Motorcycle Patrolman Clyde Haygood went up to the rail road parking lot, but he didn’t smell any gunpowder, as some said he did.
Neither did any of his fellow police officers, with the exception of Patrolman Earle Brown (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/smell.htm).
Officer Brown was, however, never on the grassy knoll area, and the wind was blowing away from him. He was approx. 150 yards behind the parkinglot / grassy knoll area with the wind blowing from the South West of the plaza to the North East.
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Officer Brown was North West of the grassy knoll, so the smell of gunpowder never would have reached him.
Haygood was also the officer that James Tague talked to and who noticed the blood on his cheek.
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Patrolman Joe Marshall Smith vol. VII, p. 531
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Mr. SMITH - ”I proceeded to the intersection of Elm and Houston, and it was about 9:50 or 10 o'clock when I was on the corner there. At approximately 11:50 or 12 o'clock, there was a white male that had an epileptic seizure on the esplanade on Houston Street between Main and Elm. Well, I went down to see if any assistance was needed, and I stayed there until the white male was loaded into an ambulance and sent to a hospital. Then I proceeded back to my assignment.”
Mr. LIEBELER - “Were there any other officers there in connection with this fellow that had the epileptic fit?”
Mr. SMITH - “Yes; there was one more. He was a radio patrolman.”
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Mr. SMITH - “I started up toward this Book Depository after I heard the shots, and I didn't know where the shots came from. I had no idea, because it was such a ricochet.”
Mr. LIEBELER - “An echo effect?”
Mr. SMITH - “Yes, sir.; and this woman came up to me and she was just in hysterics. She told me, "They are shooting the President from the bushes." So I immediately proceeded up here.”
Mr. LIEBELER - “You proceeded up to an area immediately behind the concrete structure here that is described by Elm Street and the street that runs immediately in front of the Texas School Book Depository, is that right?”
Mr. SMITH - ”I was checking all the bushes and I checked all the cars in the parking lot.”
Mr. LIEBELER - “There is a parking lot in behind this grassy area back from Elm Street toward the railroad tracks, and you went down to the parking lot and looked around?”
Mr. SMITH - “Yes, sir; I checked all the cars. I looked into all the cars and checked around the bushes. Of course, I wasn't alone. There was some deputy sheriff with me, and I believe one Secret Service man when I got there. I got to make this statement, too. I felt awfully silly, but after the shot and this woman, I pulled my pistol from my holster, and I thought, this is silly, I don't know who I am looking for, and I put it back. Just as I did, he showed me that he was a Secret Service agent.”
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So neither Haygood, nor Smith, nor Brown smelled the gunpowder up there on the grassy knoll.
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19948
Patrolman Martin tells one of the most compelling stories of all.
He rode on the left side of the Presidential limousine, approx. 5 feet to the left, and approx. 8 feet behind it. He was the officer who caught most of the spray after the head shot. Now the important part of this is when you factor in the wind direction and speed at the time.
The wind direction was North East, so coming from the South West.
The exact opposite direction the motorcade was travelling in.
When you look at the picture of Mary Moorman and Jean Hill below, you can see how strong the wind was pushing against their rain coats.
In fact, according to Love Field airport that day, the windspeed was 13 knots (approx. 15 mph).
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Officer Martin tells how he turned his body to his right to look at the TSBD when the first shot sounded out.
So his left shoulder was more or less pointing towards the triple underpass, and his chest would be pointed towards Mrs. Kennedy.
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Patrolman B.J. Martin vol. VI, p. 289
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Mr. MARTIN - “After the first shot.”
Mr. BALL - “You looked to your right?”
Mr. MARTIN - “I looked back to my right.”
Mr. BALL - “What did you look at?”
Mr. MARTIN - “At the building on the right there.”
Mr. BALL - “Is that the Texas School Book Depository Building?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes; it Is.”
Mr. BALL - “Did you see anything?”
Mr. MARTIN - “No, sir.”
Mr. BALL - “As you turned to the right, did you turn your motorcycle also, or did you turn your body?”
