One, I guess it has just never occurred to you that the two limo fragments came from the bullet that hit the pavement behind the limousine early in the shooting.

Two, I guess it has also just never occurred to you that the two limo fragments could not have come from the head-shot ammo, given the known, established fact of forensic science that FMJ bullets will never, ever, ever fragment into dozens of tiny fragments, much less do so while also depositing several fragments on the rear outer table of the skull upon entry and while also magically somehow depositing two fragments at the opposite end of the skull with no other fragments or particles anywhere near them.

If only you had the power to make things fact simply by asserting them.

Three, obviously, you don't care about all the problems with the chain of custody of the bullet fragments allegedly found in the limo and in JFK's body.

The good old chain-of-custody excuse. A long time favorite of the CT gang to wish away damning evidence against Oswald.

No, it's not. You haven't even read the evidence under discussion. You have no idea what it says. You constantly denounce evidence you haven't even studied.

Things don't become evidence simply because you assert them. I will concede that you can invent excuses to dismiss evidence a lot faster than I can refute them.

Brennan's belated, coerced "identification" of Oswald as the man he saw in the window is a joke. Most prosecutors would not dare use such a doubtful, problematic identification in a trial.

Brennan's ID of Oswald is probably one of the least compelling pieces of evidence against him. By itself, it wouldn't be compelling at all. The fact that he eventually IDed the guy who owned the rifle that was the murder weapon is what gives his belated ID credibility. The simple fact is nobody else saw Oswald anywhere else at the time of the shooting which refutes your BS claim that "Multiple eyewitness accounts clearly indicate that Oswald was not on the sixth floor during the shooting."

You must know you're being deceptive here. None of this actually directly addresses what I said. Let me repeat what I wrote:

Multiple eyewitness accounts clearly indicate that Oswald was not on the sixth floor during the shooting. We now know that the WC was aware of strong eyewitness evidence that Oswald did not come down the stairs after the shooting but suppressed it. [/quote]

Another fine example of things you claim to know that simply aren't true. No witness precludes Oswald from coming down the back stairs to the second floor where he ducked into the lunchroom to avoid running into Baker and Truly coming up the stairs.

Carolyn Arnold saw Oswald on the first or second floor no more than 5-10 minutes before JFK's motorcade was scheduled to drive through Dealey Plaza.

That doesn't preclude Oswald from being on the 6th floor when the shots were fired. It wouldn't take 5-10 minutes for Oswald to reach the 6th floor from where Arnold thought she saw Oswald.

Sarah Stanton's family said Sarah told them she saw and spoke with Oswald on the front steps of the TSBD when the motorcade drove through the plaza.

Hearsay accounts are not evidence for good reason. Amazing how nobody else saw Oswald on the front steps. Even Oswald never said he was on the front stops watching the motorcade.

Victoria Adams, Sandra Styles, and the Stroud memo make it clear that Oswald could not have come down the stairs in time to make it to the second-floor lunchroom to encounter Officer Baker there, proving that Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor when the shots were fired.

Just how did they make that clear?

This myth was debunked decades ago. Even the HSCA FPP put the back wound below the throat wound. How can you not know such basic stuff?

The HSCA FPP was speaking of the anatomical position. JFK was not in the anatomical position when he was shot. Are we supposed to believe the FPP refuted their own finding that the bullet that entered JFK's back exited from his throat. The Secret Service recreation using substitutes for JFK and JBC clearly showed the back wound was higher than the throat wound and was in direct alignment with the entry wound on JBC's back on a downward trajectory.

The rear JFK clothing holes alone are hard physical evidence that the back wound was well below the throat wound.

Total BS.

One, I've already done this, several times.

Why?

Two, I've pointed out to you several times that we now know that on the night of the autopsy, the autopsy doctors established for an absolute fact through prolonged and extensive probing that the back wound was shallow and had no exit point, that autopsy technicians around the table could see the end of the probe pushing up against the lining of the chest cavity, and that the first two drafts of the autopsy report said nothing about the throat wound as exit point for the back wound, and that we now know from Dr. Ebersole's released HSCA testimony that Humes knew about the throat wound before the end of the autopsy but then falsely claimed he knew nothing about it until the following morning.

Ignoring these facts won't make them go away.

