On Thursday, December 7, 2023 at 6:25:18 PM UTC-5, Ben Holmes wrote:
> >> 4. What pushed you into the LN camp?
> >
> > In the early 1980s I purchased the complete 26 volumes of the Warren
> > Commission Volumes of Hearings and Evidence from the Presidents Box
> > Bookshop for $2,500. About the same time I purchased the 12 House
> > Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Volumes of the Hearings and
> > Evidence from the Government Printing Office for (as I recall) $89.
> >
> > I immediately started to read through everything, and I read through
> > everything twice. I lost a lot of sleep and went to work more than
> > once bleary-eyed as I had stayed up until two, three, or four in the
> > morning before falling asleep. I started reading those volumes with
> > the express purpose of finding the conspirators - the conspiracy books
> > hinted at conspirators but never came out and named any. i was intent
> > on finding them.
>
>
> Of course, Huckster can't quote a *SINGLE* book he read that "hinted"
> that conspirators would be found in the testimony.
Not what I said. I said the conspiracy books hinted at conspirators but never named any.
They do what Gil does, attack the evidence the Warren Commission compiled, contrasting one witness’ recollection against another, accepting the one they like and discarding the other(s).
Unlike Gil, I took it upon myself to understand the testimony and evidence better, in the hopes of determining the conspirators. I found instead the conspiracy books were lying by omission and commission, and the evidence against Oswald was solid.
>
> And clearly, he didn't read the testimony clearly enough - because he
> *should* have spotted the fact that the WCR lied repeatedly about the
> eyewitnesses.
Another assertion without evidence by you.
>
>
> > As I read through the testimony and examined the evidence, I found a
> > massive -- MASSIVE -- disconnect between what the conspiracy books
> > were saying about the testimony and evidence and what the testimony
> > and evidence itself was saying to me. I found the conspiracy authors
> > were selectively quoting from the testimony to build a case for
> > conspiracy, but not telling the full truth. I found they were guilty
> > of the sins they accused the Warren Commission of, while the Warren
> > Commission was being falsely accused by them of being unfaithful to
> > the evidence.
>
>
> Just don't ask Huckster to support this with examples.
What did Mark Lane say about the stretcher where CE399 was found near? What did he fail to mention to leave a false impression? We discussed in detail a few years ago. You remember how you never did explain why Lane left out what nurse Wester said, among other details? And how that evidence changes the impression of whose stretcher the bullet was found near?
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/wester.htm
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.conspiracy.jfk/c/fuA0ojlSEEo/m/Wx-cRh-iBgAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.conspiracy.jfk/c/PSvt4MFUxUI/m/5rs-QeSvBgAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.conspiracy.jfk/c/PSvt4MFUxUI/m/5rs-QeSvBgAJ
> I'm quite sure
> that I currently own any book that Huckster could have been referring
> to, and can quickly look up the statement, AND THE CONTEXT - but
> Huckster simply refuses to back up his lie.
>
> And clearly... it *IS* a lie. There's no "disconnect" between
> "conspiracy books" and the evidence & testimony.
>
> I've asked him in the past to support this, but he simply runs away.
Another empty assertion by you.
Read almost any conspiracy book, one of the things they discuss - in detail - is the witnesses who heard four or more shots. What they don't discuss in equal detail is the far greater number of witnesses who heard exactly three. They leave a false impression of more shots than three.
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> EVERY
>
> SINGLE
>
> TIME!
>
> And he'll so so again...
>
>
> > I went in a conspiracy theorist, I came out understanding Oswald
> > committed the assassination alone and unaided.
>
>
> Then you are aware of the evidence for a pre-autopsy autopsy - yet
> remain silent when Corbutt denies it.
Another thing you assert but provide no evidence for.
> You're aware of the evidence
> for a Grassy Knoll shooter - yet remain silent.
No, we discussed this in detail, and I showed how many of those named as knoll witnesses aren’t.
>
> Looks to me like you're merely proving yourself a liar.