Mr. MARTIN - “I believe I just turned my body. I don't believe I ever turned my motor. I believe I kept my motor headed down Elm Street - west on Elm.”
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Mr. BALL - “Was there any breeze that day?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes; there was.”
Mr. BALL - “From what direction?”
Mr. MARTIN - “I believe it was blowing out of the southwest at that particular location. It seemed like we were going to turn into the wind as we turned off of Houston onto Elm.”
Mr. BALL - “The wind was in your face?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes; the best I can recall.”
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When he arrived at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Patrolman Martin noticed the spots of blood and flesh on the outside of his motorcycle windshield, front cowling (fender), his left shoulder and the left side of his helmet. Given the wind direction, and the speed of the wind, it is totally inconsistent with a shot from behind, North-East.
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I apologize for the shoddy illustration - this is just for explanatory purposes. A cleaner version is coming soon.
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Mr. BALL - “You had a white helmet on?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes.”
Mr. BALL - “Did you notice any stains on your helmet?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes, sir; during the process of working traffic there, I noticed that there were blood stains on the windshield on my motor and then I pulled off my helmet and I noticed there were blood stains on the left side of my helmet.”
Mr. BALL - “To give a more accurate description of the left side, could you tell us about where it started with reference to the forehead?”
Mr. MARTIN - “It was just to the left - of what would be the center of my forehead - approximately halfway, about a quarter of the helmet had spots of blood on it.”
Mr. BALL - “And were there any other spots of any other material on the helmet there besides blood?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes, sir; there was other matter that looked like pieces of flesh.”
Mr. BALL - “What about your uniform?”
Mr. MARTIN - “There was blood and matter on my left shoulder of my uniform.”
Mr. BALL - “You pointed to a place in front of your shoulder, about the clavicle region?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes, sir.”
Mr. BALL - “Is that about where it was?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes.”
Mr. BALL - “On the front of your uniform and not on the side?”
Mr. MARTIN - “No, sir.”
Mr. BALL - “That would be left, was it?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes; on the left side.”
Mr. BALL - “And just below the level of the shoulder?”
Mr. MARTIN - “Yes, sir.”
Mr. BALL - “And what spots were there?”
Mr. MARTIN - “They were blood spots and other matter.”
Mr. BALL - “And what did you notice on your windshield?”
Mr. MARTIN - “There was blood and other matter on my windshield and also on the motor.”
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Mr. BALL - “Now, was this blood on the outside or the inside of your windshield?”
Mr. MARTIN - ”It was on the outside of my windshield.”
Mr. BALL - “Was it on the right or left side?”
Mr. MARTIN - “It was on the outside of my windshield.”
Mr. BALL - “And what about the fender of the motorcycle?”
Mr. MARTIN - “It was just in the front - right on the front just above the cowling on the motorcycle.”
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For many years people have relied on the images of the famous Zapruder film to help them solve the biggest crime of the previous century. It certainly shows us many details we would have otherwise never known about.
The initial spray we see in the head shot frames can be one of two things:
1. Impact – in which case the hospital pictures would show a much greater entry hole than just the tiny one above the brow – but as soon as the President slumps forward into Jackie’s lap, the back of his head can be seen and it is clean and intact – not the mess we
see in the Bethesda picture taken by James K. Fox.
1a. This causes a problem proving the shot actually came from the front/right. If it had been a high-powered rifle, and then from that position, and a full metal jacket had impacted his right temple, wouldn’t we see that damage in the hospital pictures? Oswald’s small
caliber, hard-nosed copper bullet could never have caused that damage, so we could lightly speculate it could be done by a 30-06.
In any case, Oswald is again acquitted.
1b. If a soft-nosed (frangible) bullet had impacted his right temple from that position, there would have been a visible exit wound on the
Zapruder film as he slumps forward, showing the back of his head blasted open, consistent with the initial hospital pictures.
2. Exit – the spray that covered Patrolman B.J. Martin is inconsistent with a shot from behind, and would mean a shot from the front
right. However the fact that there is no visible wound in the back of Kennedy’s head when he slumps forward, is very consitent with a
rear entry wound, which would be consistent with an extreme exit spray at the front of his head. However the motorcycle officers on
the right of the President would have been covered by the spray, and not the officers to Jackie’s immediate left.
