Also a good reminder as to the extent to which the JKFA research community comprises mostly OLD - and getting OLDER all the time - white guys. Does anyone seriously think a roomful of doddering old white guys is going to be sitting around obsessing over this stuff 85 years from now? Nah, cartoon JFKs will be hawking products on TV along with cartoon George Washingtons and cartoon Abe Lincolns (but hopefully not cartoon Oswalds or cartoon Trumps; yes, I know, we already have a cartoon Trump
).
As I got into the Pitzer/David stuff, this thought occurred to me: While I find the elaborate Lifton/Horne-type body alteration scenarios absurd, it is not inconceivable to me that the mandate to pin the JFKA on Oswald as the lone assassin could have been firmly in place by the night of the autopsy and that basic steps to eliminate body and bullet evidence of another gunman could have been undertaken. This dovetails with my little epiphany that I've previously credited to Larry Hancock -
i.e., the cover-up was not necessarily part and parcel of the assassination itself. The evidence would have been altered
not "because we were part of a ridiculous conspiracy to pin the JFKA on Oswald but stupidly had gunmen at the front and/or using different ammunition, so now we need to alter the body" but rather "regardless of what the JFKA was all about, we are operating under a mandate that Oswald must be portrayed as a lone assassin for national security reasons." I don't say it's likely, but it's far more likely than the Lifton/Horne-type stuff.
