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The Supreme Court said Thursday that gun cases involving restrictions in Hawaii, California, New Jersey and Maryland deserve a new look following its major decision in a gun case last week. In light of last week's ruling — which said that Americans have a right to carry a gun outside the home — lower courts should take another look at several cases that had been awaiting action by the high court, the court said. Those cases include ones about high-capacity magazines, an assault weapons ban and a state law that limits who can carry a gun outside the home. Supreme...

Abstract Mainstream dietary recommendations now commonly advise people to minimize the intake of red meat for health and environmental reasons. Most recently, a major report issued by the EAT-Lancet Commission recommended a planetary reference diet mostly based on plants and with no or very low (14 g/d) consumption of red meat. We argue that claims about the health dangers of red meat are not only improbable in the light of our evolutionary history, they are far from being supported by robust scientific evidence.

Conspiracies surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s death may be most widely circulated. However, one theory questioning our understanding of Robert F. Kennedy’s murder in 1968 has arguably gained more recent traction, including from those closest to the assassination and even one immediate member of Kennedy’s family. According to the Post, Kennedy’s second oldest son now believes, after months of research, that his father was killed by a second gunman. “What Bobby Kennedy Jr. has done, he’s launched a whole new generation of conspiracy nuts who are going to believe that Sirhan didn’t do it and that somebody else did,” he...

"Feelings come first, and evidence is used mostly in service of those feelings. Evidence that supports what is already believed is accepted, that which contradicts it is not."

Is there anything left to be said—or seen—when it comes to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? Just you wait. JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America, a two-part, four-hour special airing on History [Sunday, October 11, 9/8c and Monday, October 12, 9/8c] takes viewers back to November 22, 1963 and tells the story via a timeline using only archival news footage, much of which will be new even to assassination buffs. There is no narration (sorry, Peter Coyote). There are no talking heads. The project’s exec producers Nicole Rittenmeyer and Seth Skundrick used a similar technique in last year’s...

On Sunday night, the History channel be gins a remarkable three-hour, two-part program on the assassination of JFK, perhaps the best on that subject you will ever see. And even if you think you've seen it all and can't bear to see it again, well, then think again.

The tone and tactics of the Birther movement—those who dispute Barack Obama’s American citizenship and consequently, his legitimacy as America’s 44th president—are eerily familiar. Birthers embody that mixture of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy” that historian Richard Hofstadter indelibly called the “Paranoid Style in American Politics.”[1] But before the liberal-left chortles too loudly about the GOP being in thrall to this ragtag group of right-wingers, it would do well to remember its own problems with conspiracy theorists. Truthers and Buffs are the liberal-left’s own variations on Birthers. Truthers, of course, claim that Bush administration neo-conservatives engineered the 9/11 attacks...

The JFK files - 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,

Notes on a Strange World Facts and Fiction in the Kennedy Assassination Massimo Polidoro Investigating historical mysteries is, possibly, one the most fascinating and rewarding aspects of the work of a skeptical researcher. Mysteries that appear to have no possible solutions, that could certainly be termed “cold,” can, sometimes, become clearer thanks to a more careful investigation of the original sources and also to the advancements of science. Think only of the many historical enigmas and crimes that DNA-testing techniques have helped to solve, like the riddle of Anastasia Romanoff’s claimed survival (Gill 1994, 1995) or the real origins of...

It is a tantalizing tape recording, full of static hiss, popping sounds, and eerie faraway voices. And for years, there has been debate over whether it proves there was a plot to kill President Kennedy. Now, a new analysis of the tape recorded by a Dallas police officer on the day Kennedy was assassinated casts further doubt on the lingering conspiracy theories. Although some previous studies have suggested that one of the sounds on the tape is a gunshot from the infamous "grassy knoll," forensic acoustics expert Bob Berkovitz said it was extremely unlikely that the sound was gunfire. "The...

The acoustic evidence in the Kennedy assassination Michael O'Dell   In 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that there was probably a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy(1). This conclusion was primarily based on acoustic evidence contained in Dallas Police Department radio recordings. An NRC panel later disputed the HSCA conclusions. In 2001 D. B. Thomas(2) published a paper that rehabilitated the original findings. This report demonstrates that the prior reports relied on incorrect timelines, and made unfounded assumptions that when corrected do not support the identification of gunshots on the recording.    History In 1978 the House...

Posted on Thu, Nov. 21, 2002 Museum curator seeks to solve JFK mysteryBY MIKE COCHRANKnight Ridder Newspapers DALLAS - (KRT) - It was 39 years ago today, a Friday, in fact, that President John F. Kennedy was slain on the streets of Dallas.For researchers such as Gary Mack, the echoes of gunfire in Dealey Plaza remain as haunting as ever.Maybe more so."There's crazy stuff going on," Mack says. "It's so screwy, now, that there are people out there who are actually confessing to having a role in the crime."There are people who claim they were on the grassy knoll...

10/26/2001: Friday US Special Forces Begin Hunt For Carrot Top "Enough is enough," said President George W. Bush as he announced plans for a "war on prop comedy" in a press conference yesterday. The President has vowed to root out all prop comedy in all its forms and bring its practitioners to justice. He also said that the United States sees no difference between prop comics and the night clubs which harbor them. The military action, code named "Operation Enduring Heckles," got underway this morning as American aircraft began carpet bombing areas outside of Los Angeles where Carrot Top is ...

J.F.K.Conspiracy a KGB hoax? Soviet spy agency planted evidence, says researcher Paul Mitchinson National Post Did the CIA conspire to murder president John F. Kennedy? According to a 1997 poll, just over half of Americans consider the direct involvement of federal officials in the assassination either "very likely" or "somewhat likely." But one U.S. researcher believes that the public is fingering the wrong conspiracy for the wrong crime. Max Holland, a Research Fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, says that newly released documents suggest that the KGB might have planted critical evidence about CIA involvement in the assassination. ...

A Dallas Police Department recording contemporaneous with the Kennedy assassination contains five impulsive sounds that have the acoustic waveform of Dealey Plaza gunfire. One of the sounds matches the echo pattern of a test shot fired from the Grassy Knoll. The shock wave precedence associated with this pattern is consistent with the muzzle velocity of a .30 calibre rifle. Criticism of the acoustic identifications on statistical grounds is based on erroneous assumptions concerning the assignment of values to the parameters that determine the probability that random noises could resemble gunshot patterns. A conservative estimate of the true value of the ...

New study of JFK assassination ---- Thread 6 Fred25's introductory comments: Please DON’T post any pictures on this thread, to save thread download time. Post only LINKS to pictures. Here’s an update of what’s going on with this series of threads..... This is a serious and mature discussion of the JFK assassination. No flaming or bad name-calling allowed. I sent FReeper mlo a copy of three audio interviews conducted with Lee Harvey Oswald at WDSU TV in New Orleans in August of 1963, and mlo is going to transfer that tape to a Real Player or some kind of internet ...