There have been many many documentaries, and even more books and discussions, about the assassination.

In 2013, on YouTube, a series was launched by Black Ops Radio.com named 50 Reasons for 50 Years, hosted by Len Osanic.

This series of short documentaries first aired in January, with the last episode airing in December of that year.

I followed this series start to finish.

Recently (in the summer of 2016) I watched it again, this time within a span of less than 3 days, and taking various notes as I watched.

I was surprised at how many questions I was left with to research on my own.

The following is a list of the episodes I felt I needed to look into a bit deeper:

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 12

Kennedy's very first reaction to being shot occurs at frame 195 of the Zapruder film, and at frame 207 (where he disappears behind the Stemmons Freeway sign) his right hand slowly comes up to his throat just before he fully disappears behind the sign.

Connally doesn't react until a second later, at frame 224.

Since the Oswald rifle can't be recycled that fast, and since any bullet exiting Kennedy (let’s keep in mind there was no exit wound in his chest) would be traveling much faster than that, it can only be concluded that Kennedy and Connally were indeed hit by two different bullets, and thus by two different rifles from two different locations by two different shooters. Conclusion: conspiracy.

However, this conclusion wasn't made in 1964 by the Warren Commission, but in 1979 by the House Select Committee of Assassinations (HSCA).

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Upon examining the Zapruder film frame by frame using this site http://assassinationresearch.com/v2n2/zfilm/zframe001.html I spotted two important things:

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1. Rosemary Willis, the little girl in the red dress and white jacket and scarf, is running along the left side of the limo in the grass of the meridian from the moment we see the limo, and STOPS at frame 188. According to her own statement she heard a loud noise that attracted her attention. (something in the direction of the TSBD was obviously more important than watching the President)

2. At frame 195, JFK is visibly reacting to being shot in the throat. The Zapruder camera filmed at 18.3 frames p/s, which means there were only 7 frames between the time Rosemary stops running, and where JFK first reacts to being shot. So if 18.3 frames are shot in one second, this means that 7 frames are less than one second. More along the lines of 1/3 of a second.

 

Thank you Rosemary for being there!

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• since the throat shot could have only come from the front, given the location of the limo and JFK at that very moment, and the fact that there was no entry wound in the back of his neck to prove the shot came from behind, the shooter would have been positioned either behind the picket fence or behind the alcove. Between frames 188 (throat shot) and 313 (head shot) are 125 frames, which amounts to approx. 6.8 seconds. This leaves the grassy knoll shooter with ample time to recycle his rifle, aim and fire a second time.                         But we have to assume he fired both shots (throat and head) with a silenced rifle. Which makes sense if the TSBD had to have been the only place people were allowed to hear shots from in order to set up Oswald. Marilyn Sitzman, who was Zapruder's assistant, was never questioned by the Warren Commission, or known to have given sworn affidavits to the FBI and the Secret Service.                           However, she has said to several interviewers “… if any shots had been fired from there [ibid. grassy knoll] it would have been done with a silencer. Or that last part of the film would have shown a jumpy reaction.” And that makes a lot of sense.

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 20

According to this episode, the squad car that honked the horn in front of 1026 North Beckley Avenue was number 207.

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http://gaylenixjackson.com/jfk-assassination/earlene-roberts-and-the-misnumbered-squad-car/

This website shows a letter from Dallas Police Captain Jones to Dallas Police Chief Curry, dated December 24, 1963.

One of the things mentioned was the investigation, and interest, into police unit #207.

Earleane Roberts states to the Warren Commission that unit #170 usually stops and honks, and mentions that she “worked for them”, but that it wasn’t unit #170 that stopped and honked that particular day. She thought it might have been #106.

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[ excerpt from her Warren Commission testimony ]                            Vol. VI - Page 443 + 444

Mr. BALL - "You remembered the number of the car ?"
Mrs. ROBERTS - "I think it was--106, it seems to me like it was 106, but I do know what theirs was--it was 170 and it wasn't their car."

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Mr. BALL- "On the 29th of November, Special Agents Will Griffin and James Kennedy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed you and you told them that "after Oswald had entered his room about 1 p.m. on November 22, 1963, you looked out the front window and saw police car No. 207?"

Mrs. ROBERTS - "No. 107."

Mr. BALL - "Is that the number?"

Mrs. ROBERTS - "Yes--I remembered it. I don't know where I got that 106---207. Anyway, I knew it wasn't 170."

Mr. BALL - “And you say that there were two uniformed policemen in the car?”

Mrs. ROBERTS - “Yes, and it was in a black car. It wasn’t an accident squad car at all.”

 

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However, Mrs. Roberts was known to make up stuff (as so indicated by her employer Mrs. Gladys Johnson), so anything she says can’t be taken as 100% solid truth.

The interesting part of the above webpage is the information regarding unit 207, which was apparently sold by the DPD in April of 1963 to an Elvis Blount of Sulphur Springs, who owend a used-car dealership. If Mrs. Roberts did see unit #207 that day, it wasn’t owned by the DPD anymore and therefore the uniformed patrolmen in this unit were not actual policemen. So why were they there, and who were they?​

It's easy to make a conclusion that they might have indeed been signaling Oswald (or his lookalike) for whatever reason.

