Bugliosi Ducks the 16 Smoking Guns (Omissions, Misrepresentations, and Probable Outright Lies)

[Ben Holmes]

"James Fetzer, PhD, is the editor of the only exclusively scientific books
(three) on the assassination. David Mantik, MD, PhD, is among the leading
conspiracy researchers and writers in the current conspiracy community. They
are both good and sincere men. Dr. Fetzer wrote me on January, 23, 2001;

'What would it take, David Mantik has asked me to inquire of you. What would it
take to convince you of the existence of a conspiracy and cover-up in the death
of JFK? What would it take to persuade you of Oswald's innocence, which is not
necessarily the same thing? Are none of our major discoveries - our '16 smoking
guns,' for example - convincing? And if not, why? And, if not, then what would
it take?'

Only evidence, Drs. Fetzer and Mantik. Only evidence." - Reclaiming History,
page 974.

Sadly, although the above quote from Bugliosi's book makes it quite clear that
Bugliosi was well acquainted with the 16 smoking guns... Bugliosi didn't have
the guts to actually address these issues.

For in what has become expected behavior for LNT'ers, Bugliosi too refuses to
answer the evidence.

David Mantik made the mistake of thinking that he was addressing the question to
an honest man.

Although the details of each "Smoking Gun" must be appreciated by reading the
book - here's a synopsis of what Bugliosi simply ran away from:

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For the official government account of the death of JFK to be true, therefore,
at least the following three conjectures - "hypotheses," let us call them, to
avoid begging the question by taking for granted what needs to be established on
independent grounds - have to be true:

(H1) JFK was hit at the base of the back of his neck by a bullet that
transversed his neck without hitting any bony structures and exited his throat
at the level of his tie;

(H2) JFK was hit in the back of his head by a bullet fired from the sixth floor
of the Texas School Book Depository, as its diagrams display, causing his death;
and,

(H3) these bullets were fired by a sole assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, using a
high powered rifle, which was identified as a 6.5 mm Italian Mannlicher-Carcano.

Smoking Gun #1: (H1) is an anatomical impossibility, because the bullet would
have had to impact bony structures.

Smoking Gun #2: The head shot trajectory is inconsistent with the position of
his head at the time of the shot, falsifying (H2).

Smoking Gun #3: The weapon, which was not even a rifle, could not have fired the
bullets that killed the President, falsifying (H3).

Smoking Gun #4: The bullets, which were standard copper-jacketed World War II
vintage military ammunition, could not have caused the explosive damage.

Smoking Gun #5: The axis of metallic debris is inconsistent with a shot from
behind but consistent with a shot that entered the area of the right temple.

Smoking Gun #6: The official autopsy report was contradicted by more than 40
eyewitness reports and was inconsistent with HSCA diagrams and photographs.

Smoking Gun #7: These eyewitness reports were rejected on the basis of the
X-rays, which have been fabricated in at least two different ways.

Smoking Gun #8: Diagrams and photos of a brain in the National Archives are of
the brain of someone other than JFK.

Smoking Gun #9: Those who took and processed the autopsy photographs claim that
parts of the photographic record have been altered, created, or destroyed.

Smoking Gun #10: The Zapruder film, among others, has been extensively edited
using highly sophisticated techniques.

Smoking Gun #11: The official conclusion contradicts widely-broadcast reports on
radio and television about two shots fired from the front.

Smoking Gun #12: The (fabricated) X-rays, (altered) autopsy photographs, and
even the (edited) Zapruder film were improperly used to discredit eyewitness
reports.

Smoking Gun #13: The motorcade route was changed at the last minute and yet the
assassination occurred on the part that had been changed.

Smoking Gun #14: Secret Service policies for the protection of the President
were massively violated during the motorcade in Dallas.

Smoking Gun #15: Neither the Mafia nor pro- or anti-Castro Cubans nor the KGB
could have done any of these things - [fabricated autopsy X-rays; substituted
the brain of someone else for the brain of JFK; created, altered, or destroyed
autopsy photographs; or subjected motion pictures, such as the Zapruder film, to
extensive editing using highly sophisticated techniques] - much less Lee Oswald,
who was either incarcerated or already dead.

Smoking Gun #16: Many individuals knew details about the assassination before
and after the fact, all of whom viewed Lee Oswald as no more than a patsy.
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[eca...@tx.rr.com]

Ben what do you hear from "John Welsh Hodges?"
How about the "book" he was coming out with
that would demolish VB?

You made both the book and the author up Ben.
Two lies. Back-to-back.

Ed