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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Education Forum Goes Off the Rails
« Last post by Brian Doyle on Yesterday at 07:15:54 PM »


Iler has total control because of the format of the British Invision host that gives total power and say to the "owner"...


While they said this reformation was designed to remedy the previous negatives of the forum it has actually worsened them and hardened the clique...
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Here's the actual first frame from the Darnell film, taken from my lossless Youtube download and not a lazy Youtube screenshot



and NO the Bell Film does NOT SHOW WIEGMAN RUNNING, it shows a walking camera man at the bottom but not him running.
This is taken from a high quality 1080p version without the watermark.

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McCain was toast when he turned on Bill Cunningham at that rally. Limbaugh and the rest of talk radio bailed, and it was over with a thud.

I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 for one and only one reason. He was not John McCain. A year earlier when Hillary was the presumptive nominee and it was less than certain that McCain would be the GOP choice, I told my friends that if McCain were nominated, I would vote for Hillary. Voting for Obama was a little less than distasteful than voting for Hillary would have been. I went so far as to say I would vote for Osama Bin Laden before I would vote for John McCain.

Why did i despise McCain so much. The McCain-Feingold Act was the most dastardly, undemocratic piece of legislation that had passed the US  Congress since John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts. It gave the federal government the power to restrict political dissent. While the Supreme Court has struck down some of the provisions of McCain-Feingold, mainly through Citizens United, there's still some provisions that remain in force.

PS I also didn't vote for George W. Bush in 2004 because that SOB signed McCain-Feingold into law, even though he thought many provisions were unconstitutional. He left it up to the Supreme Court to strike it down. He took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. He didn't do that when he passed the buck to the Supreme Court.

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This is soooo painful...
Previously you posted this - The Bell Film shows Wiegman running across the stairs/directly toward Zapruder.
Do you stand by this claim, that in the Bell film we can see Weigman running across the stairs toward Zapruder? Or is this something that you've made up?
Is it something you are imagining but isn't shown in the Bell film.

I'll make this easy - At any point in the Bell film do we see Weigman running?

Do you know what...just forget it...the Bell film does not show Weigman running towards Zapruder, it never did. You just made it up. Weigman stays in exactly the same spot until the film cuts and he is down by the Newmans. Why you would claim the Bell film shows him running is a complete mystery to me. I literally have no idea why you would make such a claim. But now you are trying to backtrack on it...kind of...maybe.

Your story about Weigman standing up while he filmed the Hesters and then fell over is just a fantasy you have invented. There is not a single scrap of evidence to support this made up scenario. I have no idea why you have invented this scenario. I just don't get it. I honestly don't understand why you can't just accept the obvious - the Weigman footage of the Hesters shows us it was filmed at floor level, the Bell footage shows us Weigman filming the Hesters at floor level.
Why isn't the obvious interpretation of the evidence acceptable?
Why invent pointless details?
The steps are only a few inches high...if Weigman was stood up filming the footage would be from a stood up position. But it clearly isn't......................

.....it doesn't matter.

                                                       ............. Since the above does Not matter to you ..................

           Are you using the YOU TUBE "Uncropped" Bothun Photo to help with your time stamping? I find the position of Altgens coming down the knoll toward Elm St and Wiegman having finished filming the Newman Family and now being physically down on the sidewalk filming Officer Haygood, to be important factors with respect to determining the Tick/Tock. Same goes for the Chism Family now being in position to begin their run across the Knoll. Trask "Pictures Of The Pain" gives this Bothun Photo a roughly "30 Seconds" after the kill shot time stamp. 
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i don't even know where to start regarding Dan O''Meara's latest post in this thread. I can't even follow his reasoning or see any evidence he applied any reasoning at all. It's one of the dumbest post I've read on this forum. It shows no logic or common sense. I don't see how anything Givens had to say, whether true or false, does anything to either strengthen or weaken the case against Oswald. What the hell difference does it make whether or not Givens saw Oswald on the 6th floor 35 minutes before the shooting? Can anybody explain this nonsense to me?

Maybe I'm the idiot for responding to it in the first place.
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  (1) I believe that Wiegman is generally running (W) towards Zapruder. You do see Zapruder and Wiegman both in the same Bell frames?
  (2) I have always known that this is Wiegman on the Bell Film. His Hat is a dead giveaway.
  (3) I believe that Wiegman's position while filming the Hester's was just to the (E) of where we see him falling to the ground on the Bell still frame you posted. I believe while standing, Wiegman filmed the Hesters, then turned to his (L), and then started to move (W) across the Knoll. Wiegman immediately stumbled and fell or maybe dove to the ground.

