Michael Griffith

The simple fact of the matter is that no one has ever truly duplicated Oswald's alleged shooting feat of 2/3 in 6 seconds. The only way to expand the firing time is to assume that he missed the first shot, the closest and easiest shot. 

The only test that involved the alleged murder rifle itself is very revealing.

The WC hired three Master-rated riflemen to attempt to duplicate Oswald's alleged shooting feat. The three Master-rated shooters who participated in that test fired 18 rounds while using the scope and three rounds while using the iron sights. They used the alleged murder weapon, the Mannlicher-Carcano that was traced to Lee Harvey Oswald. Tellingly, they missed the head and neck area of the target board silhouettes 18 out of 18 times when they used the scope, and 2 out of 3 times when they used the iron sights. In other words, they missed the head and neck area of the target silhouettes 20 out of 21 times.  Several of their misses were far apart on the boards. Some of their shots missed the silhouettes entirely. It's revealing that they shot so poorly even though they were allowed to take as long as they wanted for the first shot, even though two of them took longer than 6 seconds to fire, even though they were only firing from 30 feet up, and even though they were shooting at stationary--yes, stationary--target boards.

The three riflemen in the test were named Miller, Hendrix, and Staley. (Their first names were never given.) In the first series, Miller took 4.6 seconds to fire three shots, Staley took 6.75 seconds, and Hendrix took 8.25 seconds. In the next series, Miller took 5.15 seconds, Staley took 6.45 seconds, and Hendrix took 7 seconds. It bears repeating that Oswald would have had only one attempt, only one series. Oswald supposedly scored two hits out of three shots, yet Miller, Hendrix, and Staley—all Master-rated riflemen—missed the head and neck area of the target silhouettes 20 out of 21 times.

I think the released HSCA and ARRB interviews of the autopsy personnel have destroyed the credibility of the autopsy photos. We now know that the HSCA report lied when it said that the autopsy personnel contradicted the Dallas doctors about the right-rear head wound. In point of fact, most of them described the same wound that the Dallas doctors and nurses described. 

I find Myers' research on the Tippit case to be severely flawed. See my review of his book With Malice:

Did Oswald Shoot Tippit? 

46 minutes ago, Bill Brown said:

Roger Craig was interviewed in 1968 and in that interview, he stated that Tippit was shot around 1:40. He was immediately corrected by Penn Jones, who told him (Craig) that the Warren Commission determined that the shooting occurred around 1:15. Craig's response to that? "Was it? Oh, that's right."

Then, a few years later, in the early 70's, while writing his manuscript "When They Kill A President", Craig states matter-of-factly that he heard about the shooting over in Oak Cliff on a nearby police radio while he was in Dealey Plaza and he looked down at his watch and noted that the time was 1:06.

Isn't it something that Craig didn't remember this 1:06 police radio stuff while doing the 1968 interview a few years earlier?

Think about it.

 

1968:  No clue what time the Tippit shooting occurred

 

Early 70's:  Heard of the shooting, looked at his watch, 1:06

 

These criticisms strike me as a bit hyper-critical and nit-picky. To say he had "no clue" when Tippit was shot in 1968 seems a bit harsh, given that the time he gave was within 34 minutes of the actual time. I would agree that his later account in his book was embellished. Anyway, there is good evidence for Craig's November 1963 account of seeing someone who resembled Oswald run from the rear of the TSBD and jump into a Nash Rambler station wagon. Dr. Michael Kurtz:

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There is, in fact, substantial evidence that provides far more corroboration for Craig's testimony than for the totally unsubstantiated statements of Whaley.  Carolyn Walther was watching the motorcade from Houston Street.  She saw a man standing on the fourth or fifth floor in the southeast corner window of the Depository building.  He was holding a gun.  Next to him was a man dressed in a brown sport coat.  Shortly after the assassination, James Worrell saw a man run out of the back of the Depository.  The man was five feet eight inches to five feet ten inches tall, average weight, had dark hair, and was wearing a dark sports jacket.  The man was moving south on Houston Street.

