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Craig Carvalho

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  1. If Landis is telling the truth, it could explain many things that until now made little sense. According to many of the Warren Commission critics, myself included, a trajectory through both the president and governor Connally would have indeed required some "magic" as Kennedy's back wound, documented by his personal physician Admiral Berkley, and it's location in the autopsy photograph, was anatomically lower than the wound in his throat when observed and described as an entrance wound by Dr. Malcolm Perry at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Viewed as a "back to front" wound this resulted in an upwards trajectory through Kennedy's body of approximately 12 degrees. Anyone who has ever heard Dr. Cyril Wecht speak on this understands the rest of the argument. This revelation allows us to see the mirror image of this scenario, making the throat wound a wound of entrance as Dr. Perry surmized, and the back wound as it's point of exit. According to Paul Landis this "whole" bullet came to rest on the top of the vertical seat cushion, where the seat meets the rear deck of the car. Thus, instead of the Warren Commissions "back to front" trajectory we can see for the first time what it may truly have been... a "front to back" trajectoy with a downward angle of approximately 12 degrees. If we trace this wound backwards from the point of impact, (frame 226 of the Zapruder film), it leads us back to where the acoustics evidence placed the second gunman. Governor Connally can now be struck simultaneously by a shot from the Texas School Book Depository without the need for "magic" of any kind. I have in my possession a full-size copy of the "corrected" surveyors plot of Dealey Plaza used during the HSCA's hearings in 1978. I am in no way an expert on this topic, but I will be closely examining all the available data therein in an attempt to calculate and verify if such a shot was possible. I have pre-orederewd a copy of Mr. Landis' new book. I look forward to reading it.
  2. The following are two pages from a declassified document related to the HSCA investigation and pertain specifically to Oswald's trip to Mexico City. I have supplied the first image only to give the reader some point of reference in terms of topics dicussed. At the top of both pages I have highlighted the page numbers of this report, (259 and 265). What I found startling is the notation made by the person who typed the report in the image of page 265. This comment follows Duran's description of the Oswald she encountered as well as Ms. Garra de Paz's description of one of Oswald's alleged companions. I have also highlighted the notation. While the notation may have been made "tongue in cheek" to some degree, I feel it is important to take notice that even those in positions of authority whose responsibilty it was to thoroughly investigate this matter found it difficult to refrain from speculating on possible scenarios.
  3. While I lack the skills neccessary to engage in an intelligent debate over photgraphic enhancement/alteration techniques, I believe an equally important question must be asked... if the man who applied for the Cuban in-transit visa, and supplied the photographs for the application, at the Cuban Embassy in September/October of 1963 was in fact the same Lee Harvey Oswald arrested in Dallas following JFK's assassination, then why didn't the CIA simply make this fact public knowledge in November of 1963... rather than perpetuating the idea of an imposter by disseminating a photograph of a man who clearly was not Oswald and whom, to this day, has never been possitively identified? Why, also, did the CIA continue it's false reporting regarding the errasure of the voice recordings produced by their Mexico City station during Oswald's alleged visit to Mexico City? We know that J. Edgar Hoover, in a recorded phone conversation with LBJ on 11/23/63 stated that agents who had interviewed Oswald had listened to the tapes and had agreed that the voice was not that of Oswald. We also know that the Warren Commission was offered the opportunity to listen to these tapes by COS, (MCS), Win Scott. Yet, as late as the mid to late-1970's, during HSCA classified testimony, it was still the CIA's position that the tapes had been reused and thereby erased almost immediately after being transcribed. Any answer in the affirmative, that it was our Lee Harvey Oswald AND ONLY Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City prior to the assassination, defies all logic in terms of the official CIA response to, and handling of, the so-called "evidence". The only possible alternative that I can invision would be that Oswald's visit, (known or unknown to him), had been part of an on-going CIA/JMWAVE operation against the Cubans. This would also support the hypothesis that Oswald had not made the trip to Mexico City alone, ie., had been impersonated. P.S. OTOH, Perhaps I am over thinking this entire affair. What if the CIA was simply trying to avoid the scrutiny the J. Edgar Hoover faced when Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry told the press that the FBI had known Oswald was in Dallas prior to the assassination? What if the CIA was simply trying to cast doubt on what they had known since November 22, 1963... they had a future assassin in their sights just weeks before a presidential assassination and they let him slip through their fingers?