So it’s not only necessary, but imperative that we are able to view the ORIGINAL Zapruder film, as Dan Rather was able to.
One of very few people who have seen this original was Dino Brugioni, together with some of the Secret Service agents.
We see this event in the movie “Parkland”, but of course they don’t show the original Zapruder film in this movie either.
Because until then we have the testimonies of the doctors at Parkland and Bethesda (who say the right occipital parietal lobe was blown away), the lack of a rear exit wound on the known Zapruder films, the many theories, and the Warren Report.
Some argue that the Warren Report is inconclusive, and may have been falsified here and there, but the fact of the matter is that the testimony of motorcycle Patrolman Martin, and the fact that the only officer who claims to have smelled the gunpowder was too far away and way behind the grassy knoll, away from wind direction, to have smelled it, confirms the testimonies and statements made by other officers. And all this can be found IN the Warren Report.
In some of these cases the Warren Commission had ample opportunity to falsify these testimonies, but didn’t.
Could, as it has been speculated for many years, and I will now admit that I have let myself become blind to this for as many years, the Zapruder film that we have all seen so many times, indeed have been falsified, doctored, faked? Film experts and Hollywood special effects experts who have examined the Zapruder film together with JFK assassination experts, have come to the conclusion that frames 374 and 375 show the hole in the back of Kennedy’s head, though difficult to see. And that frames 312, 313 and 314 have been altered.
In their professional opinions the alterations were even poorly done, but well enough to fool the majority of the people watching the film.
Interestingly enough, even the final HSCA conclusion is partly false.
Where they prove that there was a fourth shot fired by a second gunman, and thus a conspiracy, they also agreed with the back of the head being intact, and even raise the entry wound 4 inches (which can’t even be seen on their own pictures) and conclude that is where the bullet entered, and that the exit wound is the big hole at the front.
They completely discounted the pictures taken at the hospitals.
They completely discounted the testimonies of the doctors and nurses at Parkland and Bethesda.
The honest ones, that is.
It’s said, but of course never officially proven, that a company in Rochester, New York, with the covert alias Hawkeye Works, run by Ed Green, had been charged with developing a method of altering certain frames of the Zapruder film.
This company had a running contract with the CIA and often developed the more sensitive films shot by the U2, and later the SR-71, spy-planes. The most startling evidence is now the Orville Nix film, although even Mr. Nix claims he got a different version back from the FBI than he gave them to be copied. But there is one version out there, and thankfully I was immediately able to copy and save it, that shows a partial blow out of the back of the head. The back of Kennedy’s head expands, and Jackie almost immediately reacts by placing her gloved hand over the back of his head, an instant before she jumps onto the trunk to grab a bit of his skull.
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Zapruder film researcher for the ARRB, Douglas Horne, mentioned in his 2011 interview that Dan Rather had viewed the original, un-altered Zapruder film on Monday the 25th of November, 1963, and that he insists he saw Kennedy’s head go violently forward upon being shot in frames 312-313. Horne concludes that the “back and to the left” head snap that we see in the film today “is probably, to some extent, a result of film alteration. If you’re removing frames from a film, to remove the exit debris traveling to the rear, if you want to remove evidence of frontal shots and you’re removing frames of exit debris, you’re speeding up the motion of the body in doing so. So when the new film was created, and the exit debris is removed, the motion of the body is speeded up because there are less frames in the film.”
However, what Mr. Horne doesn’t explain, is how inconsitent the forward motion of the head is with an entry from the front.
It’s not only inconsistent with logic, but definitely inconsistent with the laws of physics.
For many years I've brushed aside any theories with regards to a 'Zapruder film hoax', until one weekend when I focused on frames 312-314, 343, 374 and 375, and noticed the goofy mistakes they refer to in this documentary. It must have been a tremendous operation in such a short time frame to alter this film into something that the government then found too disturbing for the public to see.
This altered version could only have been made for their own archives, and to show their own officials, of course only those with the necessary security clearance.
