Ice bullets

[Ray Mitcham]

11 hours ago, Cliff Varnell said:

This is the Willis 5 photo (Z202). 

Phil Willis stated that he took this picture while startled by a shot.  SS SA Glenn Bennett is on the far right, seated facing to the right.  He wasn't looking at Kennedy at the time of the first shot.

And yet he accurately described the location of the back wound in contemporaneous notes; "four inches down from the right shoulder".

The back shot couldn't have been the first shot unless you assert that Bennett made it all up and had a lucky guess on the back wound location.

Gratuitous witness bashing in my book.

 

Bennett admitted in his statement that he wasn't looking at the President when he heard the first "fire cracker" like shot.

“At this point, I heard a noise that immediately reminded me of a fire cracker. Immediately on hearing the supposed fire cracker, looked at the boss's car. At the exact time I saw a shot that hit the boss about 4 inches down from the right shoulder.a second shot followed almost immediately and hit the right rear high of the boss's head”

This could be construed as him seeing the second shot hitting JFK in the back, or that he saw the result of the first shot on JFK's shoulder, and then the second shot hitting the President in the head.

 

Edited September 26, 2018 by Ray Mitcham

[Cliff Varnell]

 

9 minutes ago, Ray Mitcham said:

Bennett admitted in his statement that he wasn't looking at the President when he heard the first "fire cracker" like shot.

“At this point, I heard a noise that immediately reminded me of a fire cracker. Immediately on hearing the supposed fire cracker, looked at the boss's car. At the exact time I saw a shot that hit the boss about 4 inches down from the right shoulder.a second shot followed almost immediately and hit the right rear high of the boss's head”

This could be construed as him seeing the second shot hitting JFK in the back, or that he saw the result of the first shot on JFK's shoulder, and then the second shot hitting the President in the head.

(emphasis added)

That's from the statement he submitted to the Secret Service on the 23rd.

In both his statement on the 22nd and statement on the 23rd he said he saw JFK hit with the back shot.

How can you construe that to mean that he didn't actually see the shot?

Edited September 26, 2018 by Cliff Varnell

[Cliff Varnell]

On 9/22/2018 at 8:42 AM, Paul Brancato said:

The Salandria quote on your page bears repeating often. 

Paul, in my book Salandria formed a school of research devoted to a study of the obvious.

Most of the JFK Assassination Critical Community is devoted to a denial of the obvious.

There's no glory is studying the obvious.  One cannot make a name for oneself pointing out obvious facts. 

Ambitious researchers routinely deny JFK was shot in the back at T3, or that he was shot in the throat from the front.  They'd rather play the "Question of Conspiracy" parlor game in order to inflate the importance of their own work.

Bunch of self-aggrandizing hustlers, in my book...

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 2018 by Cliff Varnell

[Cliff Varnell]

I once pointed out to a millennial friend of mine that her generation didn't appear all that interested in the Kennedy assassination.

"That's because they make it so boring," she said, and the subject dropped.

A couple weeks later she asked me what I'd been up to and I said --"Giving people hell about the central question of the JFK assassination."  This was in the late summer of 2013.

"What is the central question of the JFK assassination?"

"You don't want to know--"

"No, tell me."

"JFK was shot in the back, there was no exit wound and no bullet found in the autopsy; he was shot in the throat, no exit, no bullet found in the autopsy.  The central question is --what happened to the bullets that caused the back and throat wounds?"

She thought for a second, then said -- "But was it a real autopsy?"

"A lot of problems with the autopsy, but that was the situation...Some people think the bullets were removed prior to the autopsy--"

"Or it was some government s-h-i* that dissolved!" she said with an air of triumph.

About a year later I told this story to another millennial friend of mine and when I got to the line "or some government s-h-i* that dissolved--" she blurted-- "That's what I was gonna say!"

Armed only with the root facts of the murder, these kids are ahead of the JFKA Critical Community by a mile.

[Ray Mitcham]

1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:

 

That's from the statement he submitted to the Secret Service on the 23rd.

In both his statement on the 22nd and statement on the 23rd he said he saw JFK hit with the back shot.

How can you construe that to mean that he didn't actually see the shot?

Cliff, it is taken verbatim from his hand written statement on 22nd.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/exhibits/ce2112.htm

How you understand  what he wrote is up to you.

Edited September 26, 2018 by Ray Mitcham

[Cliff Varnell]

7 minutes ago, Ray Mitcham said:

Cliff, it is taken verbatim from his hand written statement on 22nd.

My bad!  I stand corrected -- it was from his statement on the 22nd.

Thanks for posting that, Ray.