This is why amateurs such as yourself should not delve into areas which require substantial expertise. The fact that a probe would not pass through the bullet channel is not proof that the bullet only penetrated a few inches, which is ludicrous on the surface. It fails to take into account JFK's position on the autopsy table was different from when he was shot in the back. It fails to take into account rigor mortis. Finck explained this in the Clay Shaw trial:

Q: Did you attempt to probe this wound in the back of the neck?
A: I did.
Q: With what?
A: With an autopsy room probe, and I did not succeed in probing from the entry in the back of the neck in any direction and I can explain this. This was due to the contraction of muscles preventing the passage of an instrument, and if I had forced the probe through the neck I may have created a false passage.

Three, you need to explain how a bullet fired from the sixth-floor window could have struck JFK at an upward trajectory and tunneled upward from there. Dr. Werner Spitz, one of the FPP majority, admitted in 1975 that the back-wound bullet "penetrated the skin in a sharply upward direction" and that the bullet "traveled upwards within the body." He admitted this in his report to the Rockefeller Commission, adding that there was "no doubt" about it:

There is no doubt that the bullet which struck the President’s back penetrated the skin in a sharply upward direction, as is evident from the width of the abrasion at the lower half of the bullet wound of entrance. The term "sharply upward direction" is used because it is evident from this injury that the missile traveled upwards within the body. (Report of Werner Spitz, 4/24/75, p. 1, Rockefeller Commission papers, see https://websites.umich.edu/~ahaq/correspondence.pdf)

The HSCA FPP likewise noted this exact same fact: that the bullet struck and tunneled at an upward angle. 

More evidence why amateurs like you should not try to analyze the medical evidence. The FPP made the following conclusion regarding the shots that hit JFK:

"The forensic pathology panel concluded that President Kennedy was struck by two, and only two, bullets, each of which entered from the rear. 1 The panel further concluded that the President was struck by one bullet that entered in the upper right of the back and exited from the front of the throat, and one bullet that entered in the right rear of the head near the cowlick area and exited from the right side of the head, toward the front."

Their finding that the bullet entered JFK's back on an upward trajectory was speaking in relation to the angle of his back, not upward from horizontal. Do you honestly believe if they thought the bullet went into JFK's back on an upward trajectory from horizontal would have reached the conclusion which I quoted above.

Is this a serious question? Do you suffer from short-term memory loss? Did you forget our discussion about O'Toole's PSE/VSA analysis of Oswald's statements to newsmen while he was in police custody? How  could you not remember that the PSE/VSA analysis was done from TV footage of Oswald's statements to reporters?

A voice stress analysis is not a polygraph. Oswald was not taking a polygraph when he made the statement that he didn't shoot anyone. A polygraph measures stress which is an indication of deceit. Since Oswald knew he was not being tested when he made that statement, there was no reason for him to feel stress. A polygraph even under controlled circumstances is not proof positive as to whether or not a person is being truthful.

AI describes voice stress analysis as follows:

"Voice stress analysis (VSA) is a technique that attempts to detect stress or deception by analyzing subtle changes in a person’s voice, though its reliability is highly disputed. (Emphasis mine)

Voice stress analysis (VSA) is a method that examines the acoustic properties of speech, including pitch variation, micro-tremors, and vocal cord irregularities, to infer emotional stress, which is sometimes interpreted as an indicator of deception

The underlying premise is that when a person lies or anticipates scrutiny (Emphasis mine), the autonomic nervous system triggers involuntary physiological changes, affecting the muscles controlling the voice.

VSA systems, such as the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA), record these vocal signals and display patterns for an examiner to interpret, often comparing responses to control questions versus critical questions"

Since Oswald had no reason to believe his statements were being electronically scrutinized, there would have been nothing to induce stress.

You must know this is both misleading and irrelevant. That agent's paraffin cast was not subjected to the super-sensitive NAA test, and he was not part of the control test that the FBI conducted to determine the accuracy of the Oakridge NAA testing of Oswald's paraffin cast.

So you have no way of knowing whether the FBI agent would have tested positive had he been given the more stringent tests. As is your standard, you simply assume what you cannot prove.

The documents released by Weisberg’s FOIA lawsuit reveal that the FBI arranged for a control test of the validity of the NAA paraffin test of Oswald’s cheek and found the NAA test to be 100% reliable in detecting nitrate traces.

