Ramon F. Herrera

In a nutshell: the CTs defend a very rare shot, while the LNs propose an impossible shot. Why rare? Because if we look at the "Myth Busters" episode we see that the body of a pig was hanging from a hook, very close to an edge while a succession of projectiles of varying calibers failed at the commended task of dismounting the porcine sample. Therefore, the Hollywood back blast is a myth. Or, is it? What you read above constitutes a crucial error in science: failing to make proper use of analogous situations. Whether it is this TV case, or Robert Prudhomme, attempting to translate his experience with deer or selecting melons instead of coconuts (shame on you, doctor Alvarez!). Proper analogous shots (for purposes of real life human beings caught in YouTube, animals, physical simulations or pure computer simulations) include: - Very hard material, since the cranium happens to be the hardest of all bones. Mother Nature knows the importance of protecting the brain. - A semi-spheric chamber, able to accumulate pressure and suddenly release it. Yes, you are correct if you immediately envisioned a bomb. Both the hanging pork and the Canadian deer have a very small brain, leaving those two proposals unacceptable. That's all I have for now. Feel free to respond or wait until I remove the "Work in Progress" sign. -Ramon

I am pleasantly surprised to learn that you are a daily user of computer simulations, Sandy. Would we be too nosy if we ask the nature of the stuff that you subject to simulations? Is it something physical? You are an engineer, but which flavor? I say the following with the utmost respect, Sandy. After considering what you wrote, I hope that now you all realize why I insist on this requirement: Only the top universities need to apply (*). -Ramon (*)) Which leaves Dartmouth College and Boston University OUT. I am making the assumption that the more prestigious, the harder to be sell outs. In the limit (for those who took calculus), the top universities are not for sale, at any price. I am betting the farm, heck, my right arm on MIT.

On a related news, another forum decided to make a drastic change, an upgrade if you will, partially inspired by Yours Truly: http://jfkfacts.org/jfk-facts-2-0-look-ahead/ Its owner called me at home to elicit recommendations and discuss strategy. Told me: "Of all the suggestions that I received, yours were the best". I seem to recall the phrase: "We should join forces, Ramon" We had some fun with the fact that I was inspired by the name of his site, and created a little subsidiary site named "jfknumbers.org". -Ramon "I Have A Dream" Herrera

Paul: After a while, threads become unwieldy and it is best to start new ones. -Ramon

Thanks, Sandy, but I am afraid that I have to ask you to hold your applauses because I am not worthy of a fraction of them. You see, of all those things that you mentioned I am doing NONE. There is no "Ramon's simulations" for starters. It is all a Wish List, "I Have a Dream" sort of stuff. Just to avoid confusion, I placed the following caveat in my post above: "Assume for a second that I am spokesperson for Science, if there is such a thing" When I show the 2 ANIMATIONS (not simulations!) I must hurry to add the following ... "These are the 2 scenarios that I would love QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCHERS TO STUDY" ... I am explicitly excluding myself. Incidentally and moving to your other, very important point, here's my stock reply: The one, the only, the definite solution to the crime, from a scientific point of view (*) goes through the following path: https://goo.gl/XOJpSA Every product you use, every car/airplane you enter is designed using those techniques -not to mention the Mars rovers. If those simulations wouldn't work, airplanes would not take off, your iPhone would overheat in under a minute, etc., etc., etc. This is how they do it: Step 1: Perform a Simulation Step 2: If the simulation does not work, they make a better model (perhaps using real-life data) Step 3: Go to Step 1 (maybe years, or decades later) -Ramon (*) In my humble evangelism (rooting and cheerleading for my God, which is Science) I assume that we cannot: • Break into the National Archives or CIA, undetected in the middle of the night. • Hire the folks who liberated El Chapo, to dig a tunnel under certain grave in Arlington National Cemetery (Lot 45, Section 30), stealing its corpse and running with it to our trusted medical school (Boston University is definitely out from consideration - they know why). • Get an Ouija board and summon, let's say, David A. Phillips or some cohort. • Kidnap a big shot (president?), take them to a dark basement with a bright light in their face, twist their arm, rough them up a little, record their confession and somehow broadcast it to the world. IOW: Only the material publicly available is available to us (and by us, I mean the universities).

