ABC: Oswald did it

Dallas Morning News ^ | 11/1/2003

[sinkspur]

Network debunks conspiracy theories with digital re-creation

Using a computer-imaging process roughly akin to video games, ABC News has constructed a forensic tableau that it says proves Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

"What it does is prove unequivocally that Oswald was the only person in Dealey Plaza that day to fire," ABC anchor Peter Jennings said this week.

The digital reconstruction, created for the upcoming Nov. 20 special Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy , was the result of a decade of work by author and animator Dale Myers.

Using maps, blueprints of Kennedy's limousine, measurements, about 500 photographs and each frame of the 16mm amateur film shot by Abraham Zapruder in Dealey Plaza, Mr. Myers created a virtual reconstruction of the assassination that can be viewed from multiple viewpoints.

The technique is based on new imaging technology and is beginning to be applied as an evidentiary tool in courtrooms. ABC said Mr. Myers' assassination reconstruction was independently evaluated and endorsed by other forensic analysts.

By viewing the assassination from multiple perspectives, it is an "inescapable conclusion" that the shots that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally came from Oswald's perch in the former Texas School Book Depository, said Tom Yellin, executive producer of the special.

In the video re-creation, only Kennedy and Connally are shown in the open limousine they rode in Nov. 22, 1963. "It will be shocking to people to see it. It is not our intent to shock people or use this gratuitously," Mr. Jennings said.

"But in order to have people understand the point we're making – that Oswald acted alone in Dealey Plaza that day, to use this to prove what we are able now to prove – this technique is indispensable," he said. "I am amazed how the animation invokes the real event."

Although the Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Oswald acted on his own, the Kennedy assassination has been the focus of conspiracy speculation for four decades and has spawned about 500 books. Part of the reason for the public's suspicion is because of government secrecy that for years shrouded details of the event, Mr. Jennings said.

[Eastbound]

Check this

[Excerpt from the link:]
"When the Police hauled Ruby away from the murder scene, not far from the hallway where Oswald shouted out to the press, "I'm just a patsy," Ruby shouted out, "I've been used for a purpose."

[Major_Risktaker]

WOW! This is one clean and smart bullet. If your version was the truth then why close the books for 50 years or more.

Governor Connally's Wrist Wound and CE-399

Mr. SPECTER. And could it [CE 399] have been the bullet which inflicted the wound on Governor Connally's right wrist?

Colonel FINCK. No; for the reason that there are too many fragments described in that wrist.

Another expert.

Mr. SPECTER. Now looking at that bullet, Exhibit 399, Doctor Humes, could that bullet have gone through or been any part of the fragment passing through President Kennedy's head in Exhibit No. 388?

Commander HUMES. I do not believe so, sir.

[elbucko]

It's what really drives most conspiracy theories; the refusal to believe terrible things can be done by insignificant people,...

I think that phenomenon also applies to "criminal masterminds". Most criminals are just plain stupid. When they accomplish some crime, in a spectacular way, it is usually only by accident and not design.

[elbucko]

Not only must they address how a bullet can change trajectory in mid-air; they also must demonstrate why, if struck from behind, Kennedy jerked backward and not forward.

You haven't been to a shooting range or hunted much. If I told you a lighter bullet in the same gun would shoot lower, you wouldn't believe me. But it's a fact that every good re-loader knows. Bullets can and do some surprising things in flight and in flesh.

[Skywalk]

Not disputing your personal experience, but I think the back and forth on this thread is ignoring a more important point than whether Oswald was the lone SHOOTER. What I'm more interested in knowing is whether he was part of a larger conspiracy, possibly by the mafia? to kill Kennedy.

I mean, Jack Ruby shooting him is what clinches it in my mind.

[11Bush]

Well, he is from Texas...

[Shooter 2.5]

Was "Panicked" the reason he emptied a revolver at Officer Tippets?

Little hole in, big hole out.

[Pukin Dog]

Would it not be more interesting, to consider why the government has gone to great lengths to insure that most people think it was a conspiracy, by both presenting a scenario that is easily disproved, while also providing evidence of a conspiracy that cannot be proven?

Dont both scenarios presented only lead you away from what might be something other than the two popular conclusions? Didnt the government give each of us an "either-or" decision, leading us away from asking other questions, outside of the 'presented' evidence; insuring that this issue is NEVER solved?

