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On 3/14/2013 at 12:32 AM, Josiah Thompson said:
I'll try to explain. In the spring of 1967, I was done with my LIFE assignment and was putting together all the details that went into Six Seconds. Mary Moorman's photograph was extremely important since it showed the knoll at Z 315. I had done some research with AP and Wide World in New York concerning the negatives and prints of the photo that they had. But the original Polaroid was sitting in Dallas. I paid Mary Moorman for the use of her photo in Six Second. Part of the deal was that she would let a professional photographer come to her house and copy the Polaroid. I hired a professional photographer to do this. He went to her home and copied the Polaroid using a medium format camera where the negative itself is about the size of Moorman's Polaroid. It was that negative from forty-five years ago that I had scanned in San Francisco. The drum scan resulting may turn out to be the highest resolution copy of the Moorman photo extant since the Polaroid itself has deteriorated further with each passing decade.
Robin just posted the drum scan. I was delighted to be able to do this, Robin. You are most welcome. I noticed on the drum scan you posted that it is quite easy to see that the two points Jack White said lined up perfectly (the claim that started the whole "Moorman in the Street" kerfuffle) clearly don't line up.
JT
Wish you posted more!
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15 hours ago, Pat Speer said:
Think of yourself as a bullet fragment. You are traveling through a brain on the way to some skull. An exit defect opens up as you smash through the skull, with the opening on the outside of the skull being larger than the opening on the inside aspect of the skull, as result of the energy spreading outwards. You never touch the outside of the skull. You would leave no trace on the outside of the skull.
Now, if you hit the skull at a shallow angle, and broke into pieces, with some pieces continuing onwards, the skull would show entrance beveling along with exit beveling. And lead from the inside of the bullet would be apparent on the exit beveling.
Is there a source for this? I'll try to search for sources on this myself, but it sounds like it depends on the definition of the "outside of the skull". I don't see why a lead fragment exiting at a shallow angle couldn't carve a grey streak through the thickness of the bone which could be visible from the outer surface.
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47 minutes ago, Pat Speer said:
The lead smear is on the outside of the skull--on bone that has been beveled outwards. This makes no sense for a bullet entering at this location (as the beveling denotes an exit) and makes no sense for a bullet exiting this location (as an exiting missile would not smear lead on the outside of the skull). But it does make sense if the bullet both entered and exited at this location, as proposed by Dr. William Kemp Clark.
Even with a shallow angle shot or near-tangential shot? What about a bullet from the south knoll entering above the right eye and exiting above the right ear?
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It's also possible for an exiting piece of lead to leave a smear on bone, right? So a bullet could've entered the left temple or right forehead and exited the right temple?
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On 3/19/2024 at 12:50 AM, Denis Morissette said:
From Bales’ reports, it’s clear he recorded at Parkland. Doesn’t matter if the government acknowledges the recording or not.
https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/02/whca-after-action-reports-112263.html?What recording exactly that disappeared in the government’s hands?
THE WHITE HOUSE
COMMUNICATIONS BRANCH
SUBJECT: Sequence of Events – 22 November 1963
TO: Commanding Officer, WHCA
Following is approximately the sequence of events, as recalled by the undersigned, in Dallas, Texas, 22 November 1963
1. Prior Communications Arrangements: The Dallas White House had been established in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, and Communications facilities included a one-position switchboard with 3 dial trunks, 2 LD’s 3 tie lines to the Fort Worth White House Bd, 1 tie line to the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel Bd., 3 extensions to Love Field, 4 extensions to the Dallas Trade Mart (site of the President’s scheduled speech), secure teletype equipment, and radio and phone patch facilities to cover the motorcade.
2. Planned schedule of Events: The undersigned was to cover the President’s arrival at Love Field, and, with the Special WHCA Courier, travel in the motorcade and cover all stops to include the President’s departure from Dallas. SSGT Robert D. Brazell, with six men, were manning the Dallas White House; and seven men, making the Texas circuit aboard the Press Plane, were to remain at Love Field, as they would not be needed in Dallas. A recoding technician, Specialist John Muhlers, was set up and stationed at the Dallas Trade Mart to record the President’s speech and to furnish audio feeds to the various news media.
