A SERIES OF QUOTES PERTAINING TO THE NOVEMBER 22, 1963, ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY BEGINS HERE:
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"Not ONE SPECK of any bullets, bullet fragments, or bullet shells OTHER THAN THOSE CONCLUSIVELY FROM OR CONSISTENT WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S MANNLICHER-CARCANO RIFLE were discovered anywhere in Dealey Plaza, the limousine, the Texas School Book Depository, Parkland Hospital, or in the victims.
"This fact, to me, is simply impossible for conspiracy advocates to overcome, IF there had been (as some claim) up to three gunmen and 4 to 10 shots fired in Dealey Plaza on November 22nd, 1963.
"HOW could every single scrap of ballistics evidence be completely eradicated from the two (or more) non-Oswald weapons almost immediately after the event? Couldn't have been accomplished by even Kreskin!" -- David Von Pein; July 2003
"The Warren Commission critics and conspiracy theorists have succeeded in transforming a case very simple and obvious at its core-- Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone--into its present form of the most complex murder case, by far, in world history.
"Refusing to accept the plain truth, and dedicating their existence for over forty years to convincing the American public of the truth of their own charges, the critics have journeyed to the outer margins of their imaginations. Along the way, they have split hairs and then proceeded to split the split hairs, drawn far-fetched and wholly unreasonable inferences from known facts, and literally invented bogus facts from the grist of rumor and speculation.
"With over 18,000 pages of small print in the 27 Warren Commission volumes alone, and many millions of pages of FBI and CIA documents, any researcher worth his salt can find a sentence here or there to support any ludicrous conspiracy theory he might have. And that, of course, is precisely what the conspiracy community has done." -- Vincent T. Bugliosi; Page xxvi; "Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy" (c.2007)
"Only a kook would use the time estimates to attempt to debunk the KNOWN FACT (by way of OTHER things) that Lee Harvey Oswald killed J.D. Tippit. But I suppose many of the conspiracy-hungry people of the world figure it's their duty to be kooks and ignore the overriding "Oswald's Guilty" evidence." -- David Von Pein; August 15, 2006
"Not the smallest speck of evidence has ever surfaced that any of the conspiracy community's favorite groups (CIA, mob, etc.) was involved, in any way, in the assassination. Not only the Warren Commission, but the HSCA came to the same conclusion.
"But conspiracy theorists, as suspicious as a cat in a new home, find occurrences and events everywhere that feed their suspicions and their already strong predilection to believe that the official version is wrong." -- Vincent Bugliosi; Page xlii; "Reclaiming History" (c. 2007)
"You {a CT-Kook} think that one piece outweighs all the other evidence. The WC didn't. Their opinion mattered, as they were tapped to investigate this matter. The opinions of kooks are immaterial." -- Bud; October 27, 2005
"Most of Oswald's lies within his large pack of lies only surfaced when the questions got close to the topic of his MC rifle and how he obtained it (or anything about Oswald's precise whereabouts at 12:30 PM and approx. 1:14 PM on November 22nd).
"Other peripheral topics, like lawyers, didn't require any bald- faced falsehoods from Oswald's mouth. Why would they? But when it came down to the Brass Tacks of the events of 11/22/63, Oswald was a literal 'Lying Machine'.....
The rifle. The two murders. Alek Hidell. Having lunch with "Junior". The backyard photos. "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir." "I was just going to the picture show." (Paraphrased.) "Bill Shelley said to go home." (Paraphrased.)
And gobs more." -- David Von Pein; September 16, 2006
"Several factors make it clear that Kennedy and Connally WERE struck by the same bullet. There's absolutely no evidence of the existence of any separate bullet hitting Connally." -- Vincent Bugliosi; 1986
"Would it matter to kooks if the deformation of {the} bullet in the test {performed in the 2004 TV Special, "JFK: Beyond The Magic Bullet"} looked exactly like CE399? They'd find some reason to disregard it. The people conducting the tests did a fair job of replicating the wounds, though.
"Perhaps you can give a better explanation for them, maybe tell what the bullet that struck Connally hit that caused it to enter his back sideways if it didn't hit Kennedy first.