  4. Benjamin, I want to thank you for sharing your insight with me, and your thoughtful encouragement on this topic. Perhaps this has been covered before. It's entirely possible that this information has been previously discussed here by researchers that have plumbed depths of this case I have yet to explore. It has been a long haul for me... nearly 45 years. In the weeks leading up to Christmas a new batch of declassified documents were released, (about 1400 pages in total). I spent most of my free time pouring over these and found only a few additional details that I would consider noteworthy. Others will certainly find more, I am sure. Just last night, after working a 10 hour day, I re-read 139 pages of HSCA testimony by David Phillips, the CIA's Cuban affairs man in Mexico City. I am sure you yourself have spent these endless hours and days studying this case. And yes it is an endless saga. But not without it's rewards. In re-reading Phillips testimony I found something that although I do recall having seen it the first time, it never seemed all that important. Phillips admitted under oath that the he/CIA had a number of (redacted) assets working inside the Cuban embassy. At least one of which worked in the administrative offices. How difficult would it have been for this asset to have simply photographed Oswald's visa application with his photo and signature on it? All that would have been left to do was get the film out of the embassy and to a drop location. If so, Win Scott would have had what he had repeatedly asked Washington for... a photograph of Oswald... or at best his impersonator. Keep in mind that it was Win Scott who made the request of the Mexican authorities to have Duran arrested and held in incommunicado, and would have been the first to receive Duran's statement(s) regarding Oswald's visa application, (even before headquarters), because this information flowed from the Mexican authorities... to COS Mexico City, Win Scott... to CIA headquarters. Perhaps headquarters in Washington based their decision to disseminate the photo Mexico City had mistakenly used to identify Oswald because they knew Oswald had been impersonated... better to have a photo of a "mystery man" circulating, rather than a photo of an impersonator who could be identified... and traced back to them! Another interesting side note that I discovered while reading Dr. John Newman's book, "Oswald and the CIA", was that shortly before Mexico City station had sent headquarters their first report on Oswald's visit to the Cuban and Soviet embassies, Phillips was recalled to Washington, (TDY). Phillips arrived back in Mexico City just in time to receive his copy of CIA headquarters' response, (Sept. 30 - Oct. 9). P.S. According to HSCA testimony of Robert Shaw, (MCS), there were two CIA assets at work within the Cuban Embassy. A female in the counselor office - LITAMIL-7 and a male embassy official - LITAMIL-9
  5. In regards to my post script left earlier, and in checking my notes made during a review of the most recently released JFK documents I think it is important to note that in a memo sent by Win Scott to CIA headquarters, Scott expressed his dismay at headquarters' decision to disseminate the photograph of the Mexico City "mystery man" which originated from that station's surveillance coverage. However, by the time Scott's memo reached Washington it was too late. The FBI had shown the photo to Marguerite Oswald on Saturday 23 November. But at least we can understand Scott's train of thought regarding this matter. I for one would agree that it seems incredible that the CIA would want to expose themselves to even the slightest accusation of having been duped by an Oswald imposter... or even worse... part of a conspiracy/cover-up in the assassination. Perhaps this only served to deepen Scott's sense of the need to play his cards close to the vest.
