Well how about Mr. Holmes *CREDIBLY* respond *POINT BY POINT* to at least this portion of the post I already linked to that he never responded to a few years back.
Of course, should he fail to so in the *manner* I have stated above lurkers, will say something obvious about the validity of his beliefs.
Portion of unanswered prior posting exchange below from this link:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.assassination.jfk/EBdwYmtoWS0/OQUm2-6vR_cJ
> Despite being only hearsay, any such "hurrying" had *NOTHING* to do with
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> why the prosectors were forbidden to examine JFK's clothing.
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So Ben Holmes contends based on only his interpretation of a *portion* of
the testimonial record. However, as McAdams and others have pointed out
already, Ben not only *ignores* statements made in the earlier testimonial
record (HSCA hearings):
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/autopsy3.txt
….but also ignores the *CONTEXT* of Finck’s words at the Shaw trial
that *HE* linked to here:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=145280&relPageId=150
Note where he says:
“After the publication of the Warren Report, numerous physicians
criticized the autopsy protocol that did not describe the adrenal glands
of Kennedy who suffered from adrenal insufficiency. The prosectors
complied with the autopsy permit and its restrictions. I was told that
the Kennedy family first authorized the autopsy of the head only and then
extended the permission to the chest. Organs of the neck were not removed,
because of the same restrictions.”
Now just *WHO* does this say that Finck actually *said* was imposing the
“autopsy permit and its *RESTRICTIONS*?
It also *clearly* establishes that pressure from the Kennedy family had
*SOMETHING* to do with why the neck was not properly dissected.
Moreover, it may well help explain the *belief* (even if incorrect) that
the adrenal condition had *something* to do with the decision not to
dissect the neck.
I suspect that some persons reading this testimony, have interpreted the
words “Organs of the neck were not removed, because of the *SAME*
restrictions.” as being connected to the *opening* sentences that read:
“After the publication of the Warren Report, numerous physicians
criticized the autopsy protocol that did not describe the adrenal glands
of Kennedy who suffered from adrenal insufficiency. The prosectors
complied with the autopsy permit and its restrictions.” (I.e., it was
the adrenal issue that was leading to the dissection-related
restrictions.)
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> Merely another common believer's factoid.
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See prior comments.
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> You see, the reason for *that* order was given by Col. Finck.
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It may have been, but the *EVIDENCE* just cited argues it *wasn’t* the
reasons*YOU* are suggesting.
NOTE: The next several sentences are part of a prior exhange in the thread/post that set up the rest of my responses on this particular exchange:
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> >>>> >So tell us John... why didn't you correct BT George?
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> >>>> >You *DID* know that his statement was incorrect, didn't you?
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> >>>>>>>> But why don't you address what *I'm* saying?
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> >>>> >>>>Now I am *quite* sure neither is the kind of CT answer Ben is looking=
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> >for,>>>> >>>>but they are answers nontheless. Which is MORE than he has given
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> >>>> >>>If this is the best of the answers that can be given, and immediately=
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> >>>>> >>>refutable by the known evidence... it seems you have a problem.
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> >>>> >>What is the "known evidence" that refutes what BT said?
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> >>>> >The very evidence that you're unwilling to examine (that Greer had the=
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> >>>>> >clothing, and was present at the autopsy), and that on the basis of not=
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> >>>>> >knowing it, can make statements that you cannot support or cite for. (th=
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> >at>>>> >the clothing wasn't available for examination)
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> >>>> >Ooooh! This 'ass kicking' is really getting to me! :)
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> >>>>>>>> I think you don't understand at all how lame your arguments are.
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> >>>> >>>>I am *STILL* waiting for him to provide *ANY* *specific* and *credibl=
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> >ght>>>> >>>>of his rejection of shots from behind and of the SBT.
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> >>>> >>Huh? Who rejected the SBT and shots from behind?
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> >>>> >>What buffs think is not relevant.
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> >>>> >Tell us John, why do you think that what BT George said is not relevant?
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> >>>>>>>> If he doesn't believe the SBT, and doesn't think shots came from
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> >Enough! *I* am *NOT* the one I was saying rejected the SBT. I am saying
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> >Ben Holmes does! (If I am wrong about that I apologize as I can't keep up
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> >with what every prominent Internet CT actually does and does not believe.