"Even when it is painstakingly shown how this thing happened, you kooks reject it, opting instead to cling to this fantasy you've nourished." -- Bud; October 21, 2005
"And the SBT, in addition to being grounded in the known evidence surrounding the case, is also based on a whole lot of regular, ordinary common sense as well. No "Anti-SBT" scenario has ever come close to matching the Warren Commission's Single-Bullet Conclusion in the "Evidence" department. Nor has any alternate theory come close to equalling the SBT in the "Reasonable", "Workable", "Believable", and "Common Sense" categories as well.
"The Single-Bullet Theory FITS. The Single-Bullet Theory WORKS. The Single-Bullet Theory is RIGHT." -- David Von Pein; March 2007
"You call it the theory; I call it the conclusion; it was a theory until we found the facts; that's why I refer to it as the Single-Bullet Conclusion." -- Arlen Specter; 1965
"While one of the pieces of physical evidence could conceivably have been faked by an expert, there is no possibility that an expert, or team of super-experts, could have fabricated the perfectly coordinated whole.
"This brings to mind the recurrent theme in most conspiracy books. {I.E.:} All the officials alternate between the role of "Keystone Kops", with the inability to recognize the implications of the most elementary evidence, and "Evil Geniuses", with superhuman abilities to fake physical evidence that is in complete agreement with all the other faked evidence." -- Larry M. Sturdivan; Page 246 of "The JFK Myths" (c.2005)
"This bullet {a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano missile like CE399} can penetrate four feet of solid wood or three pine telephone poles side by side and come out looking completely undeformed.
"On the other hand, if it is fired into the thick bone of the back of a human skull, the jacket and core of the bullet will separate {see top link below for verifiable proof of this}, releasing a myriad of additional fragments of many different sizes." -- Dr. John K. Lattimer; Page 277 of "Kennedy And Lincoln: Medical And Ballistic Comparisons Of Their Assassinations" (c.1980)
"The conspiracy theorists have converted Katzenbach's and Warren's desire to squelch RUMORS that had no basis in fact into Katzenbach's and Warren's desire to suppress the FACTS of the assassination.
"But how could Katzenbach and Warren have known way back then that they had to spell out that ONLY false rumors, rumors without a stitch of evidence to support them, had to be squelched for the benefit of the American public?
"How could they have known back then that there would actually be people like Mark Lane who would accuse men like Warren, Gerald Ford, John Cooper, and so on...of getting in a room and all deciding to deliberately suppress, or not even look for, evidence of a conspiracy to murder the president...or that there would be intelligent, rational, and sensible people of the considerable stature of Michael Beschloss and Evan Thomas who would decide to give their good minds a rest and actually buy into this nonsense?" -- Vincent Bugliosi; Pages 367-368 of "Reclaiming History" (c.2007)
"When kooks look at the evidence, anything involving Oz's culpability is "almost, but not quite". He can almost make this shot, but not quite. He can almost make it downstairs from the 6th floor in time to encounter Baker, but not quite. He can almost make it to 10th & Patton from the boardinghouse in time to shoot Tippit, but not quite. So close, but yet so far, as kooks judge things." -- Bud; June 18, 2006
"After assessing the facts in the Tippit case, any person who can state the blatant falsehood that the evidence surrounding Oswald's guilt in the Tippit crime is weak or inconclusive (as many CTers often do claim) is a person who obviously WANTS to have Oswald innocent of killing Officer J.D. Tippit (no matter how much evidence exists to say he was guilty)." -- David Von Pein; April 7, 2006
"With respect to the second shot fired in Dealey Plaza, the "single-bullet THEORY" is an obvious misnomer. Though in its incipient stages it was but a theory, the indisputable evidence is that it is now a proven FACT, a wholly supported conclusion. .... And no sensible mind that is also informed can plausibly make the case that the bullet that struck President Kennedy in the upper right part of his back did not go on to hit Governor Connally." -- Vincent Bugliosi; Pages 489-490 of "Reclaiming History" (c.2007)
"Correcting kooks is a full time job that not many are willing to take on. I'm not, that's for sure. .... Ultimately, kooks will believe what they want to believe." -- Bud; January 15, 2006
"Question --- How many brain-dead plotters does it take to rub out just one simple-minded patsy before the bastard can talk?? Answer --- A good-sized number, per the CT-Kooks. {Marrion} Baker failed, {Gerald} Hill failed, Ruby failed on his first attempt (probably).
