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Anthony Marsh says I can't do this ;-)
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On 10/5/2012 4:21 PM, John Reagor King wrote:
> I call everyone to notice that Mr. Marsh has still not even *tried* to
> *prove* me to be even slightly incorrect on a single one of my claims that
> I have made in this thread. He also, yet again, has utterly failed to
I have quoted them thousands of times, but every time I do you bury your
head in the sand.
> quote even one witness who said the shots came from multiple directions,
> and he has utterly failed to quote even a single witness who said that any
> individual shot sounded as if it came from closer or farther away than any
> other individual shot.
>
> So I will just continue my quotations of witnesses who said neither of
> those things, but instead were quite obviously under the impression that
> all of the shots were fired from a single location, whatever that location
> was.
>
> The next witness is Hugh Betzner, who took some now-famous photographs in
> Dealey Plaza before, during, and after the shooting. In his affidavit of
> the same day, he said this about the shots he heard:
>
> **********
>
> I was standing on Houston Street near the intersection of Elm Street. I
> took a picture of President Kennedy's car as it passed along Houston
> Street. I have an old camera. I looked down real quick and rolled the film
> to take the next picture. I then ran down to the corner of Elm andHouston
> [sic] Streets, this being the southwest corner. I was standing back from
> the corner and had to take the pictures through some of the crowd. I ran
> on down Elm a little more and President Kennedy's car was starting to go
> down the hill to the triple underpass. I was running trying to keep the
> President's car in my view and was winding my film as I ran. I was looking
> down at my camera to see the number of the film as I ran. I took another
> picture as the President's car was going down the hill on Elm Street. I
> started to wind my film again and I heard a loud noise. I thought that
> this noise was either a firecracker or a car had backfired. I looked up
> and it seemed like there was another loud noise in the matter of a few
> seconds. I looked down the street and I could see the President's car and
> another one and they looked like the cars were stopped. Then I saw a flash
> of pink like someone standing up and then sitting back down in the car.
> Then I ran around so I could look over the back of a monument and I either
> saw the following then or when I was sitting back down on the corner of
> Elm Street. I cannot remember exactly where I was when I saw the
> following: I heard at least two shots fired and I saw what looked like a
> firecracker going off in the president's car. My assumption for this was
> because I saw fragments going up in the air. I also saw a man in either
> the President's car or the car behind his and someone down in one of those
> cars pull out what looked like a rifle. I also remember seeing what looked
> like a nickel revolver in someone's hand in the President's car or
> somewhere immediately around his car. Then the President's car sped on
> under the underpass. Police and a lot of spectators started running up the
> hill on the opposite side of the street from me to a fence of wood. I
> assumed that was where the shot was fired from at that time. I kept
> watching the crowd. Then I came around the monument over to Main Street. I
> walked down toward where the President's car had stopped. I saw a Police
> Officer and some men in plain clothes. I don't know who they were. These
> Police Officers and the men in plain clothes were digging around in the
> dirt as if they were looking for a bullet. I walked back around the
> monument over to Elm Street where they were digging in the dirt. I went on
> across the street and up the embankment to where the fence is located. By
> this time almost all of the people had left.
>
> **********
>
> Mr. Betzner mentioned only one direction for the origin of any shot, the
> fence across the street, the fence on what later came to be called the
> grassy knoll, although it seems that he thought this not so much because
> of the sounds of gunfire, but because he saw people running up to the
> fence. And again, there is no mention of any shot sounding closer or
> farther than any other shot.
>