BOOK REVIEW -- "November 22, 1963: You Are The Jury" By David W. Belin
David Von Pein
REPORT --- TOGETHER THEY ARE, IN MY VIEW, BOOKENDS OF RATIONAL THINKING
AND ACTUAL EVIDENCE SURROUNDING THE EVENTS OF NOVEMBER 22, 1963........
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"November 22, 1963: You Are The Jury" by David W. Belin is a fantastic
source of information regarding the facts and the evidence surrounding
President John F. Kennedy's assassination, which, as the title
indicates, occurred on that grim and never-to-be-forgotten November
date in '63.
Mr. Belin, an Iowa lawyer, served as a member of the Warren
Commission's Assistant Counsel during the Commission's 1964
investigation into JFK's murder (plus the slayings of Police Officer
J.D. Tippit and the President's accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald).
Belin did a vast amount of work for the WC, including handling the
questioning of many of the primary witnesses connected with the Kennedy
case. He is, therefore, eminently qualified to write a book of this
nature.
Belin wrote "You Are The Jury" in 1973, ten years after the somber
events in Dallas, and these 520-plus pages provide a superb "inside"
look at how Belin and the Warren Commission operated during the
Commission's nearly 10-month probe into JFK's assassination.
This book could almost be referred to as a "Warren Report Sequel" (of
sorts), as Mr. Belin lays out the evidence in massive doses, complete
with huge chunks of actual witness testimony, with the reader serving
as "the jury", as the title suggests.
After reading these 500+ pages of raw evidence and witness accounts
(which are combined with a whole lot of common sense being exhibited by
the author as well), a reasonable reader can be left with no doubt
whatsoever as to the identity of the real killer of President Kennedy
and Officer Tippit.
With respect to the Tippit crime, allow me to quote a passage from page
112 of this book:
"{Fellow WC lawyer} Joe Ball put it succinctly: 'In all of my courtroom
experience, I have never seen a more open-and-shut case'."
I couldn't turn these pages fast enough, in wanting to see what Mr.
Belin would next offer on the next page in terms of evidence, actual WC
witness testimony, and reasoned thinking. And Belin never disappointed
this reader at any stage. He verbally KOs Warren Commission critic and
assassination buff Mark Lane on numerous occasions, including the
complete annihilation of Lane's crazy assertion that Helen Markham, a
key witness to the Tippit murder, said that Tippit's killer was "stocky
with bushy hair". Markham never said such a thing to Mr. Lane, and
Belin (rightly so) hammers Lane hard on this crucial matter.
Another excerpt from the book......
"Our Warren Commission Report will stand the test of the final verdict
of the jury of world opinion because it is basically accurate and
because there are more than 6,500 footnotes in our 888-page Report,
which are grounded in the 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits.
When you examine every one of these footnotes you will find that there
is none of the misrepresentation and distortion of the type {Mark} Lane
uses when he alleges that {Howard} Brennan could not identify the two
Negro men that he saw in the fifth floor window who came out of the
building after the assassination.
Nor will you find any distortion of the type used by Lane when he
fragments the testimony and omits {Bonnie Ray} Williams' forthright
statement about why he did not go to the sixth floor {on 11/22/63,
after having heard gunshots from there}, 'Maybe it was just because we
were frightened'." -- David Belin; Page 159
Mr. Belin's attack on Mark Lane reaches its spectacular zenith late in
this publication, as Belin tells his readers of Mr. Lane's July 1966
letter to Belin, affording Belin an on-camera opportunity to rebut the
anti-WC claims made in Lane's soon-to-be-released film, "Rush To
Judgment".
Lane tried to ignore Belin's correspondence accepting this unique
offer, but Mr. Belin persisted, writing a total of ten letters saying
he was willing to take Lane up on his offer to rebut the film on
camera.
To get the full (outstanding) effect of this "Lane vs. Belin" episode
from 1966, you must read pages 470 to 473 of this book. It's fabulous
stuff, with Belin calling Lane's bluff and exposing Lane for the fraud
he has proven to be.
After calling Belin a "bit player" in the grand scheme of the Warren
Commission and its associated counsel members, here's a portion of what
Belin wrote back to Lane......