"The Patsy Crew finally had to go with Plan 9 From Kooksville, and kill the bum in the police station on LIVE TELEVISION. THAT did the cover-up a lot of good, huh?" -- David Von Pein; February 19, 2007
JOHNNY CARSON -- "Now, you say 'the fact remains' again....as if it IS a fact. You keep saying 'we know' and 'the fact is'....but that's not a fact, is it?"
JIM GARRISON -- "Yes."
JOHNNY CARSON -- "What makes it a fact? Because you say so?"
-- Via Johnny Carson's interview with Jim Garrison on "The Tonight Show" (NBC-TV)(January 31, 1968)
JOSEPH BALL -- "Did you say anything to him {Lee Harvey Oswald} about an attorney the first time you talked to him?"
CAPTAIN J. WILL FRITZ (DPD) -- "Yes, sir; the first time. He asked about an attorney, and I told him he certainly could have an attorney any time he wanted it. I told him he could have an attorney any time he liked, any attorney he wanted. I told him, I said, we will do it. He said he wanted an attorney in New York. And he gave me his name, Mr. Abt, and he said that is who he wanted, and I told him he could have anyone he liked." ....
MR. BALL -- "Was there anything said about calling him on the telephone?"
CAPT. FRITZ -- "A little bit later."
MR. BALL -- "Not that time?"
CAPT. FRITZ -- "Not that minute. A little bit later, he asked something else about an attorney and I said, "Did you call an attorney?" And he said, "You know I can't use the telephone." And I said, "Yes, you can; anybody can use a telephone." So, I told them to be sure to let him use a telephone and the next time I talked to him he thanked me for that, so I presume he called."
"It's my very firm belief--I'm very, very confident--that no reasonable, rational person --- and let's underline those words 'reasonable' and 'rational' --- no reasonable, rational person can possibly read this book {"Reclaiming History"} without being satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone." -- Vincent Bugliosi; April 30, 2007
"We have shown, by carefully-controlled experiments, that a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle CAN be fired more rapidly and accurately than the {Warren} Commission believed.
"Now these points strengthen the Warren Report's basic finding. They make it MORE likely that Oswald shot the President. They significantly weaken a central contention of the critics....their contention that Oswald could NOT have done it because he did not have enough time to fire.
"It is now reasonable to assume that the first shot, fired through a tree, missed its mark....and that it was this shot that Governor Connally heard. The Governor has insisted all along that he was not struck by the first shot. It now appears he was correct. Now we can answer all our secondary questions ---
"Did Oswald own a rifle? .... He did.
"Did Oswald take a rifle to the Book Depository Building? .... He did.
"Where was Oswald when the shots were fired? .... In the building, on the sixth floor.
"Was Oswald's rifle fired from the building? .... It was.
"How many shots were fired? .... Three.
"How fast could Oswald's rifle be fired? .... Fast enough.
"What was the time span of the shots? .... Seven or eight seconds.
"Did Lee Harvey Oswald shoot President Kennedy? .... CBS News concludes that he did." -- Walter Cronkite; CBS News; Via the 1967 TV Special, "A CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report"
"Any assassins who would have needed only Oswald fingered for the two murders on 11/22/63 must have all (to a man!) been under the influence of large quantities of hallucinogenic drugs when they decided to place a variety of different shooters throughout Dealey Plaza (and on 10th Street for Tippit's killing), as many CTers advocate.
"And these powerful drugs they must have been on I guess must have had a crazy type of "Miracles Are Possible" effect on all of the shooters and behind-the-scenes schemers -- because only a "miracle" could have rescued such an inane multi-shooter "Patsy" plan from certain failure on that 22nd day of November back in '63." -- David Von Pein; April 7, 2006
