COMMENTS POSTED TO THE INDEPENDENT
This article tells us very little worth knowing while
ignoring some tremendously important facts.
Apart from leaving out two unexplained cut-out mattes we
have of someone standing in the backyard, the kind of thing used in forging
composite photos in those days, even were the photo of Oswald authentic as
claimed, it proves precisely nothing.
We know Oswald was carrying on a deception campaign about
being a communist. In fact, he was a paid FBI informant (we even have his
identifying number) during this effort which included everything from writing
letters to handing out pamphlets.
He had previously been a phony defector to Russia for over
two years in a program created by the Office of Naval Intelligence, a
brainchild of the CIA’s legendary and often bizarre James Angleton. As a young
Marine, one of above-average intelligence, Oswald was selected for Russian
language training and suddenly started receiving communist literature at his
barracks, to the amusement of his fellows. This was unquestionably to help
build a “legend” for his future phony defection in a rather questionable program
intended to discover what day-to-day life was like in the Soviet Union.
There is also absolutely no evidence Oswald actually
purchased a mail-order rifle from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago. It is too
detailed to go into, but it remains completely unsettled whether he or someone
else made this purchase. There is significant evidence that another unknown
person had access to Oswald’s postal box.
The “killer” shot – the one to the right temple which explosively
exited the rear of Kennedy’s skull, the occipitoparietal area, with a spray of material,
including half his brain. Police outriders were hit with some of this gruesome stuff.
Mrs Kennedy’s famous reaching back on the limousine was about reaching a piece
of his skull blown back on the trunk. Such damage cannot ever be caused by a
jacketed bullet of the kind used in the Mannlicher. It was caused by a soft
nosed or explosive bullet. And it cannot ever be caused by a shot from the
rear. Simply impossible.
In any event, that rifle is completely unsuitable for an assassination.
It was not sighted correctly and was notoriously inaccurate as well as being
subject to jamming. The World War II Italian army had utter contempt for it
calling it a widow-maker.
Still further, there were several witnesses that the first
rifle found at the Book Depository was a good one, a larger-calibre Mausser. It
disappeared and the cheap Mannlicher–Carcano appeared later. Also the shells
supposedly fired by Oswald were unrealistically lined-up on the floor for
bolt-action shooting. The Dallas Police handled all evidence unbelievably badly
– the chain of possession of key items having been violated many times - and
there is strong reason to suspect some members were in on the conspiracy,
including the one said to have been shot by Oswald later on a suburban street, Officer
Tippet, a known right-wing militia type with highly questionable associations.
It is very likely that one of the assassination team – there
were at least three men firing - fired ammunition suitable for the
Mannlicher-Carcano with a device called a sabot, which allows a rile to fire
smaller ammunition without making new barrel markings, from a different rifle.
This provided actual strikes of such ammunition in the limo.
The limo had damage never formally investigated, including a
hole in the windshield. After Kennedy’s body was taken to the hospital, the car
was rushed off, ending up soon after to Ford’s Rouge River plant where it was
cleaned-up and partially re-built, a totally inappropriate treatment of
evidence. For the brief time it was at the hospital, despite Secret Service
efforts to keep people away, several, including a reporter, saw the windshield
bullet hole. There was also damage to chrome trim.
No honest and rational person who studies the evidence available
to us can deny Kennedy was attacked from the right front (the general area of
the grassy knoll). The first non-fatal neck wound was also an entry wound from
the front. Other shots were fired from behind, but none of them would have seriously
hurt him. I say “honest” person because there has been a stream of writers and
apologists who have worked to muddy the waters, likely all in the pay or with
the encouragement of the CIA, which has been covering up from day one with key
files still not released.
By the way if you want to see an intriguing bit of photo
analysis, see:
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Response to a reader
saying we already knew backyard picture authentic from Marina Oswald:
Yes, she authenticated the photos, under pressure from FBI
and Secret Service men who controlled her every movement and could determine
her fate, and that of her children, as to staying in the U.S. Marina's
testimony is simply riddled with contradictions and uncertainties, making her
sound almost insane at times.