From Bennett's statement 11/23/63:

<quote on, emphasis added>

About thirty minutes after leaving Love Field about 12:25 P.M., the Motorcade entered an intersection and then proceeded down a grade. At this point the well-wishers numbered but a few; the motorcade continued down this grade enroute to the Trade Mart. At this point I heard what sounded like a fire-cracker. I immediately looked from the right/crowd/physical area/and looked towards the President who was seated in the right rear seat of his limousine open convertible. At the moment I looked at the back of the President I heard another fire-cracker noise and saw the shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder. A second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the President's head. I immediately hollered "he's hit" and reached for the AR-15 located on the floor of the rear seat. Special Agent Hickey had already picked-up the AR-15. We peered towards the rear and particularly the right side of the area. I had drawn my revolver when I saw S/A Hickey had the AR15. I was unable to see anything or one that could have fired the shots. The President's car immediately kicked into high gear and the follow-up car followed.

<quote off>

 

7 minutes ago, Ray Mitcham said:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/exhibits/ce2112.htm

How you understand  what he wrote is up to you.

In his official report he said he saw the shot hit.

[Cliff Varnell]

22 hours ago, Mathias Baumann said:

Did he really HEAR the back shot or did he just SEE the impact of the bullet on Kennedy's back?

His official report offers more detail:

At the moment I looked at the back of the President I heard another fire-cracker noise and saw the shot hit the President about four inches down from the right shoulder. A second shot followed immediately and hit the right rear high of the President's head.

Bennett's statement is consistent with the testimonies of Nellie C and Linda W.

 

Edited September 26, 2018 by Cliff Varnell

[Michael Cross]

22 hours ago, Cliff Varnell said:

I agree with Gil's analysis that JFK was grabbing at the tie with his left forefinger. 

Then the finger stiffens.

 

Cliff, your certainty that you are correct gets in the way of your reading skills I think.  I've been referring to THIS statement by you when I say that you can't see what an individual finger does.  You can guess, infer . . . hypothesize. 

[Cliff Varnell]

2 minutes ago, Michael Cross said:

Cliff, your certainty that you are correct gets in the way of your reading skills I think.

Happens to the best of us...

2 minutes ago, Michael Cross said:

 

I've been referring to THIS statement by you when I say that you can't see what an individual finger does.  You can guess, infer . . . hypothesize. 

Aren't there frames of the Zap showing JFK with his left forefinger extended?

[Michael Cross]

5 minutes ago, Cliff Varnell said:

Happens to the best of us...

Aren't there frames of the Zap showing JFK with his left forefinger extended?

Not that I can distinguish.  If you can find one I'll recant.  I'm not certain.

[Cliff Varnell]

5 minutes ago, Michael Cross said:

Not that I can distinguish.  If you can find one I'll recant.  I'm not certain.

Let's table that point. 

The larger issue is the fact JFK was shot in the throat from the front circa Z190.

 

 

[Michael Cross]

Agreed and agreed.

[Paul Brancato]

1 hour ago, Rich Pope said:

It really isn't as sinister as you are making it.  There were no shell fish toxin, no secret darts from umbrella man, no ice bullets, no paralysis compounds...JFK was shot in the back, shot in the throat, and shot twice in the head (almost simultaneously from the back and the front).  Some shots missed, one wounding a spectator.  Other shots hit Governor John Connally.  Evidence was tempered with, the Z-film was altered, diaries/journals were destroyed etc...WHY is the most important question.  Not, WHO but WHY.

Disagree - not why but WHO?

[Cliff Varnell]

12 hours ago, Rich Pope said:

It really isn't as sinister as you are making it.  There were no shell fish toxin, no secret darts from umbrella man, no ice bullets, no paralysis compounds...

Like you know?

What a crock!

12 hours ago, Rich Pope said:

 

JFK was shot in the back, shot in the throat, and shot twice in the head (almost simultaneously from the back and the front).  Some shots missed, one wounding a spectator.  Other shots hit Governor John Connally.  Evidence was tempered with, the Z-film was altered, diaries/journals were destroyed etc...WHY is the most important question.  Not, WHO but WHY.

 

He was clearly shot in the throat first before he was shot in the back.

 

 

[B. A. Copeland]

On 9/25/2018 at 4:41 PM, Cliff Varnell said:

 

Ever been hit in the back?

If you have I seriously doubt you brought your hands up in the vicinity of your throat.

No doubt you'd arch your back and throw your head back.

Check out hit-by-pitch vids on Youtube.

Why would a back brace around his waist cause his hands to raise to the level of his throat?

 

Oh certainly I can agree with your stated points but what I was getting at was that I never see him grabbing his throat but I could be wrong. I certainly do not wish to be on the wrong side of evidence. For the record, I have been hit in the back before and no, hands did not go for throat lol.

Edited September 27, 2018 by B. A. Copeland