Letters to the Editor

• More hogswill from vidor 1

  [Read the article: Bugliosi vs. "Brothers"]
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  vidor1 wrote:

  Long, long ago. Oswald. By himself. Talbot continues to embarass both himself and Salon by tooting the horn of the tinfoil hat brigade

  Oswald had no part in the assassination, or - if he did - it wasn't to effect any key (kill) shots. The wound placements, etc. already show this.

  As the Parkland drs. (Carrico, Crenshaw etc.) noted, the path of "cavitation" with the wound width increasing, was toward the REAR of the skull not the front. Also, the way the brain fragments blew out disclosed that a "dum-dum" bullet was responsible, not your garden variety 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano fare.

  The autopsy photos had clearly been doctored and as David Lifton also noted (Best Evidence) there were clear indications the autopsy itself was "doctored" when at Bethesda. The best policy would have been to allow the Parkland drs. tend to the matter, and not Humes and Boswell (the Bethesda autopsists) who had only limited experience with gunshot wounds.

  The Harper bone fragment itself was later identified as a piece of the rear skull. Or "occipital region" bone. Dr. Charles Baxter corrected script read into the WC record that the "temporal and parietal bones were missing". This comports with Drs. Carrico's and Crenshaws own assessments.

  This also agrees with Crenshaw (in his book) that the occipital bone fragment had clearly been dislodged.

  By virtue of the laws of conservation of linear momentum in physics a rear bone CANNOT be dislodged or displaced by a rear shot! It can only occur via the forward momentum from a FRONTAL shot. Hence, to blow out the occipital bone (which, incidentally, is also clearly seen flying over the limo boot in the Nix film) the shot must have come from the FRONT.

  This was surely the kill shot, but Oswald was not alleged at any time to be in the front of the limo as it progressed down Elm St. toward the Triple Overpass. Hence, it follows that Oswald could not have fired the kill shot, even if he had been part of the plan.

  We now come to the central issue of wound location and placement. If one accepts the autopsy report (written) as accurate (**) it is placed:

  "in the upper right posterior thorax just above the upper border of the scapula there is a 7 x 4 millimeter oval wound. This wound is measured to be 14 cm from the tip of the right acromion process and 14 cm below the tip of the right mastoid process."

  ** HSCA, Vol. 7, pp. 228-29, 223, 218,

  ! ! Neck

  ! x !_______

  !Shoulder

  C * !

  The above simplified view (rear view) shows how far off this places the correct bullet entry site (C)from the site which is not correct (x) - but which was referenced(WCT, p73) by the Warren Commission Report. The actual bullet wound in the back can be seen clearly in photos (ibid.). It can also be referenced with respect to the bullet wound in the back, and the puncture made by the bullet in the jacket JFK was wearing ('Killing of a President', p78).

  This wound placement - as described in the autopsy report reference(above) and shown in the photographs, is also clearly deduced by reference to the detailed anatomical diagrams in Gray's Anatomy (8, cf. Mastoid process, p. 31 -top, p. 216; and Acromion Process, p. 88, p.91).

  The Mastoid Process is the concave bone structure just behind the ear. The Acromion Process is the peak or summit of the triangular shaped bone overlying the scapula, and is "flattened from behind outwards, directed at first a little upwards, ,so as to overhang the glenoid cavity. Its upper surface, directed upwards, backwards and outwards, is convex,

  rough and gives attachment to some fibers of the deltoid."

  All of the above, mean that the position reported by the Warren

  Commission, is at the very least erroneous and quite possibly prevarication. Certainly, the misplacement of this crucial back wound undermines the entire underpinning of the single bullet theory.

  Worse, it discloses that the Bethesda autopsists themselves may have been complicit, i.e. lied, to make the single bullet theory work. This claim is reinforced by the fact that on their Autopsy Body Chart, they did correctly identify the location - not in the base of the neck (as their WC testimony averred) but six inches lower (as depicted in the diagram above). Thus, either they falsified the facts in their testimony, or the Warren Commission itself did, to make it compatible with their single bullet-lone nut nonsense.

  Again, there is NO evidence of a bullet wound in the back of the HEAD. The only evidence for a rear wound is in the upper back, as described above. The kill shot had to have come from the front, in order to blow out the occipital bone and propel it 25' behind the limo where W. Harper found it.

  The House Select Committee on Assassinations (1978-79) Invvestigation found evidence in (dictabelt) recordings for SIX shots in all, and a possible seventh. It was this finding in particular that led the HSCA to conclude for a “96% probability of conspiracy”. Since all those shots couldn’t have been fired by the alleged M-C in the time.

  It is clear from the complaints of the lone nut brigade, and notably “vidor1”- that "De-nial", is not merely a river in Egypt. Bottom line: David Talbot has this sucker exactly right. I am glad to see his prominent voice out there, and one last effort to put the addle-pated Warren Commission fairy story to rest.

  As the Mensa Bulletin noted in a piece back in '94, the only folks who still buy the WC hhogswill also believe in human virgin birth.

  Permalink Friday, May 18, 2007 05:09 PM