"True to form, you tried to hide from the person who could best
demolish your fabricated case. .... Once again I challenge you, Mark
Lane, to thirty minutes on film -- that is all I need to demolish your
manufactured case." -- David Belin; 12/23/66
I love it! A tip of my cap goes to David Belin for the above salvo
dished up toward Mr. Lane. I was so thrilled with pages 470 through
473, I've already re-read those pages multiple times. :)
"You Are The Jury" also thoroughly trashes virtually every conspiracy
theory that had been postulated by the CTers up to the time of Belin's
publishing date for this volume (late 1973).
I find it very interesting that Mr. Belin, after a brief "Overview"
chapter, begins the book by discussing the murder of Officer Tippit
(instead of starting with details of the President's killing). I, like
Belin, feel that the Tippit murder is an extremely important part of
the overall JFK case, because it is a killing that is tied so closely
to the Kennedy murder, which occurred just 45 minutes earlier.
Belin gushes fact after fact regarding the Tippit crime, leaving little
to no doubt as to who was responsible for the murder -- with that
person being Lee Harvey Oswald (alone), a man who just happened to work
in a building (the Texas School Book Depository on Elm Street) from
where gunshots came just 45 minutes earlier as the President was
driving by that building and as he was being shot in the head and
killed.
The raw physical and circumstantial evidence that ties Oswald (and only
Oswald) to both the Kennedy and Tippit murders is overwhelming in mass
and scope, as Mr. Belin adeptly brings forth in this excellent volume.
Backtracking for a moment to the "Overview" section of this book --
That opening section of "You Are The Jury" is a dandy section too, with
Belin systematically demolishing the oft-uttered theory by the
conspiracy kooks that the paraffin test given to Lee Oswald on 11/22/63
is virtual proof of his innocence in the JFK murder.
As Belin thoroughly explains, the paraffin test given to Oswald by the
Dallas Police is a completely unreliable way to determine whether or
not a person has recently fired a gun....in that the nitrates that can
show up via such a test can also be present on a person's hands (or
elsewhere on the body) if the person has recently come into contact
with other substances, like tobacco or ordinary household cleaning
products (like Clorox for instance).
Plus (and this is the kicker, which destroys the "Paraffin Tests Are
Reliable" claims of many conspiracists) -- Belin points out that a test
was done with Oswald's own rifle, where an FBI agent fired LHO's gun
and, to quote the text directly from page 18 of this book:
"There were negative reactions on both hands and on the cheek of the
FBI agent who fired the assassination weapon. Thus, we had the other
side of the coin: A negative reaction from the paraffin test did not
prove that a person had not fired a rifle."
Given the above results done by the FBI, how can anyone then continue
to tout the paraffin procedure as being at all a convincing test,
either in a pro or con manner?
Belin's section concerning the controversial "Single-Bullet Theory" is
also very convincing, forthright, and to the point (with heaps of
witness testimony being provided, testimony that leaves little to no
doubt, IMO, that the SBT is easily the most reasonable and accurate
conclusion to explain the wounding of JFK and Governor John Connally).
A question is brought up by Belin on page #329 that goes right to the
heart of the matter -- "If a bullet entered the front of President
Kennedy's neck, where did that bullet go?"
A perfectly legitimate question, of course....and a question that
conspiracy buffs simply cannot answer in a reasonable and believable
manner (and without inserting the words "cover-up" or "conspiracy" or
"they've doctored the real evidence", etc.).
And, by the same token, Mr. Belin (on the very next page) asks the next
logical follow-up question -- "If a bullet exited from President
Kennedy's neck at a relatively high velocity, where did it go?" (Page
330)
Mr. Belin then goes on to explain that such an exiting missile would
have to do one of two things: either hit the interior of the limousine
without striking a human being....or hit the man sitting almost
directly in line to be hit by such a bullet, Governor Connally.
Since the automobile was NOT hit by this missile, the only place for
the bullet TO go was into the back of Mr. Connally....just at the point
where he WAS wounded by gunfire on 11/22/63.
No "magic" involved at all. It's all too obvious where that bullet HAD
to go (seeing as how no bullets were found inside the President and no
damage was done to the car's interior that can be attributed to such a
bullet travelling at approx. 1,775 feet per second after exiting JFK's
neck).
