JFK Assassination Forum

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Yes, Brennan most likely only saw the TSBD6 sniper, but could not make an ID.

However, Amos Euins also said he saw a sniper in the TSBD6 window, but could not make an ID.

There were three loud gunshots heard inside the TSBD, and heard by multiple witnesses, during the JFKA.

LHO, as an identifiable person, was invisible during the JFKA, although he is the prime suspect as the TSBD6 shooter.

My take: Someone fired a rifle in the direction of the JFK limo from the TSBD6 sniper window, during the JFKA.

Was the someone LHO? Likely, but not beyond reasonable doubt. He might have had an ancillary role to the JFKA, or been an unwitting participant.

The wound patterns to JFK and Gov. JBC seem to imply a second shooter as well, perhaps using a silencer.

The bid to completely exonerate LHO from the JFKA has always struck me as a case of JFKA community ideologues at work. The work of HSCA backed up a lot of the evidence relied upon by the WC.

Nor have LHO's links to G2 or the KGB been explored enough, in part as they cannot be, due to the fact that Moscow and Havana control G2 and KGB files.

Dear Comrade Griffith,

Do you think Brennan didn't see anyone at all, or he did and the evil, evil Deep State bad guys forced him to say it was Oswald?

-- Tom

Fame seeker most likely. People will say or do anything for attention.

   Personally, I believe the absent turn onto Elm St also has to do with the total time the JFK Limo was physically on Elm St. I believe when making that (L) turn, driver Greer was confused as to whether he was supposed to make a lazy (L) turn and proceed down the Elm St Ext, or make a hard (L) and go down Elm St. (There are rumors of the JFK Limo almost jumping/bumping the curb/Island). The longer the JFK Limo is physically on Elm St, then slows down the calculated avg MPH of the car while it was moving down Elm St. And, the calculated MPH of that car is entirely based on the Current Zapruder Film and its' 18+ frames per second. The slowing of the avg MPH of the JFK Limo makes obvious that it was down to a crawl at the minimum. This then validates the "rolling STOP" cited by many eyewitnesses including DPD Motorcycle Officer Hargis. (This "rolling stop" being totally ABSENT from the Current Zapruder Film). Photog Wiegman capturing the JFK Limo going under the Triple Underpass AFTER he jumped out of Camera Car #1, and then ran down Elm St, makes it clear that the JFK Limo was on Elm St longer than the Current Zapruder Film leads us to believe. There is no perfect crime. Wiegman's filming of the JFK Limo going under the Triple Underpass revealed that the JFK Limo was on Elm St much longer than the Current Zapruder Film purposely misleads us to believe.     

Last month ABC aired a documentary on the JFK case titled Truth and Lies: Who Killed JFK?. In advertisements for the program, ABC said the documentary would present “new information” on the case. Sadly, the documentary repeats myths that were debunked years ago, among other errors, and ignores the historic disclosures and developments about the case that have occurred since the 1990s.

Just a few examples of the myths and errors in Truth and Lies:

-- Incredibly, the documentary relies on Howard Brennan’s discredited testimony to convict Oswald. Former HSCA chief counsel G. Robert Blakey has noted that the Select Committee ignored Brennan’s waffling identification of Oswald as the sixth-floor shooter because they did not believe he could have identified anyone from where he was standing.

We now know that even the WC attorney who dealt with Brennan, Joseph Ball, doubted Brennan’s story, and that during a WC reenactment Brennan struggled to identify a person in the window. Ball also noted that Brennan claimed the sixth-floor shooter was standing while firing but that this was impossible because photos showed the window was only half open. 

-- The documentary seeks to excuse the severely flawed JFK autopsy by repeating the myth that the three autopsy doctors were rushed because of Bobby Kennedy. One of the autopsy doctors, Dr. J. Thornton Boswell, debunked this myth in his ARRB testimony. Boswell noted that he and the other doctors were not rushed and were not in any hurry. Indeed, the autopsy took about four hours.

