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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Michael T. Griffith on September 01, 2025, 05:06:38 PM
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Over and over in this forum, we see lone-gunman theorists summarily dismiss the idea that the Dallas Police Department (DPD) planted and altered evidence to frame Lee Harvey Oswald. In point of fact, the DPD has a long history of planting evidence, fabricating evidence, suppressing exculpatory evidence, manipulating witnesses, etc., etc. Even Google AI says, "The Dallas Police Department (DPD) has a documented history of evidence tampering."
A good introduction to the subject of the dubious evidence cited against Oswald is Donald Wilkes' article "Lee Harvey Oswald, the Patsy: An Objective Review of the Evidence Concludes That Oswald Was Framed," published by the University of Georgia in 2013 on the University of Georgia Digital Commons: Popular Media website. At the time, Wilkes was an emeritus professor of law at the University of Georgia. Here's a link to his excellent article:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?httpsredir=1&article=1184&context=fac_pm
For now, let us focus on the case of Randall Adams. The award-winning 1988 Errol Morris documentary The Thin Blue Line documents the now-infamous case of Randall Adams, who was framed and railroaded by the Dallas Police Department (DPD) and the Dallas District Attorney's (DA's) office in 1976 on the false charge of killing a police officer named Robert Wood.
The film documents that the DPD used false witnesses, suppressed exculpatory evidence, discarded the most likely suspect (who later confessed), and refused to let Adams talk to a lawyer for two weeks. Gee, sound familiar? The DA was Henry Wade. The DPD officer who engineered the frame-up was Gus Rose. Humm, do those names sound familiar?
The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals overturned Adams' conviction in 1989 on the grounds of prosecutorial malfeasance (misconduct) and inconsistencies in the evidence. It had become clear that Adams had nothing whatsoever to do with Officer Wood's murder.
Yet, even after the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals voided Adams' conviction, DA Wade vowed to retry Adams, saying there was no room in his book "for a cop-killer getting off with anything else than the death penalty"! Mind you, this was after the state's criminal appeals court had found the DA's office guilty of misconduct! This says volumes about Wade's ethics and integrity.
Because of public pressure created by the release of The Thin Blue Line and pressure from state government officials, the Dallas DA's office eventually decided against retrying Adams.
Here's the transcript of The Thin Blue Line:
https://www.errolmorris.com/film/tbl_transcript.html
Here are links with more information on the DPD's sleazy record, running clear into the 2020s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Police_Department#:~:text=in%20July%202008.-,Fake%20drug%20scandal,were%20actually%20not%20illegal%20substances.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fourth-former-dallas-officer-in-fake-drug-scandal-gets-one-year-probation/287-338790876
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Dallas-police-hammered-for-fake-drug-scandal-1486478.php
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/6-dallas-police-officers-on-leave-linked-to-illegal-search/2748127/
Here are links with information on cases of other police departments planting and fabricating evidence:
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6013&context=law_lawreview
https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692-cops-planting-evidence
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/faculty_scholarship/article/1903/&path_info=S_Fisher_Just_the_Facts.pdf
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/police-corruption-revealed-los-angeless-rampart-division
Discusses the LAPD's Rampart scandal, where the LAPD was caught planting and fabricating evidence in the 1990s. The city of LA eventually was forced to pay millions to settle the civil lawsuit brought by some of the victims.
https://jmarshlaw.com/chicago-police-planted-evidence/
Discusses three cases where the Chicago Police Department was caught planting evidence from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249850.pdf
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Over and over in this forum, we see lone-gunman theorists summarily dismiss the idea that the Dallas Police Department (DPD) planted and altered evidence to frame Lee Harvey Oswald. In point of fact, the DPD has a long history of planting evidence, fabricating evidence, suppressing exculpatory evidence, manipulating witnesses, etc., etc. Even Google AI says, "The Dallas Police Department (DPD) has a documented history of evidence tampering."
