JFK Assassination Forum

I was invited to present to Professor Robert Vitt's class at Long Beach City College.

You can see my presentation and my answers to students' questions.

fred

Fred,

I've only had time to watch the first part of your lecture but you have done a very good job explaining some important points.

You showed that Dr. Cyril Wecht's position was that the medical evidence was conclusive that JFK was shot from behind. Later, Wecht became a critic of the lone gunman theory based on what he saw in the Z-film and what he believed was the impossibility of the SBT. These opinions were based not on medical evidence, of which he most certainly was one of the leading experts in the country, but on things in which he was nothing more than a layman. He is certainly entitled to his opinion on what the Z-film shows but that opinion should carry no more weight than yours or mine. I doubt in all his years as a medical examiner he was ever aided by a video of a shooting he was examining. His objections to the SBT are also based on inaccurate diagrams, which fail to take into account JBC was sitting to the left of JFK, was lower than JFK, and his shoulders were turned to is right. When one puts JBC in the actual position he was in at the time the bullet struck, the geometry of the SBT works perfectly. The portion of the video from 20:00 to 24:00 shows this perfectly.

I look forward to viewing the remained of this video.

Joffrey van de Wiel:

I don't suspect the JFKAC was well-funded or backed by powerful people.

Who would want to fund a non-existent conspiracy?

My guess is a couple of guys split off from G2, or possibly Alpha-66 (itself penetrated by G2), and conspired with or manipulated LHO (who had a propensity to shoot at major public figures---see General Walker) regarding the JFKA.

That had to be a guess because there's no evidence of that.

They got lucky on the motorcade route.

How much planning does it take to point rifles at the President and shoot? All three participants likely had military or para-military backgrounds. LHO did.

How much planning would it take for one guy to stick a rifle out a window and shoot another guy a short distance away?

The GK smoke-and-bang show as a diversion in an interesting idea. A snub-nose .38, the default conceal-carry weapon of the day, would have served perfectly for such a role.

Caveat emptor, and draw your own concusions.

More speculation with zero supporting evidence.

That's the great thing about imagination. You can dream up anything you like and no evidence is required. It is so limiting when you stick with what there is actually evidence to support.

The only doubt about Oswald's guilt is unreasonable doubt.
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The other type of CT are the ones who have not educated themselves regarding the evidence in the case and their body of knowledge consists of what they read in any of the myriad conspiracy books published over the years or Oliver Stone's fictitious presentation of the evidence.

Spoken like a true narrow minded and condescending LN.  There are many researchers that have "educated themselves" and have come to the conclusion that there is overwhelming reasonable doubt.  I have "educated myself" enough to conclude that LHO never fired a shot on November 22, 1963.  And I didn't need the "myriad conpiracy books" (sic) or Oliver Stone's JFK to do so.  There is plenty of evidence that proves as much.  However, it could never be accepted by the LN that soley relies on their own "Textus Receptus" (i.e. the WC) or Bugliosi's thinly argued 53 points  of which all have been argued against throughout this forum (at least it was prior to the forum reset).

 

DM--

Great clip, thanks for posting.

LBJ had reason, perhaps, for his qualms. After all, LBJ more or less told WC Warren that sidestepping a nuke war with Russia was Job 1.

I must have missed that one. Do you have a source for that?

For you younger readers the idea of a nuke war in 1963 was fresh and real---in 1962, some people thought it was 50/50 the US and Russia would have a nuke war (the CMC).

Here, LBJ seems to be hinting at Russia and Cuba.

BTW---the US Ambassador to Mexico, Thomas Mann, and the State Department staffer in Mexico Charles Thomas, both thought there was a lot to the Cuba-LHO connection, and they were both shut down, and both lost their jobs in short order.

It's no secret LHO was trying to get a visa to Cuba while in Mexico City. There is no evidence that had anything to do with his assassination of JFK. How could anyone, Oswald included, have known that just a few months later Oswald would be working at a building overlooking a route JFK would be taking in a slow moving open top car?

I came across Chris Davidson and Keven Hofeling's allegations at the Ed Forum that the Zapruder film that we know, isn't the original. Chris Davidson uses "maths" to allege that the Limo stopped, while Hofeling has accumulated a vast number of buzzwords which he uses to sound somewhat knowledgeable but as they say in the classics, garbage in garbage out.

Hi John.. just catching up on this and wow! Do you ever post on that forum?