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It was in this episode that I learned of T.F. Bowley's​ amazing statement. Reading his actual affidavit is an absolute must!

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 21

This one is about Oswald’s visit to the Texas Theater.

It recalls a statement made by Butch Burroughs, who claims to have sold popcorn to Oswald at 1:15pm, and who apparently told "Harvey & Lee" author John Armstrong in a 1987 interview, that he watched Oswald sit next to a pregnant woman.

This woman went to the upstairs ladies room and was never seen again.

Patron Jack Davis says Oswald sat next to him in the nearly empty theater where the main film, "War is Hell", was about to start at 1:20pm, and then proceeded to sit directly next to at least two other people, before eventually settling next to the pregnant woman.

A second young man, who apparently also fit the description on the radio, had been arrested in the balcony and taken to the alley behind the theater around the same time. This young man was wearing a white shirt. Oswald wore a brown shirt over a white shirt.

 

Warren “Butch” Burroughs, who was 22 years old at the time, tells Joseph Ball, in his testimony before the Warren Commission, that he never saw Oswald come in, in which case any statement to the contrary (being 1:07 when he was counting candy, or 1:15 when he presumably sold Oswald some popcorn) are dismissed.

However, let’s consider another statement made to Mr. Ball by Mr. Burroughs:

 

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Mr. BALL - “Were you ever in the Army?”

Mr. BURROUGHS - “No, sir----they tried to get me, but I couldn't pass----I passed the physical part, but the mental part----I didn't make enough points on the score, so the board sent me a card back and classifying me different.”

 

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Burroughs admits to having a problem with his mental state (this could be a failing memory or perhaps he was just a bit slow), but this might attribute to the variety of times and statements he has given. So, can any of his statements be trusted?

I would love for either of his statements to be 100% true, despite the time of 1:07pm being very difficult to explain, but 1:15pm would have been easy for Oswald to accomplish.

 

As for Jack Davis’ statement of Oswald changing seats several times, Hasan Yusuf made this interesting observation on his blog: http://jfkthelonegunmanmyth.blogspot.nl/2012/10/oswalds-escape-from-tsbd.html

 

“4.      What was the conspirators excuse to Oswald as to why he was to go to the Theatre?

 

In my opinion, Oswald was tricked into believing he was to make contact with someone inside the Theatre. The evidence for this is the fact that patrons, such as Jack Davis, saw Oswald change seats and sit next to a number of different people. This makes sense if Oswald was searching for a contact.”

 

And actually, that holds some logic.

Why else would he choose to sit directly next to a stranger in a nearly empty theater, only to sit next to someone else seconds later?

 

[ Ibid. it has never been explained by Burroughs how he knew Oswald entered the Theater around 1:07 pm ]

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 24

Osanic's opening statement: "President Kennedy's body was removed from the state of Texas at gunpoint, and returned to Washington where it would undergo one of the worst autopsies in a murdercase."

 

As far as I know the removal of the body was done with force, but not at gunpoint. It was against Texas law to remove the body of a murder victim from the state without performing a proper autopsy to ascertain the cause of death, and to perhaps help prove who did it, but the Secret Service detail felt that Jackie, and her now late husband, needed to go home.

At Bethesda Naval Hospital the autopsy was performed by doctors Humes and Boswell, neither of which, by their own admition, had any experience whatsoever with gun shot wound autopsies. And this was the body of their president they would be working on!

An autopsy by qualified pathologists may have resulted in a better understanding of which direction the headshot came from, as well as the other wounds. Not to mention finding out the type of bullets that were recovered from the body.

And perhaps this was the whole plan, because had they been 6.5 mm bullets, it would have been an open and shut case.

Also there has been speculation that because the wound in Kennedy's back was not through and through and thus the bullet couldn't have traveled on to Connally, the Warren Commission opted to move the neck wound up 5 inches to line up with the throat wound.

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 27

Dallas D.A. Henry Wade, Nov. 22, 1963: "He's been both charged with the killing of officer Tippit and John F. Kennedy. I figure we have sufficient evidence to convict him. There's no one else but him."

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That's a pretty open & shut statement to make when the only evidence they had at the time of his arraignment was:

 

• that Oswald matched the description of the shooter                                 (his height and weight could never have been accurate!)

• that he worked at the TSBD                                                                             (as did many other people)

• that he was the only one missing from the TSBD after the shooting       

• that he was a suspect in the Tippit murder                                                  (he didn’t match the description of the witnesses there)

• that he was a suspected communist who defected to Russia and was seen handing out Fair Play For Cuba leaflets

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How could anyone have taken Wade seriously after making such an unfounded announcement?

He was a well known prosecutor in Dallas, and obviously fed off of Curry’s stupid remarks, but the only thing he had on his mind was a quick conviction.

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 34

Mark Lane discusses the anomaly of the Secret Service credentials on the grassy knoll, and how the CIA might have had a grip on Secret Service. Could this have been the input of the 112th MIG?

 

The statements of Col. Roberts of the 112th MIG, the Military Intelligence Group, sheds light on this.

