JFK Assassination Forum

I doubt that. They would be taking out sites holy to Islam and would kill many fellow muslims. When the US accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner during the tanker escort operation in the 1980s, Iran dod not retaliate via terrorism. They agreed to international mediation and agreed to compensation.

Iranian nukes would likely be used as a deterrent to Israeli aggression as well as aggression from Sunni Arab states. At least they enrich their own uranium, rather than stealing it from the US and leaving a toxic mess that US taxpayers are still paying to clean up.

If Iran was the big boogyman, why did Israel sell them F-14 parts when Iran held our embassy hostage. Why did Israel agree to provide weapons to Iran during Iran-Contra?

Humm, well, the previous supposedly definitive analysis of the timing of the Tippit shooting, i.e., Dale Myers' "stop-watch" analysis in his book With Malice, says that Oswald did not have time to walk to 10th and Patton in time to shoot Tippit and theorizes that Oswald got a ride from an unknown person. Myers says Tippit was shot at 1:14:30, but you say he was shot between 1:15 and 1:16.

Is there a reason you failed to mention that T. F. Bowley said he arrived at the Tippit scene at 1:10 and that he knew this because he checked his watch when he got there? That's an important fact to omit, wouldn't you say?

Is there a reason you failed to mention that Helen Markham said she got to the Tippit scene no later than 1:08 and that Tippit had already been shot when she arrived? This is why she was certain Tippit was shot at 1:06 or 1:07. Markham said she always left her apartment at 1:00 to catch her regular 1:12-1:15 bus. She said she glanced at the laundry room clock after she left her apartment and that it read 1:04. She said it took her about two minutes to reach 10th and Patton.

Is there a reason you failed to mention that Domingo Benavides said that he did not try to use the police car's radio until "a few minutes" after Tippit had been shot because he was (quite understandably) afraid for his life?

You guys claim that Benavides waited in his truck for only a matter of seconds and not for a few minutes. But this flies in the face of common sense and ignores what Benavides himself initially said. If you were only 25-50 feet away from a shooting and feared you could be the next target, how long would you wait until coming out into the open? Nobody in their right mind would have come out of hiding so quickly in that situation.

Benavides told the WC he waited in his truck for "a few minutes" after he heard the shots and before he tried to use the police car's radio. Moreover, according to fellow witness Ted Calloway, Benavides told him the day after the shooting that

When I heard that shooting, I fell down into the floorboard of my truck and I stayed there. It scared me to death.

Years later, Benavides changed his story and told CBS he only waited a few seconds, not a few minutes. Predictably, you guys choose to accept Benavides' belated change of story and reject his original statements.

Two witnesses at the Texas Theatre, Butch Borroughs and Jack Davis, independently said that Oswald entered the theater before 1:10, and that he remained in the theater until he was arrested.

You place great emphasis on the police dispatch transcripts, but even Dr. Paul Hoch, one of the most careful scholars in the JFKA research community, acknowledged there is evidence the police dispatch tapes were edited, which renders the transcripts useless for determining when Tippit was shot. BTW, Dr. Hoch doubted the authenticity of the transmissions that supposedly explain why Tippit was in Oak Cliff in the first place, far out of his area.

I discuss Dr. Hoch's research at length in my article "Did Oswald Shoot Tippit?," available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_j_022lJYli3B5Xyw8wLs-0nl6mDLo2t/view.

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Yes, you do, if you're being objective and credible, but apparently you can't bring yourself to do that on this issue, since it would mean admitting that some of the autopsy evidence was altered or faked.

Oh, please. I mean, come on. Aren't you embarrassed to float such a silly, obvious dodge? Every single expert who has examined the supposedly "original" brain photos has noted no damage to the rear part of the occipital lobes and only the very slightest damage to the cerebellum.

When the FPP confronted Humes, Finck, and Boswell with the absence of any damage to these areas in the brain photos that would be exxpected from an EOP-site bullet, when they were all viewing the photos together, the autopsy doctors could not explain it. Finck simply said, "I don't know. I cannot answer your question." Humes's only response was to offer the humorous, lame, and irrelevant point that the brain photos are not 3D, never mind that the photos show all sides of the brain, including the bottom. Boswell offered no response at all.

LOL! It seemed for a moment like you were allowing yourself to actually go where the evidence points regarding the entry site, but I see you've realized the impossible problems such an admission poses and so now you're waffling and pretending that it's no big deal because either entry site supposedly works.

No, either entry point is not compatible with a trajectory back to the sixth-floor window. Again, for the umpteenth time, the WC's experts could only get the EOP site to align with the sixth-floor window by assuming a forward lean of well over 50 degrees for JFK's head when the bullet hit. And, again, for the umpteenth time, Sturdivan can only get the EOP site's trajectory to "work" by assuming that the bullet came from the sixth-floor window, penetrated the skull at a 15-degree downward angle, but then somehow, someway suddenly veered sharply upward, never mind that not a single bullet in the WC's head-shot wound ballistics tests performed such an amazing feat, and never mind that Sturdivan could not cite a single case where an FMJ bullet, or any kind of bullet, has performed such a feat.

Moreover, as mentioned, the EOP site totally contradicts the brain photos and the WC's head-shot wound ballistics tests and cannot possibly explain the high fragment trail, which is why the autopsy doctors ignored it.

Also, neither the EOP site nor the cowlick site can explain the outer-table back-of-head fragments, which is why the FPP ignored the McDonnel fragment, nor can either wound site explain the 7x2 mm fragment in the right orbit (unless we assume that the autopsy report's low fragment trail was removed from the skull x-rays). 

BTW, are you ever going to explain why the low fragment trail does not appear on the skull x-rays? Where did it go?

You don't "know" any such thing, and you clearly cannot explain the unsolvable problems posed for your theory by the medical evidence. After saying you leaned toward the EOP site, now you're waffling and gasping that either entry site works, when your own beloved FPP noted that the brain photos demonstrably refute the EOP site (assuming the brain photos are authentic).

Are you ever going to explain how JFK's brain could have lost only "less than 1-2 ounces" of brain tissue given the accounts that record that pieces of JFK's brain were blown or dropped onto 16 surfaces, not counting the "rather large chunk of brain" that Jackie handed to Dr. Jenkins in the Parkland ER? No, of course not. And let's remember that Bugliosi's answer to the numerous credible accounts of a large amount of missing brain tissue was to cite Baden's disclosure that the brain photos show "less than 1-2 ounces" of missing tissue.