  6. I agree Ben. I do believe Oswald was in Mexico City. And like you I am also beginning to believe he was impersonated during his stay there. Proof of this was established in the telephone intercepts. I was always of the opinion that the CIA's Mexico City station had called the Cuban embassy using Oswald's name in order to elicit information about Oswald's visits there. Nevertheless, the CIA lied about the recordings to the bitter end, (HSCA - Anne Goodpasture). They claimed that the tapes had been erased just days after being transcribed yet the FBI listened to them in Dallas after the assassination, and it was agreed that the voice on the tapes was not Oswald's. BTW, I did see that documentary with Kostikov and company when it aired back in 1993. As far as the Soviets were concerned I think they would have said the Easter bunny had visited the embassy if that's what we wanted them to say. I don't believe they, (USSR), had anything to do with Oswald or the assassination. They simply did not want to be implicated in any way, (guilt by association). But it's entirely possible that Oswald did go there, and I believe he did. I don't think they were lying. Getting back to the visa photographs. I have turned this over in my mind again and again. If Lee Harvey Oswald was the man in those four photographs what would the harm be in establishing that fact. The cat was already out of the bag so to speak. It also gave the CIA the opportunity to produce photographic evidence that Oswald was indeed in Mexico City without having to jeopardize their surveillance programs. The only motive for the CIA to withhold such evidence would have been if the man in those photographs was not Oswald. That would have strongly suggested a conspiracy in the assassination. And the identity of the man in those photos would have lead them directly to those involved. Win Scott in Mexico City knew this, and so did CIA headquarters. The only thing CIA headquarters could not be certain of is what Scott had hidden in his personal safe. The only thing it could have been was something the CIA should never have been able to obtain... photographs that were technically on Cuban soil... inside the Cuban embassy. P.S. I can understand Scott's desire to protect an asset within the Cuban embassy, but there has been no indication in any of the previously or newly released documents that would suggest that Scott shared this information with headquarters. Again, if it was in fact Oswald who appeared in the visa photographs it certainly would have closed that door in terms of any alleged conspiracy... especially in one where the CIA might have been implicated. Indeed knowledge is power. Nowhere else is this more apparent than within the intelligence community. Add to this fact the CIA's compulsion for compartmentalization and it becomes even more so, and no single person within the CIA could have attested to this more than the beneficiary of Scott's private cache... James J. Angleton. P.S. See Washington Post article dated 11/16/1993 entitled "FEEDING PERSISTENT SUSPIIONS" by Walter Pincus and George Lardner Jr.
  7. Over the years debate continues regarding Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City. I say 'alleged' because we have yet to see absolute proof that Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact the man who entered both the Cuban and Soviet embassies that weekend in late September - early October of 1963. There is however some evidence to suggest that someone may have impersonated the future alleged assassin. Concentrating on the Cuban embassy staff who interacted with Oswald, Silvia Duran had probably the most contact in terms of time. But I have never seen any comment made by Duran that directly identifies the Oswald in Mexico City to the Oswald who was being held in Dallas for the murder of JFK. As a matter of fact in her description, given to the Mexican authorities, she claimed Oswald had blond hair. As for the Cuban Counsul Eusibio Azcue who had a face to face confrontation with Oswald, he testified before the HSCA that he would never have associated the Oswald in Mexico City as being the same as the Oswald in Dallas. Azcue was soon afterward replaced as Counsul by Alfredo Mirabal Diaz. Diaz was also present during this confrontation. In Diaz's testimony, while he admitted having seen only glimpses of the man calling himself Oswald, Diaz would only agree that the man in the visa photographs was the same man who visited the Cuban embassy. Ah, the visa photographs! Yes indeed! While the CIA station in Mexico City claimed to have missed Oswald's entrance(s) and exit(s) because of flaws in their surveilance program, we did have photographs afterall. And these were photographs supplied by the man alleging to be Oswald himself. In her statement given to the Mexican authorities Mrs. Duran claimed to have recieved four photgraphs from Oswald upon his first returning to the Cuban embassy. She went on to state that she did in fact complete Oswald's visa application, (in duplicate), and stapled one photo to each copy and then had Oswald sign both of them in her presense. Within just a few short weeks, and prior to JFK's assassination, Oswald's in-transit visa was approved by the Cubans with the caveat that Oswald obtain a Soviet visa as well. Logic would indicate then that at the time of Oswald's arrest in Dallas there must have still existed a paper trail on the Mexico City Oswald which would have included his photograph. Why was this avenue never explored? Or was it? This leads me to wonder... What exactly did Mexico COS Winston Scott have tucked away in his personal safe. A safe that soon after his death would be emptied by none other than James J. Angleton. The contents of which have never been seen publicly. If nothing else this case certainly has more than it's share of twists and turns.