A good introduction to the subject of the dubious evidence cited against Oswald is Donald Wilkes' article "Lee Harvey Oswald, the Patsy: An Objective Review of the Evidence Concludes That Oswald Was Framed," published by the University of Georgia in 2013 on the University of Georgia Digital Commons: Popular Media website. At the time, Wilkes was an emeritus professor of law at the University of Georgia. Here's a link to his excellent article:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?httpsredir=1&article=1184&context=fac_pm
For now, let us focus on the case of Randall Adams. The award-winning 1988 Errol Morris documentary The Thin Blue Line documents the now-infamous case of Randall Adams, who was framed and railroaded by the Dallas Police Department (DPD) and the Dallas District Attorney's (DA's) office in 1976 on the false charge of killing a police officer named Robert Wood.
The film documents that the DPD used false witnesses, suppressed exculpatory evidence, discarded the most likely suspect (who later confessed), and refused to let Adams talk to a lawyer for two weeks. Gee, sound familiar? The DA was Henry Wade. The DPD officer who engineered the frame-up was Gus Rose. Humm, do those names sound familiar?
The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals overturned Adams' conviction in 1989 on the grounds of prosecutorial malfeasance (misconduct) and inconsistencies in the evidence. It had become clear that Adams had nothing whatsoever to do with Officer Wood's murder.
Yet, even after the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals voided Adams' conviction, DA Wade vowed to retry Adams, saying there was no room in his book "for a cop-killer getting off with anything else than the death penalty"! Mind you, this was after the state's criminal appeals court had found the DA's office guilty of misconduct! This says volumes about Wade's ethics and integrity.
Because of public pressure created by the release of The Thin Blue Line and pressure from state government officials, the Dallas DA's office eventually decided against retrying Adams.
Here's the transcript of The Thin Blue Line:
https://www.errolmorris.com/film/tbl_transcript.html
Here are links with more information on the DPD's sleazy record, running clear into the 2020s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Police_Department#:~:text=in%20July%202008.-,Fake%20drug%20scandal,were%20actually%20not%20illegal%20substances.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fourth-former-dallas-officer-in-fake-drug-scandal-gets-one-year-probation/287-338790876
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Dallas-police-hammered-for-fake-drug-scandal-1486478.php
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/6-dallas-police-officers-on-leave-linked-to-illegal-search/2748127/
Here are links with information on cases of other police departments planting and fabricating evidence:
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6013&context=law_lawreview
https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4692-cops-planting-evidence
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/faculty_scholarship/article/1903/&path_info=S_Fisher_Just_the_Facts.pdf
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/police-corruption-revealed-los-angeless-rampart-division
Discusses the LAPD's Rampart scandal, where the LAPD was caught planting and fabricating evidence in the 1990s. The city of LA eventually was forced to pay millions to settle the civil lawsuit brought by some of the victims.
https://jmarshlaw.com/chicago-police-planted-evidence/
Discusses three cases where the Chicago Police Department was caught planting evidence from the 1980s to the mid-2000s.
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249850.pdf
Wow, crooked cops galore. This really makes me wonder whether or not there are any documented cases like these that include participation by the Secret Service, the FBI, an independent presidential appointed commission headed by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and almost 63-years of independent investigations by thousands of skeptical researchers, etc. ::)
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Wow, crooked cops galore. This really makes me wonder whether or not there are any documented cases like these that include participation by the Secret Service, the FBI, an independent presidential appointed commission headed by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and almost 63-years of independent investigations by thousands of skeptical researchers, etc.::)
LOL! Someone is about 30 years behind the information curve. It is curious that you would make these statements after all we now know about the WC, the Secret Service, and the FBI regarding the JFK case.
