1963 Kennedy Killing to Undergo Digital Review (National Forensic Lab/Natl Archives)

FOX News and New York Times ^ | 8/20/04 | UPI staff

[Izzy Dunne]

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

OK, I give up. How do you "capture" a "digital scanning apparatus" on a "plastic Dictaphone belt" ?

In 1963?

[Pepper's_Paw]

One thing I have NEVER seen discussed: In the Warren Report (I read the condensed version), The FBI foung about a quarter inch "slop" where the scope was attached to the rifle. The FBI had the scope remounted and realligned before either the FBI or the military attempted the shots Owsald was suppopsed to make. NONE of the FBI agents were able to repeat what Oswald was supposed to have done. The military was able to dublicate the shots AFTER numerous tries.

[Fresh Wind]

Where was George W. Bush on Nov. 22, 1963?

[stockpirate]

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.

[Pepper's_Paw]

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.

[speedy]

"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.

[stockpirate]

No I don't remember that, but a real good book on the subject is titled, "Best Evidence" It was written by a man with only 6 Phd's and worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab.

The other book is "Six Seconds in Dallas".

This book is an examination of the Zup. film by a physicist as to how the body moved in the film and that that indicated where the shots came from.

[Marauder]

Two points about the JFK assassination that I've never seen mentioned:

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.

[leadpenny]

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.

[jwpjr]

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.

[gopwinsin04]

The pristine bullet taken off the stretcher has always bothered me as well.

If this story goes big next year, we may not have to want 10 more years for the full record to come out!

[Oztrich Boy]

NONE of the FBI agents were able to repeat what Oswald was supposed to have done.

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.

[Oztrich Boy]

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

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.