JFK Assassination Forum

"Who is John Galt?"
I had never heard of him so I googled him. I come to find out he is a character in Atlas Shrugged and the question "Who is John Galt?" was repeated several times during the last part of then novel. That is the extent of my knowledge about John Galt.

All pretext by you. Disputed and corroborated as false by Phil Willis, Hugh Betzner, Sam Holland and Rosemary Willis.

I've said UNCORROBORATED witnesses can't be relied upon.
JBC said he turned when he heard the shot. I can see when he turned It was Z164.
JBC disputed the SBT because he had been led to believe JFK was hit by the first shot and he KNEW he had been hit by the second shot. When asked if the single bullet could have occurred on the second shot, he said that's possible.A whole lot of "so-and-say said" arguments with nothing to support that so-and-so accurately remembered exactly what happened when.

How do you know when Rosemary Willis stopped and why? She ran ahead of the limo - how do you know she
wasn't looking back for the car. Her father told Shaw Trial he called her name - How do you know she didn't turn for that ?
She stopped for a shot. - When was the shot? You don't know. Witnesses are often wrong (but only when you want).


I can see when Rosemary Willis stopped. She started to slow down in the late Z160s. It took her about 3 steps to come to a complete stop and as soon as she did, she turned back toward the TSBD. Once again the Z-film shows it is the best witness available to us.
I've never claimed to have proof positive of when the first shot was fired. I have argued the best evidence is it was fired in the 147-148 time frame based on the camera jiggle at Z155. Others may disagree which is fine. Nobody else has definitive proof of when the first shot was fired either. It is all based on how we weigh the clues the Z-film provides us. I can say for fact that there was no shot at Z204 because I know Oswald fired all three shots and he couldn't have fired a shot at Z204 and another at Z219-200. In addition, the tree would have still blocked Oswald's view of JFK at Z204 making it unlikely Oswald would fire a shot then when his target was about to come into the clear in less than half a second.

The Z-film alone gives us clues as to when the first shot was fired without using any witnesses. We see JBC turn to look over his right shoulder at Z164. Here's where a CORROBORARED witness can come into play. He said he turned in response to hearing the first shot which he recognized as the sound of a high powered rifle. The film and JBC's statement jibe. Without JBC's statement it would be hard to determine that his turn to look over his right shoulder was a reaction to the first shot. The fact the film and his statement jibe strengthens the probative value of both. In addition we have Rosemary Willis running alongside the limo. She begins to slowdown during the Z160s and when she comes to a stop, she turns and looks back to the TSBD. She later said she did that upon hearing a gunshot. She didn't testify before the WC but was called by the HSCA. None of this is proof positive as to when the first shot was fired but taken as a whole, it is probative of a shot prior to Z164. If we add to that the blurring and frame jump in Z155, it is a strong indication of a shot around Z147-148.

If we don't read the reactions of JBC and Willis as evidence of a gunshot, there is nothing in the Z-film that would tell us when Oswald's missed shot was fired.  That is why the WC never determined which shot missed. They allowed that it could be the first, second, or third shot.