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.

[FreedomCalls]

You mean there are street signs somwhere in Texas that DON'T have multiple bullet holes in them? Show me.

[f.Christian]

Oswald reminds me of that cia guy who didn't know he was used for lsd experiments that jumped out the hotel window ...

crazy - duped - stooge - dead (( convienently )) and no one else is talking !

Pretty much what people say and believe is their own bias and reality has nothing to do with it ... for some people --- completely - always !

[Shooter 2.5]

Three.

[John H K]

The lib magic show goes on...and on...and on.

The Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy promotion strikes me as far more of a LEFTIST activity...blaming the CIA, etc. etc.

I mean, Oliver Stone is the guy who made a (laughably inaccurate) movie about it, not some right-wing director (not that there are many of those, of course.)

And it's the leftists that have created a God-cult around Kennedy and the Kennedy family (Ironic because in many practical policy ways he was a DINO, a Democrat-in-Name-Only.)

[nwrep]

This is nonsense. Oswald had atleast 7 other accomplices, three of whon were in Dealey Plaza, one of whom is actually visibly armed in the Zapruder film. Two others in the crowd used various motions (including opening an unbrella) to help Lee and the other assassin time their shots. At least 3 other accomplices were in various parts of Dallas at the time, and one was in Cuba. Oswald's gun dealer was on the phone with John Foster Dulles at the same time, while the Pentagon was getting ready to cut off all radio communication on cue from one of the assassins. The Sydney Morning Herald on that morning was in the process of tysetting the lead story of the assassination hours before it happened.

And they tell us Oswald acted alone.

HAH!!

/sarcasm

[Adrastus]

Say, somehow I get the idea you guys doubt ABC and their research. Next thing is an expose of the Easter Bunny.

[templar]

Worlds finest marksman using one of the finest, quickest, and most accurate bolt rifles ever made. Of course it could be done by a single man acting alone.

[jd777]

The anniversary of JFK's death is coming up... ABC and Peter Jennings want to keep you informed of what's going on.

[John H K]

I've often wondered if Hinckley had successfully killed Reagan, would there now be a gigantic cottage industry of books and movies about the "Plot to kill Reagan conspiracy" linking Hinckley to the KGB, Cuban agents, AFL-CIO, etc. etc.

My conclusion is "yes" especially if somehow Hinckley had killed Reagan and then Hinckley had been shot by the Secret Service immediately after he shot Reagan or something.

[The Wizard]

I have a beautiful bridge in downtown Tombsdtone you can buy cheap.

[Bigun]

The oldest acronym around, relating to computers, is STILL relevant today it seems!

GIGO!(garbage in garbage out)

[CWOJackson]

You had better believe it. You would have people, with tons of convincing evidence of course, that could prove Vice President Bush was behind it, Tip O'Neil, Jodie Foster, the Pentagon, Gorbichov and Mr. Goodwrench were all responsible.

[BBell]

ABC: Oswald did it
But I thought Drew Carrie was the former Marine.

[The Wizard]

do you read anything besides the NY Times and watch any TV CBS....

[winker]

This is the BIG LIE! Tell it consistently over and over and a falsehood becomes truth. Hitler perfected it and Jennings and Company continue to refine it!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Really I thought this was Bush’s fault!

[BBell]

ABC: Oswald did it
But I thought Drew Carrie was the former Marine.

[The Wizard]

do you read anything besides the NY Times and watch any TV CBS....

[Adrastus]

You're probabley right. You don't suppose the object of the exercise is to establish the ability of the left to expose the "truth?" All in the interest of intellectual honesty, of course.