The (laughable) SBT

[Gerry Down]

1 hour ago, Joe Bauer said:

Front on or sideways? 

Sideways as in tumbling. Ce399 would have had to strike connallys rib sideways in order for it to be flattened on one side. This kind of a strike would be hard to duplicate when using a goat rib as a test for comparison purposes.

[Michael Griffith]

The FBI fought tooth and nail to keep the photos of the tie sealed. When Harold Weisberg finally obtained the photos (and they were top-quality photos), his suspicions about the FBI's dogged refusal to release the photos were confirmed: the photos prove that no bullet went through JFK's tie and that no bullet nicked the edge of the tie. This fact alone refutes the single-bullet theory, especially given the lone-gunman claim that the slits beneath JFK's collar were made by the exiting magic bullet.

If one wants to argue that the FBI untied and then retied the tie, the first question that comes to mind is, Why would they have done that? Other questions come to mind: Surely, surely, if they were going to untie the tie, would they not have taken several photos of it before doing so to preserve a photographic record of the tie in its original configuration? Why is there no evidence that they untied and retied the tie? Why has the FBI never claimed they untied and retied the tie? 

If the FBI did untie and retie the tie, you can bet your 401K and IRA that if the original configuration of the tie put the nick on the edge of the knot, they would have documented this with photographs.

Edited October 9, 2022 by Michael Griffith

[Micah Mileto]

On 10/2/2022 at 10:48 PM, David Von Pein said:

Yes, Dr. Humes did burn his original autopsy notes in his home fireplace on 11/24/63. And the reason why he burned those notes is a very logical and sensible reason, as Dr. Humes himself explained in his HSCA testimony on September 7, 1978 (at 1 HSCA 330)....

DR. HUMES -- "The original notes which were stained with the blood of our late President, I felt, were inappropriate to retain to turn in to anyone in that condition. I felt that people with some peculiar ideas about the value of that type of material, they might fall into their hands. I sat down and word for word copied what I had on fresh paper."

MR. CORNWELL -- "And then destroyed them?"

DR. HUMES -- "Destroyed the ones that were stained with the President's blood."

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Related discussion from September 2010:

JAMES DiEUGENIO SAID -- "Autopsy report number one: Burned by Humes and testified to by him before the ARRB. He said it three times and it's in the transcript."

DAVID VON PEIN SAID -- "Dr. Humes admitted to the Warren Commission in 1964 that he burned the first draft of the autopsy report [2 H 373]. So we certainly didn't have to wait until Humes' 1996 ARRB testimony to learn about that particular burning episode. And the very fact that Dr. Humes admitted to burning a draft of the autopsy report is a very good sign that that burning was not done with CONSPIRATORIAL intent or with the thought of a COVER-UP in Dr. Humes' mind. For Pete sake, if Humes had been part of a cover-up and/or conspiracy, the last thing in the world he would have ADMITTED to the Warren Commission is that he was burning autopsy papers in his home fireplace. Get real, Jim."

https://archive.org/details/nsia-LivingstoneHarrisonEdward/nsia-LivingstoneHarrisonEdward/Livingstone Harrison Edward 070/

 

Harold Weisberg claims in this letter that Humes burning the notes was against the official regulations of the Navy. Can't find anything CTR+F'ing through the 1960 Navy autopsy manual on archive.org. More study is needed.