Steven Kossor

Thanks so much!  I've been collecting versions of the DPD audio recordings for the past couple of years and am especially interested in ones prior to 12:00 noon.  If you can help me find any of those, I'd sincerely appreciate it!  Of all the evidence resources, those seem to be among the harder-to-fake pieces (not like the visual record) since editing of audio content almost always leaves a particular "fingerprint" in the wave form.  The AF1 tapes are among the best examples of that; with "pops" occurring where the ends of the spliced tape overlapped and "voids" where the ends of the spliced tape are separated by a tiny gap.  I did some work with Doug Horne several years ago to showcase those editing fingerprints.

These are the sounds in the audio recording I analyzed some time ago, with the higher marks noting the loudest "gunshot sounds" I was able to detect.  Interesting that "8" is a number referenced by several other authorities over the years, and that at least one person reported a "late" shot which also appears in the waveform analysis.  I'm not sure if any of these are actually gunshot sounds, but I appreciate the discussion about them so that spurious "evidence" can be discarded as "noise" rather than "signal."  Best wishes to all!

Mark, you're most welcome!  Where did you get the dictabelt transcript that you used in your 7/17/2020 release of Motorcade 63?

The most likely microphone that would have been traveling through DP at about 11 mph would be one inside the JFK limousine or on the Queen Mary.  Just a thought.  With all of the DPD and SS radios operating on different channels at the same time, maybe the signals got crossed and the sounds of the shots picked up by a SS microphone got "mixed" into the DPD dictabelt recording system as "crosstalk."  Thanks for the encouragement of my efforts to understand what happened!

Speaking of wave forms....  Thought this would be helpful.  The acoustical analyses go far, far beyond this little paper but sometimes its helpful to look at the data without numerical overlays and analyses.  Hope this stimulates conversation!  By the way, Mark Tyler's work with Motorcade 63 has been a terrific source of information and perspective, thanks so much!

Chris, the depth of your understanding of dictabelt technology is certainly well beyond mine, so if it is possible for two transmissions to be encoded "at the same time" I guess it's technologically possible for the dictabelt recording to contain both the ambient "stuck mic" up near the Marriott as well as the high amplitude, short duration bursts characteristic of gunfire.  I did a wave form analysis some time ago and found evidence for at least six "shots" on the tape, but thought that they had to be artifacts if the only available mic was a mile or more away.  Makes me want to pull that audio study out and reexamine it; maybe it would be of interest here to see the wave forms?

A police officer (I think he had ID #30 or 38) was reporting about crowds walking along Stemmons near the Marriott hotel (across from the Trade Mart) and it seemed that the start of the open mic problem coincided with his transmission and continued until after the shooting.  With the sirens approaching and passing his position, it seems reasonable to conclude that he was located somewhere between DP and Parkland, so no shots in DP could have been recorded from a microphone that far away.  The audio profile of the "open mic" section of the DPD recording definitely shows some high amplitude short-duration bursts that would be consistent with rifle discharges, but there doesn't seem to be any image of a moving recording device in DP during the shooting that would have the background noise of a 3-wheeler overlaying those sounds.  I believe the dictabelt could only record one transmission at a time, so the sounds from the "open mic" out near the Marriott could not be overlaying gunshot sounds that were transmitted to the dictabelt tape via a different microphone (one that was traveling through DP during the shooting) at the same time.  It's possible that the sounds were mixed somehow afterward, but that really stretches the bounds of credulity.  The "gunshot" sounds on the dictabelt may be just artifacts and not the sound of actual gunshots in DP after all.

Both trajectory lines are based on "connecting the dots" between a hole at the right rear of JFK's head and the depositing of blood and brain matter onto the driver's side tail light area (and officer Hargis) -- evidence that has been corroborated widely.  In the trajectory line on the Moorman photograph, it points to the spot along the picket fence on the knoll where others have identified a "photographic anomaly" that could be a human head.  The trajectory line in the Nix film frame is scaled to the same point as the origin in the Moorman photo, but if my two-shot sequence is correct, the shooter of the first head shot was positioned farther West along the picket fence (closer to the junction of the overpass wall and the picket fence) so that shot came more directly at the President (hitting him in the forehead above the right eye, turning his head rapidly to the right) and the shot from the knoll struck the right side of his head and exited from the right rear.

The Nix frame may be showing JFK a fraction of a second before Moorman's photo was snapped, and if so, the trajectory of the first shot would be flatter than I've made it.  The second head shot, a fraction of a second later, definitely came from the right side.  I think the Moorman photo's exposure occurred between the two shots since her photo shows a piece of "hair and scalp" on JFK's right shoulder, but JFK's head isn't yet turned to the right (as it must have been when the second shot struck because that shot exhausted a cone of blood and brain "back and to the left" that landed on the driver's side tail light and onto officer Hargis).

The Zapruder film definitely doesn't show JFK's head turned toward the knoll, so my interpretation is that this is evidence of film alteration.  Jackie's head was "in the way" of the Nix film so it wasn't necessary to edit that film (although the opportunity to promptly and professionally edit any of the pictures/film collected throughout the day on 11/22/63 certainly existed at the Jamison film studio in Dallas where the copies of the Zapruder film were made, which was called "The Hollywood of the Midwest" in publicity media of the day).  Lots of food for thought, for sure.