I'm still not ready to say for certain that a large fraction of the government was involved in the immediate assassination, but I am ready to accept they did whatever they could to destroy any evidence showing more than one gunman.
For some reason it was necessary to frame a simple, unknown 24 year old former Marine who had lived in the Soviet Union and had come home to the United States with a Russian wife and child. It was decided that he had to take the fall. The prep work had been done.
How deep this rabbit hole goes, or how high up in the ivory tower the true culprit sits, we'll never know.
I've never believed in 'the lone gunman' theory, but more in a shooter in the TSBD with a 30-06, possibly one on the second floor of the Dal-Tex (the Altgens picture does show some strange things around the staircase), but definitely a rifleman firing from somewhere on the grassy knoll / parking lot area.
And the missing exit wound in the Zapruder film of THAT particular shot was something that always confused me.
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T h e o d d i t i e s - p a r t 4
The pictures taken by James K. Fox at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland http://www.jfklancer.com/photos/autopsy_slideshow/ are very important to establish just what kind of wounds were actually on the President. Thankfully these picturees were released to the public.
The only picture that I’m aware of that was taken at Parkland was the throat entry wound before Dr. Perry made the tracheal incision, and it also shows the area where the bullet entered the temple. (this can be better seen in the tracheal picture later taken at Bethesda)
The opening Dr. Perry made was nowhere near as large as we see it in the Bethesda picture, and has therefore been the subject of severe scrutiny. Some theorists claim the wound was purposely destroyed in such a way that it not only covers up the entry wound, but that would also suggest that someone tried to dig up the bullet to ensure it wouldn’t become evidence.
Dr. Charles Crenshaw, surgeon at Parkland Hospital: “As I was cutting off his trousers around his waist, I was on the right side, there was a small entrance wound, about 4 to 8 millimeters in size. Clearly an entrance wound in the lower third of the neck, below the adam's apple in the throat. Dr. Carrico had put in the tracheotomy tube to try to assist him with breathing.” ... “The headwound was difficult to see when he was laying on the back of his head. However, afterwards when they moved his face towards the left, one could see the large, right rear parietal, occipital, blasted out hole, the size of my fist, which is 2 and a half inches in diameter. The brain, cerebreal portion had been flurred out and also there was the cerebrellum hanging out from that wound. It was clearly an exit wound from the right rear, behind the ear. A right occipital area hole, the size of my fist.”
Doris Nelson, emergency room nurse at Parkland Hospital: “We wrapped him up .... and I saw his whole head ... There was no hair back there ... It was blown away. Some of his head was blown away and his brains were fallen down on the stretcher.”
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So it’s the right occipital parietal that got destroyed, which is definitely consistent with a shot from the front.
The entry wound in his right temple is real good evidence of this.
The pictures taken at Bethesda confirm this, despite drawings being made by medical illustrator Ida Dox for the HSCA in the late 1970’s, who drew the wound between where it’s seen in the Zapruder film, and where we see it in the Bethesda photo.
Dr. McClelland described the wound to be between the right ear and the right shoulder, and drew it in a spot where he couldn’t have seen it because Kennedy was lying on his back on the gurney – until Kennedy’s head was turned to the left, like Dr. Crenshaw stated.
“The headwound was difficult to see when he was laying on the back of his head. However, afterwards when they moved his face towards the left, one could see the large, right rear parietal, occipital, blasted out hole ….”
For the back of the head to be blown out like that, it would take more rifle than the Carcano with it’s copper jacket rounds.
We’ve seen in a very recent test, shown on the Time website, how that type of bullet can rip right through 34 inches of wood, but leaving only a small hole, and coming out pretty much intact. Much like CE-399.
A wound like what we see in the Bethesda photos is caused by a different type of bullet. More grains, more explosive power.
If there had been no entry wound in the temple, my best guess would have been a man with a 30-06 from the 6th floor of the TSBD.
However, if the head shot had come from a high position behind Kennedy, traveling at a downward angle of 10-15 degrees on an East to West trajectory, the bullet would have exited the left side of his face, blowing away his eye and cheekbone.