So, anyone who researches this murder case has little choice here re.
the "SBT" question -- they can either believe that a massive cover-up
operation was underway on November 22nd in order to eliminate a bunch
of evidence that would expose a conspiracy in the murder of a U.S.
President....or they accept the evidence that's on the table in this
case with respect to the SBT and admit that the single-bullet
conclusion "fits" nearly every last scrap of evidence connected with it
-- not the least of which is the "perfect" number of bullets (1) needed
to fit the evidence with respect to this one-bullet conclusion.
Whereas, realistically, any anti-SBT scenario that could be substituted
for the SBT requires at least THREE separate bullets to do the job of
CE399....with ALL THREE of these "other bullets" magically disappearing
from view before they could be seen by a single person not connected
with the devious "plot".*
* = This "Three Vanishing Missiles" theory pre-supposes that the
theorist purporting it believes in the widely-accepted hunk of
extraordinarily-unnecessary nonsense that has Bullet CE399 being a
"planted" bullet which never hit anyone in the limousine on November
22nd. Virtually all conspiracists I've encountered over the years do,
indeed, think that CE399 was planted in Parkland Hospital by some
unknown henchman.
Let's have a gander at a few more of Mr. Belin's comments regarding the
"SBT" (comments that brim over with common sense and logical
thinking)......
"The single-bullet theory is the only possibility consistent with all
the facts. .... There was simply no other way for it to have happened,
based on the overwhelming weight of the evidence."
Page 347 of this book contains another very impressive segment of Belin
text, in the form of these very forthright (and spot-on accurate)
comments when discussing the necessity for determining which bullet hit
John Connally......
"The plain fact is that it is absolutely necessary to the findings of
the Commission to determine whether the same bullet that pierced the
President's throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds. Otherwise,
where did that first bullet go? .... Governor Connally was simply wrong
in his testimony, just as President Johnson was wrong in some of his
observations, and just as almost every witness to a sudden and
startling event is incapable of being completely accurate."
The above paragraph from David Belin deserves five stars (at least).
Belin is certainly not adverse to dishing up criticism aimed at the
Commission on which he served (and also occasionally aimed at certain
witnesses and Government officials as well), if he feels such criticism
is warranted (such as the comments shown above).
This book has proven to my satisfaction that David W. Belin was
certainly no boot-licking WC lapdog. If he WAS that type of person when
he wrote this book, then he must be a pretty doggone good actor, as
well as being a darn good lawyer. But, in my opinion, the text within
these pages is no "act".
Another excellent and candid Belin passage, displaying his displeasure
with some of the decisions made by people in high places, can be found
on page 361......
"My inherent skepticism of governmental authority, be it civilian or
military, was intensified as an outgrowth of my service with the Warren
Commission. The autopsy physicians were very capable -- but by no means
perfect. The FBI and Secret Service were very capable -- but by no
means perfect. And although, by and large, Chief Justice Warren and his
fellow Commissioners did a creditable job in conducting a fair and
impartial investigation, surely errors were made, such as the failure
to allow the attorneys conducting the work of the Commission to see the
autopsy photographs and X-rays."
I completely agree with Belin regarding the autopsy materials. It was
totally ridiculous why the Commission assigned to investigate the
President's murder was prohibited from examining some of THE most
critical items of evidence in the whole case (the autopsy pictures and
X-rays). Absolutely crazy, in fact.
I, too, can understand the Kennedy family's wishes to not have those
items published for mass consumption -- but I've always been stumped as
to why some kind of compromise couldn't have been reached between the
Kennedy family and the Warren Commission.
For example, why on Earth couldn't the Commission have viewed the
autopsy materials and then merely agreed to NOT actually print any of
the gory photos within its final published report? And a forthright
explanation concerning the matter of the photos could have been added
to the text of the WC Report for all Americans to read....something
like this:
[The Warren Commission was given full access to all of the JFK autopsy
photographs and X-rays, and the Commission has examined these materials
thoroughly. However, out of deference to the Kennedy family, it was
deemed appropriate that the autopsy pictures not be published within
the completed Warren Report or within any of the Commission's 26
supporting volumes of testimony and exhibits.]