As far as the claim that a bullet was found in the gutter of Elm Street after the shooting, I recall the report of it being a .45 caliber slug and the report somehow associated with Bill O'Reilly.  I've been reading lots of material about the case for about 40 years, some more reputable than others, but this Forum is definitely the place to sort it all out...

Steve

Reading Last Second in Dallas now.  Fascinating history and insights.  The incongruity of audio and visual evidence suggests a different sequence of events may have happened in the last second at DP.  I thought this might stimulate conversation.  It's clearly speculative but I think it fits with the corroborated evidence I've seen. 

I look forward to seeing how the fact of the President's head being turned toward the knoll at the point of impact of the shot from that direction (during that "last second") which would permit the exhausting of gore onto the driver's side tail light area and officer Hargis (to the left and rear of JFK) which indisputably must have occurred based on fluid dynamics (fluids in motion travel in a straight line) and the substantial amount of corroborated evidence for it in the record, yet that positioning of the President's head is missing from the extant Zapruder film.

David Lifton released a "Best Evidence" research video that presents the testimony of several of these witnesses and includes their observation of the arrival of the President's body at Bethesda in a "body bag" rather than wrapped in sheets as it was in Dallas.  That video is also available on YouTube.  He wanted to capture these peoples' testimony on film when his book Best Evidence had been published, so that the truthfulness of his accounts of their testimony could be verified.  As we review the record and the evidence, more details are emerging that call the authenticity (completeness) of the Zapruder film into question, and the contributors to this forum are at the forefront of understanding what really happened on 11/22/63.  I feel privileged to be able to watch and contribute from time to time.

I feel privileged to have the opportunity to watch so many people seeking truth and traveling conscientiously on their own individual paths, yet having the courtesy to appreciate that while others' paths may not mirror their own, they are making contributions to understanding nonetheless.  The truth "will out" only if the confirmation bias is recognized as a threat and conscientiously thwarted as the enemy of understanding, no matter the path being taken.  Special thanks to Micah and all of the others here who appreciate what I'm talking about.

Thanks for your scholarship and tenacity! Looking forward to your newest book!

I'm thankful for all of the learning opportunities I've had at this Forum.  Wishing all health and a long, productive, satisfying future.

Finished Lisa's amazing book.  The facts she places in plain sight leave a clear picture of the depth and breadth of RFK's killing and an added benefit of understanding how the judicial process can be so easily corrupted and crimes concealed for the pettiest of reasons.  We definitely need more courageous people like Lisa in our world!

Halfway through Lisa's book on RFK's murder and I'm very impressed with writing skill and especially with her presentation of documented evidence.  The issue of whether or not Sirhan may have been firing blanks is really a side issue for me (some evidence suggests this was the case), but the clincher for me is that the autopsy reported that RFK was killed by bullets fired from behind and to his right, at a distance of less than 3 inches (he had powder burns on his jacket and right ear).  Sirhan never got closer to RFK than 6 feet or thereabouts, and was always in front of him, and nobody said RFK turned in a way to expose his right side to Sirhan, so it was utterly impossible for him to fire the fatal shots into RFK.  No matter how many bullets he fired, he couldn't have committed RFK's murder.  Looking forward to finishing Lisa's book asap to complete my understanding of her very impressive and seemingly exhaustive analysis.  Lisa's contributions to my understanding of the criminal prosecution and judicial processes was really helpful too.

Is it just me, or does a filming speed of 48 fps indicate some foreknowledge of the assassination on Zapruder's part?  Why take a slo-mo movie of the limo driving by?  I wonder if he used the slo-mo feature on any prior exposures.  Interesting implications for that $16M payout he got for his movie, right?

I edited my post about the timing of the Moorman photo.  It must have been taken *before* JFK's head was turned so that the hole at the rear of his skull could exhaust material onto the driver's side tail light and officer Hargis.  The Moorman photo shows JFK more-or-less facing forward, so the hole would not exhaust material in the correct direction if the bullet had just struck JFK at or before the Moorman photo was exposed.

I mistakenly placed the Moorman photo in a sequence *after* the bullet exited from the back of JFK's head, but have fixed that error.  Moorman's photo could only have been taken *before* the rear exit had been created since the right rear of JFK's head is not pointing toward the driver's side taillight in the Moorman photo (where it had to have been "pointing" in order for the exhaust of blood and brain to have struck that area of the limo and officer Hargis).  So Mary captured the first head shot that blasted out part of JFK's skull (caught it in flight over his right shoulder) which had to have turned his head to the right so that his head was turned toward the knoll when almost immediately afterward a second head shot entered on the right side (perhaps into the hole that had just been created there) and exited through the right rear of JFK's skull.  When we stop trying to piece the puzzle together with existing pictures, and instead rely on the immutable facts of physics and geometry, we can discover "missing picture pieces" and then can construct the most coherent understanding of the sequence of events that actually occurred.