The NAA test did find the presence of both barium and antimony on Oswald's cheek cast. From Appendix 10 of the WCR

"The paraffin casts of Oswald's hands and right cheek were also examined by neutron-activation analyses at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Barium and antimony were found to be present on both surfaces of all the casts and also in residues from the rifle cartridge cases and the revolver cartridge cases. 96 Since barium and antimony were present in both the rifle and the revolver cartridge cases, their presence on the casts were not evidence that Oswald had fired the rifle. Moreover, the presence on the inside surface of the cheek cast of a lesser amount of barium, and only a slightly greater amount of antimony, than was found on the outside surface of the cast rendered it impossible to attach significance to the presence of these elements on the inside surface."

So while Oswald's NAA testing was positive for barium and antimony, the WC put no significance on the test proving Oswald did or did not fire a rifle since such tests can produce false positives. 

Seven marksmen fired a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle once and then three times in rapid succession, and then underwent an NAA paraffin test. In every single case, NAA detected substantial amounts of nitrates in their cheek paraffin molds. In other words, all seven cheek paraffin casts tested positive for nitrates, just as they should have (Weisberg, Post Mortem, 1975, pp. 436-438; see also FBI HQ JFK File, 62–109060–5; FBI HQ Oswald File, 105–82555–94).

So did Oswald's NAA test.

I pointed out these facts to you quite recently. Did you just forget them?

Apparently, you've never read the WCR section on paraffin testing.

This kind of deception and omission is why you have no credibility. People who read our previous exchanges on this issue are going to wonder how you could make these statements with a straight face.

You are the last person on this forum who should be casting aspersions on other people's credibility with the silly things you have claimed are "proof". 

Are you ever going to explain why the three Master-rated riflemen in the WC's rifle test, using the alleged murder weapon itself, utterly failed to duplicate Oswald's alleged shooting performance, even though they were firing at stationary target boards from only 30 feet up?

Why should I explain something that didn't duplicate the conditions Oswald killed JFK from.

Oh my! Can you retroactively read minds or something? How do you know Oswald had a motive? What is your basis for adamantly declaring "Oswald had a motive"? Answer: Your circular reasoning that since you believe Oswald shot JFK, you infer that he therefore must have had a motive.

How do I know Oswald had a motive? His actions speak to that. He made a special trip on Thursday to fetch his rifle. He had made a bag to conceal that rifle when he went to work on Friday morning. He found a secluded spot in the TSBD and stacked boxes by the window to form a rifle rest. All of the actions indicate malice aforethought. That means he had a motive for what he did, even if that motive is unknown.

Ask any detective or prosecutor about the importance of establishing a motive in any complex or strongly contested case.

Important is not the same as necessary. Oswald would have easily been convicted at trial even without his motive ever being established.

This is juvenile silliness. You are embarrassing yourself with such nonsensical illogic. Even Lance Payette has taken you to task for this silly argument.

Lance seems to want to argue for the sake of arguing. When responding to a CT, he wears his LN cap. When responding to an LN, he takes the CT position. He's here just to play word games. He never gave a cogent answer to this conundrum and apparently you don't have one either. You call it a silly argument, yet you cannot point why it is silly.

How does your backward theorizing explain the Lopez-Hardway evidence that Oswald was being impersonated in Mexico City? How does it explain Silvia Odio's account, which was corroborated by her sister Annie?

I don't have to explain things that are not established facts.

So why do you suppose Dallas police chief Jesse Curry told the Dallas Morning News in November 1969 that there was no hard evidence that proved Oswald fired a rifle from the sixth-floor window? Let's read his statement again:

We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand.

I notice you said nothing about Curry's statement.

I never thought Curry was the sharpest knife in the drawer. If the forensic evidence of Oswald's guilt didn't convince him, he couldn't have been too bright. The other possibility is that he was still bitter that the FBI had taken over the case from his department and he was resentful. His bitterness came through when he made the announcement that the FBI was taking charge. It would have been the biggest case he ever handled as police chief and it was taken from him.

Why did Norman Mailer state that he believed he could have gotten Oswald acquitted if he had been Oswald's lawyer in a trial?

Do you seriously consider that evidence of Oswald's innocence? Norman Mailer had a reputation as a blowhard. This is a fine example.

