Jamey Flanagan

I get so sick of assassination buffs on either side of the fence slamming another person's theory as "preposterous" or other such words! You don't have to agree with every theory presented by every author out there but I'll tell you that I haven't heard a theory yet quite as preposterous as the "official story" presented by the Warren Commission! First of all, I give anyone credit who sees that the "official story" is a sham! And if they at least try to explain it in some other way then they automatically have more credibility than any of our government investigations, lol! I'd sooner believe any of the conspiracy theories out there than to believe that laughable story the FBI and then the Warren Commission concocted! I respect the hell out of authors who have gotten out there and talked to witnesses and did actual research and although I may not always agree with their conclusions, I am glad people are trying to peel back the layers to find the truth! And if you're one of those folks always slamming everyone else and their theories on what happened in Dealey Plaza or in Oak Cliff, then how about you tell us your theories genius? Tell us what research you've done and what witnesses you have talked to.

Judging from some of the pictures and film taken the day of the assassination, you'd almost think a solar eclipse was happening then due to how dark the images are in the Grassy Knoll area, lol!

Yes, I'd love to see the photos you describe but none of them are showing up on here!

I have thought for a long time that it would certainly be possible, if someone or a group knew what they were doing, to create a giant database from all the pics and videos from Dealey Plaza that day. If none of those pics or videos have been tampered with (and maybe even if they have to some degree) you could have a computer program to recognize all the information in each media source and put it all together. You'd basically have a 360° model type situation and you'd know what all people were where in the crowd at a given point in time. And if the information doesn't match up (like different people in the crowd from one media source to another in the same time frame) then at least we'll have definitive proof that at least some of the pics and videos have been tampered with to some degree. And you could digitally enhance each picture or series of pictures (video) using information from other sources. Like, for instance, say the limo is blurry in one source but not in another at the same timeframe. The program could possibly recognize that and use the information from the clear image to make the image clear in the blurry one. You get what I'm saying? I know I've watched a lot of documentaries on restoring classic movies like say The Wizard Of OZ. They do similar things like that to restore the film for future releases. I realize that something like this could take years or maybe even a decade or more, but what are we waiting for? We have to start somewhere! You could take different images of the Grassy Knoll area from different media sources during timeframes close together and say this is the factual data we have. This is where the fence is. This is where the concrete is. Here are the trees. Clarify all certain images until you only have objects that aren't "set". Possibly a person or an unidentified object that is in one source but not in another seconds later. So you know it's not a "constant" artifact to those surroundings. I may be explaining what I'm thinking poorly so I hope my point is not getting lost, lol! I just think we are not using the available technology near enough in JFK assassination research! We need people trained in these areas to work on some of this stuff.

Thank you!

Yeah, that's what they said in that particular documentary. And that may be the case but I don't buy it completely. It would be a nice experiment for someone to do using the same type or even a similar type camera using both indoor and outdoor film to see just how much difference there is between the two. It's just that when the government lies to you over and over again you learn not to trust anything they tell you. I believe in that same documentary, they make a big deal about how Zapruder actually used the right type of film for outdoor photography. Yet the Zapruder film we saw for decades wasn't all that clear. I know we were dealing with copies (whether you assume the extant is the original or not) and each copy gets more degraded, but if you believe Dino Brugioni and his story then the original was very clear! And very different, lol! Even if using the wrong type film made the background a little darker, I still believe that the lighting on it was tampered with even more. Like I said, when they lie to you as much as they have you definitely acquire trust issues with them.

I know your father believed that frames were taken out of his film, and at least initially he bought their excuse about bad exposures and such as the reason. Did he come to later believe that there were more nefarious reasons? I believe that somewhere there is an original film that your father took that day unaltered. Besides excising frames here and there, I also believe that they fooled with the contrast to make it darker so we couldn't see what was going on up on the knoll behind the fence. I believe the original would show more visibility up there.

