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Interesting that McIntyre left the backup car temporarily as it was proceeding under the overpass.

https://jfk-online.com/mcintyre.html

Statement: William T. Mcintyre

 As the motorcade departed Love Field, the President's car was closely followed by the Secret Service follow-up car, which maintained its position throughout the events of the day. Agent Roberts was seated in the front seat of the follow-up car, next to the driver. Kenneth O'Donnell was seated to the left of David Powers, in the jump seats of the car. Agents George Hickey, a driver, and Glen Bennett, were in the rear seat, with Bennett on Hickey's right. Agents Ready and Landis rode the right running board, with Landis behind Ready, and agent Clint Hill and I rode the left running board, Hill being in front of me.

The motorcade was scheduled to last approximately 45 minutes. As we passed through downtown Dallas, crowds were quite heavy, and two motorcycles, on either flank of the Presidential vehicle, were of considerable assistance in keeping the motorcade clear.

As the motorcade cleared the main downtown area, it made a right turn, went approximately one block, and then executed a left turn. After this turn, there was essentially no crowd, and green expanses of lawn stretched to the right and left of the motorcade.

Directly in front of us was an underpass with a green sign with white lettering, stating "Entering Thornton Freeway."

The Presidential vehicle was approximately 200 feet from the underpass when the first shot was fired, followed in quick succession by two more. I would estimate that all three shots were fired within 5 seconds. After the second shot, I looked at the President and witnessed his being struck in the head by the third and last shot. By that time, Mr. Roberts had used the radio in our car to direct the vehicles to a hospital. Most, if not all the agents in the follow-up car had drawn their weapons and agent Hickey was handling the AR-15. None of us could determine the origin of the shots, and no shots were fired by any agent.

Upon arrival at the hospital, agent Bennett and I escorted then Vice-President Johnson into a vacant treatment room. Agents Youngblood and Kivett stayed with him while agent Taylor and I stood nearby. Agent Bennett established security outside the door to the room.

The shooting occurred at approximately 12:25 pm, and we had reached the hospital at approximately 12:30 pm.

Shortly after 1:30 pm, the Vice-President and Mrs. Johnson were taken to Love Field and placed aboard AF 1. Agents Lawton, Ready, and I established security around the aircraft. Within a short time, Mrs. Kennedy, accompanying the body of President Kennedy, arrived at Love Field, and boarded AF 1. AF I then departed Dallas, Texas, at what I think was about 2:15 pm. At 3:15 pm, agents Roberts, Lawton, Ready, and I departed Dallas, Texas via AF 6970, the back-up plane, and arrived at Andrews Air Force Base at 6:30 pm. We all then returned to the White House, and submitted summarized reports of the day's events to Mr. Roberts.

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You don't present all of the witnesses. You ignore the ones who said the shots were evenly spaced and you ignore the ones who said the first two shots were closer together.
No I don't.  And you would know that if you had read those 9 pages I posted.  Not only do I not ignore them, I quote what they said and provide cites.  The fact is there are only three general possibilities of the spacing of three shots and not everyone will recall it correctly. 

There were six people who seemed to recall the reverse pattern: Nellie Connally, William Newman, Gayle Newman, Ken O'Donnell, Cecil Ault and Steven Wilson.  Only the Newmans gave their statements within a short time after the event.  The others were months after. William Newman initially (22Nov63) described only two shots 19 H 490:
  • "We were standing at the edge of the curb looking at the car as it was coming toward us and all of a sudden there was a noise, apparently gunshot. The President jumped up in his seat, and it looked like what I thought was a firecracker had went off and I thought he had realized it. It was just like an explosion and he was standing up. By this time ha was directly in front of us and I was looking directly at him when he was hit in the side of the head."

Then in his next statement on November 24 (22 H 842), he said he recalled two shots close together for a total of three. He thought the first two were closer together though.

So one is left with having to assess the evidence.  I not only found the witnesses as to the 1.....2..3  pattern to be clearer and more descriptive and sure, but I also understood that the probability that the distribution of witnesses  was such that it was highly improbable that almost 80% would hear the shots and recall the same distinctive pattern and all agree on the same wrong pattern. If witnesses were generally able to recall the pattern there would be a clear preference for one possibility and the errors would be distributed randomly over the other two possibilities.  If everyone were really confused, one would expect a random distribution over all three possibilities.  This distribution is what one would expect only if the witnesses correctly recalled that the last two were closer:


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On top of that, you ignore what some of the witnesses said about those last two shots. Some said the last two shots were right on top of each other with almost no time between them. That would suggest they heard two sounds from the same shot. That could be an echo. It could be the sound of the impact on JFK's skull. Such impacts on a hard surface can be quite loud. The other possibility is they heard the sonic boom of a supersonic bullet, which also can be quite loud and which the would have heard about 1/10 of a second before hearing the muzzle blast.

https://gunsamerica.com/digest/two-sources-of-sound-when-you-shoot-subsonics-vs-supersonics/

"The crack or sonic boom of the bullet passing just over your head, if you’re close enough, will cause hearing damage."
They would have heard reverberations, not distinct echos.  Mary Woodward also said that the shots were on top of each other and explained that the sound of the second had not completely died out before the third shot sounded.  That may be why so many recalled those two distinct shots being close together. 