I also notice you said nothing about the fact that the belated DPD claim that Oswald's palmprint had been found on the barrel of the rifle was so suspicious that even the WC doubted the palmprint's origin.

One more claim you have made that isn't true. For someone who is so critical of the WCR, you seem to be quite ignorant of what it has to say. Here is what it said about the palmprint found on the barrel of Oswald's rifle, from Chapter 4, page 123, continuing on to page 124..

"On November 22, however, before surrendering possession of the rifle to the FBI Laboratory, Lieutenant Day of the Dallas Police Department had "lifted" a palmprint from the underside of the gun barrel "near the firing end of the barrel about 3 inches under the woodstock when I took the woodstock loose." 52 "Lifting" a print involves the use of adhesive material to remove the fingerprint powder which adheres to the original print. In this way the powdered impression is actually removed from the object.53 The lifting had been so complete in this case that there was no trace of the print on the rifle itself when it was examined by Latona. Nor was there any indication that the lift had been performed. 54 Day, on the other hand, believed that sufficient traces of the print had been left on the rifle barrel, because he did not release the lifted print until November 26, when he received instructions to send "everything that we had" to the FBI.55 The print arrived in the FBI Laboratory in Washington on November 29, mounted on a card on which Lieutenant Day had written the words "off underside gun barrel near end of grip C2766." 56 The print's positive identity as having been lifted from the rifle was confirmed by FBI Laboratory tests which established that the adhesive material bearing the print also bore impressions of the same irregularities that appeared on the barrel of the rifle. 57

Latona testified that this palmprint was the right palmprint of Lee Harvey Oswald.58 At the request of the Commission, Arthur Mandella, fingerprint expert with the New York City Police Department, conducted an independent examination and also determined that this was the right palmprint of Oswald.59 Latona's findings were also confirmed by Ronald G. Wittmus, another FBI fingerprint

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expert.60 In the opinion of these experts, it was not possible to estimate the time which elapsed between the placing of the print on the rifle and the date of the lift.61

Experts testifying before the Commission agreed that palmprints are as unique as fingerprints for purposes of establishing identification.62 Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled. A palmprint could not be placed on this portion of the rifle, when assembled, because the wooden foregrip covers the barrel at this point.63 The print is additional proof that the rifle was in Oswald's possession."

Nowhere does the WCR express doubt about the authenticity of the palm print.

It has occurred to me that many of the points you raised were addressed by the WCR before anybody raised their objections. That's why I question whether you have much knowledge at all about what is in the WCR. You and your CT cohorts have raised and repeated so many red herring objections to the WCR over the years that I don't think most of you can discern fact from fiction anymore.

I guess it has never occurred to you that the two limo fragments came from the bullet that hit the pavement behind the limousine early in the shooting.

Dear Comrade Griffith,

You've got to be kidding.

-- Tom

PS I think you're sick in the head and should seek help.

An amazingly stupid claim given that a fragmented FMJ bullet was found on the floor of the limo that had two pieces which were positively matched to Oswald's rifle.

One, I guess it has just never occurred to you that the two limo fragments came from the bullet that hit the pavement behind the limousine early in the shooting.

Two, I guess it has also just never occurred to you that the two limo fragments could not have come from the head-shot ammo, given the known, established fact of forensic science that FMJ bullets will never, ever, ever fragment into dozens of tiny fragments, much less do so while also depositing several fragments on the rear outer table of the skull upon entry and while also magically somehow depositing two fragments at the opposite end of the skull with no other fragments or particles anywhere near them.

Three, obviously, you don't care about all the problems with the chain of custody of the bullet fragments allegedly found in the limo and in JFK's body.

Pure BS.

No, it's not. You haven't even read the evidence under discussion. You have no idea what it says. You constantly denounce evidence you haven't even studied.

The only person who said he saw Oswald at the time of the shooting was Howard Brennan and he saw him shooting the rifle.

Brennan's belated, coerced "identification" of Oswald as the man he saw in the window is a joke. Most prosecutors would not dare use such a doubtful, problematic identification in a trial.

There are no witnesses who said they saw Oswald elsewhere at the time of the shooting. There is no one who gives Oswald an alibi.

