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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate / Re: JFK Hands Never Go To-Or Toward-His Throat
« Last post by John Corbett on Yesterday at 09:52:31 PM »The point being, she observed absolutely no expression, no blood, nothing indicative of gagging, attempting to wipe blood away, etc., etc., such as has been suggested here. "You would think" it would be a blur to her? Well, OK, but it clearly wasn't a blur to her.
Why is that clear. What is clear is she didn't remember things happened the way Zapruder's camera did.
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In your epistemology, eyewitnesses sitting feet or even inches away are inevitably hopelessly confused and completely unreliable.
You can be too close to an event to see it clearly. It narrows the focus.
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This was the very first thing she observed in the entire sequence - what reason is there to think she was bewildered?
Are you serious? She just saw her husband seriously wounded and the President murdered in a gruesome way and you think she would just calmly take it all in. Ridiculous
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ackie likewise, to the best of my knowledge, never said anything about JFK gagging or wiping blood. There is every reason to think that JFK's bizarre movements, and Jackie's inability to "unlock" his arms, are consistent with an involuntary neurological reaction - as are Nellie's observations.
Neither's testimony spot on. JFK's arms did not remain locked in a raised postion. By Z312 his elbows were back down.
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, I did discover that Josiah Thompson and Pat Speer were in agreement way back in 2010 that the Thorburn reflex argument had been a "dead puppy" (Tink's phrase) for years and had been invented by Medical Quack Lattimer and promoted by Lying Fiend Posner to prop up the SBT and disguise the fact that JFK and JBC were hit by different shots. Here is what most folks seem to regard as the definitive refutation of the Thorburn argument: