Steve Thomas Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Please read FBI 62-109090 Warren Commission HQ File, Section 2 pp. 248-249. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=61489#relPageId=249&tab=page This is memo from L.J. Gauthier to Mr. Callahan of the FBI concerning a meeting of Commission lawyers, Secret Service personnel and Shaneyfelt of the FBI on January 27, 1964. They were trying to reconcile the Nix film with the Zapruder film. The meeting lasted 8 and 1/2 hours. Please read the top paragraph on p. 249. Am I reading this right? Is Secret Service Inspector Thomas Kelley saying the single bullet theory is bogus? Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Walton Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 He's saying that some staff member, off the record (confidentially), expressed concern to Kelley about the outside chance of the bullet having the strength to go through Connally. And the "wild" part of the statement probably was expressed by this person to Kelley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Larsen Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Kelley thought that the idea of the bullet doing all that damage to Connally was ridiculous. The odd thing is that he then went on to say that, under that scenario, the NEXT bullet would have gone completely "wild." Why the next bullet? Maybe the writer mis-paraphrased Kelley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Murr Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Hi Steve: I go into this memorandum and other's relating to various Commission staff meetings and members of the FBI as they viewed, on several occasions, the film of Abraham Zapruder [and others] in my unpublished manuscript on the wounding of John Connally. As far as I can ascertain this was the first such meeting of these particular "minds" and it is also the actual genesis of the SBT. I have always argued, against general consensus thinking, that Arlen Specter was not the "father" of the SBT and he was not. Based upon memorandum I possess from the J. Lee Rankin files the actual initiator of the SBT, the "one staff member" left unidentified by name in this Gauthier memorandum you have highlighted, was actually Norman Redlich. That is not to say that Specter and David Belin, who was also present at this meeting, would not become the most vocal proponents of the "truth" of the SBT because they were. But I reiterate - Arlen Specter was not the father/inventor of the SBT FWIW Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 (edited) Gary: You are saying that Redlich originated the SBT? Two questions: 1.) What is the specific date it happened, not the date of the memo? 2.) What are the circumstances? Pat Speer made a case that it was actually Ball and Belin. Edited November 5, 2016 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 The way I read that paragraph is that Kelley didn't believe one bullet went through both men. If one bullet hit two men, "shot two" would have gone "wild" and not have continued in a straight line. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 Just as an aside, I had to smile. It looks like Hoover didn't much like the idea of trying to reconcile the Nix and Zapruder films. See Hoover's handwritten notes on page 247 in this group: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=61489#relPageId=247&tab=page "It (unintelligible) like a lot of poppy to me." and page 252 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=61489#relPageId=252&tab=page "OK, but it looks to me as if they are "playing games"." He wasn't thrilled. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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