There you go, Bob: Minute 7'10" ... brought to you by: T&E Systems, Proud Suppliers of the Military Industrial Complex: http://www.tnesystems.com/fbh.html -Ramon

Paul: There is a funny, ridiculous version. It was brought to us by Bob Harris. He is a well know CTer who claims that all the shots originated from behind (the Grassy Knoll and all frontal locations were devoid of shooters), and therefore -in that sense- he is a faithful member of the Church of Posner: While I appreciate Bob's admirable degree of dedication (apparently, the only degree he possesses), he could use reading some textbooks and taking some classes of Physics and related disciplines. -Ramon (*): Unless he has a lot of time to dedicate to proving the impossible, I would recommend Ashton Gray to stay clear from that path. Then again, if he has access to world-class research scientists, experts in Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Biomechanics PLUS plenty of supercomputer time to burn ... I strongly encourage him to go down that path. He would be welcome with standing ovations -not unlike the Soviet Union in the late 80s- "Attention, world! This is NOT the way"

Just for the record Paul, and this is EXTREMELY important. I cannot stress the importance of what follows enough. It should be obvious and yet it must be repeated again, and again, and again: In an ideal world, we mere mortals would debate and discuss our theories and eventually some superior beings (Doctor Spock or "Data", etc.) will come down to earth, solve all those complex equations, and voila!: the biggest unresolved problem in the history of Physics is solved. Everybody is satisfied (well, a large percentage). However, since those perfect (non-opinionated) beings do no exist are not available, we are forced to wear TWO hats. I don't know of many intelligent, informed people who remain neutral in this polarized case, not even in Switzerland. [Assume for a second that I am spokesperson for Science, if there is such a thing] Therefore, given that my goal is to persuade as many as 320+ million American (and the rest of the world) I am OBLIGATED to consider all possibilities: Official Effect: https://goo.gl/6gtvbb Parkland Effect: https://goo.gl/RCLmy3 Take a look inside both folders and you will see that the 2 main theories must be considered. At the end, the definite solution will be dictated by this principle: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/arthurcona134512.html Q.E.D. -Ramon

Again, you are 100% correct, Bob! In addition to books, we have: • Research Papers • Computer Simulations • Simulations Using Similar Material (see the Haags' or Australians' preordained "studies" with some tissue-like substances) • Experiments with Animals or Human Cadavers • Daily experience of Robert Prudhomme and other hunters (aka Anecdotic Data Points). • YouTube videos of human beings being shot in the head, with 100% of targets moving as if hit by a baseball bat: Lattimer: "I wish to reemphasize that none of our test objects in these experiments ever jumped or fell off the stand AWAY from the shooter" http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22351 - Etc. Those are the ingredients, here's the ONLY recipe for The Truth: You take all that, taking into account the CREDIBILITY of each source, put it in an industrial size blender and voila! the truth eventually comes out. -Ramon

The first? You probably mean the first today, right? Incidentally, I fully agree with you, Bob. We are ALL more or less full of it, to the eyeballs (some higher, like the ones who claim that it was the SS by accident or it was Marilyn Monroe shooting from a flying saucer). I have NEVER claimed to be an expert on anything. This is one of the best analogies. Ramon is the town's drunk and mentally retarded who keeps on mentioning God. My detractors (you being one) try to attack me when all I am saying is "God Will Solve This Problem." By the way: Science is my God. MIT is my Vatican. Q.E.D. -Ramon

Round nosed bullets enter skull bone just as easily as "pointy" bullets. "Pointy" bullets don't enter bone easier than round nosed bullets. Not according to detailed Physics. It depends on how much accuracy you demand. For this case, I will only accept the most accurate computations available, repeated every time the cranium/brain models are improved or computers become more powerful. Recall that we are talking about extremely precise simulations executed in supercomputers during days or weeks. The bullet may advance 1 centimeter every day. The variables are determined in each of the little "cubes" and the forces propagate. As an excellent example, see how Brazilian researchers can determine the caliber and brand of handgun, based on the shape of the hole. If the Brazilians can do this, just imagine what we can achieve http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22466&hl=brazilians But you are correct in this: in the end the body should be subjected to a violent back snap in all frontal shot simulations, regardless of pointy or round shape. Perhaps the body would be moved several millimeters further (and/or faster) by a bullet of certain roundness, but the Z film would not be able to discern the difference. -Ramon

Bob: Recall that we are talking about millimetric, microsecond level. Are you referring to entry or exit? In any event, I would expect: ( a ) On entry: very little difference. ( b ) On exit/traversal: dramatic difference. JFK would have been left headless as the Australian demonstration corroborated. -Ramon

