From: michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero)
Subject: Re: "Film proves JFK shot from behind, scientist says"
Organization: JPL Pasadena CA
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:59:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.211216.18811@bcrka451.bnr.ca> swood@bnr.ca (Steve Wood) writes:
>
>In article <schuck.726166669@sfu.ca>, schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck) writes:
>> motorcycle cops to his right and rear.
>> 
>> How would that explain a shot from Kennedy's right and rear....
>
>I think many people may have seen a particular "photo-essay" (forgive me - I cannot
>remember the name of the book) of high speed photographs of bullets, milk drops
>and other projectiles in freeze-frame.
>
>One of the pictures clearly shows an Apple and a Bullet, the bullet having just passed through
>the center of the apple.  The ejecta from the apple clearly explodes in the opposite
>direction of the bullet trajectory (i.e. backwards).  It is clear from this picture that none
>of the ejecta from the bullet entry is thrown forward.  This is the phenomenon that makes
>the photograph interesting -- it defies common sense!
>
>> 
>> Explain the Harper fragment, a piece of occipital bone [rear of the
>> head] that was found to the left and rear of JFK's location at the
>> time of the head shot.
>
>The ejecta in this particular picture appeared to explode backwards and had
>a conical distribution.  Thus I would expect some material to be found on both sides
>of JFK (actually, in a triangular region with apex at the entry wound).
>
>> 
>> A shot from the right front would explain it, not one from the right rear.
>> 
>
>I don't think so.
>

  This shows the danger of having broken the evidence of the assasination
into such small fragments that you can argue back and forth on fine points
without ever resolving the issue, where a look at the whole picture
(literally) can answer the question.  The copy of the Zapruder film I have has
synchronised to it the Dallas Police Dictabelt containing the 4 recorded
gunshots judged authentic by the House Select Committee on Assasinations.
The line-up is based on both Kennedy's signs of being hit  and the jiggle
of the camera as Zapruder jumped at each shot. The third and fourth shots
are almost on top of each other, and in fact correspond to the slight forward
followed by rearward motion of Kennedy's head (muscle spasm would have been
somewhat negated by his back brace).  The first three gunshots sound very
similar, and plotting their echoes shows that thyey come from approximatly
(but NOT exactly) the same location in the plaza. The fourth gunshot
sounds very different, and it's plotted echo patterns are markedly different
from the first 3. This was the acoustic evidence that forced the HSCA
to aknowledge there were at least 2 gunmen.

  However, this also steps over the small error in the original posting
where the poster went from saying that all shots came from the rear
to a flippant "namely, LHO". LHO was given a paraffin test for
nitrates at the Dallas Police station. The results were negative
(look it up in the Warren testimony) meaning Oswald had not
fired a rifle that day.

  The Warren Commision could never find a witness who saw Oswald on the 6th
floor. They DID find several witnesses who saw him on the 2nd and 1st
floors during the shooting, and the famous assasination photo shot by
AP photographer James Altgens shows a man standing in the book depository
doorway who looks and is dressed exactly like Oswald. 

  So rather than shoot bullets through apples and then claim this disproves
any theories of a conspiracy, start putting the pieces back together into
a single whole and use your common sense. Check the facts for yourself. Use
your own brain and quit yeilding to the intellectual authority of the
annointed and exhalted experts of the Warren Report. 

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Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
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