No such damage exists on any of the images we have of him. The entry wound in the temple, and the blow out of the occiptial parietal is also highly inconsistent with a shot from behind, but proves a shot from the front.
Along the picket fence parallel to Elm Street. Thus a second rifle, thus a conspiracy. Plain and simple.
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Let’s look at the history of the Zapruder film:
The Zapruder original … developed in secret with Secret Service agent Sorrels … three copies made. So FOUR films then existed.
First generation copies:
Two of these copies went to the Secret Service.
One copy was sold to Life magazine for $150,000.
Dan Rather saw the original footage with Zapruder at his home and reported the wounds inaccurately, but this can be attributed to shock.
Second generation copies:
One of the first generation Secret Service copies was lent to the FBI in Washington which made a second generation copy on Nov 25.
The Warren Commission studied it in Jan 1964, judged the quality to be inadequate, and requested an original copy from Life.
In volume 18 of the final Warren Report, frames 208-211 were missing, there was a visible splice in frames 207 and 212, frames 314 and 315 were switched, and frame 284 was a repeat of frame 283.
J. Edgar Hoover explained in 1965 that frames 314 and 315 were switched due to a printing error, but that it didn’t exist in the original Warren Commission exhibits. In 1967 Life stated that frames 208-211 of their version had been accidentally destroyed, and adjacent frames damaged, by a Life technician on Nov 23, 1963.
Third generation copies:
In 1967, Life had a 16mm copy made of their original by Mo Weitzman of Manhattan Effects in New Jersey, where Robert Groden also worked. Several internegatives were made in 1968. The best of these was given to Life, the rest were kept safely at Manhattan Effects.
Now the ball started to roll.
Robert Groden used one of these new copies with an optical printer to make close-ups, and minimizing the camera’s shakiness.
A new generation of the Zapruder film was born: Generation Four.
Fifth generation copies:
Jim Garrison used a subpoenaed version of Life’s film during his trial against Clay Shaw in 1969, but was this a second or third generation version? This would be the very first time a public was to see the images of the assassination.
Mark Lane borrowed this version from Garrison and had several copies made of it, but these were very low quality copies.
These low quality copies began to circulate among various assassination researchers, and word began to spread among journalists too. Because the viewings of these films had to be done with such secrecy, theories began to develop that the film must be hiding something more gruesome than the assassination itself. The first televised broadcast of the Zapruder film, presumably of one of the low quality fifth generation copies, was on Underground News with Chuck Collins in 1970.
On March 6, 1975, assassination researchers Robert Groden and Dick Gregory appeared on ABC’s “Good Night America”, hosted by Geraldo Rivera, to discuss the Kennedy assassination. Rivera was already against conspiracy theories at this point, until Groden had ABC air the cleaned up, third generation 16 mm film he had brought along.
This version had never been seen before. And it woke everyone up.
Including Geraldo Rivera, whose opinion on the lone gunman theory did a drastic U-turn that night.
American viewers were in shock. Not just from the images they had just seen, but also from being lied to by the Warren Commission.
This viewing eventually led to the forming of the HSCA, and its subsequent investigation.
Time-Life sold the original film and its copyright back to the Zapruder family for $1,00, presumably because they felt that, after seeing the clean version Groden made, they really didn’t have anything special now.
The Zapruder family donated the film to the Nation Archives for preservation and safe-keeping, while retaining full ownership and copyright of it. Oliver Stone paid approx. $85,000 to the Zapruder family to use it in his film.
In Oct, 1992, George Bush sr. had the Zapruder film, along with every other piece of evidence pertaining to the Kennedy assassination, protected by a new law called the John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act of 1992 (aka. the 'JFK Act').
This Act created the 'President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection' at the National Archives.
Everything was now officially government property, no matter how much the Zapruder family protested.
Eventually, after interference by the AARB in 1998, the film was officially purchased from the Zapruder family for $16,000,000.
In December 1999, the Zapruder family donated the copyrights and a copy of the original film to the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, Texas, along with other copies of the film and frame enlargements once owned by Life magazine, which had been returned to them.