Why wouldn't the above stipulation have been a suitable compromise? In
my view, such an agreement would have been a perfect compromise. And I
can't for the life of me understand why such a proposal wasn't
considered by anyone in charge of the investigation back in 1964. ~big
shrug~
Here are some additional selected passages of interest taken from
"November 22, 1963: You Are The Jury"......
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"We scheduled the testimony of {assassination eyewitness} Harold Norman
on March 24, 1964. Before he testified, we wanted to interview him on
the fifth floor of the TSBD Building and check whether these sounds {of
the rifle shells hitting the floor above and of the rifle's bolt being
worked by the gunman} could be heard.
We had with us the equipment necessary to make the test. A Secret
Service agent with the bolt action rifle stood with Joe Ball in the
southeast corner window on the sixth floor of the TSBD Building. I
stayed with Harold Norman on the fifth floor directly below.
Before giving the signal to conduct the experiment, I waited until a
train passed on the nearby railroad overpass so there would be plenty
of street noise. In addition, at that time, several large trucks were
moving down Elm Street. I then yelled to have the test begin.
I smiled, for I really did not expect to hear anything. Then, with
remarkable clarity, I could hear the thump as a cartridge case hit the
floor. There were two more thumps as the two other cartridge cases hit
the floor above me.
The Secret Service agent then worked the bolt of the rifle back and
forth, and this too could be heard with clarity.
When we re-assembled after the re-enactment, I said to my colleague,
'Joe, if I had not heard it myself, I would never have believed it'."
-- David Belin; Pages 139-140
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DVP -- Harold Norman's testimony of hearing THREE bullet shells hitting
the floor above him is compelling evidence (all by itself) with which
to satisfactorily dismantle the claims of conspiracy buffs (like Robert
J. Groden to name but one) who think that NO SHOTS at all likely came
from the Sniper's Nest window on the 6th Floor of the Book Depository.
And the March 1964 re-creation described by Mr. Belin via the
above-mentioned text of this book only further buttresses Norman's
testimony of him hearing just exactly what he said he heard on 11/22/63
during the shooting of JFK.
So, as I see it, there are three choices for resolving this particular
matter:
1.) Either Harold Norman was a very clever liar.
2.) One or more "conspirators" were on the 6th Floor of the TSBD on
November 22....and, in an attempt to fool any witnesses who might be
nearby, were working the bolt of a rifle back and forth and dropping
bullet shells or other metal objects to the floor in "REAL TIME" (i.e.,
with the shell-dropping corresponding perfectly with the EXACT moment
in time when John Kennedy was being shot on Elm Street). And this
explanation still fails to reconcile Norman's testimony about actually
hearing the sound of the rifle blasts/shots themselves.
3.) Harold Norman was telling the truth and indeed heard a person
firing three shots from a bolt-action rifle directly above him on
11/22/63, and also heard three bullet cartridge cases hitting the
floorboards of the Sniper's Nest.
Would a reasonable person looking at the evidence in this case choose
#1 or #2? No, they wouldn't.
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"The incompleteness of FBI investigations and the inaccuracies of some
of the FBI reports have been exploited by assassination
sensationalists.** The technique is simple: When the FBI was right, as
it generally was, sensationalists ignore the reports. When the FBI was
wrong, the sensationalists say, 'Look what the FBI said'. Thus, they
seek to have it both ways." -- David Belin; Page 271
** = Mr. Belin uses the phrase "assassination sensationalists" many
times throughout this volume to describe people like Mark Lane and
other hard-boiled conspiracy theorists. While this somewhat low-key
term utilized by Belin does indeed have a nice ring to it (and is
certainly an accurate description to be sure), I, myself, think the
term "conspiracy kooks" is a more fitting (albeit less flattering)
description for the type of assassination buffs who NEED a "conspiracy"
to exist in the JFK murder case at all costs. Because, without some
kind of conspiracy theory to cling to, they'd be akin to a ship without
water. And I salute Mr. Belin's repeated efforts in this book to call a
spade a spade....or to call an "assassination sensationalist" the same.
