JFK conspiracy theory 101 - a lesson in ambiguity

Reuters ^ | Fri 21 November, 2003 | Jon Herskovitz

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Kennedy was not shot in the back of the head. He was shot in the his right front forehead which blew out the back of his head...

I don't want to start whipping this 'dead horse' again and start a whole big discussion but there is no evidence for that conjecture. I used to think the same thing but after looking closely at the Zapruder film and autopsy photos...I can't support it.

Well we're only fifteen minutes into the ABC program and they conveniently omitted the fact that the top of Kennedy's head was blown clear out and from the right front.

I thought that as well and figured that we were going to get a typical Jennings hand job...but it did come in the second half of the program.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

But when they do, there's no room left to wiggle. Oswald, three shots, from the sixth floor of the Depository. It's the only possibility.

Agreed. I used to be a big multiple shooter theory supporter. But now...not so much.

[texasbluebell]

I never heard it before! It's really fitting too.

[TLI]

" you tell me if it sounds like a "popping noise," okay? "

Hey, don't ask me, you need to direct that to someone that was standing there.

Ummm, that would be WC witness Arnold Rowland.

Posner strongly attacks Rowland's credibility (6:229-230), but time and time again Rowland proved himself to be a careful observer and a credible witness--not a perfect witness, but a credible one. According to Posner, Rowland said the crowds started to laugh after the first shot. "No one else," says Posner, "reported such a reaction" (6:230). But this is not really what Rowland reported, as Posner surely should have gathered from reading Rowland's testimony. What Rowland said was that many of the people around him started to laugh, or "chuckle," at the sound of the first shot because they mistook it for a firecracker or something (2 H 179). Rowland added that the only bystanders who did this were those who couldn't see the motorcade. It is a well-known fact that many witnesses did indeed mistake the first shot for a firecracker.

That is straight from the Warran Commision Report and Posner (author, "Case Closed")

Without being able to see anything that would alter the initial interpretation of what they heard, most thought they heard a firecracker.

TLI

[TLI]

Echos. An equal number of people, if not more, were pointing to the sixth floor of the depository.

Well, that would make sense considering there were probably three shooters.

TLI

[KC_Conspirator]

Its the reason that the first place authorities ran to the 6th story window was because so many people saw the rifle sticking out of the window. Futhermore, the TX governor is clearly turned to look over his right shoulder because he heard the shots coming from behind him, a fact he states and its shown on the Zapruder film.