[tpaine]

Please. We have far to many 'expert shooters' on FR as it is.
Belaboring the known facts about bullets doing "some surprising things in flight and in flesh" adds nothing.

Address the timeline of the three Oswald shots, or the how the 'magic' bullet hasn't enough missing particles to account for those in the Gov's body.. -- No one has, to date.

You'll be rich & famous.

[Momaw Nadon]

[ALASKA]

Was "Panicked" the reason he emptied a revolver at Officer Tippets?

Could be. If I thought I was being set-up in the assassination of the century, I think my self-preservation mode would kick in and I am not sure what I would do. Also, several witnesses to the Tippett shooting did not identify Oswald as the shooter and said that there were two people at the car instead of one. Time analysis has also shown it to have been impossible for Oswald to get from his boarding house to the Tippett shooting site in the time he had. Again, too many strange things.

[Cicero]

I've always assumed that Oswald did it, and did it alone, although the press may have suppressed some details, such as his connections to the Soviet Union and Communism.

Apart from that, this is typical network nonsense.

Earth to ABC: YOU CAN'T PROVE A NEGATIVE.

[InvisibleChurch]

*sigh* i remember the old days when abc used to take the news and skew it to their own agenda, but now they just make it up

[Redwood71]

Great! Now we can finally get an explanation of how the two bullets came from the front side and through the limo windshield one going through Kennedy's throat the opposite direction than Oswald's position behind and high, and how the bullet that passed through Kennedy's left shoulder and struck Connelly, and stayed with the guerney, from a position that matched up with the Bank of America building across the street from the book suppository. They can also finally enlighten me on how Kennedy's head snapped back, up and to the left from a shot that lines up with the gutter opening that has a tunnel that leads roughly 100 yards from the sight and out near the base of the overpass from where two more shots had lined up and CIA was located. I'm also dying to know, since Oswald was a lousy shot in qualifying for the army, how he got off so many shots in a brief time with a lousy weapon that even experts with the rifle were unable to accomplish with any regularity and not on a one time effort.

I'm on the edge of my seat to know the truth. But I get the opinion that I'm going to stay there. The truth is out there, but only Disney could build a ride to make it look that way. I love a good comedy. And one starring Peter Jennings in the lead is almost as good as the Keystone Kops and just as looney.

[altura]

Yeah, I've known all along that Oswald did it and alone, but when my daughter saw that stupid movie I had to get her the Case Closed book to get her mind right.

You'll know the movie I mean ... but I can't think of the name of it. Tommy Lee Jones was in it, etc.

[NicknamedBob]

What I found most illuminating was the TV show footage of the scene from a storm drain on that same street. Let's see, president riding in an open convertible, head shot, head apparently pitching backwards, and a really easy unseen stroll to the river.

Oswald acted alone? Sure.

[dtel]

Here is a diagram of Dealey Plaza, why oh why would the SS let them make these sharp turns instead of heading straight out Main St.?

[P.O.E.]

JERRY: Newman, Kramer, if you'll indulge me. According to your story Keith passes you and starts walking up the ramp then you say you were struck on the right temple. The spit then proceeds to ricochet off the temple striking Newman between the third and forth rib. The spit then came off the rib turned and hit Newman in the right wrist causing him to drop his baseball cap. The spit then splashed off the wrist, = In mid air mind you = makes a left turn and lands on Newman's left thigh. That is one magic luggie.

[Arkinsaw]

Well, Oliver Stone was the beloved of Hollywood. They touted him, held him up, awarded him and loved him. Then he made JFK and you would think he was the craziest man who ever lived. They examined his life, criticized him, made fun of him, called him names.

Why? Because the movie JFK said something that the liberals wanted to dismiss as ridiculous and that required "shooting" the messenger. At least thats my guess. From the most beloved of the elite to the most hated. Mysterious.

[tet68]

Not with a Mannlicher Carcano for a weapon. This is the epitome of inaccuracy.

Ahem, actually no, these types of rifles were used by the Italian Olympic team, and are certainly NOT the epitome of inaccuracy that they have been made out to be.

This too was the long barrel version not the carbine as I understand.