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JFK Assassination & General Discussion & Debate / Re: The First Shot
« Last post by Andrew Mason on Yesterday at 10:38:48 PM »I will never understand why so many people look at eye and ear witness accounts as if they are empirical evidence.Yes. You never will unless you actually work with witnesses.
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Witness accounts, by themselves, do not establish anything as factual.That is partly correct when dealing with a few witnesses who may not be independent. Without the opportunity of a party adverse in interest to cross-examine a witness it is difficult to assess a witness’ accuracy
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Witnesses can be, and often are, wrong.It depends on what you mean by “wrong”. There is a difference between seeing JFK move left after the first shot and “ducking” but a huge differnce between either of those and continuing to smile and wave for several seconds after the first shot.
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The only time I will point to an eye or ear witness as evidence is if that witness can be corroborated by forensic evidence.Most major crimes and virtually all minor ones that result in convictions are solved using witness evidence. If courts took that approach, there would be few convictions.
doesn't make it so.