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"On Jan. 5, 1972, I wrote a letter to Senator Edward Kennedy urging
that he 'undertake whatever steps are necessary to make available to
the general public the autopsy photographs and X-rays which were taken
following the assassination of President Kennedy'.
In the letter I said that although I understand the desire of the
family 'to avoid publication of matters of this kind', I nevertheless
believed 'that where the death of a President is involved the citizens
of the country do have an overriding right to know all of the facts'.
Senator Kennedy did not reply to my letter." -- David Belin; Page 362
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Re. Mr. Belin's insistence that Jack Ruby take a lie detector
test......
"The story behind the polygraph examination of Jack Ruby is further
evidence of the fact that we lawyers performed our work with a 'total
dedication to the determination of the truth'. This is what we wrote in
the foreword to our {Warren} Report. And this is what we did." -- David
Belin; Page 443
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In examining the events surrounding the assassination from the
standpoint of "Pure Happenstance vs. Pre-Planned Conspiracy", the
following very illuminating passage can be found near the end of this
volume (which involves the topic of Jack Ruby killing Lee Oswald after
Ruby had sent a money order to one of his nightclub strippers at 11:17
AM on 11/24/63, a mere four minutes before Oswald was killed)......
"Suppose there had been another customer or two waiting in line at the
downtown Western Union office. This in itself could have caused
sufficient delay so that Ruby could not have descended the ramp into
the basement of the Dallas Police Station in time to kill Oswald.
Circumstances of this nature are strong proof of the fact there was no
conspiracy." -- David Belin; Page 461
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Along the same "happenstance" lines as the above quote from page #461,
there's also this interesting observation made by Mr. Belin......
"Although Marina Oswald rebuffed the pleas of her husband {Lee had
wanted to make up with Marina on 11/21/63 after a quarrel, but Marina
refused}, there was one other person who could have almost
single-handedly prevented the assassination. His name was Arnold
Rowland, an 18-year-old resident of Dallas, who was in the vicinity of
the TSBD Building at least 15 minutes before the motorcade arrived.
Rowland said that he had looked up at the TSBD Building and noticed a
man {"holding a rifle"} back away from a window on the southwest corner
of the sixth floor.
This is one of the many ironic twists of fate that we discovered during
our investigation. .... What would have happened had Arnold and Barbara
Rowland called to that policeman 12 feet away and said, 'What's that
man doing with a rifle in that building?'?
{Warren Commission member} Senator Cooper asked Rowland that question,
{and} Rowland burst into tears, and the Chief Justice called for a
recess. Then Earl Warren walked to Rowland, put his arm over the young
man's shoulder and sought to comfort him.
It was an unforgettable experience to see the Chief Justice of the
United States seeking to console an 18-year-old youth who had obviously
confronted himself with the possibility that he might have prevented
the assassination." -- David Belin; Pages 453-454
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A Final Comment......
Among the large assortment of books that have been published about the
John F. Kennedy assassination up through the date of this review in
November 2006, David W. Belin's sterling and immensely-convincing
effort titled "NOVEMBER 22, 1963: YOU ARE THE JURY" is, in my opinion,
one of the very best and most satisfying resources on the Kennedy case
I have ever read.
David Von Pein
November 22, 2006
aeffects
and kick'in, just in time for the JFK assassination anniversary
David Von Pein
someone called AEffects!
Will wonders never cease??
tomnln
BELIN
IN 1973 WARREN COMMISSION LAWYER DAVID BELIN WROTE A BOOK TITLED "NOVEMBER
22, 1963: YOU ARE THE JURY". It is saturated with lies, inaccuracies,
omissions and distortions.
Starting on page 410, Belin reenacts Oswald's alleged movements from the
time Oswald left the TSBD to the time of Tippit's killing.
Belen uses an "unofficial map" on page 386 to illustrate Oswald's
movements, neglecting to inform the reader that several Dallas streets were
left off of this map giving the appearance that Oswald's movements covered
shorter distances.
Belen also misplaces Ruby's apartment by several blocks on the corner of
Thornton & Ewing instead of on Marsalis.
The timing of Oswald's movements were so critical to the Commission's case
against him that Belen himself got cabdriver Whaley to change Oswald's
drop-off point from the 500 block of N. Beckley to the 700 block of N.
