Lying The Mark Lane Way # 9 (RTJ Book)

[timstter]

Hi All,

Say, continuing on with Lane's DISGRACEFUL handling of the WC shooting
tests, we find yet MORE *lying by omission* (and otherwise) by him on
this matter.

In fact, Lane's Chapter 9, entitled The Rifle Test, beginning on page
121, is a veritable TREASURE TROVE of dishonest writing and
mishandling of the facts.

One example among many; Lane keeps harping on about the quasi *fact*
that the three experts had an ENLARGED target to shoot at and this was
somehow giving them an ADVANTAGE Oswald never had:

QUOTE ON (from page 126 of RTJ):

The Commission concluded that the President was hit in the head and
neck, thereby defining the target area, but the three experts had a
considerably larger target simulating the upper portion of the body,
including the head and neck.

QUOTE OFF

and

QUOTE ON (from page 127 of RTJ):

Not one of them struck the enlarged head or neck on the target even
once,

QUOTE OFF

In fact the three shooters simply had a STANDARD head-and-shoulders
silhouettes target to shoot at as this excerpt from the testimony of
Mr Simmons, a man quoted at length by Lane in the chapter in question
demonstrates:

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh3/html/WC_Vol3_0227a.htm

Oswald, looking out of the TSBD would ALSO have had a target view of
head and shoulders (JFK's), as demonstrated in well-known Secret
Service re-enactment photos.

Once again Lane has simply *lied by omission* in his book Rush To
Judgment. In fact, I think that that is a charitable assessment.

Regards,

Tim Brennan
Sydney, Australia
*Newsgroup(s) Commentator*

*...NOT ONE of the three experts was able to strike the head or the
neck of the target EVEN ONCE.* (Emphasis added).
Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment, page 129, footnoted as: XVII 261-262.

And yet here IS WC XVII 261-262, showing hits to the head...
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0144a.htm

[Anthony Marsh]

On 7/7/2012 6:04 PM, timstter wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Say, continuing on with Lane's DISGRACEFUL handling of the WC shooting
> tests, we find yet MORE *lying by omission* (and otherwise) by him on
> this matter.
>
> In fact, Lane's Chapter 9, entitled The Rifle Test, beginning on page
> 121, is a veritable TREASURE TROVE of dishonest writing and
> mishandling of the facts.
>
> One example among many; Lane keeps harping on about the quasi *fact*
> that the three experts had an ENLARGED target to shoot at and this was
> somehow giving them an ADVANTAGE Oswald never had:
>

They had a big piece of plywood to shoot at and their only goal was to
hit the plywood somewhere.