  8. From Norman Lear's Oswald's Tale, pg. 490 "On February 13, De Mohrenschildt arranged an evening in his home between Oswald and a young geologist named Volkmar Schmidt, who had studied psychology at Heidelberg." Got my Normans confused... Thank you Pamela...
  9. Thanks Ben. I also agree that it was DeMohrenshildt's arranged meeting between Oswald and a Swedish psychiatrist, (the name escapes me at the moment), who later recalled publicly working up a "psychological profile" on Oswald. This, I believe, was the catalyst for the Walker shooting. During this conversation this individual recalls using Walker as a comparison to the rise of Hitler to Walker's political ambitions in order to "win Oswald's confidence" and induce him to speak further on his, (Oswald's), political beliefs. The psychiatrist in question, it has been suggested, had CIA ties as well, (I will get back to you with the name). My perception of Oswald's CIA ties are thus... San Diego (Marine induction), Atsugi, San Diego, (Marine discharge), defection, return, Moore, DeMorehnshilt, David Atlee Philips... James Jesus Angleton from A to Z. Ruby was interviewed by the Warren Commission in late summer of 64 if I'm not mistaken. Last page of his testimony to Earl Warren, (directly). I will paraphrase... "There is a organization here in Dallas. And that organization is the John Birch Society. The leader of that organization is Edwin Walker." Regards
  10. Ben, I agree with you on much of your reasoning. I believe there was a link between Ruby and Oswald. Based on my research I believe one key question regarding Oswald's movements prior to 11/22/63 was never addressed and could hold the answer. On the night of April 10th, 1963 following the attempted assassination of Edwin Walker Oswald's whereabouts have gone completely unaccounted for between the hours of 9 p.m. and approximately 11:30p.m. based on Marina's testimony. During an executive session of the Warren Commission in 1964 this issue was raised, but never follow up on. Where is the most logical place for Oswald to have hidden himself from view while the Dallas P.D. performed their rather lackluster initial investigation that night? While Ruby's infamous Carousel Club is often written about, less is known about his other club... The Vegas Club... nestled in the Turtlecreek area of Dallas just a few blocks from Walkers home. Based on Ruby's openly stated fear of the John Birch Society before the Warren Commission's Earl Warren, (more specifically Ruby names Edwin Walker), and his close contact with the Dallas P.D. who's ranks included many Birchers, I believe it is plausible that the mob in conjunction with certain Dallas P.D. members urged and assisted Ruby in the silencing of Oswald. Regards, Craig C.
  11. The only wound that WC Exhibit 399 is consistent with is the shallow wound of entry to the president's back.
  12. By coincidence I recently happened upon a voice recording made in the oval office by JFK on this very subject, (specifically his reaction to the news of the Diem assassination(s)). This is great stuff. Thanks Doug!
  13. To Agent Hill... Thank you sir for your bravery and dedication to duty. The heroism you displayed on November 22, 1963 can never be overstated. Few, if any of us here could duplicate your actions under those circumstances. You are a true American hero! God bless.
