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SUBJECT -- The JFK Assassination: The Ongoing "Lone Assassin vs.
Conspiracy" Debate.
FEATURED TEXT -- Archived JFK Forum Messages From February 2007.
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CTer (A CONSPIRACY THEORIST) -- There were provably a number of
{rifles} in the TSBD just days before {11/22/63}. What happened to
them?
DVP (DAVID VON PEIN) -- What difference does it really make? Were any
of those other rifles linked to Stretcher Bullet 399 and/or the two
front-seat bullet fragments?
Answer--no. But don't let that minor detail dissuade you from your
precious multi-gun theory.
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CTer -- One of {the guns used to kill Tippit} was an automatic.
DVP -- A great "Let's Frame Oswald" plan there. They use an automatic
gun when the resident Patsy owns a revolver. But nobody will care or
investigate this thoroughly. Is that what these idiot plotters
supposedly thought prior to killing J.D. Tippit with a gun that
couldn't possibly be tied to their patsy?
Only the rabid kooks who are two theories away from the rubber room
think that an automatic gun was used on Tenth Street.
All of the witnesses (save Ted Callaway) described the general
characteristics of a REVOLVER being used in Tippit's murder, not an
AUTOMATIC....
e.g.,
Oswald was seen physically shaking shells out of the chamber; and the
fact that the shells were found many yards from where the ONE KILLER
{Oswald} pulled the trigger, indicating that an automatic couldn't
possibly have been used....unless the killer decided to pick up the
shells near Tippit's squad car and then toss them into the Davis' yard
down the street. Can anybody think of a single good reason for the
killer to perform that task with his bullet cartridges?
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CTer -- {The shells on 10th St.}, according to the on-scene cops, were
from an automatic.
DVP -- And yet we have the lone killer (identified as Oswald up-close
by multiple non-Patsy-framing witnesses) shaking shells from the one
and only murder weapon near the Davis' front lawn. Were BOTH Davis
women out to get Lee Harvey too? If so....please tell us why?
And we've also got only shells in evidence from the gun Oswald had on
him when arrested.
And yet the kooks still think Oswald didn't fire a shot on Tenth
Street. Pathetic.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/cbcca847390ffca8
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/4d1790303e6fcc19
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CTer -- One of {the three bullet shells in the SN} *provably* couldn't
have been fired from the MC (CE543).
DVP -- This is complete bullshit. And it's yet another instance (among
hundreds) of the kooks chasing after a make-believe conspiracy by
totally misrepresenting the evidence in the case.
All three of the shells that were found in the Depository's Sniper's
Nest were PROVABLY fired in Rifle CE139/C2766. Many of the conspiracy
kooks, for some reason, think they know more than Robert Frazier, the
FBI, the DPD, and all the other experts who examined the ballistics
evidence first-hand.
So, should I trust these kooks? Or should I trust the FBI's Bob
Frazier when he said this in 1964? (Not too tough a choice.).....
MR. EISENBERG -- "After receiving the cartridge cases, did you examine
them to determine whether they had been fired in Commission Exhibit
139?"
MR. FRAZIER -- "Yes, sir. .... I found all three of the cartridge
cases had been fired in this particular weapon."
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CTer -- {The paper bag in the SN was} never photographed; many of the
TSBD eyewitnesses never saw it.
DVP -- Oswald wasn't photographed pulling the trigger from the SN
either....but does that fact make him any less guilty (given the
wealth of stuff saying he's a murderer)?
The paper bag was obviously left in the SN by a certain murderer named
Lee Harvey. Lee's prints are on the bag....it was completely empty
when found near the same window from where Oswald was seen firing a
rifle....and Oswald was seen carrying a similar paper sack into the
Book Depository that day.
Plus -- Oswald lied about the package he carried that day (telling
police he only took his "lunch" to work on November 22).
And we're supposed to toss all this stuff in the gutter just because
there's not a snapshot of the bag inside the Nest?? Nonsense.
I suppose Robert L. Studebaker is a dirty, lying scumbucket too (like
all of the other cops whom many kooks believe had that strangely-
unified desire to frame a man for two murders on 11/22/63),
right?.....
MR. BALL -- "Now, did you at any time see any paper sack around
there?"
MR. STUDEBAKER -- "Yes sir."
