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Notes on a Strange World Facts and Fiction in the Kennedy Assassination
Skeptical Inquirer ^ | 2/22/2005 | Massimo Polidoro

Posted on 02/22/2005 7:54:29 PM PST by mlo

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To: UnBubba

ditto!


21 posted on 02/22/2005 8:26:21 PM PST by standing united (The second amendment does not stand for the right to hunt, but to over throw a corrupt Gov.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Posner says Oswald did it, and backs it up.


22 posted on 02/22/2005 8:26:58 PM PST by Perdogg (Rumsfeld for President - 2008)
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To: mlo
Connally was sitting lower, in the middle of the front seat of the car.

Well, at least that "fact" is wrong. Connally was next to his wife in the middle of the car, not in the front seat. Sloppy work.

23 posted on 02/22/2005 8:29:16 PM PST by PAR35
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To: mlo
"November 22, 1963. President Kennedy arrived in Dallas, Texas, during the election campaign."

Hello?

24 posted on 02/22/2005 8:29:40 PM PST by Radix (The new Tag Line is presently under construction and will be WITH us shortly.)
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To: Kate of Spice Island
Reader's Digest has something about Kennedy this month.

A rehash of the Dictabelt recording of the motorcycle cop's open microphone that supposedly recorded all of the shots fired at Dealy Plaza that day.

Some engineers have developed a fascinating method for creating a digital copy of the recording so that it can be analyzed digitally. It will likely reveal...nothing.

25 posted on 02/22/2005 8:29:41 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: scab4faa

That would be a feat. For the real shooter, imagine the pressure, the potential for a fight or capture and the fact that he had never worked on that range before. To recreate something, IMO, is far easier than to pull it off under the gun (so to speak).


26 posted on 02/22/2005 8:31:03 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (What if they had to hold a bake sale to pay for the salaries at NPR?)
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To: mlo
" -- They almost seem to react at the same instant, in the enhanced version of the film seen by the commission."

There's a new one. Someone "enhanced" the Z film back in '64?

27 posted on 02/22/2005 8:32:21 PM PST by P_A_I
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To: Perdogg

Well, the Warren Commision said the same thing. They all might be right and I might be wrong, but whoever did it, if they did it as claimed, was a true wizard.


28 posted on 02/22/2005 8:33:49 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (What if they had to hold a bake sale to pay for the salaries at NPR?)
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To: Perdogg
Posner is very "selective" in his presentation.. Harold Weisberg's works are better in scope and research. In fact Weisberg wrote about Posner's reported research. I think it was entitled, "Case Open!".

As far as the Warren Commission, it was not a homicide investigation..therefore it is unlikely that the case will ever be solved.

29 posted on 02/22/2005 8:35:24 PM PST by lawdog
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To: mlo

Sadly, JFK being shot was the turning point in the MSM. So many up and coming "stars" lost their virginity due to that event. They had their heads in the clouds of Camelot, and this brought them crashing down, turning them cynical.


30 posted on 02/22/2005 8:36:28 PM PST by ProudVet77 (It's boogitty boogitty boogitty time!)
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To: mlo

Jim Marrs' Book was the one used for the basis of JFK.


31 posted on 02/22/2005 8:37:40 PM PST by longfellow (You're either with US or from Hollywood! Ultimateamerican.com)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Interesting that Kennedys' brain has been misplaced. Is that not convienient?


32 posted on 02/22/2005 8:39:02 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (p)
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To: Texas Songwriter

Teddy's is preserved in alcohol.


33 posted on 02/22/2005 8:40:39 PM PST by longfellow (You're either with US or from Hollywood! Ultimateamerican.com)
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To: mlo

Figure 2 is of course correct. And the so-called "magic" bullet was anything but pristine; not fragmented, but bent out of shape.

When the first shot was fired, JFK yelled, "I'm hit!" because Oswald's first round splattered on the sidewalk and some fragments apparently hit JFK on the back of his head. Yet most people think it was the round that went through his throat, then on through Connally, that was first. He could not have yelled anything if that had been the case. This could also account for many on the overpass who insisted that a round had ricocheted near them. It was Oswald's second round that went through the two men.

But the second round (that went through both JFK and John Connally without fragmenting) and the round that fragmented and blew apart JFK's skull were two different types of rounds. Had his skull been hit with the same thick FMJ, it wouldn't have had the disastrous effect as seen on the Zapruder film. The only two likely scenarios for this was (1) for Oswald to have had different types of rounds in his magazine, or (2) for there to have been another shooter somewhere.

Just my opinion, of course; like many others, I could be wrong.


34 posted on 02/22/2005 8:40:51 PM PST by Marauder (I drink to make other people more interesting.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Reader's Digest has something about Kennedy this month.

A rehash of the Dictabelt recording of the motorcycle cop's open microphone that supposedly recorded all of the shots fired at Dealy Plaza that day.

Some engineers have developed a fascinating method for creating a digital copy of the recording so that it can be analyzed digitally. It will likely reveal...nothing.

The article was kind of off target.

The dictabelt didn't record any shots, the mic wasn't in the motorcade. Those things they called shot impulses happen a minute after the real shooting.

We have digital copies of the dictabelt now. The Archives is trying to find a way to reproduce the original in its possession but copies were made in previous decades before the original deteriorated.

35 posted on 02/22/2005 8:43:17 PM PST by mlo
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To: Allan

Bump


36 posted on 02/22/2005 8:44:48 PM PST by Allan
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To: longfellow; Texas Songwriter

A missing, shattered brain preserved in alcohol would explain a lot about Teddy's behavior, wouldn't it?


37 posted on 02/22/2005 8:46:33 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (What if they had to hold a bake sale to pay for the salaries at NPR?)
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To: mlo
Then there was the claim that the fatal shot originated from a sewer opening.



No, I'm not kidding.
38 posted on 02/22/2005 8:48:59 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Marauder

Different ammo would sure bugger things up for the shooter, too.


39 posted on 02/22/2005 8:49:42 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (What if they had to hold a bake sale to pay for the salaries at NPR?)
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To: Texas Songwriter

How about interrogating a "cop killer" and the suspected assassin of the President of the United States without any recording device of any kind ... even a stenographer and yes they did have tape recorders in 1963.


40 posted on 02/22/2005 8:49:42 PM PST by lawdog
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