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Dictabelt has been impeached as evidence of conspiracy, RGPII

Don Thomas disagrees. He says the timing of the Dictabelt's sound impulses matches the Zapruder film's visual indications of gunfire. He cites a 4.8-second gap on the Dictabelt between what he views as the third and fourth shots. "On the Zapruder film, the gap between the crucial two shots is 4.8 seconds. Would random noises occur with that exact same timing ?" - Reader's Digest

Let's hope we hear of the restoration of dictabelt tape number 10.

Dr. Thomas started this silly mess about the Dictabelt and quite understandably harbors resentment about his baby being aborted two times in a row.

Dictabelt #10 is also in ruins in the national archive. Dictabelt's soft vinyl material was intended to be used once, stored for a short time, and then discarded. I believe that the high tech digital restoration technique currently being performed on it (if the project still exists) will produce a very high quality digital image of a very awful degraded recording from Dallas, 1963.

If they clean it up to where they claim that they have restored it to brand new, I wouldn't buy the claim any more than a Hollywood plastic surgeon claims that he's restored Liza Minelli's gay ex-husband's face to brand new.

Either way, whether it's restored or unrecoverable, this element of the manufactured JFK conspiracy will go on and on and on and on in the minds of conspiracy buffs.

I think it's several decades overdue to declare the 1982 conclusion that the Dictabelt recording shows no evidence of conspiracy no matter how much Dr. Don Thomas wants it to.