording contained audio proof of a second gunman and therefore, a larger conspiracy to kill the President.

"This Forensic Files(R) special has given us the opportunity to re-examine the assassination of John F. Kennedy for the 40th anniversary." commented Art Bell, President, Court TV. "As the Investigation Channel(TM), how appropriate it is that we have discovered some very important information through our own forensic analysis and investigation."

Court TV worked exclusively with Boston-based forensic acoustic expert Bob Berkovitz, who conducted a state of the art digital audio analysis of the Dallas police audio recording that has long been thought to contain the sounds of the gunshots that killed the President. The special documents Berkovitz's detailed testing, including the surprising results which shed new light on this 40-year-old mystery and provided a new forensic perspective. In the end, Berkovitz concluded that this recording does not, in fact, include the sounds of assassination, and that in fact recorded 61.5 seconds after the fateful bullets were fired.

In addition to Bob Berkovitz, other experts appearing in the special include forensic pathologists Michael Baden and Cyril Wecht, former Chief Counsel of the House Select on Assassinations G. Robert Blakey, forensic investigator Dr. John Lattimer and former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis - among others.

The JFK Assassination: Investigation Reopened was produced by Medstar Television for Court TV. Paul Dowling is the Executive Producer and Michael Joseloff is the producer for Medstar. Ed Hersh, Sr. VP of Documentaries and Specials for Court TV, served as executive producer for Court TV.

"With Forensic Files' proven ability to engagingly reveal how today's forensic science and technology can solve crimes, a special that uses these modern scientific techniques to investigate JFK's assassination was a natural fit," added Executive Producer Paul Dowling.

Congress voting to reopen the Kennedy assassination investigation based on this evidence was not their finest moment.

As time goes by it is becoming clearer and clearer that Oswald was the only gunman. There may or may not have been a conspiracy, but I'm convinced Oswald was the only trigger man involved. The fact that Ruby snuffed Oswald is pretty compelling evidence that this was a mob hit, although it's never been proven to my satisfaction.

In his entire career, my US Senator Arlen Specter got two things right: (1) the single bullet theory; and (2) the Clarence Thomas exoneration. Nonetheless, I'm voting for Toomey and hope to boot Specter's sorry RINO ass out of Washington.

This sounds very interesting; will the new sound sequence be available to the public, and will it sync to the existing Zapruder footage?
I just aquired one of the most complete versions of the Zapruder film available to the public on my computer, and have already, just in the past few days of sporadic viewing , been able to refute some rather outlandish claims I've read on several conspiracy websites. Then again some things I see raise even more questions. I have not yet seen any decent copies of the Nix, Hughes, Muchmore or Bronson (shows 6th floor of TSBD before shooting)films, but I do have some of the poorly encoded versions available for downloading on the internet and they have some use to reference movement and positioning on the Zapruder film.
All the sound evidence is crucial to completing the picture as to what transpired that day and am looking forward to it's release.

40 years later, JFK theories still abound 1,300 hear them at symposium

Saturday, November 22, 2003

By Michael A. Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

When President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in a motorcade in Dallas 40 years ago this afternoon, no one reasonably could have predicted that irrefutable evidence of just how the county's 35th president lost his life would prove so elusive.

But four decades later, the debate about virtually every aspect of those "six seconds in Dallas" remains open to debate and theory, as evidenced by the wide-ranging presentations during the second day of the national symposium on the assassination being held at Duquesne University.

The 1,300 people in attendance heard some presenters supporting the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three times from behind the president, hitting him twice, while others offered research they said showed that three riflemen fired five times at the president from the front and behind.

They also heard about optical density measurements, neutron activation tests and spectrographic analysis of evidence in the case; that X-rays and photographs of the slain president had been altered, counterfeited or lost; and that other evidence in the case, such as the diagrams and recollections of the precise location of Kennedy's wounds, were manipulated to fit the single-gunman theory.

Titled "Solving the Great American Murder Mystery: A National Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination," the four-day event concludes tomorrow and has drawn attendees from 40 states and nine countries.

At 1:30 p.m. today, the exact time Kennedy was fatally wounded, the conference will hold a moment of silence.

One of those who will present at the conference today is U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who as a junior counsel to the Warren Commission authored the much-maligned "single-bullet theory" that Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally were struck by the same bullet. That theory is central to the Warren Commission's finding that Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy; otherwise, there had to be two shooters.

Federal scientist Donald B. Thomas, who garnered international attention in 2001 for an article on acoustic evidence in the case, told the conference hosted by the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law and the Duquesne University School of Law that his research of a recording of an open microphone on a Dallas motorcycle officer's radio showed that five shots were fired in Dealey Plaza that day.

The Warren Commission report said only three shots were fired, all by Oswald from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository after the motorcade passed that building. The House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 found that four shots were fired and likely involved a conspiracy of two shooters.