This is soooo painful...
Previously you posted this - The Bell Film shows Wiegman running across the stairs/directly toward Zapruder.
Do you stand by this claim, that in the Bell film we can see Weigman running across the stairs toward Zapruder? Or is this something that you've made up?
Is it something you are imagining but isn't shown in the Bell film.

I'll make this easy - At any point in the Bell film do we see Weigman running?

Do you know what...just forget it...the Bell film does not show Weigman running towards Zapruder, it never did. You just made it up. Weigman stays in exactly the same spot until the film cuts and he is down by the Newmans. Why you would claim the Bell film shows him running is a complete mystery to me. I literally have no idea why you would make such a claim. But now you are trying to backtrack on it...kind of...maybe.

Your story about Weigman standing up while he filmed the Hesters and then fell over is just a fantasy you have invented. There is not a single scrap of evidence to support this made up scenario. I have no idea why you have invented this scenario. I just don't get it. I honestly don't understand why you can't just accept the obvious - the Weigman footage of the Hesters shows us it was filmed at floor level, the Bell footage shows us Weigman filming the Hesters at floor level.
Why isn't the obvious interpretation of the evidence acceptable?
Why invent pointless details?
The steps are only a few inches high...if Weigman was stood up filming the footage would be from a stood up position. But it clearly isn't......................

.....it doesn't matter.
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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: How Do LNers Deal With Givens?
« Last post by Dan O'meara on Yesterday at 05:35:05 PM »
If you can't prove Givens lied, there is no issue to deal with.
I have no reason not to. You certainly haven't provided one. 

BS:
Even if you could establish that Givens made up this story, which you haven't, it doesn't negate all the other evidence that positively establishes Oswald was the one who fired the shots from the sniper's nest. The WC scenario doesn't require that it be proven Oswald  was on the 6th floor 35 minutes before the shooting because there is ample proof he was in the sniper's nest at the time of the shooting.

Do you guys ever bother to apply even a modicum of logic to your arguments.

"Even if you could establish that Givens made up this story, which you haven't, it doesn't negate all the other evidence that positively establishes Oswald was the one who fired the shots from the sniper's nest."

I've not said it negates any other evidence. How could it negate any other evidence? What a stupid point to make.
But what does it mean?
If it can be established that the Givens story is a fiction, what does that mean?

I have to note that there have been 91 views of this thread so far.
I reckon a chunk of that number are LNers who have decided to keep their opinion to themselves on this matter.
But don't be shy, let's hear what you have to say.
Do you, like Corbett here, accept Givens' account of returning to the 6th floor?
Do you accept the WC's conclusion that Givens was the last TSBD employee to see Oswald prior to the assassination?

Here's some context as far as Givens is concerned:
On the day of the assassination Givens was a Wanted man. An APB was put out on him at 1:46pm by Sawyer:

We have a man we would like to have you pass this up on to the CID to see if we can pick this man up. Charles Douglas Givens, G-I-V-E-N-S. He's a colored male, thirty-seven, six foot three, a hundred sixty-five pounds. He has an ID number in the Sheriff's Department, 37954. He's a porter that worked on this floor up here. He has a police record and he left.


The search for the killer was still on. Two men had left the TSBD and were unaccounted for - Givens and Oswald (isn't it odd an APB wasn't put out for Oswald).
The interest in Givens wasn't just because he was missing. One of the first pro-active decisions Fritz made as part of his investigation was to round up everyone who had worked on the 6th floor that day and Givens was one of these men - the shots had been taken from the 6th floor, Givens worked on the 6th floor and he was missing.
When Fritz returned to the DPD he his first task was to get someone out to Oswald's house only to find Oswald was already in custody for Tippit's murder - one of the men who worked on the floor from where the shots were taken and who had 'fled the scene', was in custody for the murder of a police officer less than an hour after the assassination.
Meanwhile, Givens had returned to the TSBD to collect his coat only to be gripped by a police officer and taken down to DPDHQ. When he arrived there he was grilled for 45 minutes by Captain Fritz!!