MR. BALL -- "Where?"
MR. STUDEBAKER -- "Storage room there - in, the southeast corner of
the building folded."
MR. BALL -- "Where was it with respect to the three boxes of which the
top two were Rolling Readers?"
MR. STUDEBAKER -- "Directly east."
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/909b5b194cab1cbe
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CTer -- No chain of possession {for CE399}. The witnesses who HELD IT
IN THEIR HAND deny that it was the same type of bullet.
DVP -- And yet Darrell Tomlinson agreed that 399 looked like the same
bullet he found at Parkland on November 22nd. Go figure.
BTW, has any conspiracy theorist ever figured out the logic of the
patsy-framing plotters wanting to plant a bullet that was barely
damaged? And planting it under a mat on a stretcher where it may never
be found (or directly connected with the Kennedy case)? Or planting it
at a time when it was impossible for ANY plotter to know for certain
if all bullets and fragments would be recovered later on (since
Connally was just going into surgery at the time)?
Did these plotters just get really, really lucky when the amount of
lead missing from this so-called "planted" missile just happened to
approximate the very tiny amount of lead recovered from the victims?
Or did these incredible plotters use a crystal ball? Or did they just
throw up their collective evidence-planting hands and shout: "What the
fuck...we'll plant this almost-whole bullet anyway...even though we
have little to no information at our disposal to support such a
planting prior to 2:00 PM CST on Nov. 22nd"?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/bed05a055b2f4133
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CTer -- Yep...they were there {the two bullet fragments in the front
seat of the limo}. They didn't have Oswald's name on them,
unfortunately.
DVP -- Almost as good as Oswald's signature. They were both fired in
Oz's gun. And Oz was seen firing a gun in the window. The math isn't
too hard from this point. (Except if you reside in Kookville, where
the letters O-S-W-A-L-D aren't found in any dictionary in the whole
town. Go figure.)
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CTer -- You see, there aren't any CT'ers who will claim that JFK was
knifed rather than shot.
DVP -- No. You kooks will merely claim that virtually all of the
ballistics evidence leading to Pope Lee Harvey was tampered with in
order to vilify an innocent patsy.
You'd be better off trying to prove that JFK had, indeed, been knifed.
Or hanged.
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CTer -- The {paraffin/nitrate} tests show that Oswald had not fired
either a pistol or a rifle that day.
DVP -- I guess it's the time of the month when conspiracy kooks like
to drag tired, worn-out information out of their stale CT
closets....like this paraffin stuff. (Or maybe these CTers just simply
have no memory whatsoever.)
In any event, the entire topic of paraffin/nitrate tests is useless
and meaningless to begin with....because such tests have been proven
to be totally unreliable when attempting to determine whether or not a
person fired a gun. Oswald's case is no different.
On some occasions, the only reason that the police even use the
paraffin test at all is for psychological reasons, in order to observe
the reaction of the person being suspected of the gun crime (i.e., to
see if the suspect will balk or not when it's suggested he undergo
such a nitrate test, and to possibly get a quicker confession out of
the person being accused of a gun-related crime).
This type of "psychological" use for the otherwise relatively-useless
paraffin test was brought up by FBI agent Cortlandt Cunningham during
his 1964 Warren Commission testimony.....
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "There may be some law-enforcement agencies which
use the test for psychological reasons. ... What they do is they ask,
say, 'We are going to run a paraffin test on you, you might as well
confess now'."
Additional testimony garnered from FBI Agent Cunningham concerning the
subject of paraffin tests is quite interesting as well, with
Cunningham admitting that such nitrate tests are "definitely not
reliable".....
MR. EISENBERG -- "You testified this morning that many common
substances will produce a positive reaction to the nitrate test, so-
called paraffin test. Will the handling of an unclean weapon also
produce a positive reaction?"
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "Just as much as firing it will. That is what makes
this test so unreliable. Handling a recently-fired weapon that is
covered with residues--you would get just as many oxidizing agents in
the form of nitrates and nitrates on your hands as you would from
firing it...and in some cases more."
MR. EISENBERG -- "If the FBI is having an investigation by itself in a
matter it has primary jurisdiction over, will it use the paraffin
test?"
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "No; not the paraffin-chemical test."