This is my descriptive, Physics-based version of what happened: http://www.dealey-plaza.org/~ramon/jfk/Frontal-Shot-1-Minimalist.mp4 http://www.dealey-plaza.org/~ramon/jfk/Frontal-Shot-2-With-Computational-Fluid-Dynamics.mp4 http://www.dealey-plaza.org/~ramon/jfk/Frontal-Shot-3-More-Realistic.mp4 Too many critics treat the "Hollywood type blast back" with derision because they naively consider that the bullet pushed JFK, which is not possible (unless his cranium was made of titanium). In reality he was pulled by the exiting bullet. More precisely, by the molecular bindings of the disk-like bone fragment (Harper?). Since the bullet is pointy and the bone is brittle, there is very little opposition to entry. Just as a reference, I call this The Herrera Explanation of the Parkland Effect. -RFH

You just proved that Kennedy was not hit by a baseball ball in his neck. Not exactly a scientific breakthrough. Cool illustration, but nothing to write home about. Having said that, your video can be used to illustrate the fatal shot in the head. Consider the 2 extremes: ( A ) A hanging towel. No resistance is found, almost like traversing air. ( B ) A sheet of metal. A lot of resistance is offered to the bullet. We shoot both with a bullet and film it. Question: which of the 2 scenarios leaves more/stronger evidence about the direction of the projectile? Which is more adept to being simulated, producing incontrovertible results? The following simulation (Type A) applies to: • back of the neck (entry or exit) • throat hole (entry or exit) • forehead (entry) As we can see, the visible effects are minimal. We would need microscopes, fibers or a much closer examination in order to determine direction. Compare with the dramatic effect of a Type B impact: [FF to minute 14 - See Contour Plot] The red region is the bullet exit, but the most important (that too many people fail to realize) are the 2 dark blue endpoint regions. They are the key to the solution of the assassination. They are the reason the Zapruder film was hidden for 12 years: the violent back snap is the consequence of the forces in the blue region as they traveled ... --> from cranium --> to spine --> to upper torso --> to lower torso in that temporal order. -RFH

Ramon, Constructing a 3D model of the skull sounds like an apropos start. I hope the model indicates there is a piece of metal exterior to the skull. (I've read that the the x-rays show this, but I haven't confirmed it.) Another project that would be useful would be constructing a 3D model of the corpse, particularly the upper body area.. Sandy, I hurry to clarify the following. Notice how I wrote "This has a huge advantage: both CTs and LNs should support it.". It would be a task done by computers, which obviously have no opinion or position in the CT vs. LN unending debate. See this mechanical part: It has: - A/P (Anterior/Posterior) View - Lateral View - Top View <--- This one is missing in the JFK case. That is how 3D CT (Computed Tomography) images are built. You simply feed 3 files into the computer and voila! soon you have something like this: Which you can rotate, zoom in/out and all that fun stuff. You can even wear one of those newfangled contraptions (Oculus Rift) and "walk" inside the brain. As you can imagine, in 1963 they could not make the top view. Well, they could, but they would have to decapitate the cadaver. Therefore, with only 2 files the task is not impossible, but it is harder. Fancy algorithms must be developed by the researchers. The great news is that they tell me that they can do it, in principle. Heck, even a non-optimal projection constitutes a substantial improvement over what we have now! Bottom line: We cannot add or remove anything, it is a highly neutral, objective task. Hence: ( a ) The LN community should be as enthusiastic as the CT to support this project. ( b ) The National Archives should have no problem accepting our donation. I will ask doctor Wecht whether any of his peers in the HSCA Forensic Pathology Panel are still around. They should be the ones to sign the donation. -Ramon

This is an important note for David Von Pein. These folks (let's call them Ramon and His Merry Band) desperately need the measurements of Dealey Plaza: http://www.dealey-plaza.org/ I am sure we can count on you, to sign a petition against to PBS. Right, David? Correct? Yes? -RFH ======================================= From: Ramon F Herrera To: Christine Russo (PBS Nova) Subject: Precise Measurements of Dealey Plaza Hi Christine: Thanks for your kind assistance. I will soon meet my peers, a group of people interested in creating a 3-dimensional model of Dealey Plaza with every distance, angle, etc. being publicly available, on the Internet. We already contacted the Dallas County and requested the floor plans and related information. However, as far as we know the most accurate measurements ever were done by NOVA’s Cold Case team. Kudos to you. With the utmost respect, we believe that it would be a tragedy if those numbers remain locked up in some computer at NOVA or elsewhere. That is the gist of it. We can write a formal letter, in paper, with the developers of Dealey Plaza computer models signing it. Best regards, -Ramon F Herrera Houston, Texas

