Posted on 06/01/2007 5:36:49 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
A storied former prosecutor scrutinizes one of the most debated crimes in American history The murder of President John F. Kennedy has provoked by far more suspicion, argument, obsession, and especially book-publishing than any similar event in American history. Now famed lawyer and true-crime writer Vincent Bugliosi has produced what he hopes will be the book to exceed all others. "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" may do that, in weight (5.3 pounds) as well as content, but it's clear that if his editor hadn't insisted he turn over the manuscript after 21 years of labor, the almost-superhuman effort might have wrecked his health.
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He's a good writer, has a keen legal mind and most importantly, he's got no political axe to grind.
Leni
I was at Dealy Plaza last week and I overheard one of the “guides” explain there were seven assassins. The way he explained it, they were all behind the picket fence. That scenario must have sounded like a warzone.
As I was leaving, another of the guides was explaining about the “explosives” going off just before the planes hit the Twin Towers.
Sometimes it can be pretty entertaining but only in small doses.
He was here in Dallas last week for a book signing and I missed it. I would have loved to sit back and watch him disassemble the “theorists” who would have shown up.
Dont you find it a bit strange that Oswald was assassinated by a Mafia bit player , that RFK was assassinated, that Monroe committed suicide , that Hoffa was killed, that Jackie married a geeky albeit powerful greek who could protect her?
Yeah - lone assassin rrrright.
I mean it sincerely when I say that I would have a hard time not socking someone in the diaphragm if I heard that crap. I hope you shredded them in full public view with the truth. At least I hope you at least guffawed or called bullshit on them.
Prove it. Tell me exactly who shot Kennedy, where they were standing and how that scenario matches the trajectories.
Every single “theorists” has to out and out lie in order to claim some sort of wacked out conspiracy.
I’ve read that Joe DiMaggio believed that the Kennedys killed Marilyn Monroe. Reportedly they were about to remarry at the time she was found dead.
For the first guy, I was laughing hysterically. Some others in his crowd basically gave me a thumbs up. Later, I had a chance to talk to him and he had no idea how the shooting occured. He was just mouthing nonsense to the tourist rubes for tips.
The second guy? I was on my way out and yelled out a disgusted “Jesus Christ” and kept walking. What an idiot.
How many more years do we have to wait for JFK’s White House recordings and papers to be released and what will remain 50 years after his death?
Will his guardians have purged what they couldn’t bury?
Already released and nothing worth adding to what was is already known.
I'm not a conspiratorialist, but I do have a difficult time believing that this was a one man job who just got lucky.
There is a “improvised” historical lecture on assassins by a genuine UT professor. He may be playing a character but he looks at the Texas capital building and wishes someone would blow it up. Doesn’t strike me far off of the damned intellectual mindset. “Listen to ME...”
Question authority, especially of those who see themselves as the arbiters of unwritten “truths”.
I think its plausible that Oswald got off all shots but for sure he was not acting alone. I think the mob and KGB were in cahoots - maybe Johnson too.
The RECORDINGS have been released? I mean, they made a whole book of LBJ’s recordings (things like his “insurance” letter against the Houston Chronicle to not criticize his administration in exchange for letting a bank merger go through).
It was JFK who had the taping system installed in the White House that would eventually get Nixon in trouble.
I wonder how Vince deals with the facts that using the Warren Report itself, and the Z film:
- We can throw out the 1st shot at an [early] frame in the 160's, as JFK disappeared [to Oswald] in the foliage at frame 166. - Unless it missed, which is contradicted by most all other evidence.
At frame 166, - Oswald would have had to be standing, - or seated leaning far out of the window, - in order to achieve the steep downward angle to his target, - which was also moving away down the street to the right.
Tough shot, which he probably did not take.
We are then left with this sequence:
First shot at frame 210, - 'neck' hit.
Cycle bolt [2.3 seconds] aim, fire, miss. [curb hit?]
Cycle bolt [2.3 seconds] aim, fire, head shot [frame 313].
The shot at frame 210 is still at a fairly steep down angle, with the limo going to Oswalds right, making it even more difficult to line up the single bullet with JFK's wounds - and Connelly's wounds.
Thus, the 3rd shot is the 'easy one' from Oswalds position, with the down angle decreased and the limo going fairly straight away.
All told, the sequence of shots that Specter dreamed up has major flaws. - And has never been duplicated convincingly .
Dont you find it a bit strange that Oswald was assassinated by a Mafia bit player , that RFK was assassinated, that Monroe committed suicide , that Hoffa was killed, that Jackie married a geeky albeit powerful greek who could protect her?
Almost sounds like all the deaths surrounding the Clintons.
That's exactly the thing that has bothered me about this shooting for all these years. For a poor shot like Oswald to have made those three shots in the time and place he did would have required him to train long and hard with that rifle. I don't believe that Carcano rifle, scope, and mount would have held up long enough for him to fire the number of shots he would have had to fire to achieve the degree of marksmanship expertise he would have needed to fire those three final shots.
do you have any links? Joe did send flowers everday for years and years.
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