The Man Who "Picked up a bullet"
John Mcadams
In article <4soogf$4...@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>,
JudyM28456 <judym...@aol.com> wrote:
>Has this bullet ever been recovered or is related to the one officer ( I
>am sorry all of these names are not in my mind) who many think picked up
>and put something in his pocket, but there is no report of his findings?
>Words of Wisdom are written everywhere
I think you are talking about the actions in two series of photos of
Dealey Plaza after the shooting -- one by Jim Murray and the other by
William Allen.
Conspiracy books always assert that a man in a suit in these photos was
picking up a bullet.
In fact, there is no evidence at all that it was a bullet that he was
picking up.
Officer James Foster was standing nearby, and when researcher Mark Oakes
asked him whether he had seen the man "picking up a bullet and putting it
in his pocket or anything like that," Foster responded "No sir."
During the time of the Garrison investigation, Jim Murray made blow-up
prints of his original negatives. They didn't show a bullet. Indeed,
they didn't show any object clearly -- although Murray thought a
discoloration in the photo could have been a heel mark or a piece of
tissue from Kennedy's head.
See PICTURES OF THE PAIN, pp. 496-498.
.John
Eric Paddon
jmca...@earth.execpc.com (John Mcadams) wrote:
>Officer James Foster was standing nearby, and when researcher Mark Oakes
>asked him whether he had seen the man "picking up a bullet and putting it
>in his pocket or anything like that," Foster responded "No sir."
>
>During the time of the Garrison investigation, Jim Murray made blow-up
>prints of his original negatives. They didn't show a bullet. Indeed,
>they didn't show any object clearly -- although Murray thought a
>discoloration in the photo could have been a heel mark or a piece of
>tissue from Kennedy's head.
>.John
>
To supplement this point, the WC testimony of both Foster and E.R.
Walthers make abundantly clear that they never saw a bullet recovered, but
only a hole in the turf that they thought was the spot where a bullet had
(in Foster's words) "riccocheted on out."
I believe that part of the confusion was originally caused by a newspaper
headline in one of the Dallas papers that ran the photo and made the
erroneous assumption that a bullet slug was being recovered.
Whatever the case, there's certainly no evidence to support the bizarre
narrative of Jim Marrs that the man in the photo picked the bullet up,
cupped it in his hand, put it in his pants pocket and walked away
nonchalantly.
Eric Paddon
Greg Jaynes
Buddy Walthers partner, Al Maddox told Mark Oakes that Buddy told him that
they *did* find a bullet. Walthers wife also told Mark the same thing.
( In a video taped interview last month)
Now , I understand the concept of hearsay and I realize that is all this is.
But Buddy Walthers seems to have told this story to people he was close to.
Greg Jaynes
Eric Paddon
Greg Jaynes <jay...@flash.net> wrote:
>Buddy Walthers partner, Al Maddox told Mark Oakes that Buddy told him that
>they *did* find a bullet. Walthers wife also told Mark the same thing.
> ( In a video taped interview last month)
>Now , I understand the concept of hearsay and I realize that is all this is.
>But Buddy Walthers seems to have told this story to people he was close to.
>
>Greg Jaynes
Yet several months after the assassination, Walthers said unequivocally to
the WC, and under oath, that he never found anything other than where a
bullett had struck.
That to me, is the final word on what Walthers saw, coupled with the
corroborating testimony of Foster.
Eric Paddon
John Mcadams
In article <lpeaseDw...@netcom.com> lpe...@netcom.com (Lisa Pease) writes:
>Eric Paddon (ep99...@oak.cats.ohiou.edu) wrote:
>: Greg Jaynes <jay...@flash.net> wrote:
>
>: >Buddy Walthers partner, Al Maddox told Mark Oakes that Buddy told him that
>: >they *did* find a bullet. Walthers wife also told Mark the same thing.
>: > ( In a video taped interview last month)
>: >Now , I understand the concept of hearsay and I realize that is all this is.
>: >But Buddy Walthers seems to have told this story to people he was close to.
>: >
>: >Greg Jaynes
>
>: Yet several months after the assassination, Walthers said unequivocally to
>: the WC, and under oath, that he never found anything other than where a
>: bullett had struck.
>
>
>testimony. We can't be sure WHAT Walthers really said to them.
>
>
Unfortunately, the witnesses who said this are obvious crackpots: people
like Jean Hill and Roger Craig.
When we compare their testimony with contemporary documents and news
reports we find them telling the same story to the WC that they were
telling everybody else.
But *later* when they started telling much more "interesting" stories
they found the need to explain why their WC testimony didn't include all
the "interesting" stuff they were saying.
They quickly found that buffs would buy the "WC ate my testimony" excuse.
.John