Ramon, As incredible as it might be for you and other CTers to contemplate, there ARE some people in this world--myself included--who don't think of Dale K. Myers as a lying charlatan and a disinformation agent.... David: Contrary to my practice, I just erased your Dale K. Myers links without reading them. Out of respect, that atypical action deserves an explanation. You see, I am first and foremost a MAN OF SCIENCE. This is what I have been posting in the other forums lately: MIT is my Vatican and Science my only God Allow me to recycle a copy+paste that I have been widely using in political forums: ==================== What part of: • THIRTY THREE YEARS OF TAX RETURNS IN THEIR WEB SITE (Clintons) • ZERO YEARS OF TAX RETURNS (Trump) don't you get? ==================== This is the analogy: Ramon and his band are to Hillary as Dale Myers is to Donald Trump http://www.dealey-plaza.org/ <--- My "tax returns" are here, David, every word of code that we write, every file belongs to The People. Furthermore, let me explain -one more time- what I have explained to you Myers fans multiple times, in the immortal words of Jerry Maguire/Tom Cruise: ... for as long as Mr. Myers does not comply with the above, elemental, sine qua non requirement he is spitting on the face of his viewers. It is that simple. -Ramon ps: I hope that the observant censors are not around, since they tend to exile ("deport" is perhaps a more appropriate term) my posts to Deep Politics every time I write the name of the unmentionable billionaire.

If Ramon's model were finished, I could use it to help solve some mysteries I've been trying to figure out. Once solved, I could use it to demonstrate what I'd discovered by allowing people visualize it themselves as if they were standing right there in Dealey Plaza. I could even put a little model of Cliff Varnell in there, protesting that the only thing the observers needed to know was the location of the bullet hole in the jacket, and that Sandy's demonstration was serving just to obfuscate that fact. Sandy: Let me mention one of the potential sub-projects. This has a huge advantage: both CTs and LNs should support it. Doctor Cyril Wecht and his son Benjamin have been informed, they called me and asked me to keep them posted. The plan is to project the 2 famous X-ray images (A/P and Lateral) onto a 3D model which would be donated to the National Archives. Yes, I realize that it is politically touchy. See details here: Isometric to 3D Projection https://goo.gl/cZ7Axr Bringing the images to the 21st. century. Who can possibly be against that!? Incidentally, doctor Wecht and others leaders recently founded C.A.P.A. Their next project is to have an interview with David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States. I was invited to be a technical advisor. Therefore, doctor Wecht is sort of my boss. :-) https://www.google.com/#q=archivist+of+the+united+states -RFH ps: http://jfkfacts.org/citizens-political-assassinations/ http://capa-hq.com/

I guess it is. Never "seen" him, though. Seems to be on vacation.These are some of his latest posts: http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1;sa=showPosts;start=64 Some of that is dog+pony show, or music. There is some amount of monkey business and clowning around. I have been trying to identify the people who are interested in serious, academic-type work. In Re: "Prayer Man": I cannot believe that anybody would give credence to Lee being outside the building. That would mean that the plotters were the most inept in the world, when in reality they were the top. -Ramon

On the contrary, I am showing evidence of my ignorance, Bob. How was I supposed to honestly think that you were once a member of that forum? -Ramon

I am afraid my post may lead to confusion, Robert. I should have tried harder to explain myself. In fact, I should have written 2 separate posts. There are several groups: - Professionals of 3D design. All CT (aka, interested in the truth). Some have quit posting, tired of the trolls, mockery, etc. I am working with a couple of them, encouraging to work on the Open Source model of the plaza, while I get all the attacks. I am protecting them from the barbarians. - LNs. All they do is attempt to ridicule attempts by others. I have identified only one person, John Mytton who is an LN and plays with 3D images. Additionally, there are 2 very widely separated levels of quality: - Check out this guy, Roger Bootsma: http://www.3dmodelmonk.com/ - The others, simply use Photoshop or similar to draw lines and create GIF "animations". Any high schooler can do that. This is a sample of what they do. Here in the ED Forum we are behind the times in this respect: http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,13558.24.html -Ramon