Beckley making his destination of 1026 even closer. However, he never
mentioned the .95-cent fare, which in effect brought them to the 500
block. .
Belin DID however, time the distance between Oswald's rooming house and the
point of officer Tippit's murder on Tenth and Patton. On page 419 he states
that one time it took him 12 minutes and the second time (Oswald's most
probable route) it took him 14 minutes. Which would allow Oswald to be at
the scene at "around 1:15." If this were true it would mean that Belin's
prize witness (Helen Markham) would NOT be there because she testifies that
she was there to catch the 1:12 bus.
Further, according to Oswald's housekeeper Earlene Roberts the EARLIEST
that Oswald left his room was 1:04, placing him at the scene at 1:16 or 1:18
at the earliest.
Not to mention that two witnesses (Markham & Bowley) place the time of the
Tippit murder at 1:06 p.m.
After leaving the TSBD two witnesses place Oswald on a bus. (Bledsoe &
McWatters) One witness (William Whaley) places Oswald in a cab to 500 N.
Beckley, with a cab fare of .95 cents.
For additional proof of this see CE #370 Volume XVI pg. 966, cabdriver
Whaley's records. Take note of the "TIME IN 12:30 AND the TIME OUT 12:45."
That takes Oswald "OUT" of the sixth floor window at 12:30. It also takes
him "OUT" of the Truly/Baker/Oswald encounter in the 2nd floor lunchroom at
1:31:30.
Housekeeper placing Oswald's arrival at about 1:00 or a little after and
his departure three or four minutes later. Several witnesses place Oswald at
the Tippit scene. (Benavides, Markham, Scoggins & the Davis girls.) None of
which were able to identify Oswald from Police Line-Ups that night.
This is what Belin said of some of the witnesses on page 420 of his book:
"The testimony of Earlene Roberts, in light of the testimony of Roger
Craig, is fertile breeding ground for the possibility that accomplices aided
Oswald. From our observations as trial lawyers, Ball and I felt that neither
Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig, landlady Mary Bledsoe, bus driver Cecil
McWatters, cab driver William Whaley, nor housekeeper Earlene Roberts was a
100 per cent reliable witness and that the testimony of all of them should
be viewed with some degree of skepticism.)
Roger Craig was a Deputy Sheriff who testified that he saw Oswald
exit the back door of the TSBD 20 minutes after the shooting, run down the
embankment to a Nash Rambler with a luggage rack on the roof, driven by a
dark completed man and drive off in a westerly direction on Elm Street. In
Fritz's office later he identified Oswald as the man he had seen when Oswald
responded, "EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHO I AM NOW." The Warren Commission decided
NOT to believe Craig and quoted the Dallas Police claim that Craig was never
in Fritz's office during any of Oswald's interrogation sessions.
However study of Chief Jesse Curry's book on page 72 clearly shows a
picture of Craig in Fritz's office during Oswald's interrogation.
!FROM HIS OWN LIPS!
On page 345 Belin writes:
"Fifteen to twenty photographs and ten to twelve exposed X-ray films, and
not one photograph or X-ray was introduced into evidence or seen by any
lawyer or Commissioner. It was a disastrous decision. It was a decision with
which Joe Ball and I, as well as Arlen Specter disagreed. It was a decision
that gave rise to wild speculation and rumor. IT WAS A DECISION THAT
VIOLATED BASIC ELEMENTARY RULES OF EVIDENCE FAMILIAR TO EVERY LAW STUDENT IN
AMERICA that when a person testifies he should have the "best evidence"
available." [I will expect to immediately hear Mr. Belin's voice calling for
the immediate release of ALL of the X-rays and photographs from President
John F. Kennedy's autopsy.]
Up until this case I didn't think that a man of HONOR would consider the
admission of an error (?) is the same as CORRECTING an error. I also believe
that if its NOT corrected, it wasn't an error at all. IT WAS A COVER-UP!
If indeed it was an error as opposed to being part of a cover-up. For
Belin goes on to write on page 361_2 indicating that the X-rays and
photographs were being withheld from the public and even qualified forensic
pathologists by the "Kennedy family".
