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Actually, fragments from the brain were compared to the fragments found inside the limo and fragments from JBC's wrist were compared to CE399, both by the FBI in 1964 and by Dr. Vincent Guinn for the HSCA in 1977. Ken Rahn wrote an excellent article about it. Rather than put my own spin on what those tests did or didn't prove, I'll post the article and everyone can decide for themselves.

https://kenrahn.com/JFK/Scientific_topics/NAA/NAA_and_JFK_assassination.html

Oh my goodness. Once again you are decades behind the information curve. How, just how, can you not know that Guinn's 1977 NAA claims were refuted 20 years ago? How did you miss this news?

Guinn's NAA claims were first refuted in 2006 by two scientists, Erik Randich and Patrick Grant, in an article published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Several more scientists refuted Guinn's NAA claims the following year in an article published in The Annals of Applied Statistics.

Here are links to their articles:

"Chemical and Forensic Analysis of JFK Assassination Bullet Lots: Is a Second Shooter Possible?" (Spiegelman, Tobin,  James, Sheather, Wexler, and Roundhill) (2007)
https://share.google/dfrci1tNxtQrbGHTz

"Proper Assessment of the JFK Assassination Bullet Lead Evidence from Metallurgical and Statistical Perspectives" (Randich and Grant) (2006)
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc890664/m2/1/high_res_d/900118.pdf

Summary of Randich and Grant's article in the Journal of Forensic Sciences (2006)
https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/death-of-the-naa-verdict

I quote from the Spiegelman-Tobin-James-Sheather-Wexler-Roundhill article:

Additionally, we show that one of the ten test bullets is considered a match to one or more assassination fragments. This finding means that the bullet fragments from the assassination that match could have come from three or more separate bullets."

In this paper we show that evidence used to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed. This paper discusses new compositional analyses of bullets reportedly to have been derived from the same batch as those used in the assassination. The new analyses show that the bullet fragments involved in the assassination are not nearly as rare as previously reported.

We believe that there is no scientific basis from the fragment matching performed by Dr. Guinn to conclude that only two bullets were the sources of the assassination fragments.


FYI, a little bit about the scientists who debunked Guinn's NAA claims:

-- W. M. Tobin was a principal forensic engineer with Forensic Engineering International.

-- Clifford Spiegelman was a professor of statistics at Texas A&M University and a leader in statistical and environmental forensics.

-- Simon Sheather headed the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M and won the American Statistical Association's Statistics in Chemistry Award, and is now a visiting professor of statistics at the University of Kentucky.

-- William D. James was a professor of chemical analysis at Texas A&M University and published several studies on NAA testing in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

-- D. M. Roundhill was a chemist with Chemical Consulting and published several articles on chemistry in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

-- Erik Randich at the time was a forensics consultant and metallurgist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

-- Patrick Grant is an analytical chemist who has been a staff member at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1983, has authored or coauthored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and has been a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences since 1999 and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Forensic Sciences since 2003.
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Oops, peeked out of the rabbit hole again. What is the MATTER with me, dammit?  :D

It occurred to me that, contrary to Pat Speer's assertion, Pitzer must have had greater expertise than merely closed-circuit TV. Indeed, he did. This is from a pretty comprehensive article in Grokipedia:

"Pitzer enlisted in the United States Navy in 1934, underwent training in X-ray technology, and was discharged in 1939."
...
"In these post-war capacities, Pitzer served as assistant head of the Medical Graphic Arts Department at the Naval Medical School in Bethesda, overseeing the creation and dissemination of visual educational materials for naval medical training. He also held the position of chief of the Television Division, pioneering the integration of closed-circuit television as an instructional tool to enhance medical instruction and procedural demonstrations for Navy personnel. These roles emphasized his earlier expertise in X-ray technology and photography, adapted to support broader medical education initiatives within the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery."
...
"Pitzer's responsibilities encompassed overseeing the technical operations of filming, editing, and distributing educational videos to support courses in anatomy, pathology, and clinical skills, leveraging his prior experience in X-ray technology and photography from his early Navy service. The division's work aligned with mid-20th-century advancements in medical education, where audiovisual aids improved retention and practical instruction for corpsmen, nurses, and physicians across naval facilities."
...
"As chief of the Educational Television Division and assistant head of the Medical Graphic Arts Department at the National Naval Medical School in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1961 until his death in 1966, Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer oversaw the production and management of audiovisual materials for medical training, including closed-circuit television recordings of procedures conducted at the National Naval Medical Center. This role positioned him to handle documentation from autopsies and other forensic examinations, as the facility routinely performed such procedures for military personnel and utilized graphic arts and video for instructional purposes, such as creating films of surgical and pathological processes."
...
"Pitzer's responsibilities extended to the hospital's closed-circuit television system, which he had employed in prior years to produce educational movies, potentially enabling remote capture or review of sensitive medical events without direct physical presence in the procedure room. Official records confirm that the Bethesda facility, where numerous autopsies occurred, equipped its audiovisual department under Pitzer's purview with tools for photographing, filming, and archiving post-mortem imagery to support Navy medical education and research."

It thus would seem that whatever David described Pitzer doing in his office would not have been inherently implausible.