You must know you're being deceptive here. None of this actually directly addresses what I said. Let me repeat what I wrote:

Multiple eyewitness accounts clearly indicate that Oswald was not on the sixth floor during the shooting. We now know that the WC was aware of strong eyewitness evidence that Oswald did not come down the stairs after the shooting but suppressed it.

Carolyn Arnold saw Oswald on the first or second floor no more than 5-10 minutes before JFK's motorcade was scheduled to drive through Dealey Plaza.

Sarah Stanton's family said Sarah told them she saw and spoke with Oswald on the front steps of the TSBD when the motorcade drove through the plaza.

Victoria Adams, Sandra Styles, and the Stroud memo make it clear that Oswald could not have come down the stairs in time to make it to the second-floor lunchroom to encounter Officer Baker there, proving that Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor when the shots were fired.
 

More BS. The entry wound on the back was higher than the exit wound in the front.

This myth was debunked decades ago. Even the HSCA FPP put the back wound below the throat wound. How can you not know such basic stuff?

The rear JFK clothing holes alone are hard physical evidence that the back wound was well below the throat wound.

If you think otherwise, tell us where you think the shot that hit JFK in the back was fired from, your evidence that supports that shot, and where you think that bullet went.

One, I've already done this, several times.

Two, I've pointed out to you several times that we now know that on the night of the autopsy, the autopsy doctors established for an absolute fact through prolonged and extensive probing that the back wound was shallow and had no exit point, that autopsy technicians around the table could see the end of the probe pushing up against the lining of the chest cavity, and that the first two drafts of the autopsy report said nothing about the throat wound as exit point for the back wound, and that we now know from Dr. Ebersole's released HSCA testimony that Humes knew about the throat wound before the end of the autopsy but then falsely claimed he knew nothing about it until the following morning.

Ignoring these facts won't make them go away.

Three, you need to explain how a bullet fired from the sixth-floor window could have struck JFK at an upward trajectory and tunneled upward from there. Dr. Werner Spitz, one of the FPP majority, admitted in 1975 that the back-wound bullet "penetrated the skin in a sharply upward direction" and that the bullet "traveled upwards within the body." He admitted this in his report to the Rockefeller Commission, adding that there was "no doubt" about it:

There is no doubt that the bullet which struck the President’s back penetrated the skin in a sharply upward direction, as is evident from the width of the abrasion at the lower half of the bullet wound of entrance. The term "sharply upward direction" is used because it is evident from this injury that the missile traveled upwards within the body. (Report of Werner Spitz, 4/24/75, p. 1, Rockefeller Commission papers, see https://websites.umich.edu/~ahaq/correspondence.pdf)

The HSCA FPP likewise noted this exact same fact: that the bullet struck and tunneled at an upward angle. 

Oswald never took a polygraph. Do you just type things that pop into your head?

Is this a serious question? Do you suffer from short-term memory loss? Did you forget our discussion about O'Toole's PSE/VSA analysis of Oswald's statements to newsmen while he was in police custody? How  could you not remember that the PSE/VSA analysis was done from TV footage of Oswald's statements to reporters?

An FBI agent fired Oswald's rifle and then took a paraffin test on his right cheek. He too tested negative, proving the Carcano could be fired without leaving nitrates on the shooter's cheek. This was explained in the WCR. Have you ever read it?

You must know this is both misleading and irrelevant. That agent's paraffin cast was not subjected to the super-sensitive NAA test, and he was not part of the control test that the FBI conducted to determine the accuracy of the Oakridge NAA testing of Oswald's paraffin cast.

The documents released by Weisberg’s FOIA lawsuit reveal that the FBI arranged for a control test of the validity of the NAA paraffin test of Oswald’s cheek and found the NAA test to be 100% reliable in detecting nitrate traces.

Seven marksmen fired a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle once and then three times in rapid succession, and then underwent an NAA paraffin test. In every single case, NAA detected substantial amounts of nitrates in their cheek paraffin molds. In other words, all seven cheek paraffin casts tested positive for nitrates, just as they should have (Weisberg, Post Mortem, 1975, pp. 436-438; see also FBI HQ JFK File, 62–109060–5; FBI HQ Oswald File, 105–82555–94).

I pointed out these facts to you quite recently. Did you just forget them?
 