I found his statements after e-mailing Len Osanic about Fletcher Prouty and CIA involvement with Presidential security, and Osanic told me that Prouty’s 'B Team' was placed higher in the hierarchy than the CIA, and more or less had close contacts with the 112th MIG.

A more in-depth look at the 112th MIG can be found here: http://metaljeeper.wixsite.com/november1963/the-cia-link

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 36

"Into the nightmare" author Joseph McBride explains his views on why Oswald could have never killed Tippit.

One of his claims was that Tippit was shot around 1:09 pm, according to witness T.F. Bowley.

But McBride seems intent to discredit Tippit by claiming he was 'enrolled' to hunt down and kill Oswald at the first chance he got, and he empthasizes this by saying he was in financial trouble and an adulterer.

 

The Bowley time seems plausible since he signed a sworn affidavit that he noticed the time of 1:10 pm on his watch when he arrived at the Tippit scene, and that a few minutes after relaying their location to the dispatcher, an ambulance arrived and that he even helped put Tippit’s body on the stretcher and into the ambulance.

He noticed Tippit’s gun laying under his body and later put it on the hood of the squad car, and eventuallly somewhere inside the car, from where a man who was at the scene, (identified to the Dallas Police by Domingo Benevides to be Ted Callaway) took the gun, got in a cab with the idea to find the shooter! All this is mentioned in the same affidavit.

He also describes how Benevides failed to understand how to operate the police radio, which is why Bowley radioed dispatch in his stead.

T.F. Bowley is much more credible than Hugh Aynesworth ever was, and Bowley’s time of 1:10 pm is on record and proves that Tippit could have never been killed by Oswald at 1:15 pm or otherwise.

 

McBride’s claim that Tippit was ordered to kill Oswald is unsubstansiated. However, other stories by other researchers claim Tippit was killed because his look and build was similar to Kennedy, and that his body might have been used as a double for photographing. (think of covering up the damage of the head shot) It’s far-fetched, but plausible.

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 38

This episode points to the 7.65mm Mauser that was found on the roof of the TSBD.

The finding of the rifle was buried, but not before it was filmed, and noticed by Roger Craig.

This made it impossible for the story to ever go away. I will admit I began to doubt Craig's claim of "and stamped right on the barrel of the rifle was 7.65 Mauser", because this rifle was brought to the attention of Captain Fritz, who was standing next to Craig at the time, and roughly at the same time, 1:06 pm according to Craig who made a note of the time the rifle was presented, a patrolman told Fritz that a police officer had been shot in Oak Cliff. Because my research could not in any way confirm the time of Tippit's shooting to have occurred before 1:09 pm, I dismissed any claim Roger Craig made.

 

John McAdams: "Craig did change his “Mauser” story. In 1968 he told the Los Angeles Free Press that the Mauser was found on the roof of the Depository, and didn’t challenge the rifle found on the sixth floor as a Mannlicher-Carcano."

 

It's noteworthy that patrolman Marrion L. Baker and TSBD super-intendant Roy S. Truly, more or less skipped the 6th and 7th floors and went straight to the roof because Baker had seen a flock of pigeons take off from there during the shooting.

But neither Baker, not Truly, ever found anything up there.

 

John Kornfeind: [the 6th floor window] "Anyone shooting from there should be seen taking aim downward and would obviously show up the way Williams and Jarman do on the fifth floor in the Dillard photo."

That's a very good point! Not to mention the distance between the barrel of that rifle and the heads of the three Negroes (no more than 12 feet). The bullet would have crossed in front of their faces, and ANY shots would have scared the shit out of them.

Perhaps even made them pull back inside. This didn't happen. Could the shooter have indeed been on the ROOF of the TSBD after all??

The pipe seen sticking out the window by Amos Euins, and the shells that were later found there, being misdirection?

In the documentary “Evidence of Revision”, Roger Craig mentions "and stamped right on the barrel of the rifle was 7.65 Mauser.”

It wasn’t until after this documentary that he revised his statement and mentioned that the Mauser was found on the roof and later brought down. Still, with T.F. Bowley making the call over the police radio that an officer had been shot in Oak Cliff, Craig’s time of 1:06 pm is compromised again. Perhaps his watch was a few minutes slow? Or Bowley’s watch was a few minutes fast?

In the same documentary, Craig mentioned that Arnold Rowland told him he saw the shooter in the East corner while there was a coloured man in the West corner. This was, of course, the other way around.

The 'coloured man', Bonnie Ray Williams, was never in the West corner.

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BlackOpsRadio - "50 Reasons ... 50 Years" - Episode 41

Gerald McKnight explains that Senator Richard Russell and Chief Justice Earl Warren didn't want to be on Johnson's Commission, until LBJ basically told them that unless the lone gunman theory was upheld, right wingers in the government would look to attack the Soviets as retaliation for the slaying of their president by a conspiracy of communists. They didn't want that on their hands.

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Johnson actually played it just like that.

He didn’t bully or blackmail Russell and Warren into joining the Commission, he ordered them.

And when they still turned him down, he pushed on their hearts and duties as American patriots and loyalists.

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