MR. FORD -- "Is that because of the feeling that it is not as reliable
as it should be?"
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "It is the feeling that it is definitely not
reliable as to determining whether or not a person has fired a
weapon..."
MR. DULLES -- "You and I with our pipes would be in trouble here,
wouldn't we?"
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "Yes, sir. ... I would be willing to state right now
if we processed both of your hands you would come up positive, because
invariably pipe smokers stick their finger in the bowl and you would
get a positive reaction. I am a cigar smoker; I also would come up
positive."
MR. RHYNE -- "I take it in sum and substance that these paraffin tests
are practically worthless?"
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "For the determination of whether or not a person
has fired a weapon."
MR. RHYNE -- "A gun?"
MR. CUNNINGHAM -- "Yes."
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Also.....
Following JFK's assassination, an FBI agent fired Oswald's Mannlicher-
Carcano rifle and was then given a paraffin test. The results -- no
sign of any nitrates on either of the FBI agent's hands or his
cheek....thus proving the total unreliability of the test.
On pages 16 through 18 of the 1973 book "November 22, 1963: You Are
The Jury" (written by WC lawyer David Belin), we find this passage:
"Therefore, a POSITIVE reaction to the paraffin test is worthless in
determining whether a suspect has recently fired a weapon." -- David
W. Belin
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CTer -- Now there's a reliable source...David Belin, the prime author
of the Warren Report, a book which most Americans believe is a crock.
DVP -- Which must mean, of course, that the Warren Report and Belin
definitely ARE crocks....right, kook?
In actuality, the late Mr. Belin's books (both of them -- the Warren
Report itself and "You Are The Jury") are excellent volumes for anyone
interested in the truth about the events of 11/22/63.
Belin was no Government-controlled shill or cover-up man; and anyone
saying otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about -- period.
But, naturally, many CT-Kooks feel the ever-present need to rake Mr.
Belin and all of the work he did for the WC over hot coals for no good
reason whatsoever.
It's also worth noting that David Belin wasn't shy about stepping on
some Government-related toes when he felt such action was warranted.
Would a shill or a WC puppet be willing to do that?
And he does step on several toes within his 1973 publication. It's a
very, very good book, serving as a first-rate extension to the 888-
page Warren Report volume:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/83b9597d7b154bc3
Great David.. The paraffin tests and their
limitations are widely misunderstood.
Hey I just got two left-handed compliments
from the "There's Something Fishy Here"
gang.. One (Sperm tank Walt) accused me of being on the
government payroll with my JFK posts!
Yeah, right.
And poor ol Gentle bin sez I must be crazy if I'm
doing it for free (paraphrased)
MR ;~D
In article <1171013903....@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
eca...@comcast.net says...
>
>On Feb 9, 2:17 am, "David Von Pein" <davevonp...@aol.com> wrote:
>> DEBATING THE JFK CASE (PART 28):
>>
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>>
>> SUBJECT -- The JFK Assassination: The Ongoing "Lone Assassin vs.
>> Conspiracy" Debate.
>>
>> FEATURED TEXT -- Archived JFK Forum Messages From February 2007.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer (A CONSPIRACY THEORIST) -- There were provably a number of
>> {rifles} in the TSBD just days before {11/22/63}. What happened to
>> them?
>>
>> DVP (DAVID VON PEIN) -- What difference does it really make?
There's the answer, folks!
(no comment I could make would make a difference to that one!)
>> Were any
>> of those other rifles linked to Stretcher Bullet 399 and/or the two
>> front-seat bullet fragments?
>>
>> Answer--no.
Not that we know of - but then again, we *know* bullets disappeared. We even
have a photo of one of them being dug out of the grass.
>> But don't let that minor detail dissuade you from your
>> precious multi-gun theory.
It's the *evidence* that I'm using...
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- One of {the guns used to kill Tippit} was an automatic.
>>
>> DVP -- A great "Let's Frame Oswald" plan there. They use an automatic
>> gun when the resident Patsy owns a revolver. But nobody will care or
>> investigate this thoroughly. Is that what these idiot plotters
>> supposedly thought prior to killing J.D. Tippit with a gun that
>> couldn't possibly be tied to their patsy?
>>
>> Only the rabid kooks who are two theories away from the rubber room
>> think that an automatic gun was used on Tenth Street.
