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To: word_warrior_bob; y'all
You've read the Bugliosi book? How does he reconcile the timeline problem I've outlined in post #16?

The proper timeline shows that Oswald had plenty of time and that it was not a hard shot for him, and he only actually scored 1 out of 3 of the headshots he was attempting.

From that answer it is obvious you haven't read either the new book, my post 16, or Specters theory in the Report.

When you position the jump seat in the limo correctly, (as has been done with computer recreations)

Garbage in, garbage out. "Positioning seats" in re-creations is garbage theory.

the bullet wounds line up perfectly, there is no ?magic bullet?.There?s a reason the bullet wounds line up, the only place they could have come from is the Book Depository, the wounds line up properly and the damage done to the bullets and people are all as they should be. There is nothing mysterious about anything that happened.

Yep, that's what you pro-report mavens say happened. No proof, but you insist. - Why?

Every shred of REAL evidence (using todays technology too) shows the only place the bullets could have come from to produce the damage they did was from Oswalds perch. The myths about the quality of the rifle and the quality of the shooter and the skill required are all MYTHS. The MYTH of the magic bullet has been debunked numerous times too, for anyone who cares to listen. Oswald is as guilty as OJ is you bother to do some reading/research.

How can I dispute such finely honed logic? Yep, its all MYTHS..

I?ll probably read Bugliosi?s book, 1600 pages is quite a task, but what he?s done is put 1600 pages together of things that I?ve already read about, there will be little new for ME in the book. For the rest of you who believe in a conspiracy there will be PLENTY of new information for YOU.

There is no proved conspiracy.
We only have the facts as put forth in the Report, and as we can see from the Z-film. They don't add up enough to prove Oswald was 'a lone gunman'.
Apparently, Bugliosi's book has no new facts.

The case remains open.

147 posted on 06/03/2007 12:19:37 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: y'all
Epic book resurrects finding that Oswald acted alone in killing JFK

Bugliosi picks only the evidence that backs his argument

Address:http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp/07154/790575.stm

>> Bugliosi - Like any experienced prosecutor, he highlights the evidence that furthers his case while ignoring or confusing contrary evidence.

Examples of this approach can be found almost everywhere in the book.

Take his spirited defense of Warren Commission junior counsel Arlen Specters single-bullet theory.

Bugliosi agrees that this theory, that Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally were hit by the same bullet, is necessary to conclude that Oswald acted alone. He also acknowledges that the theory was developed by Specter and other commission staff members in the spring of 1964 to save the single-assassin conclusion.
He also notes that when the time came to approve it, the commission split down the middle.

To his credit, he tells us Connally denied from first to last that he was hit by the same bullet that hit Kennedy. His wife, Nellie, testified that she heard a shot and saw the president react to being hit. Only then did she see and hear a second shot crash into her husbands back.

Bugliosi tells us Nellie Connally was confused and that her husband relied upon her confusion. However, you will find nowhere in Bugliosis book the fact that no witness in Dealey Plaza could attest to both men being hit by the same shot or that the FBIs review of the Zapruder film led them to conclude Connally and Kennedy were hit separately.

He tells us that Dr. Malcolm Perry at Parkland Hospital estimated the size of the supposed bullet exit hole in JFKs throat to be - 3 mm to 5 mm in diameter, but he neglects to tell us that wound ballistics experts at Edgewood Arsenal carried out experiments showing bullets from Oswalds rifle would cause exit wounds two to three times that size.

Even more egregious is his handling of the trajectory through JFKs back and neck. A face-sheet on which notes were taken during the autopsy shows the supposed exit wound in the throat to be higher than the entry wound in the back.

When the autopsy photos were finally produced in the 1970s, a medical panel concluded that the course of the bullet through Kennedy was at an upward angle (the accepted number is 11 degrees). So how does Kennedy get shot from the sixth floor of a building when the bullet takes an upward path through his body?

The Warren Commission took the simplest course. The staff let the autopsy doctor instruct a medical illustrator to raise the back wound from the back to the neck.
Commission member U.S. Rep. Gerald Ford then corrected a final draft of the panels report to read neck wound rather than back wound.
Voila, a back wound had become a neck wound.

Faced with that 11 degree upward angle, the House Select Committee on Assassinations took a more inventive approach in its 1978-79 investigation. It just leaned Kennedy forward at the time he was shot.

And Connally, who took a shot at a 27-degree downward angle? His body position was leaned back a sufficient amount.
Voila, an 11-degree upward angle through one body had become a 27-degree downward angle through a second body, thus a straight line had been maintained.

Like any good prosecutor, Bugliosi admits it was upward but never tells us how much. Then he publishes a diagram from the Houses report showing Kennedy bent forward.

He says in a caption that the diagram shows - his head tilted forward slightly more than it actually was as shown in the Zapruder film.

Thats quite an understatement since the Zapruder film never shows Kennedy bending forward at all.
Hes sitting erect in the back seat waving to the crowd. Then when the limousine travels behind a sign and emerges three-quarters of a second later, hes sitting erect but wounded.

The Zapruder frames contained in Bugliosis book show Kennedy never took the position he had to take for the Warren Commission’s single-bullet theory to work.

Bugliosi gets it to work by telling his readers only part of the story and by using a diagram even he admits is inaccurate. This prosecutorial approach infects the whole book and makes it unreliable as a guide to the evidence.

149 posted on 06/03/2007 1:06:11 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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