So the copyrights to the original Zapruder film now belong to the Sixth Floor Museum in the former Texas School Book Depository.
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The Zapruder film authenticity:
Zapruder testified before the Warren Commission that the frames published in Commission Exhibit 885 were from the film that he took. Some researchers of the assassination have claimed that three other films of part of the assassination (the Orville Nix, and Marie Muchmore films), together with numerous still photographs, are inconsistent with the Zapruder film, suggesting that they are fraudulent; some researchers of the assassination have claimed that the extant Zapruder film is not authentic.
These claims have been countered.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations described the Zapruder film as "the best available photographic evidence of the number and timing of the shots that struck the occupants of the Presidential limousine."
The Assassination Records Review Board said it "is perhaps the single most important assassination record."
According to Warren Commission apologist Vincent Bugliosi, the film was "originally touted by the vast majority of conspiracy theorists as incontrovertible proof of a conspiracy" but is now believed by many assassination researchers to be a "sophisticated forgery".
Among those who believe the Zapruder film has been altered are John Costella, James H. Fetzer, David Lifton, David Mantik, Jack White, Noel Twyman, and Harrison Livingstone, who has called it "the biggest hoax of the twentieth century".
In 1996 Roland Zavada, a former product engineer for Kodak who led the team that invented Kodachrome II, was requested by the Assassination Records Review Board to undertake a thorough technical study of the Zapruder Film.
Zavada concluded that there was no detectable evidence of manipulation or image alteration on the Zapruder in-camera original.
He concluded that any alleged alterations were not feasible.
Zavada said that copying Zapruder's film would leave visible artifacts of "image structure constraints of grain; and contrast and modulation transfer function losses. It has no evidence of optical effects or matte work including granularity, edge effects or fringing, [or] contrast buildup."
David Lifton wrote that the Zapruder film was in the possession of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center, the night of the assassination. Jack White, researcher and photographic consultant to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, claimed that there are anomalies in the Zapruder film, including an "unnatural jerkiness of movement or change of focus ... in certain frame sequences."
[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film ]
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The FBI claimed that the first reaction of Kennedy to being shot occurred at frame 225, but this is wrong because the very FIRST reaction can be seen at frame 195 as Kennedy's hand begins to come up. They of course claim they didn’t see this because according to them, frames 208 to 211 just happened to be missing, and there were splices in frames 207 and 212.
But the Groden copy, the cleaned up, 16 mm version of the Time/Zapruder original, still has these frames.
And it was around frame 211 that James Altgens took his picture that became CE-900.
The FBI also concludes that it is unclear when the first two shots occurred.
This is also false, as both Kennedy and Connally react to the first pop, the so-called 'back fire'. Kennedy stops waving and Connally looks around him to try and locate the source. This is the shot that missed the car and hit James Tague.
The second shot is the shot that hit Kennedy in the throat, that could have only come from the front because the view to the limousine was obscurred by the live oak tree in front of the book depository, which was still in full bloom at the time.
Zapruder stopped filming the motorcade at frame 132 when he could only see police motorcycles, and resumed filming at frame 133 when the limousine had completed the turn onto Elm Street. Between these two occurances, Kennedy would have been closest to Oswald.
However, a horizontal traffic mast would have obstructed Oswald’s view somewhat, but this would have been the best time for a head shot from a lone gunman. Even more so after the limo turned from Main onto Houston street.
Keep in mind … Zapruder’s camera operated at 18.3 frames per second.
So an example: frames 210 to 218 = just under 1 second.
So frames 188 to 313 = 125 frames = 6.8 seconds
Frame 188 being one shot and frame 313 being another shot.
The Mannlicher-Carcano requires a total recycle time of 2.5 seconds, then time to aim on a moving target that 'Oswald' couldn’t have seen.
Because James Tague got wounded by a bullet that missed the limousine completely, the shot that takes place around frame 210 had to be linked to the wounds in Connally.
And thus the magic bullet theory was born.
However, because the first 'pop' wasn’t counted as the shot that hit Mr. Tague, somewhere in the sequence between frames 210 to 313, another shot had to have been fired. In that narrow 5.6 seconds.
