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.

[The Wizard]

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

[lawdude]

Did you know that John Kerry is a Viet Nam vet?

[Shooter 2.5]

Add the supposed "bombs" in the OKC building, the supposed "bombs" in the twin towers and the supposed "bombs" that wrecked the Pentagon.

Thar's gold in selling crap to the rubes.

[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!

[The Wizard]

Posner is a CIA stooge asshole and if you believe him, you'd belive cows fly

[tpaine]

PaulJ wrote: I always laugh when people say the government is keeping the truth secret. Since when can the governmnet keep anything secret?

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The goverment published the truth in ~parts~ of the Warren Report, but used it to come to the wrong conclusion..

Their own 'single bullet theory', together with the film, proves that at least one other shot was fired, other than the three by Oswald.

Where it was were fired from & by whom we will never know.
The 'report' was just another  botched government job.

[gg188]

Keyser Soze.

Great movie. Think others here know what you are referring to?

[Adrastus]

I stand corrected.... still not possible, though.

[F16Fighter]

"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.

Hasn't ABC gotten the memo yet from it's viewers pronoucing their rule of thumb to deem ANY dime-store opinion by Peter Jennings as pure unadulterated horse-sh*t?

[Shooter 2.5]

Yep. Great movie. I was wondering if the original post would get any attention.

[Bigun]

Read "Case Closed" by Gerald Posner and you'll conclude the same.

I have, along with several other volumes of his, and HAVE reached a conclusion. Posner is an IDIOT!

[Shooter 2.5]

A Boy Scout could have made those shots.

[PaulJ]

Paul is dead.

[John H K]

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, and even after the rumors made it out and there were plastic model airplane kits of the supposed "F-19" they got the appearance and the designation of the stealth fighter TOTALLY wrong (remember, it was supposed to be smooth and curved?).

[Adrastus]

Not with a Mannlicher Carcano for a weapon. This is the epitome of inaccuracy. Add that to the screwed up sights and I'd be glad if next time I got shot at it'd be with one of these beauties.

[gg188]

Few movies are able to pull off that dramatic device of a surprise ending like that---where you don't know the ending until the VERY END.

BTW, I guess you'd say The Usual Suspects is a quintescential "guy flick." It's number 17 all time on IMDB.com for male voters; I don't think it's on the list for female voters.

[LibKill]

Sir, I have seen a re-creation of the view from the "sniper's nest" a few years ago.

The fact is that any trained rifleman could have made that shot.

The biggest problem that the conspiracists have is this:

A LOSER with a JUNK RIFLE changed history.

It's kind of hard to accept, but that is what happened.

[tpaine]

Adrastus wrote:
I stand corrected.... still not possible, though.

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Exactly.. Oswald's three shots, plus the film timeline prove the impossiblity of the single bullet theory..

Yep, -- a boy scout could have shot three times, just like Oswald, and never made that 'magic' bullet work.

[ErnBatavia]

I've been there and looked out the window he was suppose to have shot out of...don't buy it.

So have I, and it appeared to be an easier shot than I'd assumed, given all the various theories.