From: brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Conspiracy
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:27:22 GMT
Organization: HP Mfg. Test Div., Loveland, CO

>John McAdams responds:
>The problem is that only a "massive conspiracy" can explain the extent of the
>coverup that assassination theorists believe had to have happened.

A small conspiracy that adjusts its plans as evidence is uncovered and
as the playout of events occurs seems quite possible.  Example - the
radio/TV announces that a MC belonging to LHO has been found. Someone
says "quick, get over to Parkland and stick an MC bullet on a stretcher
somewhere."  OK, it sounds a little fishy, but what doesn't in the
Kennedy shooting?

>Do you believe all the evidence against Oswald was faked?  Do you believe Jack
>Ruby worked for The Conspiracy?  Do you believe the autopsy photos and x-rays
>were faked?  Do you believe Kennedy's body was altered before the autopsy?

I believe that LHO went home early to get his rifle.  I believe he took
it to the TSBD on Friday.  I do not think there is enough proof to say that
he fired it.  If you grant that he did fire it, his shots could well be
the ones that missed, thus enabling him to say truthfully that he "didn't
shoot anyone, no sir."  The NOVA special (which I rewatched last night)
says that the bullet trajectory that hit Kennedy in the back and throat
(assuming for a moment that it was one bullet) was low and towards the
Dal-Tex building (or County Records? I get 'em confused -- the one just
to the right of TSBD as you look at them front the front).  It goes on to
say that the trajectory would line up if Kennedy was leaning forward, BUT
HE WASN'T leaning forward when that bullet hit him. 

Was the autopsy faked? I don't think so.  The NOVA special had the Parkland
doctors examine photos that we haven't seen yet, which show a massive head
wound in the BACK of JFK's head.  The Zapruder film sure doesn't indicate
a large opening back there, although his head could've been cracked and then
opened up in the trauma center. Speculation was that the entry wound in
the back of the head wasn't visible at Parkland because it was hidden in 
the flap of skull that was flipped open.  What I find odd is that those 
same doctors make no mention of the rather obvious hole in Kennedy's head
that is to the right front (forward of his ear - the massive explosion that
is visible in the Zapruder film).  Assuming there really is an entry wound
back there, the azimuth of the bullet seems to be more left to right than can
be accounted for by a hit from the TSBD.  And unless that bullet literally
exploded his head and only the weak spots blew outward (rear and right front),
there had to be another bullet hitting him at roughly the same time.
HOWEVER, how do you explain the apparent change in caskets?  The missing
brain? The rush to get him out of Dallas when protocol demanded an autopsy
there? I don't think these are easy questions to answer.

>If so you have to believe in a massive conspiracy.  If not, you have to believe
>that Oswald really did it.

I have an almost perverse desire to find LHO to be innocent, only because
it's fun to root for the underdog, and we've all wanted to "beat city hall"
sometime or another.  Actually, I kind of liked the Quantum Leap episode
that made the point that LHO didn't do it - his alternate personality,
A. Hidell, did it!

Brian