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Ted Callaway & The 1:15 Shooting
Jonathan Cohen replied to Bill Brown's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Bill, by the wondrous grace of God or some other deity, Sandy Larsen is no longer a moderator of this forum. -
It's pretty rich that Keven Hofeling is utilizing Josiah Thompson and "Six Seconds in Dallas" to support his claims on this thread, considering that Prof. Thompson is one of the most, if not THE most, vocal critics of the "every film and photograph and photo in Dealey Plaza was massively altered" nonsense.
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Allen, I can't go as far as to say it had an impact on public opinion, but the Zapruder film was screened in 1968 during the Clay Shaw trial at the behest of Jim Garrison, who naturally believed it proved a conspiracy. Unfortunately, the copy sent from Washington for the trial was heavily bootlegged (and, in fact, I believe it was sold to other researchers via mail by David Lifton), resulting in poorly degraded copies circulating for many years.
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James, Thank goodness you are now up to speed on what's really been going on here and have opened a direct line of communication to address these important issues. In my OPINION, Sandy Larsen has flagrantly, repeatedly abused his position as a moderator to suspend and punish members with whose opinions he disagrees, while constantly moving the goalposts for the "rules" of what he alone considers acceptable decorum. For context, I have been researching this case for more than 30 years, have written multiple articles for JFK publications, have spoken and given presentations at several JFK symposiums around the world and have befriended/worked alongside some of the most respected figures in the field. I've also been a member and regular contributor here since 2009 and was never subject to "disciplinary" action by an admin until August of 2023, when Larsen suspended me for the first of 13 (!?) times since then. I am only returning here to post now so as to underline what is in my OPINION a dire need to remove Larsen from his forum moderating responsibilities and to decry the abusive treatment at his hands of members such as Pat Speer, Greg Doudna and Jean Paul. This forum once thrived with original research. Today, in my OPINION, it is a barren wasteland of the same tired, long-debunked nonsense rehashed over and over and over again. A change in forum moderation would go a long way towards encouraging serious researchers in this case to contribute here and foster productive debate. In my OPINION, the forum will never reach its potential with Larsen in charge and, in fact, his presence is actively driving people away to other places of discussion. Thank you for making this forum possible.
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the logic of Zapruder film alteration
Jonathan Cohen replied to Roger Odisio's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Irrelevant. It is still just one of many assassination film and photo records, and they all form a self-authenticating whole. You cannot alter one without giving away the whole game. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether the Zapruder film was altered or not. Roger, this is nonsense. First of all, why have shooters firing from the front in the first place if you're trying to frame an assassin allegedly firing from the rear? They have been addressed directly, repeatedly, for decades by the top researchers in this case, the majority of whom reject this fanciful mass alteration theorizing. Given available technology, there is no possible way the Zapruder film could have been altered to the extent some people believe. -
RUTH and BARD . . . A Review
Jonathan Cohen replied to Leslie Sharp's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
I believe this is just more pointless "what if," evidence-free insinuations about the Paines. -
Rob Reiner talks about two Oswalds
Jonathan Cohen replied to Jim Hargrove's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
And once again Jim Hargrove is re-posting the same thing year after year, thread after thread, while refusing to acknowledge the mountain of evidence completely discrediting Wilcott's claims (which Tracy has so helpfully summarized below. There was no such thing as the "Oswald Project." https://wtracyparnell.blogspot.com/2017/03/james-wilcott.html -
the logic of Zapruder film alteration
Jonathan Cohen replied to Roger Odisio's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
I've said it before, but most people just wave it away. How can you massively alter one of the assassination films without knowing if other films and photos of the same scene would surface and immediately contradict the fakery? -
Matt, it would seem the only person who could answer this question is Wilkinson, since we have no idea what, if any, processing she and her colleagues did on the images. Also, I know the more zealous alterationists here dismiss anything Farid says, but his explanation for the back of the head shadow satisfies me.
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Not in evidence now, no. But how could conspirators be sure one wouldn't surface at some point? I'm not mocking anything. I'm trying to understand the logic of (poorly?) editing only one of the films without knowing if other films/photos would surface and render the original alteration exposed as fake for all to see. The people who have allegedly proven the Zapruder film to be a forgery have been working on an explanation for more than a decade, and their claims have not been subjected to peer review. I'll be curious to see what they come up with.