On page 391 Belin writes: "Moreover, from a personal inspection of this
grassy knoll area, I determined that it would have been difficult for anyone
there to hit an occupant in a moving car because (1) there was a lot of
obstruction caused by trees and shrubbery, (2) there was a high wooden fence
that would have almost necessitated that a gunman be standing on something.
(3) The shot itself would have been a "cross shot" with the target moving
from left to right across the field of vision of the gunman. (4) A person
seeking to fire a rifle from that point would have been exposed to the view
of people to his north and northwest, including a railroad tower that was
relatively nearby.
WELL! MORE MOREOVER! I ALSO DID A PERSONAL INSPECTION OF THE GRASSY KNOLL
AREA AND I DETERMINED THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH EASIER SHOT THAN THE
6th FLOOR OF THE TSBD BECAUSE (1) THERE WAS "NO" OBSTRUCTION CAUSED BY TREES
OR SHRUBBERY, (2) THERE WAS A SHORT WOODEN FENCE THAT DID "NOT" NECESSITATE
MY 5'6" FRAME TO STAND ON ANYTHING FOR A CLEAR SHOT AT THE MIDDLE OF ELM ST.
(3) IT MADE THE "KILL" SHOT MUCH EASIER BEING SO MUCH CLOSER AND A TARGET
MOVING LEFT TO RIGHT ALIGNING ITSELF WITH A RIGHTHANDED SHOOTER PANNING FROM
LEFT TO RIGHT. (4) MULTIPLE WITNESSES STATED THAT NOBODY WAS ALLOWED ACCESS
TO THE AREA UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF SECRET SERVICE CREDENTIALS. (as a matter
of fact that was an issue that the Commission chose to IGNORE and Belin knew
it) AS FOR EXPOSURE TO THE NORTH BELIN ALSO KNEW OF THE TESTIMONY OF LEE J.
BOWERS SITTING IN THE 14' TOWER SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET BEHIND THE PICKET
FENCE. BOWERS TESTIFIED THAT HE SAW TWO MEN AT THE FENCE AND HE ALSO
OBSERVED FLASHES OF LIGHT AND SOME KIND OF COMMOTION IN THAT AREA WHEN THE
SHOTS WERE FIRED.
MOREOVER BELIN FAILS TO MENTION THE TESTIMONY OF TWO WITNESSES SKELTON AND
HOLLAND (a personal friend of Dallas Secret Service Chief Forest Sorrels.)
SKELTON AND HOLLAND TESTIFIED THAT THEY SAW PUFFS OF SMOKE COMING FROM THE
GRASSY KNOLL AREA AT THE TIME OF THE SHOOTING. THEY ALSO TESTIFIED THEY
RUSHED TO THE AREA BEHIND THE FENCE AND OBSERVED CIGARETTE BUTTS, FOOTPRINTS
INDICATING PACING AND MUDDY FOOTPRINTS ON A CAR BUMPER. (They were standing
on top of the triple overpass just west of the grassy knoll.)
BELIN ALSO NEGLECTS TO REMIND THE READER THAT THE LIMOSINE WAS TRAVELLING
AT 11.2 mph NOT TO MENTION THAT THE HUGHES FILM SHOWS THE BRAKE LIGHTS
ILLUMINATED AT THE POINT OF IMPACT OF THE FATAL SHOT. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN
AN OFFICIAL DETERMINATION OF WHAT EFFECT WOULD BE CREATED BY APPLYING THE
BRAKES ON A VEHICLE TRAVELLING AT 11.2 mph. (It sure wouldn't cause
acceleration.)
P.S.-BELIN finally called for a NEW investigation of JFK's assassination
based on the disclosure that the CIA/FBI withheld information from the
Warren Commission. (Washington Star 11/23/75)
KYA (Kovering Your
Ass)
In early '75 Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Chaired a NEW Commission to
investigate the Illegal activities of the CIA. Which would also include
looking into the JFK assassination.
Wouldn't you just KNOW that the appointed Chief Counsel was none other than
DAVID BELIN! (What the hell, everything else Belin did was ASS backward!)
