Case Closed: a letter to Gerald Posner (re: Kennedy assassination)

AMNation.com ^ | 11/23/03 | Lawrence Auster

[Tares]

The thing is that you can show that animated GIF to conspiracy buffs and they won't have any way to refute it but a week later they'll say "the head moves backwards" as if they never saw that clip.

Bookmark the URL for the clip and post it when necessary.

[Deuce]

Harold Weisberg neatly picks apart Gerald Posner's thesis of Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt in the assassination

Please summarize some key points.

On the History Channel recently, I found Weisberg to provide a convincing and measured statement of his position (it's a pity he doesn't write as well as he speaks)

[angkor]

How do you manage to complicate and confuse what can be plainly seen with the naked eye?

[The Wizard]

I don't know who's the bigger jerk...Posner or this fool

[The Wizard]

John Wilks Booth, (notice the three names again) was part of a conspiracy of over 10 people, some of who were hanged for the crime.....

Like Alan Dulles masterminded the JFK killing, Sec. of War under Lincoln was behind his death......(Lincoln wanted to help the south heal, and the others wanted revenge)

[The Wizard]

If you believe Posner, why do you come here.....we don't do fairy tales

[The Wizard]

you are blind, deaf and dumb?

[The Wizard]

and don't spout off against fellow freepers with information based on CIA stooge Posner

[The Wizard]

you people are amazingly ignorant of facts and yet you spout off like you've done some research...

[The Wizard]

your namesake was much more astute, she would have asked the simple question you all ignore....who benefited?

[Shooter 2.5]

I keep reading about this doctor and that doctor.

Is there a problem that you people can't use names or quotes?

I hope you use Crenshaw. He was kicked out of the ER because he didn't belong there. The real doctors were on a talk show the day after his book came out. They said he didn't know what he was talking about. I noticed his book on the bargain rack for about three dollars in the same week.

Besides, I believe the autopsy before I'll believe someone who's job was to save lives instead of reporting every single data about the deceased.

[veronica]

Taking wild swings at people you disagree with is a pretty lame manner of debating. :) I have done extensive research, as has Robert Oswald.

[Shooter 2.5]

I'll bet you can't explain why the debris rips from his skull and flys forward.

That's because exit wounds are larger than entrance wounds. The debris becomes their own missiles causing more damage.

Thanks for posting the GIF.

[SoCal Pubbie]

From a legal perspective, motive is absolutely irrelevant. The prosecution has no legal burden to prove motive at all.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Connelly was turned to his right, speaking to JFK, and thus presented more of his right side to the president. A Nova special on PBS used computer generated modeling to show how the path lined up.

[SoCal Pubbie]

As I'm sure you know, ALL the doctors who actually worked on JFK in a vain attempt to save his life all were allowed years later to view the autopsy photos in the national archives. Each and EVERY one agreed that the wounds were the same as what they saw that day in Dallas.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Shooter, the speed of Zapruder's camera was 18.3 frames
per second --- or 54.6 milliseconds from one frame to another. Or we could say they moved at 1/18.3 of a second.

[per loin]

From a human perspective is motive absolutely irrelevant?

[SoCal Pubbie]

If you have read Cased Closed, Posner postulates that Oswald, who had a record of anti-social behavior and a feeling of unappreciated superiority going back to elementary school, was trying to show the Cuban officials that he was a person of importance who should be allowed into that island Communist paradise. His anger toward the class structure in the U.S., in which he was firmly planted at the bottom rung, and his disillusion with the USSR for failing to recognize his true worth and sticking him in a miserable radio factory, fueled his passion to do something "big", starting with his attempt at General Walker, then culminating in his "success" in killing the President.

[PMCarey]

and don't spout off against fellow freepers with information based on CIA stooge Posner

Note the typical response of a conspiracy buff. When confronted with uncomfortable facts, attack the messenger and enlarge the conspiracy.