So it's nutty to believe the evidence???
>> All of the witnesses (save Ted Callaway) described the general
>> characteristics of a REVOLVER being used in Tippit's murder, not an
>> AUTOMATIC....
No, not all of the witnesses... why bother to lie?
>> e.g.,
>>
>> Oswald was seen physically shaking shells out of the chamber; and the
>> fact that the shells were found many yards from where the ONE KILLER
Although at least one witness described *two* suspects...
>> {Oswald} pulled the trigger, indicating that an automatic couldn't
>> possibly have been used....unless the killer decided to pick up the
>> shells near Tippit's squad car and then toss them into the Davis' yard
>> down the street. Can anybody think of a single good reason for the
>> killer to perform that task with his bullet cartridges?
Yep... don't deal with the actual evidence... when speculation will do.
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- {The shells on 10th St.}, according to the on-scene cops, were
>> from an automatic.
>>
>> DVP -- And yet
And yet *what*? You have to answer that fact. Speculation won't do the trick.
>> we have the lone killer (identified as Oswald up-close
>> by multiple non-Patsy-framing witnesses) shaking shells from the one
>> and only murder weapon near the Davis' front lawn. Were BOTH Davis
>> women out to get Lee Harvey too? If so....please tell us why?
Tell us the truth about the evidence... can you?
>> And we've also got only shells in evidence from the gun Oswald had on
>> him when arrested.
Do you really think so?
>> And yet the kooks still think Oswald didn't fire a shot on Tenth
>> Street. Pathetic.
Yep... it's "pathetic" to trust the evidence when speculation is so much more
'reliable', right?
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/cbcca847390ffca8
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/4d1790303e6fcc19
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- One of {the three bullet shells in the SN} *provably* couldn't
>> have been fired from the MC (CE543).
>>
>> DVP -- This is complete bullshit. And it's yet another instance (among
>> hundreds) of the kooks chasing after a make-believe conspiracy by
>> totally misrepresenting the evidence in the case.
Strangely enough, DVP can't answer the problem... the lack of a 'chamber mark'
that *ALL* other cartridges fired from that MC are known to have shown.
Wonder why this is such a verboten topic to LNT'ers?
>> All three of the shells that were found in the Depository's Sniper's
>> Nest were PROVABLY fired in Rifle CE139/C2766.
Nope... that's a lie.
>> Many of the conspiracy
>> kooks, for some reason, think they know more than Robert Frazier, the
>> FBI, the DPD, and all the other experts who examined the ballistics
>> evidence first-hand.
>>
>> So, should I trust these kooks? Or should I trust the FBI's Bob
>> Frazier when he said this in 1964? (Not too tough a choice.).....
>>
>> MR. EISENBERG -- "After receiving the cartridge cases, did you examine
>> them to determine whether they had been fired in Commission Exhibit
>> 139?"
>>
>> MR. FRAZIER -- "Yes, sir. .... I found all three of the cartridge
>> cases had been fired in this particular weapon."
Frazier gave quite a bit of rather interesting testimony....
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- {The paper bag in the SN was} never photographed; many of the
>> TSBD eyewitnesses never saw it.
>>
>> DVP -- Oswald wasn't photographed pulling the trigger from the SN
>> either....but does that fact make him any less guilty (given the
>> wealth of stuff saying he's a murderer)?
Speculation again...
>> The paper bag was obviously left in the SN by a certain murderer named
>> Lee Harvey.
You've given your Hypothesis... now present the evidence:
>> Lee's prints are on the bag....it was completely empty
>> when found near the same window from where Oswald was seen firing a
>> rifle....and Oswald was seen carrying a similar paper sack into the
>> Book Depository that day.
>>
>> Plus -- Oswald lied about the package he carried that day (telling
>> police he only took his "lunch" to work on November 22).
Did he lie? Can you demonstrate this?
>> And we're supposed to toss all this stuff in the gutter just because
>> there's not a snapshot of the bag inside the Nest?? Nonsense.
Actually, there's far more than merely the lack of a photograph... there's also
multiple eyewitnesses who testify to *not* seeing the bag. But don't let that
get you down...
