JFK Assassination Forum

Do you know of Tony Marsh? He was a very prolific poster on John McAdams forum. He seemed to be in failing health not long before John passed away so I don't know if he is still with us. He could be very obnoxious and he had many screwy ideas but he had as good a command of the facts as anyone I've encountered in 35 years of online discussions with JFKA conspiracy hobbyists. I actually learned some of the minute facts that I would otherwise have been unaware of had I not dueled with him online. His problem was that he had all that knowledge but he simply could not apply it in anything resembling a logical thought process. Like so many conspiracy hobbyists, he let his desired conclusions prevent him from objectively analyzing all that knowledge he had accumulated.

I don't know Josiah Thompson, (Tink as Tony referred to him) but he sounds like a much less obnoxious version of Tony. He may be very well versed on the facts of the JFKA but his analysis of those facts is FUBAR. An informed opinion is not necessarily a logical one.

We do not see any automobile activity that would produce "Screeching tires", or "Jamming brakes" on any of the JFK Assassination Films. This includes the Current Zapruder Film and the Nix Film (copy).

Well actually, Umbrella Man has never been a high priority to me because having a guy with an Umbrella making an obvious political statement makes far more sense than using the umbrella as a signal or heaven help us a concealed blow dart, but whatever.
Anyway, Witt's facial structure and body type 15 years later is still an extremely close match for Umbrella Man and the fact that he remembers most of what happened without a pedantic level of detail, in my opinion paints a picture of a normal bloke trying his best to remember a tiny slice of time from a decade and a half ago. Consider if Witt was some JFK fanatic who knew every detail with pinpoint accuracy then that all by itself would be powerful evidence of an impostor.
It reminds me of the eyewitnesses at the assassination, they all viewed an unexpected event once whereas the modern researcher has a ton of points of view from films and photos which they have studied over and over with microscopic detail but when some eyewitness makes some sort of a relatively insignificant error they are dragged over the coals for it? Go figure?

Getting back to the point of this post, when I grabbed the cropped image, I quickly checked the Bronson 8mm film and forgot that Bronson was also taking photographs and snapped the following photo a half second before the Limo reached Witt(my bad), before Bronson a literal second later swapped back to his movie camera.



JohnM

Given that his most notable work, Six Seconds in Dallas, was a total cluster @#$%, I'm not too interested in anything else he has to say about the JFKA.

If Six Seconds in Dallas can be credited with anything, it cemented in the public's mind that the WC conclude that the shooting took place in 6 seconds which also necessitated a second shot miss. Neither of those things were conclusions of the WC. Even Case Closed author Gerald Posner fell for that myth. In promoting his own book, he acted as if he was setting the record straight by refuting a conclusion of the WC which they never made.

One might disagree with Professor Thompson's conclusions and reliance on the Dictabelt evidence (I know I do) but he is amongst the most reasonable, articulate, intelligent and well-researched critics of all time. In this particular case, he has long since shown that Louis Witt was indeed the Umbrella Man in Dealey Plaza.