I was under the impression that the few LNs left are the McAdams groupies. In the Education Forum we have one: David Von Pein (well, he participates in all forums). In JFK Facts they fired Photon. Jean Davison is a frequent poster. McAdams is complaining that Jeff Morley won't let him comment. Which is ironic since prof. McAdams banned me for years (now he says he never did) and even the most loyal among his clientele (Tony Marsh) call him "Censor in Chief". This forum that I discovered recently is replete with LNs. You would not believe how ridiculous they are! Get this: they have sayings by Dale Myers in their signature. Talk about Madrassas and Bible thumping. http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/board,1.0.html Having said that, in that forum you can find the most advanced uses of graphics, 3D, etc. If any of you is interested in actual confrontations with the real opposition (instead of debating Varnell The Contrarian) you are encouraged to visit that forum. -Ramon

BTW Ramon, what excuse did PBS give for not disclosing the measurements? They have ignored me so far. -Ramon

Cliff, if people want proof before they disbelieve in the SBT, isn't that perfectly understandable given the false indoctrination that's been forced upon them. If that proof comes via Ramon's work rather than JFK's shirt, what difference does it make? Let there be a hundred different proofs against the SBT. Let people pick their proof. Hi Sandy: This is the way I see it. The definite solution will wear belt, suspenders, some magnet to prevent the pants from falling, superglue, screws, etc. It's like the guy that puts poison in his bullets. :-) Or like, the bastards who positioned a front shooter, for insurance. This example will illustrate. Early in my search, I discovered that science is advancing in the direction of providing extremely accurate predictions of how a human cranium impacted by a bullet will behave. On that topic, this is what I have so far, in the "Documentation" folder: http://goo.gl/F28d4Y I could have stopped there saying: "Well, let's be patient, some day those studies and simulations will be performed in the JFK case". The expected results (by CTs) would be that the only possible way for a body to react with a Violent Back Snap would be if hit by a frontal bullet. Notice that I claim no special discovery or contribution here, just a lot of patience and Googling. That was the belt part. I needed some suspenders, however !!! Some way to destroy the last desperate attempt by the LNs was required. I am referring of course, to the "Random Neuro-Muscular Reaction" crapola. This is truly unbelievable. I waited for years saying: "Somebody HAS to discover this". I recall that I sent inquiries to several research labs in Europe and copied David Lifton and Pat Speer. One morning, I had a cup o'Joe, sat in my PC, started searching and could not believe my eyes! There is a God and he heard my prayers ! https://goo.gl/6woICd -Ramon

Allow me to repost the following one more time. Nobody from the LN crowd, in several forums has even ventured an alternate explanation to mine. How come studies signed by MIT (institutionally, not by a professor or research group), Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, etc. are conspicuously absent? Am I the only one that has noticed that glaring vacuum? How come the equivalent of a "Manhattan Project" (at a minor scale) has not been deployed? Call me naive, but I am willing to bet my right arm that MIT will not lie. Their results are not for sale, at any price. I have evidence of that. ====================== The response of the universities was not blameless. Far from it! They should be ashamed of themselves, as they were complicit with their silence. The most famous, the epitome, is Harvard, which proudly carries the motto “Veritas”. Yeah, right… Veritas my rear bottom! Let’s attempt to find an excuse on their behalf. There has to be a reasonable explanation for their inaction, right?. This is probably how a standoff position was reached: Universities: “This is not our party, we have not been invited. Prof. Robert Blakey decided which companies and people were to be hired." (some would call it “bought and paid”). (In the HSCA FPP - Forensic Pathology Panel --Blakey had no option but to leave one dissenting voice, doctor Cyril Wecht, join the otherwise exclusive club. Thank God that his professional and human integrity is not for sale). To sum things up: Those were détente times, so for over half a century our top institutions of education and research reached this one with the government: “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. The coverup agents to university deans: “Okay, let’s be reasonable here. You know very well that we can stop the flow of grants and apply many other kinds of pressure. We can make life very uncomfortable for you and your professors, but we won’t force you to certify our results (*). We won’t ask. As consideration for our generosity, you will not tell.” The big question is whether that state of immobility -which remains- makes sense today, in 2016. ============================ If anybody wants to venture a better explanation for MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, etc. NEVER being involved, I am sure that the readership would love to hear your explanation. -Ramon (*) The risible Jet Effect being the best exponent.