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.

[Oztrich Boy]

The only really legitimately decent job of keeping anything of significance secret recently was the Stealth Fighter; it was around and operational for a while even before the Aviation Leak & Space Technology stuff started,

That was a brilliant piece of misdirection. Sometimes I wonder if Tom Clancy knew, becuse everthing he wrote about the Stealth in Red Storm Rising is completely wrong (except the manufacturer's name).

But even in this case, the most accurate early speculation on the shape was published in a Soviet publication circa 1980.

[Squantos]

Awww Bullhocky..........with enough digital reconstruction I can prove Peter Jennings did it !

Stay Safe Sinkspur...........:o)

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Peter Jennings is involved? This show will find a way to blame Bush.. 160 posted on 11/01/2003 4:10 PM PST by cardinal4

LOL!

Actually, that's already been done, I believe.

[LibKill]

Got any of them more bolt actions that "only required one pull of the trigger before reloading for the second and third shots"?

Yes, one bolt-action rifle. Also, my first ever rifle was a bolt-action .22. You might say that I grew up on bolt-action rifles. A bolt-action rifle with a 4X scope would make a fine weapon for an Oswald.

Many more that I wish I'd never sold.

We have something in common. With a few exceptions, I never sold a gun that I later wished I had not. Nowadays I only buy, I never sell.

[tpaine]

All right, we've established you know how a bolt action works.
-- Where are your comments on how Oswald managed to work his in the time & manner allowed by the Z film, when no one else has ever done so?

[LibKill]

Slick, this is growing old, fast.

I tend to think that one idiot with a junk rifle did it.

You seem (to me) to think it was more than that.

Let us agree to disagree.

FReegards, FRiend.

[tpaine]

I'm not slick.
And I'm not 'friends' with clowns that call me slick.

[LibKill]

Sorry about that. No disrespect meant. I apologize, humbly.

[Brilliant]

Breaking News!!!!! Oswald did it!

[Adrastus]

Ahem, actually I was referring to the manufactureers name and not the model. But if you insist, by all means, he did it and with the rifle shown in the photograph of it being held up by a member of the team that found it.

[Hildy]

Here we go again! It's always these threads which make me wish my Dad was alive. He was an EXPERT on all things Kennedy assassination. Wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, was writing a book about Jack Ruby when he died. His conclusion: ACTED ALONE. And he had the facts to back it up.

[LibKill]

And I'm not 'friends' with clowns that call me slick.

On second thought, you seem to be "stuck up", as in full of yourself.

I withdraw the FRiends comment. I would never be friends with a stuck-up person.

[Adrastus]

The Warren Report was/is a joke. Since when does an investigation announce at the outset when it will be complete. Unless you have a conclusion in mind and work your way to it.

[tet68]

I certainly don't INSIST anything other than the fact that the Carcanos were not necessarily the "junk" rifles they were said to be.

Personally, I think Johnson had him killed, he needed the Vietnam war to keep the countries mind off the 'Great Society' scam he was inflicting on future generations.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

What about "The Pentagon Papers"? Not being provocative, just asking your opinion. I saw the recent film of the same name (knowing full well it was probably, if not certainly, leftist propaganda), and they make it seem like Ellsburg managed to outwit the government to get the report to the press.

[StormEye]

"Many elected officials currently in and out of public life. And the idea that not one of them,
in 40 years, has let the cat out of the bag seems ludicrous. And that's what I meant by my
original post. Perhaps there are some folks out there that really do know a different truth.
But I can't imagine a scenario where there are scores of politicians who know the truth
about the Kennedy assasination (and aliens), and are keeping mum."

How many know about the Clintons' treachery and are keeping quiet about it?
Just because they're politicians or government employees doesn't mean they can't keep
their mouths shut about something. Consider, when is the DemonRAT Party going to come
clean about the Clintons? Answer: Never. Because they all support the Clintons' actions and
behavior. And they'll keep quiet about it to protect themselves. Same story with the JFK hit.

[Adrastus]

Either way it's done. BTW, my wife was secretary for an old fellow down home in South Texas (old fashioed country lawyer everybody called him "Mr Junior." He was a through and through Democrat of the old school.)and when the event happened I asked him who he thought did it. He said Lyndon made him very nervous. So that thought isn't so heritical at all.There's been a book recently published supporting the thesis, too.

[Pukin Dog]

Ellsburg should be in prison, but that does not excuse the fact that the government was not honest about the Vietnam war. That fact in itself is meaningless without understanding WHY they were dishonest about it. I think the Pentagon Papers provided many persons a sigh of relief, because again, it provided distraction for a larger problem; that of men who believe they are smarter than the general public, who will lie if necessary to keep that perception of themselves alive. The Vietnam war belongs at the feet of Robert McNamara, a man who in my mind belongs behind bars next to Ellsburg.

The unfortunate result of the Pentagon Papers, was that it became the turning point for the media, who began from that point to not only report, but to decide WHAT was true in a less than objective fashion. They became the fourth branch of government.

[Jemian]

No. I don't know anything about shooting. That's why none of what the government has said makes sense to me. That's why I've been asking questions all my life. No one has ever given me the responses you three have.