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Online Mitch Todd

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #216 on: September 07, 2018, 02:31:18 AM »
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HistoryMatters does the entire set on line-----
 It should all be available on DVD by now but I haven't seen it.
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/hsca/contents_hsca_vols.htm
HM has the whole thing. Mcadams site has a text version that's easier to search:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/m_j_russ/hsc.htm

Use both; each is useful in its own way.

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
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Online Mitch Todd

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #217 on: September 07, 2018, 03:09:52 AM »
Why so combative?  How should I know, though?  Ask Walker.

I feel feistier some days than others. What can I say?

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #218 on: September 07, 2018, 06:40:44 PM »
Didn't have to. They were televised and videotaped. There used to be guys who'd sell you the whole thing on VHS, and I'll bet you can find the bulk of the hearings (and maybe everything) if you look long enough on Youtube. You don't have to do that, though. The hearings were also transcribed and printed as the first five volumes of the HSCA set. You can search those if you wish. I've never found where they showed CE573 (also "walker bullet," etc) or a photo of it.

Do they make any mention of showing any bullet?

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Offline John Iacoletti

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #219 on: September 07, 2018, 06:42:38 PM »
If you can find a ballistics expert who can look at the data and differ, please fell free...

There's no need to differ.  Inconclusive is inconclusive.

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #220 on: September 07, 2018, 06:46:01 PM »
I'm saying that he couldn't have seen CE573 on the televised HSCA hearings  ("The bullet used and pictured on the TV by US Senate G. Robert Blakey
Committee on Assassinations") as his letter to the Attorney General claimed. Given that he uses "any unfired bullet in shape or form" as a reference in the same letter, I'd say he saw CE399 and assumed it was the letter fired at him.

That's a fine speculation, but is there any evidence to support it?

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Offline John Iacoletti

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #221 on: September 07, 2018, 06:47:29 PM »
HistoryMatters does the entire set on line-----
 It should all be available on DVD by now but I haven't seen it.
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/hsca/contents_hsca_vols.htm

Do we know whether or not these are complete transcripts of all the hearings that occurred, and exactly what was televised?

Offline Jerry Freeman

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #222 on: September 07, 2018, 06:53:57 PM »
Do we know whether or not these are complete transcripts..
Most likely. I audio recorded a lot of the stuff on 1/4" two track reel to reel and still have them.

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Offline Ray Mitcham

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #223 on: September 07, 2018, 07:08:21 PM »
You haven't "proven" anything.  The map and events speak for themselves. Elm Street should have been used.

It is quite laughable that you think that you have proven otherwise.

Oh, but I did, grasshopper.
Let me bring back CE2113.

Notice that Elm, Main, and Commerce (in fact, most of the streets in the old CDB) are shown as being wider that either the North- and South-bound carriageways of I-35E, and the Stemmons carriageways are shown as no wider than their entry/exit ramps. None of that was true. That's how we know that the map is a schematic rather than a to-scale representation of downtown streets. If you can't trust it to show that 35E was wider than Elm, Main, or Commerce, then you can't rely on it to claim Elm was as wide as Main.

Here's a photo of Dallas taken in the 50s. Seems Elm St and Main St are of similar widths, but to my eye, Elm Street looking wider.
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