On Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7:45:54 AM UTC-5, Gil Jesus wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 8:56:03 PM UTC-5, Hank Sienzant wrote:
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> > We'll await your reconstruction of the event and how Brewer saw a gun in Oswald's hand that Oswald didn't pull from his waist.
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> > Go ahead...
> You're the "more knowledgeable" one and I have to keep explaining things to you ?
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> George Applin told reporter Earl Golz that he thought the gun came from the officer's holster.
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1. When did Applin first come forward with this claim? Your page is undated, but I believe Golz started looking into the Kennedy assassination in the mid-70s - a decade after the assassination.
2. How did a revolver traceable to Oswald just happen to be in the officer’s possession?
3. What’s the evidence for that?
4. Isn’t your theory based on one years-later claim of a uncorroborated witness?
5. Couldn’t your excuse be used to get everyone ever convicted off?
6. What did Applin say in his Warren Commission testimony?
7. Did the conspirators forge Applin’s signature on this affidavit, when he says nothing about the weapon coming from the Officer’s holster?
https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/applin1.htm
“As the officer started to shake him down, and when he did, this boy took a swing at the officer and then the next thing I could see was this boy had his arm around the officer's left shoulder and had a pistol in his hand. I heard the pistol snap at least once.”
8. McDonald searched two other patrons in the theatre before approaching Oswald. Please explain why the police didn’t plant a weapon on either of them, or attempt to frame either or boththem. 9. Please explain why Oswald was the only one that threw a punch at the officer, and drew a gun on the officer and had to be subdued by multiple policemen. Please explain why the person they decided to frame just happened to have a weapon traceable to the shells discarded by the gunman seen reloading after shooting Tippit, and please explain why this guy they settled on asTippit’s killer and decided to frame for that just happened to work at the TSBD and could be framed for the assassination as well. Boy, that was really convenient, huh?
Your theory makes no sense on so many levels.
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> Ever hear of the term "drop gun" ? Probably not.
> A “drop gun” was a weapon that was usually planted on someone by police, or at the scene of a crime in order to implicate that person of a crime.
> The gun itself would be one that could not be traced back to the cop who planted it.
But this one is traceable specifically to Oswald. How’d that happen?
Why’d Oswald admit in custody he brought his revolver to the theatre, and punched an officer?
What happened to Oswald’s revolver, if this one is planted?
Why bother to utilize a drop gun if the suspect is armed, and admitting to that?
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> McDonald testified:
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> “It was just natural that my hand went to his waist for a weapon, which was my intent anyway, whether he raised his hands or not.” ( 3 H 303 )
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> Natural ? No, that’s not the way it’s done.
Based on your decades as a police officer?
> You don't shake down a suspect beginning at his waist. You always start at the shoulders and work down.
Cite for this.
Show this is what police *always* do.
Show that McDonald, who was there, and testified under oath, do what you are claiming he didn’t do.
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> Combine this with what George Applin told Earl Golz that he believed the revolver came from McDonald, and the evidence seems to support a planting of the revolver.
Except Oswald admitted in custody he punched an officer and brought his weapon to the theatre.
For example, this FBI report says this:
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0319a.htm
“Oswald admitted to carrying this pistol to this movie…”
Was the FBI just willing to go along with this supposed police frame-up of an innocent Oswald?
> Is this why Oswald threw a punch at McDonald, because he stuffed a revolver in his waistband ?
Hilarious! Why didn’t Oswald claim this in custody?
At the time of the encounter in the theatre, the police were looking for a cop-killer.
Why would a cop try to put a pistol into the possession of a suspected cop-killer?
How did the pistol wind up in Oswald’s hand, as Brewer, Applin, and McDonald all state?
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> McDonald testified that Oswald drew the weapon as he put his hand on Oswald’s waist. ( 3 H 300 )
No, he said Oswald reached for it.
== quote ==
Mr. McDONALD - My left hand, at this point.