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> >But I think I am correct on that score.)
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NOTE: Resume text of current exchange:
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> Yep... you're correct... I don't believe in the SBT... it's a desperate
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> attempt to fit all the wounds to JFK & Connally into just two shots.
Maybe. But I’ll bet the alternative sounds even *more* desperate *IF* you try to get *specific* in suggesting a *credible* alternative.
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> But I'm amused that John attributed the statement to me, and completely
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Well why didn’t you correct him when he then turned around and though it
applied to *me*? (I’m pretty sure you understood that it was to*you*
that I was referring.)
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> >I am simply saying that w/o the SBT that *he* rejects he needs to come up
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> >with a trajectory or trajectories that can explain *ALL* of the following
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> >1) The penetrating back wound in JFK's uppermost back seen easily enough
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> Which one?
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How about the one that *EVERY* pathologist and forensic pathologist
(including Wecht) that studied the body or autopsy photos between
1963-1978 concluded was the *only* back wound supported by available
evidence?
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> >2) The front neck wound that *Ben* says is an entrance not an exit.
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> The doctors who commented on in contemporaneously stated the same thing.
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The *pathologists* who reviewed the body at *autopsy* and who saw the
X-rays (yes they saw these at the time of the autopsy even though they did
*not* see the autopsy photos till years later) concluded otherwise, after
confirmation from Parkland that the tracheotomy opening was an enlargement
of an existing gunshot wound.
A conclusion that was further *confirmed* by the clothing when they
finally saw it before they testified before the WC and that was *TWICE
MORE* confirmed by the Clark and HSCA FPP’s that reviewed the photos and
X-rays related to the back/neck wounds.
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> >3) Connally's back wound that was ovoid in appearance, leaving the kind of
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> Yep... not nearly as pronounced as the wound in JFK's back.
…which argues all the more that it struck something else *FIRST* that slowed the bullet down----like maybe JFK’s neck!
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> >4) His broken/shattered 5th rib.
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Oh let me! Let me! DEAD SILENCE….
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> >5) The ragged 5 centimeter (2 inch) hole in his chest just below the
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DEAD SILENCE….
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> >6) His shattered radius.
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DEAD SILENCE…..
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> >7) The shallow puncture wound to his thigh.
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> I don't have any problems with what the Parkland *DOCTORS* who examined
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> JFK and Connally considered...
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You mean their semi-informed opinions which they formed in the midst of a
rescue effort and without full knowledge of the facts and circumstances of
the shooting, the relative positions of the men, and with no particular
training or commission from law enforcement or government investigative
agencies to serve as ME’s or crime scene investigators?
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> I find their thoughts worth paying attention to.
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See above comments.
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> >So far Ben keeps coming back with some *non-specific* NONSENSE like asking:
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> >"Are you claiming that there were no places in Dealey Plaza that JFK's
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> >neck could not be seen?"
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> >Of course Ben Holmes knows *very well* that is NOT the issue.
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> If you pretend that there's no possible shot to JFK's neck, then you have
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> to demonstrate that there's no possible *view* of JFK's neck. What you can
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> directly see, you can hit.
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No I don’t have to demonstrate *anything*. It is*YOU* who reject the SBT
that have to demonstrate a *CREDIBLE* place or places from some*where* in
*FRONT* of JFK that such a shot could be made.
So tell us Ben, SPECIFICALLY don’t you think *reasonable* people would
agree that for such a *FRONTAL* shot to be able to hit JFK’s neck, a
shooting position would *OF NECESSITY* have to be elevated *high* enough
to shoot over Connally’s body and head? (Again assuming you don’t
have your own FRONTAL SBT.)
If so, from ***where***?
-Were they blasting away from the top of the Triple Underpass in easy
wide-open view of *many* witnesses?
-Shooting from an “elevated” platform somewhere directly in FRONT of
the limo. on Elm Street? :-)
- Suspended from the end of long rope dangling from a military helicopter
just overhead? :-)
-Magic levitation boots and invisibility shield? :-)
You see…it’s not enough to just “scoff” at the SBT, you need your
*OWN* *CREDIBLE* alternatives.
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> So how is this not an issue?
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See above comments…then you tell me.