During this extensive questioning Givens failed to mention his little trip back up to the 6th floor and seeing Oswald near the southeast corner.
Let that sink in for a minute...
The President had been assassinated.
A Dallas cop had been killed.
A prime suspect for the murders sat in the cells.
Now Fritz had in front of him one of the men who worked on the 6th floor that day.
It's safe to say Givens was grilled about his own actions, what he knew about Oswald and what he knew that might be useful to the investigation.

And he failed to mention that he had seen Oswald moving around near the crime scene!

Who, in their right mind, would think this was possible?
What logic could be applied to make this work?
Common Sense, Logic, Reason and Occam's Razor are pointing to one possibility, and one alone - Givens never mentioned going back up to the 6th floor and seeing Oswald because it never happened. There was no need to mention something that had not occurred.
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The bottom line on this whole James Tague angle is that not only is there no evidence his injury was caused by a shot from a second gunman, there is no credible evidence there was a second gunman.
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Just so I've got this right in my mind - you've abandoned your claim that the Bell film shows Weigman running towards Zapruder. You now agree with my identification of Weigman in the Bell film. You don't believe the Bell film shows the position from which Weigman filmed the Hesters.
Am I correct so far?

  (1) I believe that Wiegman is generally running (W) towards Zapruder. You do see Zapruder and Wiegman both in the same Bell frames?
  (2) I have always known that this is Wiegman on the Bell Film. His Hat is a dead giveaway.
  (3) I believe that Wiegman's position while filming the Hester's was just to the (E) of where we see him falling to the ground on the Bell still frame you posted. I believe while standing, Wiegman filmed the Hesters, then turned to his (L), and then started to move (W) across the Knoll. Wiegman immediately stumbled and fell or maybe dove to the ground.   
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I, too, grew up believing in the WC's version of the shooting, since that's what I was taught in school. Oliver Stone's movie JFK caused me to start reading about the case, partly because I thought "this just can't be true."

So you learned much of what you think you know about the JFKA from watching Oliver Stone's fictional account of the JFKA. That explains a lot. It's no wonder you were led astray. That was about time you and I both started posting on the old Prodigy forum. 35 years later you are still parroting some of the same myths Ollie created in his crappy movie:

The Warren Commission said Oswald fired 3 shots in 5.6 seconds or less. BS:
The WC did allow for that possibility but it was not a conclusion of theirs and they gave no indication they favored that scenario over other scenarios. The timeframe for the three shots is dependent on which shot missed. They concluded, correctly, that the two shots that hit JFK struck between 4.8 and 5.6 seconds apart. Only if the second shot was the missed shot did all three shots have to be fired in 5.6 seconds or less.

The Warren Commission said Oswald hit JFK by firing 88 yards through heavy foliage. BS:
The headshot was 88 yards but it was not fired through heavy foliage. By the time the headshot struck JFK, he had been in the clear for 5.6 seconds. Oswald had a clear line of sight for both the shots that hit JFK

In addition, when Garrison's assistant told Garrison (Costner), "I'm Oswald. Time me." and dry fired the rifle 3 times, Garrison said it took between 6 and 7 seconds. In reality, if you time that sequence yourself, it takes less than 5.6 seconds. When I made that point on Fred Litwin's podcast, he overlaid an electronic timer to that sequence and showed it took only 5.2 seconds.

These are just a few of around 100 outright lies Ollie presented in his movie. If I were a CT, which I was for a short time back in the 1980s, I would be embarrassed to admit that Ollie's movie was the basis for my skepticism of the WCR. At the very least you should find a little more honest presentation of the JFKA to point to as the basis for your beliefs but maybe you couldn't find any.
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The first big doubt that I formed involved Oswald's alleged shooting feat. I did 21 years in the Army and qualified at all three marksmanship levels (marksman, sharpshooter, and expert). When I became aware of the details of the alleged shooting performance, I recognized right away that it would have been extremely difficult even for an experienced, highly skilled rifleman, and far beyond the ability of someone whose best day at the Marine Corps rifle range was to barely qualify in the sharpshooter category using a semi-automatic rifle against targets he'd practiced against for hours and with vastly more time to fire than the alleged lone gunman would have had.

The longest of Oswald's 3 shots was 88 yards. To qualify in the USMC at any of the three levels, he had to consistently hit a target at ranges of 200 yards or more without the aid of a scope. Oswald completely missed with one of his three shots and the two they struck were about 10-12 inches apart. How well do you think he would have scored in the USMC if he replicated that performance throughout his qualifying session. Tell us what about the shooting was so difficult that it made you doubt Oswald could have done the shooting.
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