Posted on 08/21/2004 6:58:10 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Digital analysis of the only known recording of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy will try and determine if more than one gunman was involved.
Scientists at the Lawrence National Laboratory have begun work on a digital scanning apparatus captured on a plastic Dictaphone belt at Dallas Police Headquarters November 22, 1963, the New York Times said.
The audio was captured when a motorcycle policeman inadvertently left his microphone open.
The federal Warren Commission concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald was a 'lone gunman,' firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository above Dealey Plaza.
But a US House committee that investigated the shooting 15 years later concluded that four shots were fired, including three from the Book Depository and one from another location.
Leslie Waffen, archivist for the National Archives, said that by using digital analysis to map the sounds, scientists could remove extraneous noise like static and distant noises to reveal the gunshot.
Results aren't expected for at least a year, the newspaper said.
OK, I give up. How do you "capture" a "digital scanning apparatus" on a "plastic Dictaphone belt" ?
In 1963?
Where was George W. Bush on Nov. 22, 1963?
More interesting than that is the fact that the motorcade's route was not announced until the "day before" on November 21. But LOH took the rifle into the building two weeks before Kennedy's visit.
Do you recall that the man that drove Oswald to work that day swore that the "package" he carried into the building fit between his arm pit and his hand. Much too short for even a disassembled rifle. that man, Ruth Payne's husband" never wavered in that point.
"Almost makes you want to have a drink and make a waitress sandwich."
Yeah, you can do those things when you have the Kennedy Special Edition Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card.
1. The bullet that went through his back and Governot Connolly remained intact (the so-called "pristine" bullet found on the stretcher at Parkland), but the other fragmented and opened up JFK's skull; they were obviously not the same type. The latter obviously had a thin jacket in order for that to happen, whereas the former was extremely thick. I could buy the idea that LHO had different types of rounds in the Manlicher-Carcano rifle, but what are the odds?
2. JFK's Atty Gen (RFK) was viciously and relentlessly in pursuit of organized crime, and killing RFK would've resulted JFK's replacing him more than likely with someone just as determined. But taking out JFK would have solved the problem for organized crime.
So in my mind, there had to be another shooter, and it could have just as easily been courtesy of organized crime.
Sorry! I actually believe LBJ had something to do with it. No proof, just that he was ruthlessly ambitious enough. He also had the means and the most to gain.
Kind of reminds me of the part in Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" where one group is making its way late at night through the underground tunnel system to pull off a kidnapping and they run into another group also on its way to do a dirty deed. It was one of many funny parts of the movie.
If this story goes big next year, we may not have to want 10 more years for the full record to come out!
But the FBI assasination teams weren't established until 1978.
In the 1963 Hoover era the FBI concentrated on recovering stolen cars, they were not trained marksmen.
Both bullets have been idenfified as coming from the same batch. The difference is where they hit. The head shot was direct on Kennedy's skull, the other was slowed by going through the bodies of Kennedy and Connelly without striking bome until it ihit the latter's rib sideways.
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