This is just an amusing post but I really think some of you will get a good laugh at it. I'm binging the series Lost because I never watched it the first time around. Just one of those I figured I would like but never started watching it. Now with streaming services where you can binge watch from the beginning I've finally gotten around to it. Please no spoilers because I'm just starting Season 3. Now, where this ties into the JFK assassination. My initial impression is that the writers were just throwing everything they could against the wall and just see what sticks. Because, so far anyway, not every lead or clue goes somewhere. In many ways the assassination is much like that. It can be confusing and convoluted and it probably has driven many a man or woman crazy diving down this particular rabbit hole. Chasing after promising leads that seem to go nowhere. To be sure, the waters have been muddied as much as possible through disinformation from agency "assets". I've been studying the assassination since I was maybe 10 or 11 and I just turned 46, lol! I devour books and articles and videos on the topic. If they had a 24 hour channel just on assassination related topics I'd stay tuned in, lol! But it can be maddening following all these leads! Just when you start following a trail that seems to make sense, you find another that makes sense too but they both contradict each other, lol! The research community pretty much knows the broad picture and most of the major players involved. But the minute details are where it gets a little fuzzy, lol! Just exactly what happened that day in Dealey Plaza. Anyway, that was just my epiphany I had while watching Lost, lol! Hope y'all find some kind of insight into this or relate in some way!

There are some very interesting details in this post, but for me the above was the most interesting! I had never heard that before. How explosive would those tapes be if they ever surfaced?

Yeah, in her testimony she did say 1:15 but I think they determined it usually ran around 1:12. Time is a difficult thing to determine back in the days before cell phones. If the 1:12 estimation is correct then I can buy that she just rounded up to say 1:15. But regardless of the exact time, either way, I agree with you that the Tippit murder did not occur that late. That's one reason I asked whether the bus was on time or not. With all the commotion in Dallas surrounding the assassination, it could conceivably have been running late that day.

Who is the Flanagan involved in the HSCA? Maybe we're related! 😂😂😂

Gotta be DVP! I stand corrected, lol! Didn't see the above post.

I guess I'm the only one so far that believes that the violent "back and to the left" motion is indicative of removed frames from the extant Z-film. It's funny though that no witness that day and all the way until the extant Z-Film aired publicly ever described such a violent "head snap". Not that we should take Tom Brokaw at his word, but upon seeing the original Zapruder film he described Kennedy's head moving violently forward, lol! I believe that was a lie, but most witnesses say he just kind of fell over onto Jackie after the last shot. I believe he possibly got shot in the head from behind a split second before getting shot from the front. I don't think there were any violent head snaps forwards or backwards in reality. If there was a head snap forward, then I believe it was from the sudden braking of the limo causing him to go forward rapidly just before the headshot from the front (probably from the Grassy Knoll). I believe there was a "through and through" bullet hole in the windshield coming from the front. Maybe the South Knoll area. I think this is probably the one that caused the throat wound. And then you have the shallow back wound. So, if JFK was hit in the head twice, then I count 4 different bullets. My estimate of 6 total may have been conservative now that I think about it, lol! Because I think Conally was hit by at least 2 different bullets most likely and there were several misses that day. Many witnesses saw a first shot hit the turf and that one didn't line up to the knicked curb causing Tauge's wound if I remember correctly. Then you have the bullet that hit that curb. I believe a bullet caused the damage to the chrome strip or whatever just above the windshield too. I know that sounds like a lot, but I think it was Kellerman (sitting in the front passenger seat of the presidential limo) that described a "flurry" of shots after the first one. I know most witnesses heard 3 or 4 at the most but some were probably silenced and if two were fired almost at the same time then they could have been mistaken for one shot.

WOW! You were in Tuscaloosa, Alabama? I work in Tuscaloosa.........down at BF Goodrich. June will make 17 years I've been working there. I live about an hour and a half away though but the long drive gives me plenty of time to consume JFK assassination videos. 😁 It's a small world after all!

I've never actually heard anything about the bus as far as I can remember except that she was waiting on it and it usually arrived around 1:12. That would be great if if the bus stop was where the killer headed and the bus was on time, but you are sadly correct about losing people to the sands of time. I'm actually surprised we don't hear more stories come out though from children of people who witnessed something that didn't fit with the official narrative from stories their parents told!