Let's start with the FBI. Are you unaware of the numerous JFK witnesses, including a presidential aide, who said that FBI agents misrepresented what they said (either by distortion or omission), or pressured them to change their stories? Are you aware of the FBI's shameful record of destroying, withholding, and misrepresenting evidence in the JFK case? You could start your education by reading Harold Weisberg's books, which detail his dealings with the FBI regarding JFKA evidence. The FBI's misconduct in dealing with the Tague curb mark alone is incriminating. How about the evidence-tampering/falsification scandal that rocked the FBI crime lab in the 1990s, which was widely reported on major news networks and newspapers? Did you miss that? How about the more recent scandals regarding FBI misconduct regarding evidence? Do you not watch TV or read news sites?
As for the WC, wow, where to start? Are you just unaware of the documented cases of the WC altering testimony, suppressing evidence, rejecting totally credible witnesses because their accounts indicated conspiracy, ignoring or trying to ignore evidence that indicated conspiracy, refusing to acknowledge dissent among the WC members themselves, etc., etc.? Are you familiar with the disclosures from WC whistleblower Morris Wolff? Or, have you heard of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)? You could start with the HSCA's summary of the failures of the WC's investigation. Then you could graduate to the many scholarly books that have documented the WC's failures, lies, distortions, and cover-ups, such as Dr. Gerald McKnight's book Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why, and Dr. David Scheim's The Mafia Killed President Kennedy, which, among things, documents the WC's shameful whitewash of Ruby's Mafia ties and Ruby's motive for killing Oswald, as well as its bogus claim that Ruby entered the police basement via the Main Street Ramp.
Regarding the Secret Service, just wow here as well, and where to start? They illegally seized JFK's body from Parkland before a valid autopsy could be performed. They covertly diverted the Zapruder film to Hawkeyeworks and NPIC and falsified the film's chain of custody record. They confiscated the news footage of the Parkland doctors' 11/22 press conference. They badgered Dr. Perry into changing his diagnosis of the throat wound. They lied through their teeth about the protection arrangements for Dallas, falsely claiming that JFK said he didn't want agents on the limo's running boards (among other falsehoods). They framed Abraham Bolden after he tried to contact the WC to tell them about his concerns regarding presidential protection. They told Dr. Ebersole to tape bullet fragments taped to pieces of skull and then to x-ray them, with the flimsy cover story that the x-rays would be used to make a bust of JFK. They destroyed JFK-presidential-protection records even after being warned not to do so by the ARRB. When the ARRB asked the Secret Service to swear they had complied with the JFK Records Act, they refused to do so. The Secret Service was the only federal agency that refused to do this. Gee, I wonder why? And on and on and on we could go.
Some additional sources for your education on this subject, among many, many others that could be cited:
WC Whistleblower
https://markshawbooks.com/assets/docs/New-Evidence-Proving-Warren-Commission-Corruption_Oct-26-2023-1.pdf
FBI Crime Lab scandal and Other Cases of Evidence Tampering/fabrication
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kelly-evidence.html?scp=8&sq=Ultraviolet&st=Search
https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9704a/index.htm (even this quasi-whitewash of the crime lab scandal by the DOJ IG contains a great deal of damning evidence of misconduct and incompetence by FBI crime lab experts)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/06/minimal-punishment-meted-in-fbi-lab-flap/074b8ecc-8190-4983-a112-86504ff21be4/
https://makejusticeblind.com/a-roundup-of-the-key-facts-of-the-tampering/ (discusses a case where photos were altered by the FBI to help convict someone--gee, sound familiar?)