Richard Randolph Carr watched the motorcade from Houston and Commerce streets.  Shortly before the shooting, he saw a man wearing a brown sport coat in an upper floor of the Book Depository building.  A couple of minutes after the shooting, Carr saw the same man walking very fast heading south on Houston Street.  After going around the block, the man entered a grey or green Rambler station wagon.  Marvin Robinson was driving his car west on Elm Street about fifteen minutes after the shooting.  He saw a man come down the grassy incline and enter a Rambler station wagon, which then drove away.

Mrs. James Forrest was standing in a group of people who had gathered on the incline near the grassy knoll.  As she was standing, she saw a man suddenly run from the rear of the Depository building, down the incline, and then enter a Rambler station wagon.  The man she saw running down and entering the station wagon strongly resembled Lee Harvey Oswald.  "If it wasn't Oswald," Mrs. Forrest has declared, "it was his identical twin."  The testimony of Walther, Worrell, Carr, Robinson, and Forrest all provide strong substantiation for Roger Craig's story.

Craig's story is also supported by photographic evidence.  One photograph shows Deputy Craig running toward the grassy knoll.  Another shows him standing near the grassy knoll.  Another shows him standing on the south side of Elm Street looking toward the Book Depository building.  In the same photograph, a light-colored Rambler station wagon can be seen heading west on Elm Street.  In another photograph, Craig is seen looking toward Elm Street in the general direction of the station wagon. . . . (Crime of the Century, 1982, pp. 130-133)

 

On 6/1/2020 at 7:35 PM, Paul Brancato said:

Has anyone, besides Doug Caddy, watched this film? I think the subject of UFO/alien contact, presented as it is in this movie, is germane. Of course they won’t mention E Howard Hunt’s parting words to Mr. Caddy that JFK was killed because of the ‘alien question’. But it turns out that Hunt wasn’t the only one that believed JFK’s death was connected to his willingness to end the secrecy on UFO’s. British Admiral Gordon Creighton suggested the same. The movie confronts the government secrecy head on, and not just on this issue. 

I think Hunt's statement was a parting attempt to spread more disinformation. The anti-Castro Cubans who viscerally despised JFK, and who show up all over the place in the assassination, could not have cared less about whether or not JFK formally acknowledged the existence of aliens.

Anyway, Unacknowledged is a fascinating documentary, and it is credible up until about the last 15-20 minutes, when it goes off the deep end, IMO.

Yes, I believe that Hiroshima was a war crime. I'm sure many here know that by June 1945 Japan was beaten and prostrate. Mainland Japan was virtually defenseless against air attacks. Bombing runs over the Japanese home islands were losing only 0.003 of our bombers in air raids on Japan—in other words, only 3 out of every 1,000 bombers were being shot down. Every major Japanese port had been mined. The Japanese people were on the verge of starvation. 

All this being said, if we had nuked a genuine military target, I would not object nearly as much. 

Michael T. Griffith holds a Master’s degree in Theology from The Catholic Distance University, a Graduate Certificate in Ancient and Classical History from American Military University, a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College, and two Associate in Applied Science degrees from the Community College of the Air Force.  He also holds an Advanced Certificate of Civil War Studies and a Certificate of Civil War Studies from Carroll College.  He is a graduate in Arabic and Hebrew of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and of the U.S. Air Force Technical Training School in San Angelo, Texas.  In addition, he has completed Advanced Hebrew programs at Haifa University in Israel and at the Spiro Institute in London, England.  He is the author of five books on Mormonism and ancient texts, including How Firm A Foundation, A Ready Reply, and One Lord, One Faith.  He is also the author of a book on the JFK assassination titled Compelling Evidence (JFK Lancer, 1996), and of a book on the Pearl Harbor attack titled The Real Infamy of Pearl Harbor (2021).