3. The arrival and Motorcade: Air Force One landed and the President spent some time shaking hands and greeting the large crowd at Love Field. The motorcade then departed for the trip through downtown Dallas and to the Trade Mart. In the WHCA Communications Car were: A telco driver; the undersigned WHCA Advance Officer; the WHCA Courier, Mr. Gearheart; and the Telco special representative (or “Shadow”), Mr. Herb Smith. We were approximately six cars and two (Press and Staff) buses behind the President. The motorcade had just passed the last buildings on the route before entering the freeway to the Trade Mart. The WHCA Communications Car was around two corners from and not in sight of the President’s car. Three explosions were heard, and I thought that they were backfires from vehicles up ahead. Herb Smith remarked that firecrackers were inappropriate for the occasion. Then the USSS Agent riding with the President announced on the FM “Charlie” radio, :Lawson, he’s hit”. The motorcade came to an abrupt halt with one bus and the WHCA car still around two corners from the President. Realizing that emergency communications facilities may be required on the spot, I instructed the driver to get Mr. Gearhart immediately to the vicinity of the President and to keep him there regardless of my own location. I, with the Telco representative, Mr. Smith, then started running toward the scene of the shooting. As we rounded the first corner the motorcade suddenly raced away. I commandeered a police car and instructed the driver to take us immediately to the Parkland Hospital. We arrived short minutes after the President.
4. The Parkland Hospital: The very limited telephone facilities at the hospital were tired up by the members of the Press Pool. I immediately seized all but one line (leaving Merriman Smith on the one most remote from the Emergency Rooms) and established direct circuits to the Signal Board in Washington; the Dallas White House Bd; and to the Signal board via the Dallas and Fort Worth White House Boards. I assigned police officers to guard these phones and instructed the individual Signal Operators in Washington who were on these circuits to handle no other calls, but to guard these lines exclusively. I then ordered six lines in to the hospital from the Dallas White House Board and informed appropriate White House Aides of my actions. I then checked back with the Dallas White House and learned that SSGT Brazell had, on is own initiative, ordered in an additional switchboard position, 3 additional dial trunks, 4 trunks to Washington, and had alerted Telco to the possibility of further TTY facilities being required. I instructed SSGT Brazell to direct for of the seven men (Press Plane Riders) at Love Field to report to me at the hospital, and the other three report to him at the hotel. The six lines to the hospital, the four trunks to Washington, and the additional TTY facilities were cancelled before completion. As the WHCA personnel arrived from Love Field, they replaced the police officers who had been guarding the seized telephone lines. At the appropriate time I instructed Mr. Gearhart to remain with the President Johnson, and they left shortly for Love Field. I remained at the hospital and later went to the field with (the body of) President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, instructing the WHCA personnel to remain at the hospital until released by the White House Staff personnel who were remaining there a while longer. Meanwhile, I had advised Captain Stoughton, WHCA Photographer, and SP5 Muler (Recording – stationed at the Trade Mart) of President Johnson’s return to Air Force One: enabling Captain Stoughton to be the only photographer aboard when the President took his oath of office. Muler recorded the proceedings, and the tape was returned to Washington via Colonel McNally aboard the Press Plane.
ARTHUR W. BALES, JR.
CWO USA
Trip OfficerI'm confused. Why should I think this means a recording was made of the Parkland classroom meeting? Which part? -
On 8/26/2024 at 3:19 AM, Pat Speer said:
Doug Horne is not a member of this forum. We are as free to call him a liar as we are to call Arlen Specter a liar, or Gerald Posner a liar.
As it stands, however, I suspect he simply screwed up when he said Jenkins saw a bullet hole on the forehead. Jenkins is the neutron bomb to his theory, and he knows it. He probably WANTED to believe Jenkins said he saw a hole on the forehead, and ended up saying Jenkins when he was thinking of Robinson.
Of course, Robinson never said it, either. .
https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/profile/1013-doug-horne/
Doug actually did make an account here once upon a time, ha
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On 8/20/2024 at 2:04 PM, Pat Speer said:
Your logic is flawed from top to bottom.
The head first moves forward and then back. This was proved decades ago.