https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/real-cases-of-forensic-fraud-flawed-evidence
Secret Service Misconduct in JFK Case and Other Cases
We now know that HSCA staff counsel Belford Lawson, who conducted the Committee’s investigation of the Secret Service, suspected that a Secret Service agent planted CE 399 at Parkland Hospital. In a memo on the interview with Nathan Pool, who had seen a bullet on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital, Lawson noted that a Secret Service agent was close enough to the area where the bullet was found to have planted the bullet, and that following up on Pool’s testimony could have led to identifying the agent:
A Secret Service agent was for a significant period of time close enough to the elevator to plant
a bullet; may lead to an identification of that agent; and will reveal the superficiality of the
Warren Commission’s approach. (“Untaped Interview of January 10, 1977, with Nathan Pool,”
HSCA memorandum from Belford Lawson to Robert Tanenbaum, January 12, 1977, record
number 180-10089-10189, available at
https://ia801206.us.archive.org/31/items/nsia-PoolNathan/nsia-PoolNathan/Pool%20Nathan%2001.pdf)
Dr. Donald Wilkes, "The Secret Service and the JFK Assassination"
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=fac_pm
https://www.amazon.com/Survivors-Guilt-Service-Failure-President/dp/1937584607
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/slideshows/prostitutes-grenades-and-drunk-driving-20-years-of-secret-service-scandals
https://time.com/3449641/secret-service-scandal/
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Wow, crooked cops galore. This really makes me wonder whether or not there are any documented cases like these that include participation by the Secret Service, the FBI, an independent presidential appointed commission headed by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and almost 63-years of independent investigations by thousands of skeptical researchers, etc. ::)
You beat me to the point I was going to make!
I will simply note the following about the law professor author of Michael's linked piece, Donald Wilkes:
The 2013 piece itself notes at the end that it was the professor's THIRTY-FIFTH JFK-related article. He was (he died in 2019) a wild-eyed liberal (as most law professors are) and a more-than-wild-eyed conspiracy fanatic. A list of his erudite writings can be found at Muck Rack, https://muckrack.com/donald-e-wilkes/articles.
The articles include the following titles:
Amazing Facts About the JFK Assassination
Did J. Edgar Hoover Kill JFK?
Grassy Knoll Shots? Limousine Slowdown?
Circumstances Undetermined: Dorothy Kilgallen and JFK's Murder
One could go on, but you get the idea.
Oh, the 2013 piece itself? Don't get the idea this was some peer-reviewed law review article published by the University of Georgia. It is an entirely unreviewed piece published at the online site where faculty members can publish their musings on any topic. Articles merely have to be "accepted for inclusion in Popular Media by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ University of Georgia School of Law." You can view the diverse range of such musings here: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_pm/.
Who is Joseph Lazzaro, you ask - the guy quoted at the beginning of the piece? I had never heard of him either. Rather odd that he's quoted with no citation, as though we should know who is. He is, or was, an editor of an international business magazine and writes occasional JFK conspiracy pieces in the Morley vein, https://muckrack.com/joseph-lazzaro/bio. He seems to have been a favorite of our law professor, who quoted him with regularity.
Lest I give the appearance of demeaning professor Wilkes, here is his jaw-dropping (by law professor standards) obituary: https://www.altogetherfuneral.com/obituaries/DonaldWilkesJr. He was clearly a major intellect. Note that he was elected to "the prestigious Order of the Coif," as was ... well, modesty prevents me, but you can guess.
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It says volumes that Lt. J. C. Day, the DPD officer who claimed he found Oswald's palmprint on the barrel of the alleged murder weapon and lifted it, refused to swear under oath that he had lifted the palmprint. We now know from internal WC memos that even the WC had strong doubts about the palmprint's origin. To resolve these doubts, the Commission asked Lt. Day to sign a sworn statement that he did in fact lift the palmprint. Day refused to do so.
Incredibly, Day failed to take a single photo of the palmprint, even though it was standard procedure to photograph all prints before lifting them. Day took photos of the worthless partial trigger-guard prints, but didn't take a single picture of the palmprint.
I discuss the many problems with the palmprint in detail in my article "Was Oswald's Palmprint Planted on the Alleged Murder Weapon?":
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzWhdO-Ak3nbuxl8vsy62-fpLTBMBvPx/view
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Dear Comrade Griffith,
When it comes to planting KGB*-endorsed JFKA CT memes, nobody does it as well as you.
