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Ray Mitcham

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  1. the above is from the following. Review of Gary Savages book. 5.0 out of 5 stars the evidence that would have sent Oswald to the chair 9 December 2009 Format: Hardcover For serious students of the JFK assassination this book is a 'must have'. There is so much to commend this wonderful publication that it really is very difficult to know where to start. Perhaps it would be best to kick-off with the author and his 'source'. Gary Savage wrote this book in conjunction with his uncle R. W. (Rusty) Livingston. Rusty served with the Dallas Police Department for twenty-three years beginning in 1951. On the evening of JFK's murder Rusty was working in the Crime Scene Search Section of the Identification Bureau. He helped process much of the evidence developed by the DPD. Fortunately for Savage and history, Rusty had maintained reference copies of everything that he worked on. That `everything' is here present in book form as fresh as the day that it was culled from the crime scenes. It's all here - the backyard photographs, the spy camera, the finger prints, plenty of documents and much, much more. The book also features the full rebuttal of the `acoustics evidence' that was used to `sex-up' the 1978 HSCA report with the tantalising "..probability of 95% or better, that there was a fourth shot from the grassy knoll". The rebuttal was prepared by James C. Bowles who was best placed to refute the claim. Wonderful book!
  2. Anybody recognise Officer E? Officer E It had been a long escort. We had a lot of people all the way. There were no problems, just a heavy crowd and a lot of yelling and cheering, and the motors were getting hot. When you follow the lead, you do a lot of starting and stopping, trying to hold an interval. I was glad it was almost over. The crowd was real heavy down on the end of the downtown area, but just past Dealey Plaza it would open up and we would be on the freeway and just a few minutes from the Trade Mart. The front of the motorcade started blocking up in the crowd in those last turns coming off Main and turning onto Elm. Back on Houston, where we were, we were just about stopped and moving real slow when we could move. A little past half way down Houston (between Main and Elm), I heard the first shot. I could tell it came from somewhere in front of me, and high. As I looked up I noticed all the pigeons flushed off the top of the building on the corner ahead of me. And in the same period I heard the second shot, and then the third one. I couldn't see just where the shots came from but I knew they were from a high-powered rifle. I hunt a lot, and had just got back from hunting. There was no mistaking that; there were three shots, that's for sure. Though I didn't see exactly where the shots came from, I knew in my own mind they probably came from the corner building as the sound was right and because of the pigeons. So I headed there, got off my motor and entered the building (the Texas School Book Depository). It took a while because of the crowd; they had started moving in every direction. The man who said he was the building superintendent was outside and met me at the door and went in with me. Shortly after I entered the building I confronted Oswald. The man who identified himself as the superintendent said that Oswald was all right, that he was employed there. We left Oswald there, and the supervisor showed me the way upstairs. We couldn't get anyone to send the freight elevator down. In giving the place a quick check, I found nothing that seemed out of the ordinary, so I started back to see what had happened. Not knowing for sure what had happened, I was limited in what I could legally do. The investigator from Washington contacted me for my recollection of what happened, but I guess they weren't interested in what I said.
  3. Pamela, I tried that but it told me that you didn't accept messages.
  4. As do I, and many others as well, Pamela. (By the way tried to contact you but got the report you don't accept messages.)
  5. Don't want to bate you, Joe, you'll just have to master it.
  6. Joe is the skull bone found on the street came from the front side of JFK's head then surely the Parkland doctors would have noticed?
  7. A photo showing converging shadows on poles about 6' part
  8. " Anyone have a program that will allow you to rotate less than one degree?" Chris, GIMP will allow you to alter angles by tenths of an angle. i.e. .10 degrees.
  9. Once again shadows seem to confuse you. The three people on the left and top are all vertical. Therefore their shadows will converge in the direction of the sun. (already proven several years ago) So the shadow of the guy at the top is shallower in angle than the two guys lower down on the right. The angle of the shadow of the lower man on the left is greater than the shadow of the man just above him whose shadow angle is again greater than that of the guy who's legs we can just see at the top of the photo, proving my point. Ignore the shadow of Jackie and the guy falling over on the right. They are not necessarily vertical. p.s. it is impossible to compare photo shadows of different scenes, You would need an overall composition showing all three scenes for comparison. I omitted comments inside the quote as they do not concern the shadows.
  10. Nice summary, Greg. And whom was Crafard living with at the time, step forward Jack Ruby. Could it have been Ruby telling Craford where to go in Dallas to make people think it was Oswald all the time. Makes you wonder if it was Ruby who was settting Oswald up all the time.Does anybody know what kind of car and what color, Ruby owned at the time of Tippit's death?
  11. Think you mean the Magnetic Pole, Joe, which is moving westwards toward Russia. Rather than the Actual North Pole is is fixed at 90 ˚ North and 0˚E/W
  12. Funny story, Ron. Just as a matter of interest, the North Pole is only at the top of the globe on Midsummer's day, surely?
  13. Steve, the bullet removed from RFK's brain, did not match the bullets (!) from Sirhan's gun. Ever wonder why?
  14. Thanks, Larry. A very good insight of what was happening before and after the assassination. One little item sticks out from the rest. Why did Martello tell his son to take a sickie from school the very day JFK was assassinated? A very unusual thing for a dad to say.
  15. Agreed Chris. Lisa's book is a very good read. Seems Noguchi got it right.
  16. Best of Luck, Pat. The treatment takes a terrible toll, but will be worth it in the end. Hope all goes well for you.
  17. Just in passing, I remember reading some years ago that Weitzman's daughter said that he believed for the remainder of his life that it was a Mauser not a Mannlicher that was found. Sorry can't remember where I read it, but it is on line somewhere.
  18. Funny that the C.I.A. is in the word conspiracy. ConspIrAcy Just co-incidence, Tracy?
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