I've corresponded in confidence with David Lifton for more than 10 years so far and have learned a great deal about his ideas and insights in that time.  Doug Horne and I talked a good deal as well before he "retired" from the case, so I've had the opportunity to understand his ideas and insights at depth as well.  All in all, I'm convinced that the shot that exited from the right rear of JFK's skull entered the right side of his head while he was facing toward the knoll since the exhaust of blood and brain tissue struck officer Hargis and the driver's side tail light area of the limousine.  It's possible that another shot came into the left temple and exited through a hole of the right side of JFK's head at more or less the same time (Fiester's hypothesis) and that Moorman's photo captures a piece of his skull with hair attached as it was in flight over his right shoulder which may have been dislodged by that shot.  The position of JFK's head in the Moorman photo indicates that it was taken a moment before the shot from the front right that exited through the hole in the right rear of his skull since his head isn't yet turned in the correct direction that would have exhausted blood & brain in the direction that it traveled after the shot from the front right side happened.  Thanks so much for engaging in this "micro" study of the events in "the last second" in Dealey Plaza.  I don't think others have looked at it nearly this carefully, unfortunately.  Better late than never.

This would also help to explain the smell of gunpowder on the clothing of the people coming into Parkland from the limousine -- shooting in the car would explain that, and nothing else (it couldn't "waft down from the grassy knoll").  An inshoot in the left temple means a shot from the direction occupied by the limo driver, whose turn toward JFK at the time of the head shot is unmistakable in the Zfilm.  If Greer didn't shoot JFK in the left temple, it's looking more plausible that somebody else fired from that direction and that a split second later, another shot entered the head from the front and exited from the right rear while JFK was turned toward the knoll.  It's going to be very interesting and illuminating as more people piece this case together bit by bit and see the picture that emerges, rather than starting from pieces of the picture and trying to make them fit together....

A "vintage" Mannlicher Carcano rifle with an "underpowered bullet" that only penetrated "less than a finger's length" seems to be a balanced equation to me.  At least it is conceivable that the people who planted that rifle and CE 399 made that connection and hoped others would too.

The limousine had a feature installed shortly before JFK took possession of it that would raise the back seat about 10 inches at the push of a button from the back seat or from the front passenger dashboard, "to improve the President's visibility during motorcades."  I recall reading that Kellerman was "pushing buttons" on the dashboard during the killing in DP.  I wonder if the throat shot may have been the result of JFK seeming to "jump up" (as at least one witness reported) during the shooting because the seat was abruptly raised to make JFK a better target.  Food for thought, at least.

Thanks so much for the encouraging comment, Andrej.  I have been studying the case for 40 years and working (albeit in the background) to refine the understanding we have of "what happened, and when" to the point where we can definitively document specific locations of film alteration and approximate what was removed/retouched to produce the "official narrative" that has been sold to the world since 11/22/63.  It is entirely because of the researchers who "won't let it go" that we have moved closer to the truth, little by little, over the decades.  David Lifton is one of them, but there are many others who contribute to the Education Forum (you, Sandy, Chris and Mark among them, certainly) who have been contributing to the effort in very definitive ways as well.  I haven't been defending a theory or a perspective; I've been applying the principles of "critical incident debriefing" to the JFK case for a long time, and have surfaced some interesting things, by "slicing the time baloney" in the thinnest time sections possible and approaching the reconstruction of the events through that means.  It is basically an approach that forces consideration of all available details, cuts out the speculation seeming to glue them together, and replaces it with a process that asks the question "what can we document definitively at this particular moment?"  By assembling the time slices in sequential order, the truth emerges, and evidence of manipulation too (when time slices side-by-side indicate impossibly different views of reality, the only conclusion is that "something is missing" in the sequence, and it's pretty easy to identify intentional editing, as in the case of the Zfilm).  It's a slightly different way of analyzing an event, especially one in which the evidence has been intentionally doctored/suppressed to produce an "official narrative."

In a very short span of space & time (unless the limousine stopped, in which case the time interval would necessarily be lengthened), it appears that so much head movement must have happened (a turn to the right before receiving the wound that caused the blowout at the back of the head to exhaust material onto the driver's side tail light and officer Hargis, then a turn to the left to be captured by Mary Moorman's photo).  Is anyone disagreeing that the physical evidence I'm citing necessarily requires the head movements I'm describing?

It looks like we're learning that the Moorman photo was taken a split second before a bullet had exited through the right rear portion of JFK's skull, spraying material onto the driver's side tail light and onto officer Hargis.  At the time the bullet exited from Kennedy's head, he must have been turned toward the Knoll, since fluid dynamics tells us that fluids fly in a straight line, and the source of the shot that caused the blowout at the back of JFK's head and sprayed material onto the driver's side tail light & officer Hargis must have been to his front and right, while his head was turned about 30 to 45 degrees toward the right.  The Moorman photo shows JFK's head turned toward the left, so another force must have rapidly turned it toward the knoll after the first shot struck. Is this what happened?  It does connect all of the dots (fluid dynamics, photography, etc) and gives a plausible sequence of very rapid head movement events -- all of which have been removed from the Zfilm between 313 and the movement of the President "back and to the left."