-- Tom
*Today's SVR and FSB
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It says volumes that Lt. J. C. Day, the DPD officer who claimed he found Oswald's palmprint on the barrel of the alleged murder weapon and lifted it, refused to swear under oath that he had lifted the palmprint. We now know from internal WC memos that even the WC had strong doubts about the palmprint's origin. To resolve these doubts, the Commission asked Lt. Day to sign a sworn statement that he did in fact lift the palmprint. Day refused to do so.
Incredibly, Day failed to take a single photo of the palmprint, even though it was standard procedure to photograph all prints before lifting them. Day took photos of the worthless partial trigger-guard prints, but didn't take a single picture of the palmprint.
I discuss the many problems with the palmprint in detail in my article "Was Oswald's Palmprint Planted on the Alleged Murder Weapon?":
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzWhdO-Ak3nbuxl8vsy62-fpLTBMBvPx/view
Fortunately for Michael, the Three Stooges can't even fabricate evidence right! Anyone notice that the supposedly fabricated evidence, such as the paper bag and palmprint, tends to be pretty inconsequential insofar as the case against Oswald is concerned? "Yeah, let's gin up a paper bag to really nail him! And make something up about a palmprint on the rifle! Because without that, we got NOTHIN'." Hey, whatever you say, Moe.
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It says volumes that Lt. J. C. Day, the DPD officer who claimed he found Oswald's palmprint on the barrel of the alleged murder weapon and lifted it, refused to swear under oath that he had lifted the palmprint.
Mr. McCLOY. Do you solemnly swear the testimony you give at this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. DAY. I do.
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Mr. BELIN. Do you know what Commission Exhibit No. 637 is?
Mr. DAY. This is the trace of palmprint I lifted off of the barrel of the gun after I had removed the wood.
Mr. BELIN. Does it have your name on it or your handwriting?
Mr. DAY. It has the name "J. C. Day," and also "11/22/63" written on it in my writing off the underside gun barrel near the end of foregrip, C-2766.
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/day1.htm
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Mr. McCLOY. Do you solemnly swear the testimony you give at this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. DAY. I do.
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Mr. BELIN. Do you know what Commission Exhibit No. 637 is?
Mr. DAY. This is the trace of palmprint I lifted off of the barrel of the gun after I had removed the wood.
Mr. BELIN. Does it have your name on it or your handwriting?
Mr. DAY. It has the name "J. C. Day," and also "11/22/63" written on it in my writing off the underside gun barrel near the end of foregrip, C-2766.
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/day1.htm
Umm, yes, but when the WC then looked into Day's story about the palmprint, even they became skeptical, as we know from released WC memos. That's why they asked him to sign a sworn statement reaffirming that he lifted the palmprint. Your arguments are once again decades behind the information curve.
I notice you said nothing about the fact that Day, in violation of DPD procedure and all common sense and competence, incredibly "failed" to take a single photograph of the print on the barrel. He took photos of the worthless trigger-guard prints but not of the alleged palmprint.
I also notice you said nothing about my article on the evidence that the palmprint was planted:
"Was Oswald's Palmprint Planted on the Alleged Murder Weapon?"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzWhdO-Ak3nbuxl8vsy62-fpLTBMBvPx/view
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I think most JFKA researchers have concluded the WC was a prosecution, not an investigation.
But I think you should also review the HSCA, which struck me as a lot of smart and skeptical guys, and their conclusions.
The HSCA concluded LHO was the lone gunman who fired shots that struck JFK, but that there likely was a gunsel on the GK also.
It may be LHO was involved in the JFKA up to his eyeballs.
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I think most JFKA researchers have concluded the WC was a prosecution, not an investigation.
But I think you should also review the HSCA, which struck me as a lot of smart and skeptical guys, and their conclusions.
The HSCA concluded LHO was the lone gunman who fired shots that struck JFK, but that there likely was a gunsel on the GK also.
It may be LHO was involved in the JFKA up to his eyeballs.