>> I suppose Robert L. Studebaker is a dirty, lying scumbucket too (like
>> all of the other cops whom many kooks believe had that strangely-
>> unified desire to frame a man for two murders on 11/22/63),
>> right?.....
>>
>> MR. BALL -- "Now, did you at any time see any paper sack around
>> there?"
>>
>> MR. STUDEBAKER -- "Yes sir."
>>
>> MR. BALL -- "Where?"
>>
>> MR. STUDEBAKER -- "Storage room there - in, the southeast corner of
>> the building folded."
>>
>> MR. BALL -- "Where was it with respect to the three boxes of which the
>> top two were Rolling Readers?"
>>
>> MR. STUDEBAKER -- "Directly east."
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/909b5b194cab1cbe
And the multiple eyewitnesses who stated that they *didn't* see a paper bag?
Were they all lying?
Somebody was...
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- No chain of possession {for CE399}. The witnesses who HELD IT
>> IN THEIR HAND deny that it was the same type of bullet.
>>
>> DVP -- And yet Darrell Tomlinson agreed that 399 looked like the same
>> bullet he found at Parkland on November 22nd. Go figure.
Sorry, you didn't refute my statement.
>> BTW, has any conspiracy theorist ever figured out the logic of the
>> patsy-framing plotters wanting to plant a bullet that was barely
>> damaged?
Of course! And so could you if you were more honest. They took a bullet that
had been fired into a water tank - and used it to be sure that a connection to
the MC would be made. (Removing, at the same time, a bullet that would not)
>> And planting it under a mat on a stretcher where it may never
>> be found (or directly connected with the Kennedy case)?
It wasn't planted, it was swapped. *THAT* is what the evidence shows...
>> Or planting it
>> at a time when it was impossible for ANY plotter to know for certain
>> if all bullets and fragments would be recovered later on (since
>> Connally was just going into surgery at the time)?
>>
>> Did these plotters just get really, really lucky when the amount of
>> lead missing from this so-called "planted" missile just happened to
>> approximate the very tiny amount of lead recovered from the victims?
It didn't. That's why these fragments disappeared.
>> Or did these incredible plotters use a crystal ball? Or did they just
>> throw up their collective evidence-planting hands and shout: "What the
>> fuck...we'll plant this almost-whole bullet anyway...even though we
>> have little to no information at our disposal to support such a
>> planting prior to 2:00 PM CST on Nov. 22nd"?
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy.jfk/msg/bed05a055b2f4133
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- Yep...they were there {the two bullet fragments in the front
>> seat of the limo}. They didn't have Oswald's name on them,
>> unfortunately.
>>
>> DVP -- Almost as good as Oswald's signature.
How silly!
>> They were both fired in
>> Oz's gun. And Oz was seen firing a gun in the window.
No, Oswald was *NOT* seen at the window. Why bother to lie about the eyewitness
testimony?
>> The math isn't
>> too hard from this point. (Except if you reside in Kookville, where
>> the letters O-S-W-A-L-D aren't found in any dictionary in the whole
>> town. Go figure.)
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- You see, there aren't any CT'ers who will claim that JFK was
>> knifed rather than shot.
>>
>> DVP -- No. You kooks will merely claim that virtually all of the
>> ballistics evidence leading to Pope Lee Harvey was tampered with in
>> order to vilify an innocent patsy.
Some of it *proveably* was.
>> You'd be better off trying to prove that JFK had, indeed, been knifed.
>> Or hanged.
If the evidence showed that, then that's what I'd argue.
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> CTer -- The {paraffin/nitrate} tests show that Oswald had not fired
>> either a pistol or a rifle that day.
>>
>> DVP -- I guess it's the time of the month when conspiracy kooks like
>> to drag tired, worn-out information out of their stale CT
>> closets....like this paraffin stuff. (Or maybe these CTers just simply
>> have no memory whatsoever.)
>>
>> In any event, the entire topic of paraffin/nitrate tests is useless
>> and meaningless to begin with....because such tests have been proven
>> to be totally unreliable when attempting to determine whether or not a
>> person fired a gun. Oswald's case is no different.
Sadly, simply untrue.
Of course, none of this addresses a *negative* result.
>> read more =BB...
>
>Great David.. The paraffin tests and their
>limitations are widely misunderstood.
Yep... mostly by police departments...