JFK Assassination Forum

Still another law journal article questioning the reliability of eeyewitness memory:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13657127211031018

This sentence jumped out at me:

"However, research clearly shows that memory does not operate like a video recorder and that a witness's memory will often not be a full and accurate description of an event."

How many times have I said the human brain is not equipped with a DVR?

That is-why witnesses are cross-examined by opposing parties and why fact finders look for corroboration.

While witnesses make errors it is exceedingly rare that two witnesses will independently make up the same wrong story about what occurred.

Witnesses can be induced to misidentify a person. But eyewitness identification of someone they do not know is not fact recollection. It is an after-event opinion that the person they saw was the same person shown to them. That is completely different than someone hearing a shot pattern or observing what happened after hearing the first shot.

JC:

I suspect there was a dearth of live volunteers for such an experiment.

Donald Jeffries, along with James DiEugenio, now suffers from Israel Derangement Syndrome (IDS).

These guys actually want Putin and the IRGC to prevail.

I understand the US is not perfect, and that US wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan were horrible follies, doomed to failure. The US, like every democracy, is a flawed nation. As with Israel.

But the IRGC and Putin are giving the Nazis and Mao a run for the money as all-time uglies.

I know which side I am on.

Donald Jeffries, whom I know nothing about, seems to have picked up the anti-Jewish flag over there.

There isn't much good I can say about Gavin Newsom but I most definitely give him credit for one thing. He overrode the recommendation of his own parole board that Sirhan should be granted parole. Sirhan should die in prison for what he did. I wish he had died in the California gas chamber 50 years ago but SCOTUS screwed that up. If he lives to be 100, I hope he is NEVER granted parole.

CORRECTION: I just read that Sirhan's death sentence was commuted by the California Supreme Court in 1972 when it ruled capital punishment violated the state constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Later that year, SCOTUS ruled all current death penalty statute's were unconstitutional but stopped short of saying capital punishment was unconstitutional, opening the door for revised death penalty statutes that met guidelines set out in their ruling. 

Anyone wanting to present a plausible argument needs to do one simple thing. Present evidence to support that argument. That's true no matter what the subject is. I see very little of that from the JFKA conspiracy community. Most of their arguments are why we shouldn't believe the evidence the WC presented of Oswald's guilt. If Oswald did not act alone, that means other were involved in the assassination, but I never see evidence that any such people exist. It's all, we shouldn't believe this or we shouldn't believe that about Oswald. Forget Oswald. Show us evidence others were involved.