This means in order for a shot to have been fired that hit Tague, and the head shot we see in frame 313, TWO shots had to have been fired in 5.6 seconds. One could argue that “Oswald” missed the limo because he didn’t have time to aim.
But he had even less time to aim in order to get the head shot!
2.5 seconds to recycle = 5 seconds for two recycles, and then 0.6 seconds to aim and fire TWICE?? No chance.
No chance in hell.
Why would the Warren Commission completely and ignorantly discount a second shooter, if only to silence the public?
The case would have gone away under the guise that the second shooter had escaped the assassination scene.
Open and shut. Sort of, because the rifle they found in the book depository was never honestly linked to Oswald to begin with.
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When Jesse Curry retired as police chief of Dallas, Texas, he wrote a book called "JFK Assassination File."
In a 1969 interview for the Dallas Morning News around the time of publication, Curry stated:
"We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand."
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That just proves what most have always known: Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t shoot at the motorcade. And that he was set up.
And if they lied about him firing that rifle, then it’s more than possible that they lied about him killing Tippit as well.
Frames 316 and 317 show an ugly black ‘blotch’ at the back of Kennedy’s head that some feel is proof that someone retouched the film in order to cover up the enormous exit wound, and created a more obvious exit wound at the right side of his head instead.
This ‘blotch’ can’t be seen in the Groden/Zapruder film.
When one looks at the film frame by frame as pictures, and follows Jackie’s movements, one sees what can be seen in the Nix film.
Frame 323 shows her right hand coming up to the top of his head (thankfully she wore white gloves that day).
In frame 326 her hand is 10 inches behind his head, then she proceeds to cover up the back of his head.
She later stated she tried what she could to help him, “to keep it in”.
Somehow I seriously doubt the poor woman was lying.
Also, according to Dr. Shaw, Connally’s doctor, the governor was shot at least twice.
The damage to his wrist had most decidedly come from a separate bullet to that of his other injuries.
In the documentary “JFK – The case for conspiracy”, it would appear they are using a copy of the ORIGINAL Zapruder film.
It seems untouched, the blow out of the back of JFK’s head is more visible, and the reaction to the shot before the throat shot is also still there. This documentary also shows the Nix film and it too shows the blow out, and if you look closely you can see dark chunks flying backwards. Robert Groden’s copy of the Zapruder film was one of the unaltered, cleaned-up 16 mm versions.
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Another anomaly never quite explained is how a dead President moved from one casket to the next when, according to government officials, that didn’t happen. Kennedy left Parkland, wrapped in sheets, and laid in a fancy, copper-colored casket.
He was then flown aboard Air Force One, while Johnson was being sworn in with Jackie at his side (!) to Andrews AFB, from where he was driven to Bethesda with Jackie. Here is where things get weird: when it was time to do the official autopsy, they wheeled in a dreary sliver colored casket, opened it and out came JFK. And he was inside a body bag now.
I’d like to see David Copperfield try that trick!
There are various theories on exactly how this happened, but that it happened is a fact. And it was corroborated by several physicians.
It proves that at some point along the way, unbeknownst to Jackie and her Secret Service detail, the President was removed from his casket, between the time he left Parkland and before he underwent the official autopsy at Bethesda, illegally examined or whatever, and then put inside a bodybag and loaded into the wrong casket! A stunningly stupid mistake that didn’t go unnoticed, but wasn’t questioned until much later. And I believe it was during this time his throat wound was purposely destroyed to dig out the bullet, which would have been found and put on official record.
Among the false claims made by Vincent Bugliosi, a known Warren Report supporter, in his effort to convince us that Oswald shot Kennedy is that he was the only employee to “flee” the Texas School Book Depository following the shooting.
The truth is that several employees left the building (affidavits in CE-1381), including Charles Givens, who didn't make it back in time for the head count performed by Bill Shelley and Roy Truly because the police refused to let him in the building.
In fact, the Dallas Police put out an APB to have Givens picked up for questioning about the shooting, mostly due to his criminal background. Some whispered that Roy Truly, the manager of the book depository and a known racist, suspected him right away because he didn't like him. Givens was, apparently, found, arrested, and briefly questioned.