Also, most any doctor can look at an x-ray. But the analysis of x-rays for signs of trauma and bullet wounds in particular is a specialized field in which Chesser has no background. if you'd been following this story for decades, you would know that Horne reached out to a forensic radiologist for the ARRB, and the forensic radiologist rejected Mantik's theories, and that Mantik has been desperate for some professional recognition ever since. He has failed miserably.
As far as myself, I spent years reading TEXTBOOKS on gunshot wounds and forensic radiology etc..something few of the "experts" on the medical evidence have done. I have spent many hours discussing the case with the top names in the medical evidence and have discovered and explained many aspects of the case to them that have escaped their attention.
And you would know this if you'd read my website or viewed my presentations...
You think it's no big deal that the x-rays happen to show an odd-looking small defect in the forehead at about the same level as the suspicious imagrey in the same area on the autopsy photos, and there happens to be a bunch of tiny bullet fragments crowded around the precise area of that defect? What do you have against the possibility of a temple wound entry or cover-up? The films don't need to be altered to be compatible with one or more small temple wounds. You could also make a case that few or even no witnesses would need to be involved in a cover-up of the temple wound(s) - for example, all sides would probably agree that there was at least a blood clot on the left temple that could've looked somewhat like a bullet hole - multiple witnesses suggested that, including Perry, Jenkins, McClelland, and Father Huber. You also refuse to acknowlege Gene Akin AKA Solomon Ben-Israel as a serious witness, despite the fact that nobody could offer any specific solid reason for accusing him of being crazy or a liar.
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2 hours ago, Gary Murr said:
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11933#relPageId=12
reprinted in the appendix of PHOTOGRAPHIC WHITEWASH, available on Library Genesis.
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Also your link no longer works. Could you use Google Drive?
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On 5/21/2018 at 4:41 PM, Gary Murr said:
Also, can you explain the source of that photo of the Sixth Floor window produced by Norman Similas, alleged by Weisberg to have been taken at 12:35, which appeared in Liberty magazine?
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On 5/21/2018 at 4:41 PM, Gary Murr said:
As the first researcher to personally interview Norman Similas, something I did on two occasions in November and December of 1967, I remain convinced that much of the Similas story was "made up" for reasons that to this day I cannot explain. I was made aware of Norman Similas via Harold Weisberg as Weisberg was constructing "Photographic Whitewash." As I explained in correspondence to both Harold and Richard Sprague, Similas was long on promises of producing photographic evidence he claimed to have possessed but short on presenting any such evidence to me when given ample opportunity to do so. He was continually evasive and vague when I interviewed him, refusing to allow me to tape record any of our conversations nor allow notes to be taken by myself or an individual verse in short-hand dictation whom I had accompany me on my first Similas contact. I do believe Similas was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and may have even been in/around the Dealey Plaza area at the time of the assassination. However, I do not believe he personally witnessed events as he described. Though his son, Kirk, mentions in this video news clip that his father had three camera's with him on that day, Similas never indicated as such to me during my interviews with him. Indeed, he even refused to tell me what make and model of camera he had theoretically taken to Dallas on that weekend and used to photograph the south face of the TSBD. I spent the better part of several months in late 1967, early 1968 attempting to track the Similas materials, in particular the alleged photograph and or their negatives. I was allowed free access to the archives of the Toronto Telegram but found nothing. I also was in contact with individuals who had formerly worked at Liberty magazine, but again found no photographic evidence to substantiate the Similas story. Having met the man on more than once occasion only a few years removed from the assassination event I also spent a considerable amount of time examining photographs taken in and around Dealey Plaza prior to and after the assassination in an effort to “find” Similas in any pictures that exist. As I recall, because I no longer have any of this material, this effort on my part came up empty, though I do seem to recall the possibility of Similas appearing in one of the Wilma Bond slide images taken after the motorcade had left the plaza. But again, positive identification on my part of anyone who looked like Similas in Dealey Plaza came up empty – and in particular I do not recall an image of a slightly built individual with three camera’s on his person anywhere in the area prior to or after the assassination. My notes on Similas can be found in the Richard Sprague Papers, Special Divisions Collections, Georgetown University Library, Washington, D. C.
FWIW
Gary Murr
I am completing a full inventory of information on Norman Similas. I'm done scouring the Weisberg archives but the story on Similas isn't given a proper closure there. Am I to understand that Similas strung you and Harold Weisberg along with talk to publishing rights, only for him to refuse to speak to you both for the rest of the years until his death?