>
>
> > From that point forward, as new claims of the conspiracy came
> > online, I found each had a begged premise or took something out of
> > context or was an assumption based on suspicion, and the like. None of
> > the claims withstood scrutiny. The last book I actually held out hope
> > for was Lifton's Best Evidence, but I found his conclusions from scant
> > and fragmentary evidence more than a little bizarre, as he simply
> > ignored non-conspiratorial and far-more-reasonable explanations in
> > arguing for a conspiracy.
>
>
> So list them... let's examine them. Cite the page number as well, so
> we can make sure you're not simply lying again.
>
> Let's hear this "scant and fragmentary" evidence... surely you aren't
> afraid to let others examine it.
>
> But, of course, you won't.
Two off the top of my head:
1. He makes a big deal of the bullet entering and exiting from behind, presuming that means the autopsy reveals the bullet exited out the back of the head, but it doesn't mean that at all.
2. He makes a big deal out of a hearsay document by two men with no medical expertise, that mentions *apparent* surgery of the top of the head.
He thinks that establishes surgery of the head. It doesn't.
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>
> > One of my friends brought up the book after seeing Lifton on a
> > morning TV talk show speaking about the book. He mentioned the author
> > (he didn't recall the name) was talking about a conspiracy to alter
> > the President's wounds and make it look like the shots came from the
> > rear when all the shooters were in front of the President. I knew the
> > flaw in Lifton's premise and immediately pointed it out. "Who altered
> > Connally's wounds?" He was old enough to remember the assassination
> > and understood exactly why the body alteration theory of Lifton makes
> > no sense. If all the shooters were in front of the President, then
> > Connally's wounds - which point to the rear - must have been altered
> > as well.
>
>
> Why don't you pull out your copy of "Best Evidence" - and QUOTE David
> Lifton on the direction of the shots.
>
> But you won't... you're clearly a coward and a liar...
>
>
> > Fast forward to 1992 or 1993, I am at a Kennedy assassination
> > Symposium in Dallas, and David Lifton is giving a lecture. There is a
> > Q&A afterward, and I ask Lifton along these lines, "If all the
> > shooters were in front of the President, there were also in front of
> > Governor Connally. So who altered Connally's wounds, which point to a
> > shooter above and behind?"
>
>
> Surely you don't expect people to believe you?
>
>
> > He said, "That's a very good question," and said he'd be addressing
> > that in his next book. He never did respond meaningfully to the
> > question. Meanwhile nearly 30 years later, I'm still waiting for
> > Lifton to address the issue that exposes his book as knuckleheaded
> > nonsense.
Back up 20 years or more from today.
On alt.assassination.jfk (the moderated forum), I confronted Lifton with that very question, who altered Connally’s wounds? He didn't deny the necessity to alter Connally’s wounds as you do, he said he would tell me at a future date — May 5th, 2004. That date came and went. He never explained when and how Connally’s wounds were altered, and he never denied the need for them to be altered either. He certainly understood his own theory (and the ramifications of his theory) better than you do.
Read it for yourself. From January 11, 2002:
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.assassination.jfk/c/JwGAWbhZgDk/m/pjZxCmrWRscJ
== quote ==
> > > Who altered Connally's wounds, David?
> > >
> > > After all this time, you're still unable to answer that basic
> > > question.
> >
> > WRONG (again). I am certainly capable of addressing this question and
> > in detail, but choose not to at this time.
>
> Translation: You have absolutely no clue how Connally's wounds were
> altered, but the alteration of Connally's wounds is absolutely
> necessary to your theory, so you maintain you do know, but just won't
> tell us at this time.
CORRECT TRANSLATION: I choose not to deal with that matter in this
e-mail post.
>
> The JFK assassin happened 38 years ago, David. If you won't tell us
> now, when?
May 5, 2004; at 10:30 am.
>
> And what's the need for the big secret anyway?
There's something I cannot discuss that will be occurring that May 5,
at 9:20 am, and which must remain confidential.
DSL
== unquote ==
>
>
> So your working hypothesis is if a claim is made that you cannot cite
> or quote in a book, you can label the entire book as "nonsense."
Straw Man argument.
>
> You clearly aren't intelligent enough
Ad hominem.
> to think such a theory all the
> way through. Do you realize that you've just labeled the WCR as
> "nonsense?"
No, that’s your strawman argument.