Posted on 11/30/2003 10:28:12 PM PST by whammerjammer
Running down a footnote to assassination
By Colleen Cason November 23, 2003
In the one day and four decades since President Kennedy died in Dallas, we Americans have been served a cafeteria of conspiracy theories.
Almost nothing is too tough for some to swallow. They take heaping helpings of the Mafia and CIA, garnish with an evil cabal of Texas businessmen and sprinkle on LBJ and Castro.
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A recent ABC News poll indicates 70 percent of Americans believe JKF's assassination was a plot.
Only 22 percent accept the official finding that Lee Oswald acted alone.
Most Americans favor conspiracy scenarios even without knowledge of the oracle of Oxnard -- the mysterious whispering woman who predicted Kennedy's death 20 minutes before shots rang out in Dealey Plaza.
This tantalizing tidbit ran in the former Star-Free Press the day after the assassination. The Los Angeles Times and Associated Press carried similar accounts.
According to the unbylined story in The Star, a call came into the old General Telephone office on C Street in Oxnard at 10:05 a.m. Pacific Standard Time Nov. 22.
Two supervisors manning the switchboard overheard a woman whisper: "The president will be killed at 10:10."
Moments later the woman reportedly revised her statement, saying softly "It won't be 10 after 10; it will be 10:30."
The operators dismissed it as a prank -- until news reached them that the president indeed had been shot around 10:30 California time
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The odds of that are rather remote as well. As someone has already pointed out, the witness somehow was able to determine Oswald's height and weight as well. This person was supposedly standing in front of the building and looking almost straight up at the 6th floor of the TSBD. It was supposedly on the basis of his report that a police call went out for the arrest of Oswald almost immediately after the shots were fired. This alleged source of how Oswald was originally identified as a suspect has actually been a source of more conspiracy theories.
The picture was taken only seconds after the last shot, and Oswald most likely took a quick glance out the window to observe the chaos he had caused. He really didn't appear to be very bright to me, and this confirms it.
Also I can't tell if that is LHO or anyone else and I don't see how you can.
Take a look at Oswald's left eye in this picture (right as we see it) and notice how it slopes downward:
The face in the window does exactly the same thing. That is not a common feature in people. Besides, it just looks like him.
The man in the window is standing right next to the open window that the shots came from. He simply stood up when he was done, moved two or three feet and looked out the closed window.
The photo itself is not in dispute, it was taken by Tom Dillard seconds after the final shot. I'm not debating whether Oswald acted alone, or even that he was by himself on the sixth floor, only that it is him in the window, which means he was not a patsy and had something to do with it.
Some witnesses saw Oswald up there with a black man, and I still believe the magic bullet theory is not believable and there was a shooter or more on the knoll.
Gun residue was found on Oswald's hands I believe, but not his face.
As far as his not being tired after running down 4 flights of stairs... that was always something that struck me as being odd as well. But somehow he did it, or pretended to because I can't see how the picture is lying. It really looks like him to me, but I guess it's a matter of opinion.
Additional related info *here*.
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See post #70. There's a new one there for you.
Nice compilation. You've got a resource there well worth bookmarking on its own merits.
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The arrow indicates the "dent" in the limousine's windshield top chrome molding. The angle of the photograph makes it tough to tell for sure, but it looks like a missed shot from the front penetrated there, bending the metal out and to the rear. That's the maddening thing about this topic; the actual evidence is either missing, destroyed, sealed away or obfuscated. The questions are never answered, and likely never will be.
Possibly. Could also be bullet jacket damage from a shot from behind. Or maybe it's more *magic bullet* damage.
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It does in the context of brain activity and perception which is why I brought it up.
Directional sound bouncing off concrete and buildings, things moving, brain perception, chaos, people looking all over and pointing in every direction, and a film that clearly shows JFK's head blowing up after being shot in the back of his skull, Connelly and his wife being thrust forward from the shots, etc. Too much evidence to buy into the they "it sounded like it came from the grassy knoll" theories.
Okay, okay, just as long as it wasn't the Macgyver film....
[ntnychik, see post #62....]
The events in Dallas were also the subject of an 2-hour episode of the TV show Quantum Leap [Fifth season opener] in which *Sam* the protagonist *jumps* back in time into various characters' bodies and circumstances, some historically well known, some obscure. But without spoiling, I bet you can figure who and where he was on that day in Dallas....Oh, boy...
Added. Please ping me if you come across any new assassination threads. Thanks.
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