On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 12:03:47 PM UTC-4, Ben Holmes wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:43:57 -0700 (PDT), donald willis
> <
dcwi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 8:06:11 AM UTC-7, Ben Holmes wrote:
> >> ************************************************************
> >> "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 Warren Commission
> >> defenders, Bugliosi too refuses to answer the evidence.
> >>
> >> David Mantik made the mistake of thinking that he was addressing the
> >> question to an honest man. A mistake that I rarely make - having had
> >> much experience with the sort of Warren Commission defenders who
> >> inhabit forums.
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >> *************************************************************
> >> 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.
> >> *************************************************************
> >>
> >> Now, if you'd like to claim that these were addressed by Bugliosi
> >> (rather than just referred to), you'll have to cite the page number,
> >> or QUOTE the response.
> >>
> >> But you won't...
> >>
> >> You can't.
> >
> >I find #5 especially intriguing. Can you elaborate?
> You only need know one scientific fact... larger bullet fragments have
> more mass that smaller fragments. And since they have the same
> initial velocity, those that are larger will travel further.
>
> That's elementary science.
Explain why the smaller fragments remained in the head while the two largest fragments (comprising nearly half the mass of a whole bullet between the two fragments) exited the head and were found inside the limousine in front of the President.
== QUOTE ==
Mr. EISENBERG - I now hand you a bullet fragment, what appears to be a bullet fragment, in a pill box which is labeled jacket and Lead Q-2, and it has certain initials on it. For the record, this was found--this bullet fragment was found--in the front portion of the car in which the President was riding. I ask you whether you are familiar with this object.
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes; I am.
Mr. EISENBERG - Is your mark on--
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG - Did you examine this? Is this a bullet fragment, Mr. Frazier?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir. This consists of a piece of the jacket portion of a bullet from the nose area and a piece of the lead core from under the jacket.
Mr. EISENBERG - How were you able to conclude it is part of the nose area?
Mr. FRAZIER - Because of the rifling marks which extend part way up the side, and then have the characteristic leading edge impressions and no longer continue along the bullet, and by the fact that the bullet has a rounded contour to it which has not been mutilated.
Mr. EISENBERG - Did you examine this bullet to determine whether it had been fired from Exhibit 139 to the exclusion of all other weapons?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG - What was your conclusion?
Mr. FRAZIER - This bullet fragment was fired in this rifle, 139.
Mr. EISENBERG - Mr. Frazier, did you weigh this fragment?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes; I did. It weighs 44.6 grains.
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Mr. EISENBERG - Now finally in the category of bullets and bullet fragments, I hand you what is apparently a bullet fragment, which is in a pill box marked Q-3, and which, I state for the record, was also found in the front portion of the President's car, and I ask you whether you are familiar with this item, marked Q-3?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; this was submitted to me as having been found beside the front seat of the automobile.
Mr. EISENBERG - Your mark is on that fragment?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, it is.
Mr. EISENBERG - When did you receive that fragment, Mr. Frazier?
Mr. FRAZIER - At 11:50 p.m., November 22, 1963, from Special Agent Orrin Bartlett, our liaison agent with the Secret Service, in the FBI laboratory.
Mr. EISENBERG - And the last bullet fragment you examined, Exhibit 567, when did you receive that?
Mr. FRAZIER - It was received at the same time from Special Agent Bartlett.
Mr. EISENBERG - Did you examine both at that time, Mr. Frazier?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir; beginning the following morning, November 23.
Mr. EISENBERG - Mr. Chairman, may I have this bullet fragment marked Q-3 admitted as Commission 569?
Mr. McCLOY - It may be admitted.
(The item, identified as Commission Exhibit No. 569, was received in evidence.)
Mr. EISENBERG - Mr. Frazier, did you examine this bullet fragment with a view to determining whether it had been fired from the rifle, Exhibit 139?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG - What was your conclusion?
Mr. FRAZIER - This bullet fragment, Exhibit 569, was fired from this particular rifle, 139.
Mr. EISENBERG - Again to the exclusion of all other rifles?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG - Did you weigh this fragment, Mr. Frazier?
Mr. FRAZIER - Yes, I did. It weighs 21.0 grains.
== UNQUOTE ==
The largest fragments exited the head entirely and were found forward of the President in the limousine.
Hank