Furthermore, the commander of Bethesda Naval Hospital, Admiral Galloway, said no orders were coming into the autopsy room from the outside. Additionally, in the autopsy authorization form, Bobby Kennedy listed no restrictions on the autopsy—he left blank the “restrictions” field on the form.

-- The documentary includes discredited researcher Dale Myers, a darling of the pro-WC camp, making the hilarious claim that the autopsy was not botched and that the autopsy doctors were not amateurs. Myers says, “None of that is true.” Two of the three autopsy doctors (Humes and Boswell) were not forensic pathologists and had never done an autopsy on a gunshot wound victim.

Dr. Finck was a forensic pathologist with considerable experience in gunshot-wound cases, but he was called to the autopsy after it was well underway, was denied permission to examine JFK’s clothing, was not allowed to dissect the back wound to definitively establish its wound path, and was excluded from the second examination of the brain. None other than Dr. Michael Baden, the former head of the HSCA’s forensic pathology panel, said the JFK autopsy was “bungled.”

Is Myers not aware that many of his fellow lone-gunman theorists claim that the autopsy doctors mislocated the rear head entry wound by an astonishing 4 inches, even though they had the hairline, the EOP, and the lambda as reference points? Is Myers not aware that if one believes the autopsy skull x-rays are unaltered, one must believe that the autopsy doctors mislocated the fragment trail by at least 2 inches, and grossly misdescribed its starting and ending points?

-- The documentary excuses Dr. Humes for burning his autopsy notes by repeating Humes’s specious story that he burned the notes because JFK’s blood was on them and he didn’t want to risk seeing them become a gruesome souvenir. The documentary fails to mention the fact that we learned in 1998 that Humes also burned the first draft of the autopsy report, which could not have had any blood on it because it was drafted after the autopsy. The program also fails to mention that Humes did not burn the autopsy face sheet, even though it had blood on it.

Speaking of the autopsy report, we now know that the first two drafts of the autopsy report said nothing about the throat wound being an exit point for the back wound.

-- At some points, Truth and Lies descends into outright silliness. The program brushes aside the Dallas Police Department’s (DPD’s) stunning failure to record any of Oswald’s interrogations, which spanned 12 hours over two days, with the claim that the DPD did not have a tape recorder! The documentary fails to explain why the DPD did not even have a stenographer record at least some of the interrogations.

-- The documentary contends that Officer J. D. Tippit allegedly stopped Oswald on the basis of the police-broadcasted Sawyer/Brennan description of the sixth-floor shooter. The police broadcast said the assassin was “about 30, 5’10”, 165 pounds.” Oswald was 24, 5’9”, and weighed 131 pounds. Thus, Oswald was six years younger, 1 inch shorter, and 34 pounds lighter than the suspect described in the police broadcast.

Needless to say, the ABC program says nothing about the evidence that Tippit was not supposed to be in the Oak Cliff area in the first place and had no valid reason for being there.

-- Embarrassingly but not surprisingly, the documentary defends the thoroughly debunked single-bullet theory (SBT). Among many other omissions, the program fails to mention that every single SBT wound ballistics test ever done has either flatly contradicted the theory’s absurd claims or failed to include the conditions required to validate those claims.

These are just a few of the myths and errors in the ABC documentary. For a more detailed critique of the documentary, see James DiEugenio’s three-part review of the program:

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/truth-and-lies-who-killed-jfk-part-1-1676

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/truth-and-lies-who-killed-jfk-part-2

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/truth-and-lies-who-killed-jfk-part-3
 

A question for John M. Newman, author of "Uncovering Popov's Mole"

Given the fact that GRU Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov allegedly told his case officer, probable mole George Kisevalter, about the U-2 leak in April of 1958, is it realistic that probable mole Solie in the Office of Security would take seventeen months to choose U-2 radar operator Oswald and prepare him to go to Moscow as an ostensible "dangle" in a planned-to-fail hunt -- in the wrong part of the CIA -- for the source of that leak (Solie)?

Was it really necessary for Oswald to learn Russian before he walked into Consul Snyder's office, say he wanted to renounce his American citizenship and tell him (and the microphones in the walls) that he planned to commit espionage against the US?