The HSCA was a big improvement over the WC, but the HSCA also pulled a lot of punches, got some things wrong, and did not have the benefit of the information and research that came along in the 1990s. For starters, they didn't deal with the evidence that Oswald was not on the sixth floor during the shooting. That evidence has grown in the years following the HSCA with the discovery of the Stroud memo and the interviewing of Adams, Styles, and Garner, proving that Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor during the shooting since he could not have been on the stairs before they were.
The HSCA's authentication of the backyard rifle photos was truly awful, as I explain in "The HSCA and Fraud in the Backyard Rifle Photos" (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JiOqKWO-XJSO-z_lk6bSgUBXq_vD1yZs/view). The PEP experts stared right at clear evidence of fakery in their Penrose analysis and parallax measurements but ignored it. Their alleged duplication of the variant shadows was so transparently bogus that Congressman Fithian got one of the PEP members to admit that the reconstruction was not realistic (the mannequin's head was turned so far to the side that it was almost not facing the camera, among other issues).
On other hand, the HSCA PEP, to its great credit, acknowledged that JFK was hit at Z186-190, a truly historic admission because the sixth-floor gunman's view of JFK would have been obstructed by the oak tree in those frames. But, to salvage the SBT, the PEP then erroneously concluded that Connally was hit by Z223 and that he starts to react in Z224, when Connally himself adamantly insisted he was not hit before Z229 and when his Z224 "reaction" (a frown and some stiffening of his upper body) was far more likely due to Connally's concern over having heard a gunshot and being worried about JFK.
The HSCA PEP, again to its great credit, also admitted that photographic evidence shows that boxes were being moved around in the sixth-floor window within two minutes of the shooting, at a time when Oswald could not have been the one moving the boxes.
The HSCA, to its great credit, found good evidence that Oswald was being impersonated in Mexico City, but then it sealed that evidence (the Lopez-Hardway report) for 50 years. It would still be sealed if the ARRB had not come along.
The HSCA, again to its great credit, interviewed many key autopsy witnesses, but then it falsely claimed that their descriptions of the large head wound contradicted those given by the Dallas doctors and nurses, when in fact they did not.
The HSCA's investigation into the Tippit shooting was superficial and ignored exculpatory evidence.
The HSCA's FPP was a mixed bag. They admitted that the back-wound bullet struck at an upward angle and that the wound was tunneled upward. They admitted that the WC mislocated the back wound. They found a second fragment on the outer table of the skull, but then failed to explain how it could have gotten there. They refused to conduct an SBT wound ballistics test, because they knew how it would turn out.
The HSCA did great work on the Secret Service's suspiciously bad performance, concluding that the protection may have been "uniquely insecure." Belford Lawson, the HSCA attorney assigned to investigate the Secret Service angle, did a great job. His memo on the suspicious Secret Service failures was fantastic and historic, but very little of it found its way into the final report.
The HSCA, to its great credit, acknowledged that Silvia Odio was credible and her account truthful, but it conspicuously failed to address the enormous implications of her account. The HSCA was just not prepared to admit that Oswald was being impersonated and framed for the assassination before it occurred, but at least it did not destroy the Lopez-Hardway report and did not reject Odio's account.
The HSCA's crowning achievement was the acoustical evidence of four shots and a shot from the grassy knoll, but HSCA chief counsel Blakey pressured the BBN scientists to reject the 140.3 impulse as a fifth gunshot, even though it passed the echo-delay matching test, and even though 8 of its 10 impulses matched the impulses of one of the Dealey Plaza test shots. That fifth gunshot must have been fired by a gunman in the Dal-Tex Building or the County Records Building, and Blakey feared that the Committee would not be able to stomach admitting that three gunmen fired at JFK.
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Oswald was Q/A'd about the Phony ID he had on him when he was arrested. He answered, "You're the cop, you figure it out". To me, there being absolutely no denial in that response confirms that he was carrying a Phony ID. Until evidence is presented placing Oswald in the sniper's nest window, he remains a "supporting" player in the JFK Assassination.