(YAWN)
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JFK and Jackie weren't monkeying around when they turned, smiled, and waved at Mary Moorman Woodward and her three colleagues between Z-180 and Z-190 instead of just before Oswald's early, missing-everything, first shot (which Woodward mistakenly reported in her 11/23/63 Dallas Morning News article).

Sadly, what happened a few seconds later around Z-222 and at Z-313 made everyone in Dealey Plaza go apexxxx.
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Re: Before which of the three shots did JFK and Jackie wave to Mary Moorman?

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If a theory disagrees with the evidence, the theory is wrong, no matter how smart the person is or how beautiful the idea is.... Richard Feynman.

"A theory whose 'evidence' consists mostly of eyewitness' and earwitness' statements about something that happened quicky, that was loud, that was startling, that was traumatic, and that happened in an echo chamber like Dealey Plaza ain't worth the paper it's written on." -- Thomas Graves
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In her 23 November 1963 Dallas Morning News article, Mary Woodward, who had met JFK several times at campaign and political events prior to his presidency, said:

1) There were three shots (Correct)

2) JFK and Jackie both turned and smiled and waved at her and her colleagues before the first shot (Wrong. JFK turned, smiled, and waved at her -- and her three colleagues -- between Z-180 and Z-190, about two seconds before the second shot. We can presume that Jackie did the same because in Z-190 her head is no longer turned far to her left but far to her right in Woodward's direction.)

3) The first shot missed everything. (Correct)

4) JFK and Jackie turned their heads in response to the first shot. (Correct. JFK turned his head quickly to his left in Z-144; Jackie turned her head farther to her left and was "captured" looking at Robert Croft in his Z-161 photo.)

5) The limo slowed down and almost stopped after the first shot. (Wrong. It slowed down after the second shot)


Z-144
https://assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z144.jpg

Z-180
https://assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z180.jpg

Z-190
For those of you with good eyesight, look how far Secret Service Agents Glen Bennett and George Hickey in the rear seat of the follow-up car have leaned over to their right and left, respectively. (Bennet is sitting much lower than Hickey and is leaning his head very far to his right in order to see around Dave Powers in front of him.)
https://assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/z190.jpg


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The old "if the evidence doesn't fit the theory, twist the evidence to make it fit" approach.

If a theory disagrees with the evidence, the theory is wrong, no matter how smart the person is or how beautiful the idea is.... Richard Feynman.
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Compare the Mary Rattan affidavit, dated 22 November 1963, with the fake one which doesn't even identify the "notary"

Is the notary's signature legible?
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LP--

I largely concur with your sentiments. In fact, many associated with the EF-JFKA have died off, and the remaining often reminisce about the 1960s, which is still the defining decade in all history, in their view.

Like Larry Hancock, I conclude the WC and FBI generally followed President LBJ's instructions that nothing be found out about the JFKA that could trigger a nuke war. That is to say, no leads back to Havana or Moscow.

That may seem farfetched today, but in 1962 the US very nearly went to a nuke war with Russia over Cuba. LBJ, like everybody else, lived with the daily specter of A-bombs from the sky in October 1962 (as did myself).

Due to my read of the Z-film, I contend that the cadence of shots cannot be explained by a lone gunsel armed with a single-shot-per-bolt-action rifle.

I suspect LHO was the TSBD shooter, but there had to be another shooter too.

The conspiracy could be that, only two people.

LHO was dead with 48 hours, and his confederate---who knows?

If LHO's confederate was waxed by G2-DGI, dead men tell no tales. And the people waxing the second gunsel did not know why they perped the deed, or they were misinformed.

Indeed, G2-DGI'ers may have suspected one of their assets went rogue and worked with LHO, and so they then waxed that asset, based on a reasonable suspicion. 

One sad aspect of this: Moscow and IRGC $ has warped JFKA narratives, as understood by many.

How about a perped lone-gunsel CIAer perp?
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LP--

I largely concur with your sentiments. In fact, many associated with the EF-JFKA have died off, and the remaining often reminisce about the 1960s, which is still the defining decade in all history, in their view.

Like Larry Hancock, I conclude the WC and FBI generally followed President LBJ's instructions that nothing be found out about the JFKA that could trigger a nuke war. That is to say, no leads back to Havana or Moscow.

That may seem farfetched today, but in 1962 the US very nearly went to a nuke war with Russia over Cuba. LBJ, like everybody else, lived with the daily specter of A-bombs from the sky in October 1962 (as did myself).

Due to my read of the Z-film, I contend that the cadence of shots cannot be explained by a lone gunsel armed with a single-shot-per-bolt-action rifle.

I suspect LHO was the TSBD shooter, but there had to be another shooter too.

The conspiracy could be that, only two people.

LHO was dead with 48 hours, and his confederate---who knows?

If LHO's confederate was waxed by G2-DGI, dead men tell no tales. And the people waxing the second gunsel did not know why they perped the deed, or they were misinformed.

Indeed, G2-DGI'ers may have suspected one of their assets went rogue and worked with LHO, and so they then waxed that asset, based on a reasonable suspicion. 

One sad aspect of this: Moscow and IRGC $ has warped JFKA narratives, as understood by many.

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