Posted on 11/01/2003 11:59:35 AM PST by 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.
EXCELLANT point!
So there, neener neener
And nanner nanner booey to you too!
Seriously, the first error is that Oswald could not have worked the bolt-action rifle three times in the time alloted.
The problem with this is that the rifle was loaded and only required one pull of the trigger before reloading for the second and third shots.
And yes, I could do it. So could many here.
Are you familiar with any kind of firearms?
Probably closer to the truth than you would think. The JFK assassination had very little to do with classic liberal-vs.-conservative matters. Oswald was trained at the spook base at Atsugi, Japan and had links with Naval Intel in the late '50s. Somewhere personal enemies like Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover, Oswald entered the clandestine realm. If he did it alone he's the greatest post-mortem "ghost" serial killer of witnesses and those who knew too much in history. ABC is full of crap. As usual.
Kennedy was a seriously flawed man and a questionable president, a hero for liberals, etc. But an intelligent group planned and designed that little episode in Dallas. Haven't been so many post-event convenient suicides since...well...since all of Clinton's friends... [irony]
Someone has gone to extraordinarily bizarre lengths to try to get people to buy the Oswald as "lone nut"/"lone gunman" crapolla. It's safe to say Oswald did not fake JFK's autopsy photos. He couldn't have killed William Bruce Pitzer or Rose Cheramie. Too many weird and odd details in the JFK maze for one marine, whatever the marksmanship skills. There was a "badge man." There was smoke on the grassy knoll. Eyewitnesses have testified to that. There was a man with an umbrella, for God's sake. Fake myserious agents confiscated cameras and film. A powerful cabal organized this. They weren't "conservatives." Neither was LBJ. If ABC is "in" on the absurd cover-up, we can assume they share some agenda with the assassination cabal. Follow the money...connect the dots... You can't hoodwink all of the people, all of the time. As much as they try... ABC also shut down valid investigations of Clinton.
Fletcher Prouty, a loyal American, had nothing to gain by coming forward. To believe Oswald acted alone you have to asssume all those other witnesses were insane or hallucinating. Oswald is in New Orleans in 1963 with other spooks involved with Cuba. Come on...
It is really quite simple. I dont know why people continue to argue over whether or not Oswald killed Kennedy, when at the same time that it is official government policy that Oswald acted alone, it is that same government providing all the reasons for interested parties to doubt that conclusion.
What ever happened to critical thinking?
We use diversions to cover up almost anything we dont want to show or share. Flat-chested women get big fake boobs. The fact that the woman is still flat-chested, is completly forgotten, because the diversion steals all the attention. When the diversion is sexier than the truth, the truth disapears from view, and can hide forever in plain site.
We are stuck arguing whether the shots came from the front or the back, while what we KNOW is that JFK's brains ended up in Jackie's lap, and his scalp ended up on the hood of the car, until Jackie retrieved it. So, where did the bullet come from? Who the hell cares?
Why does no one ever ask anymore why there were bullets flying in the first place? Because how things happen is easier to accept then why.
Are you sure about that? I think 'someone' has gone to even more extrordinary lengths to make sure that while they push that story, that almost no one believes it, setting up a argument-vortex that has sucked all other options out of the story.
Now, what you have to ask is what is so important underlying all this which requires such outrageously absurd "debunking"...
The primary deformation of the bullet is the flattening seen on the upper portion of the bullet, and only at the rear. The entrance wound in Connally's back was longitudinal, suggesting the bullet was tumbling after leaving Kennedy's neck. It would have continued to tumble upon entering Connally's wrist and probably stuck the bone side-on, near the rear, slightly flattening it. The bullet weighed 158.6 grains. Other similar bullets weighed an average of 161 grains.
Here are the fragments sugically removed from Connally's wrist:
The fragments are composed of lead and trace elements identical to those of the inner core of the bullet. They weigh 2.3 grains.
LOL! Thanks for the best laugh of my day!
So do I. That doesnt make it true, however.
Consider a situation where the President of the United States gets his head blown off in front of hundreds of people. If you were the government, would you want people to think you KNOW what happened? Can you imagine the public reaction if the government came out and said they DIDNT know? What would the impact be to our national security if our enemies had reason to believe our government did not know how it's leader was killed?
I havent seen anything proving that the government knows what happened that day, but I have seen a whole lot of evidence from the government trying to convince the world that they know. And how best to do that? No matter what story told, there would be doubters, right? So it makes sense to me, (though I honestly dont know) that they would easier convince you that they know, by giving you what would appear to be obvious BS regarding Oswald, which would suggest more strongly to most people that they DO know what REALLY happened, but that they just dont want to tell YOU.
Diversions.
Whether it's some faction in the 54-12 Group or some other government-corporate cabal doesn't matter in terms of showing Oswald cannot be the one master-minding the whole thing. The Mafia could not exercise control over the Secret Service, Dallas Police, FBI, CIA, AND the Warren Commission.
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