Al Schlaf wrote:

"Just because the high and mighty are brought down does not necessarily mean that such requires and equally powerful adverse force. Oft times, it is just plain damn chance, bad luck or happenstance.

"

Yeah, but in JFK's case it was neither. The compendium of evidence - especially since the acoustic tests performed in conjunction with the House Subcommittee on Assassinations (1978-79) shows the hit was the product of a conspiracy.

The team found evidence in their 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.

The team took the analog (straight audio) recording captured on dictabelt and transformed the sounds into digitized wave forms to make a visual re-creation of the shots. They also filtered out the noise (from a motorcycle engine) then analyzed the tape for other notable impulses. (They also clearly identified gunshot type echoes by fabricating other non-gunshot echoes and recording them and comparing them to what was on the dictabelt record)

They were able to isolate at least six clear shot associated impulses and a possible seventh – clearly pointing to at least a 2nd gunman and a conspiracy. The experts also used the recording to measure the time span in which the gunshots were fired, and were able to match the auditory impulse patterns to specific frames in the Zapruder film

A Carillon bell was also picked up, and continued sounding for at least seven seconds after the last recorded shot.

Test shots fired from the Grassy Knoll position (from behind the stockade fence) produced echo patterns that proved that the impulses on the dictabelt couldbe gunshots from this location with high probability (exceeding 90%) and NOT backfire noise from a motorcycle as the NAS independent study tried to claim.

Michael Parenti (Dirty Truths) has correctly noted that the error made by most JFK conspiracy naysayers (who dispute the import of the man or event) is that they confuse the low political value of the man with the monumental value of the assassination.

Let's bear in mind in terms of the latter, that in the last six months of his life, JFK made waves in many quarters with his actions and announced intentions - not the least of which were:

- Decision to repeal the Oil Depletion Tax Allowance in June, 1963. This would have seen oil profits drop by 21- 24% and would not have put a smile on the oil barons' faces

- June 4, 1963 issuance of Executive order 11,110 to withdraw Federal Reserve Notes and replace with "U.S. Notes". This would have taken the brokering of the money out of the hands of the Federal Reserve. (I still have two U.S. notes, a $2 and a $5 from that period - neither of which has the words 'Federal Reserve' on) JFK succeeded in transferring $4.2 billion total to U.S. notes before he was assassinated, and the E.O. rescinded by Johnson.

- August, 1963 signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty which ALSO forbade production of anti-ballistic missiles.

- Sept- Oct, 1963 rapprochement with Fidel Castro through his aide-de-camp Rene Vallejo. This has been well documented by National Archives reseacher Peter Kornbluh.

- Nov. 1963 signing of National Security Action Memorandum 263 which would have seen all U.S. advisors, personnel pulled out of VietNam by the end of 1965. This appeared in archival documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and was reported, for example, by The Baltimore Sun in Nov. 1997. ('JFK Planned Pullout from 'Nam')

After the assassination, LBJ issued NSAM 273 which basically overturned NSAM 263 and went forward with the war. (With much gusto after the bogus Tonkin Gulf incident).

There were plenty of reasons to show and disclose that the high powers in the shadow government were not prepared to tolerate a 2nd JFK term. Oswald - meanwhile- was merely their expendable patsy just as he claimed. A loser who was tagged to take the fall ab initio by the Warren Whitewash Committee, and offer the real architects the plausible deniability they wanted.

Ann Coulter is a crazy skank who should have been committed to a rubber room years ago, mounted in a straight jacket and given regular shots of thorazine. How any sane person can remotely support this mannish-looking harpy is beyond me.

I myself was appalled she was even allowed a forum for her hate spiel on 'Hardball'. But then, this is Tweety Bird we are talking about - and he will bend over for anything or anyone to get higher ratings.

The best solution for Coultergeist would be for every major media outlet to ignore the freak. She certainly doesn't garner any encomiums for the Right - only makes them look even more like whacked out whackjobs.