From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: mortal error
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:27:31 GMT

karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:

>In article <schuck.718352964@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
>>Echoes do not cause the hair on someones head to fly forward.

>No, but the impact of a bullet coming from behind certainly can.
>Look, I've seen the Zapruder film, and it is perfectly consistent
>with JFK being hit from behind. After all, his brain tissues are
>clearly seen (on the famous frame 313) to explode out the side
>AND FORWARD. This is difficult to account for with a bullet from
>the front.

Have you never heard of backsplash? When a rifle bullet is fired into
a liquid filled vessel such as a jug of water or a human brain there
is tendency for material to splash backwards out of the hole.

>>Neither do echoes cause a piece of skull to fly backwards or blood and
>>brain tissue to fly backwards. These effects have been described by
>>the motorcycle policeman to the rear and left of JFK.

>No doubt these pieces could have moved backwards due to any of
>several causes: the acceleration of the limo, the wind, etc.

Acceleration? It was going 12 mph at the time and if you knew anything
about physics you would know that bodies in motion tend to continue in
motion. As for wind, there is no proof of a wind capable of sending
brain matter back fast enough so the impact made the 
Motorcycle Officer to JFK's rear and left think he was shot

>>JFK was flung backwards and to his left. This was not caused by an
>>echo either.

>No, it was most likely caused by the neuromuscular spasm. I suspect
>your body might possibly react if your brains got blown out, too.

There is no evidence of a neuromuscular spasm. There is no evidence of
any spasming at all. In fact there is evidence that JFK's spinal cord
was so damaged that he would have been paralyzed.

>Remember also that JFK wore a back brace, which could easily have
>affected his body motions after the impact.

Yes. It would have tended to keep him upright, which means the head
impact was a strong one indeed.

>>The gunshots on the HSCA have never been proven to be anything but
>>gunshots. There are *two* gunshots approximately .8 seconds apart on
>>the tape. On the enhanced tape there are also echoes that can be
>>heard. The echoes are *separate* from the gunshots.

>The "gunshots" have never been proven to *be* gunshots either. 

The FBI compared the gunshots to those recorded in a similar fashion
at a shooting at a Ku Klux Klan rally that turned into a gunfight.
The FBI conclusion was that the gunshots recorded were indeed gunshots.

>I thought the NRC report took care of that issue.

NRC? It was the NAS and they attacked peripheral issues. They never
succeeded in proving the gunshots were anything but gunshots.


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