From: michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero)
Subject: Re: "Film proves JFK shot from behind, scientist says"
Organization: JPL Pasadena CA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:58:28 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.192034.10457@bcrka451.bnr.ca> swood@bnr.ca (Steve Wood) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan5.165943.8546@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
>
>> 
>> 
>>   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. 
>> 
>
>Whether or not I beleive the "exhalted experts" is completely immaterial here. 
>We have an observation of a bullet passing through JFK's head and a stream
>of ejecta.  The question that must be answered is simply what is the most plausible
>trajectory for the bullet given the reality of these observations.  

  But, there is a large difference between saying that the head shot could
have come from the near, and saying that it could NOT have come from anywhere
else.  There were many possible snipers locations all around the limo, and
about the only one we can catagorially rule out for the fatal head shot is 
the south manhole (since paved over) on the bridge over the Stemmons underpass.

  Even if we concede (hypothetically) that the shot had to come from the
rear, there is no proof that it came from Oswald's purported nest on the sixth
floor. It may have come from the 2nd story of the Dal-Tex building (where 
wintesses reported a gunman) , or the roof of the Country Records building
(where other witnesses throught there was a gunman) or it could have come
from the 2 men seen at the _west_ side of the TSBD 6th floor, as witnessed
by prisoners in the Dallas County jail.



>The question of conspiracy is
>not germaine to this particular observation.  You can postulate all you want about who
>fired the bullets,  all I wanted to point out was that the ejecta direction was physically
>consistent with established observations.  I consider this to be using my own brain... rather
>objectively too.
>

  I could be wrong, but I seem to recall in the original post that if the shot
came from the rear, there was only one assasin, to quote,"namely LHO" a
rather fantastic assumption which would not stand up under normal rules of
evidenciary procedure.  Certainly it cannot qualify as an "objective" 
assessment.


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