At 200 feet, the crack would be heard 77 ms before the muzzle blast and would not be confused with separate shots.
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   I see this guy placing his forearms on the concrete rail in front of him. I do Not see him "taking aim" at anything.

Here is a slightly enhanced image to show what appears to be the end of a barrel...


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While an accidental AR-15 discharge that fired a wild shot with the bullet going in some indeterminate direction is theoretically possible, I find it hard to believe. The shot would have been earsplitting to anyone in the limo as well as any nearby spectators on Elm St. such as the Newmans.  Maybe I could believe the other agents would cover for one of their own, but David Powers and Kenny O'Donnell were in the car too. What reason would they have to provide cover. Anyone who has been trained in firearms knows one of the cardinal rules of gun safety is you don't put your finger on the trigger until you have identified a target and are ready to shoot, just to guard against such an accidental discharge.

   I do Not know what a single discharge from an AR-15 sounds like. Witt/Umbrella Man testified as to his hearing screeching brakes and squealing tires. An AR-15 discharging 1 shot amidst this cacophony could have been missed.
   Regarding the gun safety stuff, I believe you are giving SA Hickey too much credit. He is reported to have carried the AR-15 into Parkland Hospital. Then instructed to get it out of the building. Hickey was a green horn. 
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It is an odd direction for sure... but the profile of someone "taking aim" is what begs for explanation...

   I see this guy placing his forearms on the concrete rail in front of him. I do Not see him "taking aim" at anything. 
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This is now getting ridiculous, the most practical way to carry the glove would be to do it as I have shown and the fact that your best comeback is to doubt my honesty, isn't very nice.
The following end on photo shows that my glove was simply doubled over, which just makes carrying the glove more comfortable, whereas your scenario seems to be a glove should be held in any specific way that distracts from your "theory". 



This perfectly sums up your conspiracy, you have taken an event which I have explained to you in intricate detail and given a logical plausible sequence of events and now you are just splitting the already split hairs. Your "imposter" theory as you have just repeatedly said has no reasonable explanation, like you said "you have no idea" and for that matter everyone, besides you, who has looked into this keeps telling you that it makes no sense and goes nowhere. Any potential assassins and their equipment would have been long gone, they would have jumped in a car and sped off and your latest theory of these "Boogey men" hiding in a stationary train car is just another desperate attempt to keep this silliness alive.
But in closing just let me repeat this very important fact, and repeat after me, "When your lone patsy is high and behind having ANY frontal shooter is real stoopid"!

JohnM

   A couple of requests with respect to your posted motorcycle glove photos:  (1) Can you show BOTH ENDS of the glove when held as displayed? (2) Can you show the glove "Unfolded"?
   I have an opinion as to what this Impostor is holding. And, he was Not holding it when Darnell filmed him walking in front of the string passenger train cars.   
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That you would suggest that presenting ALL the witnesses represents "cherry picking" requires a new definition of cherry-picking.  That you believe that your interpretation of why you think people turned their head, while ignoring the evidence of why they turned (eg. Mary Woodward) and when they turned (80+ witnesses - virtually all of the witnesses who gave evidence on when JFK reacted and where he was when the first shot occurred), is "hard evidence" is a perfect example of not following Feynman's first principle.

You don't present all of the witnesses. You ignore the ones who said the shots were evenly spaced and you ignore the ones who said the first two shots were closer together. On top of that, you ignore what some of the witnesses said about those last two shots. Some said the last two shots were right on top of each other with almost no time between them. That would suggest they heard two sounds from the same shot. That could be an echo. It could be the sound of the impact on JFK's skull. Such impacts on a hard surface can be quite loud. The other possibility is they heard the sonic boom of a supersonic bullet, which also can be quite loud and which the would have heard about 1/10 of a second before hearing the muzzle blast.

https://gunsamerica.com/digest/two-sources-of-sound-when-you-shoot-subsonics-vs-supersonics/

"The crack or sonic boom of the bullet passing just over your head, if you’re close enough, will cause hearing damage."
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   It is NOT Costing the US Taxpayers 1 dime to build the ballroom. The Ballroom reaction we see above and elsewhere is simply TDS. And this includes those Hack Judges that continually display that they also have TDS. There is No rational reason to oppose the construction of this ballroom. None.

While an accidental AR-15 discharge that fired a wild shot with the bullet going in some indeterminate direction is theoretically possible, I find it hard to believe. The shot would have been earsplitting to anyone in the limo as well as any nearby spectators on Elm St. such as the Newmans.  Maybe I could believe the other agents would cover for one of their own, but David Powers and Kenny O'Donnell were in the car too. What reason would they have to provide cover. Anyone who has been trained in firearms knows one of the cardinal rules of gun safety is you don't put your finger on the trigger until you have identified a target and are ready to shoot, just to guard against such an accidental discharge.
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   Exactly WHAT is this "arrow" aimed at? It looks like the path of that arrow goes Behind the Light Pole, and somewhere up on the Grassy Knoll.

It is an odd direction for sure... but the profile of someone "taking aim" is what begs for explanation...
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