Appreciating the Research of Howard Donahue

[Michael T. Griffith]

Goodish wordage re Donahue.

And dont forget the goodish book by McLaren extending the goodish work of Donahue.

Yes, Donahue does have his defenders. McLaren is a former Australian police detective. His book and documentary JFK: The Smoking Gun defends Donahue's core conclusions.

We now know that jfk woz hit on the back of the head by lead splatter from Oswald's shot-1 at about pseudo Z105-Z110, which ricocheted offa the overhead signal arm & left 2 halves of the jacket in the limo,

This goes far beyond Donahue's conclusions about the back-of-head fragments and the limo fragments. He put the pavement shot at no earlier than Z145. A shot at pseudo-Z105-110 from the sixth-floor window is wildly problematic and implausible.

& we know that the remnant main slug made a hole throo the floor of the limo.

I don't think we know any such thing. This is pure speculation.

We now know that Hickey fired an accidental auto-burst of at least 4 shots at about Z300-Z312, the first injuring Tague, the last hitting jfk in the head, the 2nd last denting the chrome trim.

No gunfire burst from Hickey from Z300-312 could have caused Tague's wound. Tague was hit long before the head shot.

Now, the chrome dent is very interesting. If we had any evidence that Hickey did fire an auto-burst, it would be entirely plausible to posit that one of his shots caused the deep chrome dent.

The lone-gunman theory has no way to explain the chrome dent. There is no plausible trajectory from JFK's head wounds to the chrome dent--not even close. The WC floated the false claim that the chrome was dented before the assassination, but footage of the limo before the Dallas motorcade refutes this claim. Yet, we still see some WC apologists repeating it.

We now know that Oswald fired just 2 shots, at about pseudo Z105-Z110 & at about Z218.5, & had 1 non-fired bullet remaining.

I don't think we know any such thing. The Zapruder film shows JFK reacting to a wound starting at Z200, as even the HSCA's Photographic Evidence Panel acknowledged, which is part of the reason the panel put the first hit at around Z188-190. This was a crucial, historic admission because the sixth-floor gunman's view of the limo would have been obstructed by the oak tree from Z166-210, which means the first hit did not come from the sixth-floor window.

If Oswald allegedly fired his supposed second shot at Z218, and if his first alleged shot came at pseudo-Z105-110, what shot, pray tell, hit JFK at Z188-190? This just does not work.

And how do you account for JFK's dramatic Z226-232 reaction? His torso is visibly jolted forward and his hands and elbows are flung upward. This is clearly a different hit than the Z188-190 hit.

I am actually open to the idea of a shot occurring during the suspicious break in the Zapruder film that was supposedly caused when Zapruder allegedly temporarily stopped filming at around Z132. Zapruder indicated he did not stop filming the motorcade until after it passed under the triple underpass. It would have made no sense for him to stop filming at Z132 when he could see the limo was only seconds away from turning onto Elm Street. I suspect this portion of the film was removed because it showed reactions to gunfire.

As a side note, I suggest you look at the evidence that Oswald was not on the sixth floor during the shooting. Ideologically, I would have no problem assuming Oswald was one of the shooters, but I think the weight of the evidence shows he was not on the sixth floor when the shots were fired.