But most likely Oswald was the only one who left without notifying anyone, and that made him the most suspicious.
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Summary of facts:
Fact #1 - The Zapruder film shows the right front of the head exploding, which is inconsistent with a shot from the right front
Fact #2 - The Zapruder film shows the head moving hard back and to the left, which is consistent with a shot from the right front
Fact #3 - The Zapruder film shows the back of the head intact, which is inconsistent with a shot from the front
Fact #4 - The Zapruder film shows Jackie’s white gloved hand briefly covering the back of JFK’s head to “keep it in”, as she said
Fact #5 - The hospital pictures show the back of the head blown away, and the right temple virtually intact
Fact #6 - The hospital pictures show a small hole in the right temple, which is consistent with an entry wound from the right front
Fact #7 - Medical illustrator Ida G. Dox made an illustration of the back of JFK’s head for the HSCA in 1978
Fact #8 - This illustration was done using a sketched example provided by the Warren Commission
Fact #9 - This illustration doesn’t match the pictures taken at Bethesda by James K. Fox on November 22, 1963
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Conclusion:
The Zapruder film was altered to make it look like the shot had come from behind, exiting his right front.
However they couldn’t change the movement of the head, leaving an enormous inconsistency.
A right front exit wound is inconsistent with an entry wound at the right rear.
An entry at the right rear would have resulted in an exit at the left front, due to the positions of the car and the victim.
Rudimentary physics shows that an impact from the rear would result in the head moving forward, not backward.
Final conclusion:
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th president of the United States of America, was assassinated by a conspiracy of at least two shooters, of which 24 year old former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald might have been one, but gun shot residue tests performed on him were inconclusive, thus he could not be officially charged with commiting any crimes that day.
Whether or not Mr. Oswald was involved with the assassination on another level has never been proven, nor disproven.
The Warren Commission based its findings on bad and falsified information, and should have even been indicted for falsifying and/or accepting falsified evidence, as well as withholding evidence that could have ultimately cleared Lee Oswald, and possibly even saved his life. With regards to the murder of Patrolman J.D. Tippit, again Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on false evidence and wrongful information, despite the actual, truthful information being given to law enforcement officials by witnesses of this crime.
These eye witness testimonies were disregarded by the Warren Commission.
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[ On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald - part 1 - 1:14:34 ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojkf48Tmi1g
On November 22, 1986, during the Trial of People vs. Lee Harvey Oswald (part 1), which was an official 'mock trial' held in London, England (for some reason), prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi asked Jack "Johnny" Brewer something very interesting:
Mr. BUGLIOSI - " ... around 1:15 in the afternoon, was it also reported over the radio that a police officer had been shot in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas?"
Mr. BREWER - "Yes"
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This is important.
Because we were always told that Tippit was shot at 1:15 pm, but Bugliosi states that the call came over the transistor radio, on which Brewer also learned of the shooting at Dealey Plaza, at 1:15 pm.
I can't imagine a call coming in on the police radio at 1:15 immediately being aired over the radio news.
In fact, Domingo Benevides stated that he waited a few minutes after the last shot was fired before getting out of his pickup truck to run over to Tippit's patrol car. So there is NO WAY that Tippit could have been killed at, or later than, 1:15 pm.
Which makes it impossible to link Oswald to Tippit's murder. Still confused?
The Warren Commission always insisted that Oswald left his rooming house at 1:04 pm, walked at a brisk pace for 11 minutes, and then killed Tippit at 1:15 pm. Since Tippit wasn't killed after 1:15 pm, and Oswald could never have gotten to the corner of 10th & Patton before 1:15 pm to kill him, Lee Harvey Oswald has to be cleared of that murder.
So if Oswald indeed went to his boarding room at 1:01 pm and left at 1:04 pm, he could have never committed the Tippit murder.
And this more or less corroborates the witness statements of Helen Markham and T.F. Bowley.
So if the law enforcement authorities lied about Oswald killing Tippit, shouldn't we conclude they also lied about Oswald killing Kennedy?
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