Repeating a lie thousands of times over decades will not make it come true. Oswald was capable of consistently hitting a target at ranges of 200 yards and more in order to twice qualify by USMC standards. That was without the aid of a scope. When he shot JFK, his longest shot was only 88 yards and was aided by a scope.

This kind of deception and omission is why you have no credibility. People who read our previous exchanges on this issue are going to wonder how you could make these statements with a straight face.

Are you ever going to explain why the three Master-rated riflemen in the WC's rifle test, using the alleged murder weapon itself, utterly failed to duplicate Oswald's alleged shooting performance, even though they were firing at stationary target boards from only 30 feet up?
 

Oswald had a motive. He just didn't tell anybody what it was. The fact that his motive can't be proven doesn't mean he didn't have one. Tell us how that proves Oswald did not shoot JFK in Dallas on 11/22/1963.

Oh my! Can you retroactively read minds or something? How do you know Oswald had a motive? What is your basis for adamantly declaring "Oswald had a motive"? Answer: Your circular reasoning that since you believe Oswald shot JFK, you infer that he therefore must have had a motive.

Ask any detective or prosecutor about the importance of establishing a motive in any complex or strongly contested case.
 

Tell us how those Cubans knew two months in advance that JFK's motorcade would be routed right past Oswald's workplace. It would have been pretty silly to try to frame Oswald without knowing that?

This is juvenile silliness. You are embarrassing yourself with such nonsensical illogic. Even Lance Payette has taken you to task for this silly argument.

How does your backward theorizing explain the Lopez-Hardway evidence that Oswald was being impersonated in Mexico City? How does it explain Silvia Odio's account, which was corroborated by her sister Annie?

Indirect my aching ass. We don't find serious problems with the evidence. Only dedicated Oswald deniers such as yourself reach for any excuse imaginable to dismiss each and every piece of conclusive evidence of Oswald's guilt. The is no universe where the body of evidence could point to Oswald's guilt if he were actually innocent.
Duncan should retitle this thread, 10 Reasons to Laugh at Michael T. Griffith. Not that we needed more reasons to do that.

So why do you suppose Dallas police chief Jesse Curry told the Dallas Morning News in November 1969 that there was no hard evidence that proved Oswald fired a rifle from the sixth-floor window? Let's read his statement again:

We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand.

I notice you said nothing about Curry's statement.

Why did Norman Mailer state that he believed he could have gotten Oswald acquitted if he had been Oswald's lawyer in a trial?

I also notice you said nothing about the fact that the belated DPD claim that Oswald's palmprint had been found on the barrel of the rifle was so suspicious that even the WC doubted the palmprint's origin. 

A weapon was fired on Elm street, but smell by GK was from a distraction fire cracker tossed to distract from real shooters. Smoke, noise but no weapon.

Silly

MG:Below are some additional problems with the autopsy photos and skull x-rays. I didn't list them in the OP because I didn't want the OP to turn into a book. I feared the OP was already getting a bit long.

-- The lateral skull x-rays show a physically impossible white patch in the lower half of the right-rear part of the skull. The patch's optical-density (OD) measurements are almost the same as those of the petrous bone, which is a physical impossibility. According to the OD measurements of the white patch, the skull bone in this location extends nearly to the other side of the skull, which is a physical impossibility.

-- Dr. Michael Chesser examined and took OD measurements of a pre-mortem JFK skull x-ray at the Kennedy Library in Boston in order to provide a  control for the OD readings of the white patch. He saw nothing resembling the white patch on the pre-mortem skull x-ray, and his OD measurements of the pre-mortem x-ray showed far less density than the OD measurements of the white patch on the lateral autopsy skull x-rays.

-- Another fact that proves the autopsy skull x-rays have been altered is the fact that the white patch on the lateral skull x-rays is nowhere to be seen on the AP skull x-ray. If the white patch had been on the original lateral x-rays, it would be on the AP x-ray as well--indeed, it would very obvious and easy to see on the AP x-ray. But, there is no trace of it on the extant AP x-ray. This is a physical impossibility, as Dr. David Mantik has explained:

It should also be emphasized that, although this white patch is obvious on both lateral skull X-rays, it is nowhere to be seen on the AP (frontal) skull X-ray. In the physical universe that we know, this is impossible. (JFK Assassination Paradoxes, 2022, p. 9)

-- Additional clear physical proof that the autopsy skull x-rays are not the originals is the fact that on the lateral x-ray of the neck area there is a T-shaped symbol etched onto the x-ray, but there is no emulsion missing from the x-ray at this spot on either side of the film, proving this x-ray is a copy and not an original.

