From: eidetics@nic.cerf.net (Eidetics Int'l)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Connally's Wound
Date: 11 Jan 1993 19:45:27 GMT
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From Jon Volkoff, mail address eidetics@cerf.net

dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott @ Electrical and Electronic
Eng., University of Adelaide) writes:
>According to Dr. Beter's AUDIO LETTER, Conelly was shot intentionally
>not accidentally,  as he was a "vital witness," so to ensure his account
>of the assassination saw as little as possible.
>
>This theory is totally rediculous. Beter doesn't even mention that Jackie is
>also in the car as a potential witness.
>
>Am I missing something obvious or is Beter some crackpot?

Now quoting from Audio Letter #3, Topic #1:

  "The Conspirators left nothing to chance or the vagaries of
marksmanship.  President Kennedy was killed by device--mounted
inside the limousine and fired at him from point blank range. 
The murder weapon was, of course, hidden, mounted inside the seat
upholstery in front of the President.

   Based on the appearance of the blast in the Zapruder film,
it's possible that the murder weapon was essentially an extremely
sawed off shotgun, hidden in the seat upholstery ahead of him. 
But it appears much more likely that the blast was produced by
what is known as a shaped charge in a special mounting.  A shaped
charge is a specially configurated explosive device which
essentially produces a focused explosion--that is, an explosion
that mostly aims in one direction instead of going in all
directions like a stick of dynamite.  A shaped charge is what
enables a bazooka to blast a Sherman Tank out of action and
shaped charges come in many sizes including some small enough to
have been hidden easily in the Kennedy limousine.

   An advantage of the shaped charge, from the Conspirators' view
point, is that contrary to a gun or shotgun it would not produce
a bullet or buckshot which might be found by someone in the
vicinity and cause undesirable questions to be asked.  The only
problem with the shaped charge would be its noise.  Such a bang
would tend to attract the attention of others in the car. 
However, the Conspirators knew that Jackie Kennedy would be too
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distraught and preoccupied with Jack himself after the blast to
have such details register, and the driver of the car would also
be preoccupied with the urge of business of trying to maneuver
out of the ambush.  But that still left Governor John Connally,
riding in the front seat ahead of the President.  The sound of
the shaped charge could be expected to attract his attention,
even if it was muffled and partially lost in the confusion of
gunshots from snipers.

   The possibility existed that Connally alone might be able to
detect that some sort of device had been fired just behind him
inside the car.  Therefore John Connally was a specific target in
the ambush along with Kennedy.  He was not, as has often been
supposed, merely the victim of a stray bullet, much less the
victim of a bullet that had first struck Kennedy as alleged by
the Warren Commission.  Connally was potentially the single most
dangerous witness to the assassination.  So, it was imperative
that he be incapacitated or killed outright.  It did not really
matter whether Connally was killed or just seriously injured, so
long as his ability to observe events clearly was ruined.  This
they, of course, accomplished."

Perhaps you ought to read things more carefully the next time you post.
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