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I was. I have not abandoned The Case for an Altered Throat Wound, it has only ballooned to 700 pages and I will be retitling it Coersion of Parkland Witnesses - with the sum total of all human knowledge on the possibility of funny business at Parkland. To think it was only a year ago that I told David my manuscript was 250 pages, and he said "I do not know exactly how you made the case for an altered throat wound into 250 pages, but I guess you will tell me".
700 pages (single spaced office program pages) might seem like thoroughness would turn into unreadability, but I'm trying to allow the reader to tell which parts they can skim through if they so choose.
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This and the fingerprints may be the best evidence for fabricated evidence. Even better than the medical evidence.
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On 6/14/2024 at 6:00 AM, David Von Pein said:
The autopsy photos are worse for custody than CE399.
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I wonder if there's a way to find the original of this low-quality copy of LBJ's photo. I know Norman Similas passed away and had a son who in the early 2000's talked to the media. An FBI document claimed that Similas' real name was Norman "Sumilas".
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1 hour ago, Pat Speer said:
To be fair, few bat an eye at Sibert and O'Neill calling multiple fragments a "missile".
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20 hours ago, David Von Pein said:
Has any conspiracy theorist in history ever made this basic observation?....
Boy, those assassins were sure a bunch of lucky sons of bitches when the guy who shot JFK in the throat from the front managed to hit Kennedy in exactly the right spot on his body so that (later on) the official investigators could utilize that entry wound in the throat as the point of exit for the SBT bullet. And then the multiple assassins got even luckier when the upper-back bullet and the bullet that entered the throat both decided not to exit the body and then both of those bullets vanished into puffs of smoke before either of those bullets (which obviously were still inside JFK's body when he was inside Trauma Room No. 1 at Parkland Hospital) could be seen by any non-conspirator.
Can anyone truly believe that such incredible good fortune could possibly have existed amongst the (alleged) multiple shooters who were (allegedly) firing bullets at President Kennedy on 11/22/63?
(And yet CTers have the gall to tell me that I am the one who believes in "Magic Bullets". Oy vey!)The EOP wound could also count as a potential shallow wound. There are also endless stories of extra recovered slugs, fragments, shell casings and bullet marks.
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On 5/28/2024 at 12:05 PM, Sandy Larsen said:
If I penalize you for both these lies, you will be issued 20 penalty points. In addition, you will receive another 20 points because another member (Keven) has asked you to remove these forum violations.
The following is a table showing how many days of posting privileges a member loses based on their accumulated penalty points:
10 Points = 1 day
20 Points = 2 days
30 Points = 4 days
40 Points = 8 daysPlease remove these lies ASAP to save yourself from being penalized.
Note that, should you restate what you've said in a way that indicates they are your interpretation or your opinion, doing so would effectively change your lies to factual statements, given that you are free to believe whatever you choose to believe... regardless of how intellectually dishonest it may be.
This is why I say free speech is God, pretty much any level of censorship will always devolve into this.
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On 6/9/2024 at 8:28 AM, Sandy Larsen said:
I guess the research community has abandoned the notion that the large head wound was the size of an egg?
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35 minutes ago, David Von Pein said:
David, why aren't you including the most incriminating of Oswald's known statements - "Well, it's all over now. I've killed me a cop and a President. I'm gonna get me two more!"
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I also regret to inform you that http://www.jfkassassinationfiles.com/Newspapers_Articles.html has been hijacked by porno.
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This must be one of my favorate JFK websites. I can't believe how many close witnesses are unidentified to this day.
On 5/24/2024 at 7:59 PM, Denis Morissette said:Does your blog include an entry regarding the unidentified people on the grassy knoll discussed by Groden in his 1993 film The Case For Conaspiracy?
So is David Lifton's Final Charade just going to be lost to history?
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted
Lifton ultimately ended up saying he wasn't sure whether Oswald the person on the Sixth Floor holding a rifle out the window, as shown in this December 2021 appearence:
https://youtu.be/Rhqz9BiO2T8?feature=shared&t=2286
https://youtu.be/Rhqz9BiO2T8?feature=shared&t=2286