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> >is how many places in Dealey Plaza were there in *FRONT* of JFK that would
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> Such a location would not be where JFK's neck was visible. So why do you
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> bother to bring up a case that you *KNOW* I've already ruled out with my
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> question of where can you see JFK's neck???
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Because you still haven’t *answered* the *QUESTION*. You have *never*
been asked where the shot *COULDN’T* be made from. You have been
asked---now repeatedly--- from ***WHERE*** *SPECIFICALLY* it
****COULD/DID***** come from!
Now stop *DODGING* the *ACTUAL* question, or be seen for the *reality*
that you have *NO* *CREDIBLE* answers for it!
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> >2) would pass through JFK's neck and *not* hit someone or something behind
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> Why would it be required to hit someone? What did the Parkland doctors
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> suggest happen to this bullet? Are you familiar with this at all?
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I don’t CARE what the Parkland doctor’s thought---see prior comments
about them in this post. I never said that it was *REQUIRED* to hit
someone or something. However, the # of places such a shot could be fired
from that would permit a FMJ bullet to pass through something like a human
neck (that’s liable to cause only slight deflection) and then still
*NOT* hit anyone or anything else behind him and not be noticed has got to
be *VERY* few.
Also, since we must assume that *NO* would-be assassin would take a
low-powered weapon to pull off an assassination, then how on earth would
it be believable that it could fire a FMJ bullet that would *FAIL* to pass
through a human neck, having struck no bone dead-on, nor anything else
first. Now, of course it might not be a FMJ bullet, but that has its own
problems, as I state below.
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> That's what was one of the considerations at Parkland.
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See prior comments.
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> >a) If the latter, was it a FMJ bullet? If so, how does he account for its
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> I find it highly unlikely to have been an FMJ bullet. But, of course, this
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> FMJ's generally are designed for higher velocities, so this is where you
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> I wouldn't think of the configuration of the bullet, I'd be looking at
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So it seems to me that you are proposing one of two *UNLIKELY* scenarios:
1) JFK’s assassin(s) wanted to frame LHO as a “Patsy” with a FMJ
firing high-powered rifle. So what to do? Well instead of the *obvious*
strategy of shooting him from a single location with a high-powered FMJ
rifle (or at *LEAST* from multiple locations that *ALL* used high-powered
FMJ firing bullets) they chose to shoot him up from different locations
using non-FMJ ordinance.
2) They decided, to shoot at him with FMJ ordinance, but of lower
caliber/ordinance. (NOTE: I meant to say "caliber/velocity".)
In either of these “masterful” plots, they create a far *GREATER* need
to do post-assassination cover ups---when a MAXIMUM of attention and
potential players would be involved---than if they’d simply shot him
with the “right stuff” in the **first** place! Yessir! Brilliant!
Simply brilliant!
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> >b) If a non-FMJ bullet, why did they not find it or remnants of it on the
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> There *WAS* distinctive internal damage noted at Parkland.
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AUTOPSIES BEN! AUTOPSIES! That’s when determinations like this are
normally made. Also, if the Parkland doctors were so sure that a non-FMJ
bullet was used (Did they even take X-rays?) Then surely they made some
*CONTEMPORANEOUS* statements when news that the assassination weapon was
believed to be a FMJ military weapon came out that they had *CLEARLY* seen
evidence to the contrary. If not, why not?
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> >My guess is he is really not too interested in getting too *specific* on
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> >such questions because he *knows* that *specificity* is not his friend in
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> I get precisely as specific as the evidence allows. I leave speculation to
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No. You primarily reject the *EVIDENCE* of LHO’s guilt and then make
*wild* assertions involving *VAGUE* shooting scenarios and locations and
suggest large-scale after-the-fact cover ups Gosh…Where’s the
speculation in all of *THAT*?
BTW Ben, I seem to notice that you make two seemingly disconnect points.
On the one hand you keep asserting that the autopsists were ordered by the
plotters to not do various things at the autopsy---presumably to keep them
from discovering the truth; right?
Then please explain where the part about *Humes* coming in and removing
the bullets before the “official” autopsy began around 8? Could that
be from Horne? If HUMES was IN on it, WHY the effort to keep the
autopsists from discovering the truth? Surely Boswell and Finck could
have as easily been brought on board or “convinced” to go along with
Humes. If not, why not?