Custer, the autopsy x-ray technician, said he made various marks on the x-rays for identification purposes. When you etch a symbol or letter into x-ray film, naturally there will be emulsion missing from the film at that location on that side of the film. However, there is no emulsion missing from either side of the film of this lateral x-ray, which is hard physical proof that the x-ray is a copy and not an original.

Dr. Mantik made this historic discovery during his final viewing of the autopsy materials at the National Archives. Dr. Michael Chesser confirmed the fact that no emulsion is missing from either side of the x-ray film when he examined the autopsy materials at the National Archives. Dr. Mantik:

The T-shaped inscription must have been etched into the emulsion on the original (never-released) lateral X-ray film. Such etching is easy to do, e.g., by using a fingernail, metal file, or nail. The missing emulsion would have been easy to detect, especially while viewing the surface at an angle to a light source. Inspection of the other side would clearly have shown no missing emulsion (because the etching was only done on one side of the double emulsion film). Realizing this, during my final visit to the Archives (April 12, 2001), I scrutinized these emulsions very carefully.

I first asked Steve Tilley, the JFK archivist, to remove the X-ray film from its transparent plastic sheath so that I could view the surfaces directly. He did so. And then, after viewing at multiple angles, I recognized that no emulsion was missing from either side of the film! The implication was inescapable: this could only be a copy film—not an original. That is because the copy film would preserve the image of the T-shaped inscription, but it would also retain its own emulsion (on both sides) -- since no one had scraped emulsion off either side of this copy film. . . .

Once I recognized that this lateral X-ray film was a forgery, I had a shocking insight. None of the three extant JFK skull X-ray films is an original—all three must be copies. In this case, it means that all three are altered images. Most likely, all of the original skull X-ray films (of five to six total) had to be destroyed because they contained forensic proof that Oswald was not the sole assassin.

In Chesser’s review (at the 2015 JFK Lancer Conference), he confirmed my observations of the T-shaped inscription:

"Dr. Mantik described emulsion over the T-shaped wax mark, which was attributed to Ed Reed marking the film. I agree with him that the surface of the film appeared smooth, when viewed at eye level."

Like me, Dr. Chesser saw that emulsion was fully present on both sides of this lateral X-ray film, thus leaving no doubt that the film is a duplicate. (The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis,, 2024, pp. 201-203)

-- In September 1977, shortly before the HSCA publicly displayed the JFK autopsy x-rays for the first time, Dr. Russell Morgan, the radiologist on the Clark Panel, said he was no longer so certain that the bullet that hit JFK’s head was an FMJ bullet, and suggested that the high fragment trail might be more consistent with a frangible bullet than with an FMJ bullet because the fragmentation of the bullet was so severe. (The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis,, p. 206)

Remember that it was Dr. Morgan who told Howard Donahue that the Clark Panel believed the 6.5 mm object in the rear outer table of the skull was a ricochet fragment.

-- Dr. Chesser and Dr. Mantik, among others, have noted that the high fragment trail expands from front to back, not back to front, which indicates the bullet struck the front of the head, since fragment trails naturally tend to expand in skulls after penetration.

Dr. Chesser and Dr. Mantik have also noted that the larger fragments of the high fragment trail are at the end of the trail's expansion, and that the science of ballistics tells us that in a group of bullet fragments the larger fragments will travel farther from the entry point. Dr. Chesser explains this in conjunction with his identification of a right-front entry wound on the skull x-rays:

The most important finding here is the proximity of these tiny metallic fragments to this bone defect. This location, on the intracranial side of the bony defect, is highly suggestive of an entry wound. One of the principles of skull ballistics is that the largest fragments travel the furthest from the entry site, with the smallest fragments traveling the least distance, and that is exactly what is seen on this right lateral skull x-ray. (“The Application of Forensic Principles for the Analysis of the Autopsy Skull X-Rays of President Kennedy and a Review of Brain Photographs,” November 27, 2017, https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/the-application-of-forensic-principles-for-the-analysis-of-the-autopsy-skull-x-rays-of-president-kennedy-and-a-review-of-the-brain-photographs)

Dr. Mantik adds,

When you look at the x-rays that are stored at the archives now, on the lateral x-ray there is a fragment trail. It actually expands from front to back. . . .