  14. Paul, While I agree that there was damage to the limousine's windshield, I am not convinced that a bullet or bullet fragment(s) actually penetrated it completely. My theory, based on the available evidence, is that the third shot fired from the TSBD missed. I believe this bullet struck the chrome trim above the windshield just to the right of center. Looking closely at the photo below you can see that there is a smooth, circular hole in the center of the dent created upon impact. It is my assertion that this third shot missed high as a direct result of the driver, (Greer), applying the brake immediately prior to the third shot being fired. Watching the Zapruder film we can observe Greer as he glances twice over his right shoulder to look into the rear passenger compartment. His first glance is quick lasting just a fraction of a second. But his second turn towards the rear and his gaze backwards continues until after the head shot. The action of applying the brakes as he looks away from the road ahead is instinctive... a reflex action. The timing of the deceleration and the shot together caused the shooter's shot to impact high... above the intended target. There is another interesting piece of evidence that can be observed when we view the limousine's windshield from the front as it was seen and photographed by the Secret Service prior to it's removal. It reveals evidence that the limo's rear view mirror also exhibited signs of damage. A dent in the mirror's forward facing metal surface directly beneath the support arm can be seen. This would indicate that a bullet / bullet fragment(s) struck the trim, windshield, and deflected backwards striking the rear view mirror before coming to rest inside the passenger compartment. * Notes: 1.) The two bullet fragments recovered from the front passenger compartment, (1 nose portion - largely copper jacketing, 1 base portion - largely copper jacketing), had a combined weight of approximately 70 grains. The 6.5 mm bullets used each weighed 162 grains. 2.) The FBI removed a portion of curb stone from the location where James Tague stood on the day of the assassination. There was clear evidence of a bullet strike to this piece of concrete. Their laboratory results indicated the presence of lead in this defect, but no copper, thereby rendering the results "inconclusive".
  15. I have considered this possibility in terms of trajectory and the resulting path through the body, but my main objection would be that a sniper would never attempt a shot from that distance, regardless of caliber, that would first have to penetrate a windshield before striking a target seated several feet away.
  16. I'm afraid Mr. Butler may be correct in his initial response. Although my intentions were honorable, it appears I was grossly mistaken. My apologies to those forum members who took the time, in good faith, to examine my findings. And many thanks to Mr. Davidson for his fine work on the Zapruder film, (I am well acquainted with his work). In the future I believe I will let the photographic analysis lie in the hands of those who have the technical expertise. At the very least this thread may give those who perhaps have not seen Mr. Davidson's work an opportunity to pursue it, (I would humbly recommend it). Regards, Craig C.
  17. Chris, The most prominent part of the image in these frames appears to be the head/shoulders of an individual just above the top of the fence that is moving downwards, (ducking beneath the fence), and quickly turning and moving to the right. In frame 475 I believe I have what might be the last frame that shows him in profile view. The Bell film appears to show the same "ducking" movement as seen from the opposite side of the fence, (filmed from south side of Elm St.).
  18. Chris, I've done a lot of target shooting. I am 5' 9" tall. I did a quick test. I stood holding a rifle with the barrel perfectly horizontal, (no upward or downward angle). The bottom of my barrel was at 4' 10" from the floor. Unless the person standing behind the fence was considerably taller, (say over 6'), even a fence less than 5' tall could pose a problem, (especially when you consider there would have been a downward trajectory required). I do agree that the breeze was moving the leaves quite a bit and caused the same effect regarding the reflected light, but the movement I saw did not appear to be part of the foliage. Like I said previously, there is no right or wrong here. It's just my perception. I admit that my opinion might be a bit subjective. That was my main reason for not describing the photo in my original post. I thought perhaps just asking folks here what they saw might have been the best was to get an objective response.
  19. John, Take a look at David Josephs' post on the first page. That pretty much sums it the point I was trying to make. This is a part of the Zapruder film that I feel has been largely overlooked by most researchers. There is movement in these frames at the location I enlarged. We cannot ignore the fact that witnesses reported seeing a puff of smoke in this area. Nor can we ignore the fact that police officers directed to this location found evidence that someone had in fact been pacing, smoking cigarettes, and at some point had used the bumper of a vehicle and a horizontal fence post to boost themselves up above the top of the fence. David also references and syncs the Bell film that included frames of the same location along the fence line which appears to show momentary movement just above the top of the fence, (as one would expect when filming from the north side of Elm St.).
  20. Fantastic work David. Far beyond my abilities. This should place him very close to the spot where the muddy footprints, cigarette butts, and mud up on the bumper of the station wagon and fence rail were discovered.
  21. John, Even an abstract painting would require a subject. What would you suggest the "subject" to be in this photo? Also, keep in mind that I enlarged this portion of the frame because of movement seen in the film.
  22. Play the entire sequence of Zapruder's view of the picket fence and watch for movement in the area designated by the box at the far right. This is the area I enlarged.
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