Mr. BALL - And had he withdrawn the pistol
Mr. McDONALD - He was drawing it as I put my hand.
Mr. BALL - From his waist?
Mr. McDONALD - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - What happened then?
Mr. McDONALD - Well, whenever I hit him, we both fell into the seats. While we were struggling around there, with this hand on the gun--
== unquote ==
And Oswald then punched the officer (Applin, Brewer, McDonald) and the struggle ensued.
But it was Oswald’s revolver, traceable to him, and he admittedly took it to the theatre.
And he assaulted a policeman attempting to search him. The other two guys submitted to a search with attempting to assassinate McDonald. Why do you suppose Oswald reacted differently
You’ve conjectured a frame-up, but the evidence indicates otherwise.
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> But Officer C.T. Walker testified that Oswald did not immediately pull the revolver when he knocked McDonald back against the seats.
See above. That’s what McDonald said.
> “..it stayed there for a second or two. He didn’t get it out. ” ( Testimony of C.T. Walker, 7 H 39 )
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> Why not ? Why did he not display an intent to use it ?
Reaching for it and punching an officer in the face doesn’t display an intent to use it in your world?
Do the police have to wait until the suspect is actively shooting before they attempt to disarm him?
If not, when should they first attempt to disarm the person suspected of shooting a policeman?
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> And why did McDonald lie ?
You haven’t shown he did.
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> Why did McDonald also lie about getting the webbing of his hand between the firing pin and the cartridge's primer ? The FBI found that the hammer would have had to have been cocked all the way back in order for the firing pin to hit the primer. ( 3 H 463 ) That would have caused an enormous amount of pain for McDonald.
Applin — your witness - testified to hearing a click.
With two hands on the action, the revolver’s chamber couldn’t revolve. Perhaps that was the click Applin and McDonald heard.
> Why did no one report his screams of agony ? Why is there no record of his receiving medical attention for his injury ?
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> McDonald also lied about the gun misfiring. The FBI found that the mark on one of the unfired rounds was not made by the weapon's firing pin. ( 3 H 460 )
This is what McDonald surmised from the click he heard and felt, but what he testified to is different:
== quote ==
Mr. McDONALD - It felt like something had grazed across my hand. I felt movement there. And that was the only movement I felt. And I heard a snap. I didn't know what it was at the time.
Mr. BALL - Was the pistol out of his waist at that time?
Mr. McDONALD - Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL - Do you know any way it was pointed?
Mr. McDONALD - Well, I believe the muzzle was toward me, because the sensation came across this way. **To make a movement like that, it would have to be the cylinder or the hammer.**
== unquote ==
> Which means it was planted.
Which means nothing of the sort.
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> That's your star witness, Hank. The liar McDonald who lied about being injured,
This guy was lying about being injured in the struggle with Oswald?
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0271a.htm
> who lied about the gun misfiring and who was probably the one who planted the fake mark on the cartridge
> to try to support his story.
Sorry, no, he testified that the cyclinder could have made the sound he heard. Right?
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> And if they planted the mark on the cartridge, how do you know they didn't plant the weapon ?
You haven’t established any of this. You ignore the contrary evidence and just use suppositions and conjecture to reach the conclusions you want to reach.
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> Who would have handed McDonald a weapon to plant on Oswald ?
> That's easy. Capt. W.R Westbrook.
> McDonald and Capt. Westbrook knew each other. In fact, Westbrook was previously McDonald’s commanding officer in another division. ( 7 H 112 )
> So they were well acquainted with each other. And Westbrook was CIA.
And Westbrook just happened to have a weapon traceable to Oswald on him?
And somehow the FBI went along with this frame-up?
If the police and the FBI were going to lie about what Oswald was saying in custody, why did they not say Oswald admitted shooting Tippit in custody? And the President?
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> McDonald's whole version of events is debunked by the evidence and testimony.
No, your theories are.
> Anyone who believes him believes in unicorns and sugar-plum-fairies.
By “him” you mean Gil Jesus?