Now why is that important? Well, what we know is that the larger bullet fragments travel farther, whereas the smaller ones tend to stay near the entry site. That’s what we see on these X-rays. In other words, we can reasonably interpret these as being consistent with a frontal bullet, but being radically inconsistent with a posterior bullet. (The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis,, p. 193)

JC:
Nobody cares what an amateur like you thinks about the autopsy evidence, especially given that you've seen so little of it.

In other words, your response to all the forensic, radiologic, and ballistics evidence discussed by Dr. Mantik, Dr. Chesser, and Dr. Morgan is to once again fall back on your dodge that I am merely presenting my own baseless opinions.

It is worth quoting what real medical experts have said about Dr. Mantik's OD research on the JFK autopsy skull x-rays.

Dr. Greg Henkelmann, himself a radiation oncologist and physicist:

Dr. Mantik’s optical density analysis is the single most important piece of scientific evidence in the JFK assassination. Unlike other evidence, optical density data are as “theory free” as possible, as this data deals only with physical measurements. To reject alteration of the JFK skull X-rays is to reject basic physics and radiology. Dr. Mantik has a PhD in physics and has practiced radiation oncology for nearly 40 years; he is thus eminently qualified in both physics and radiology. His unusual background exposes the government-sponsored coverup that has deceived Americans into believing that Oswald was a “lone wolf.” It is now past time to be crying wolf.(In Mantik, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis, p. 157)

Dr. William Keough, a medical physicist at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre in Scotland:

His [Mantik’s] logical and scientific approach refutes the many inconsistencies that officials have promulgated as fact since the 22nd of November 1963. From the 6.5 mm metallic fragment in the AP autopsy X-ray to the “black rectangle” patch on the back of President Kennedy’s skull identified in the copy of the Zapruder film, to name a few.... Although the majority of Americans still do not believe the Warren Commissions’ fairy tale, only a limited number of people will be in a position to evaluate the overwhelming scientific and medical evidence that supports a different narrative. (In Mantik, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis, pp. 157-158)

Dr. Michael Chesser, a board-certified neurologist:

I viewed the original autopsy skull X-rays at the archives this year [2015] and I confirmed his [Dr. Mantik’s] optical density readings of the lateral skull film, which support his conclusion that there was manipulation. Hopefully there will come a time when better copies of the autopsy x-rays and photographs will be made available for review by a wider audience and the evidence will speak for itself. I applaud Dr. David Mantik for his courage in reporting the truth. . . .

The bright object [in the AP JFK autopsy X-ray] measures 6.5 mm in diameter, and there is no counterpart found on the lateral image. There was no discussion of this in the Warren Commission report, and no official x-ray interpretation was included in the report. No bullet fragment of this size was removed at the time of the autopsy. Within the outline of this bright object are the shapes of two fragments. I agree with Dr. David Mantik that the film was copied, and this bright object was added to the image. (In Mantik, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis, pp. 158-159)

MG:If so, why do you suppose the lone-gunman view is rejected by 2/3 to 3/4 of the Western world? It's not like the lone-gunman view has suffered from a lack of cheerleading and advocacy by many legacy news outlets. Most people just don't buy what you're selling.

JC: I'd estimate the 90+% of those people are ignorant of the evidence of Oswald's guilt. . . .

LOL! That's the same thing that Moon-landing deniers, 9/11 Truthers, Holocaust deniers, and Flat Earthers say about the fact that most people reject their theories. "Very few people know the facts about the evidence for our views!"

and probably got most of their knowledge from Oliver Stone's @&%$ movie.

More comedy. So a movie made in 1991 is the reason your view on the JFK case is rejected by 2/3 to 3/4 of the Western world!

This is similar to the lame excuse that 9/11 Truthers, Moon-landing deniers, etc., offer to explain why most people don't buy their theories. They complain that news outlets and TV networks haven't given their views a fair hearing.

Yet, you guys certainly can't claim that your version of the JFK case has not received plenty of favorable coverage, and often outright advocacy, by legacy news outlets, but most people still don't buy what you're selling.