ARE YOU KEEPING UP WITH THIS FOLKS? In 1975 Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller Chairs a Commission to investigate the CIA and their possible
connection to the JFK assassination. Rockefeller chooses David Belin to
serve him as Chief Counsel. While Rockefeller serves his President, Gerald
Rudolph Ford.
Ford assumed the office of the Presidency without benefit of Ballot. He
acceded to the Presidency as a result of the Resignation of Richard Milhouse
Nixon. (Under threat of IMPEACHMENT)
Prior to that Ford served as Vice _President via APPOINTMENT by Nixon after
Nixon's Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigned under indictment for income tax
evasion and bribery.
Prior to that, Ford served as a Warren Commission member upon Nixon's
recommendation to LBJ.
Belin later tried to disassociate himself from the JFK Assassination
portion of the Rockefeller Commission's Investigation. (source: Coincidence
or Conspiracy by Bernard Fensterwald)
I think I should have called this chapter "Birds of a Feather."
by tomnln
"David Von Pein" <davev...@aol.com> wrote in message
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tomnln
BELIN
!FROM HIS OWN LIPS!
KYA (Kovering Your
Ass)
by tomnln
"aeffects" <aeff...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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tomnln
"David Von Pein" <davev...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Another whopper of a surprise, folks! ---> Another say-nothing post by
> someone called AEffects!
>
> Will wonders never cease??
>
David Von Pein
Lovely. Nothing like having to wade through three times the turds all
at once. (Thanks, but one ride on that bullshit wagon was enough for
me.)
Not a damn thing in that tirade (i.e., copy-&-paste) of Mr. Tom-Kook's
makes me think any less of Mr. Belin or his outstanding 1973 book "You
Are The Jury". It was merely a weak-sister effort to smear Belin and
his extensive WC work.
The smear is nothing but a lot of hollow-sounding noise coming from
individual(s) who simply are afraid to stare directly at the evidence
in the JFK case. The "assassination sensationalists" (as Belin calls
them at least 30 times in his book, and rightly so) MUST attempt to
smear all LNers and to distort the facts of the case. Simple as that.
If they don't attempt to distort, the sensationalists have got no case.
Period. Because without distortion, Oswald's guilty (alone), and
everybody knows it.
The same type of meaningless smear campaign will no doubt be attempted
toward Vincent Bugliosi next year. But it won't work, because the truth
and the RAW EVIDENCE is on Vincent's side....and, of course, is on
Belin's side too....and always was.
So, smear all you want....you're only fooling yourself, Mr. Tom-Kook.
And you're looking more like a total jackass with each passing smear
campaign.
~~~~~~~~~~
>From Mr. Belin's book.......
"True to form, you {Mark Lane} tried to hide from the person who could
best demolish your fabricated case. .... Once again I challenge you,
Mark Lane, to thirty minutes on film -- that is all I need to demolish
your manufactured case." -- David Belin; 12/23/66
~~~~~~~~~~
tomnln
I quoted Belin's own words.I see that you Snipped them.
Did Both of you Whores work in the Same Cat-house?
I QUOTED BELIN's OWN WORDS.
I see that you Snipped them.
Afraid to see your own lying Heroes words???
"David Von Pein" <davev...@aol.com> wrote in message
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David Von Pein
spouted by whoever (was it you yourself?) was attempting to dismantle
Belin in your (triple) post of bullshit was just that....nonsense. It's
the usual crackpot CT effort to grasp for anything he/she can latch
onto to tear down the true facts of LHO's lone guilt.
Go home, kook. The case is solved. And "Final Verdict" is coming to
further solidify the obvious as well. You can then dismantle your
weak-ass "website" of "conspiratorial" speculation. (Should save you a
couple bucks a month.)
aeffects
David Von Pein wrote:
> Kookshit --- times three!
Looks like you whoops, goofed it up, AGAIN -- try taking off the golf
shoes next time, less pain dontch'a know.... snip, snip, SNIP -- what a
bunch of childish wankers....
David Von Pein
What a surprise huh?
aeffects
David Von Pein wrote:
> Lookie kids -- another say-nothing POS post by some kook named Healy.
> What a surprise huh?
c'mon VonPein you can't spend your entire USNET career posting high
school book reports (reviews), sooner or later you're gonna have to do
a little JFK research, if, IF you want some credibility!