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: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:31:03 GMT

In article <009662B3.00B30A40@vms.csd.mu.edu> 6489mcadamsj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.165943.8546@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero) writes:
>>
>>  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.
>
>But the House Select Committee also recommended that the FBI and the National
>Academy of Science examine the Dictabelt recording, and both concluded that it
>didn't actually record the assasination.  There was, for example, a church bell
>in the background, something that couldn't have been heard in Dealey Plaza.

  (Oh man do we have to go through this all over again). Okay, one more time.
Along the route of the motorcade was a Dallas bank that had a Carillon, normally unused. For Kennedy's visit, and ONLY for that day, it was fired up with a special song, and if you take the trouble to ACTUALLY LISTEN to the dictabelt
instead of relying on the FBI, you will ACTUALLY HEAR that it is playing
"Hail To The Chief". 


>
>>
>>  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.
>>
>
>Does this prove that Oswald hadn't fired a rifle that day?  Or just fail to
>prove that he did?

  If you ask any criminal lawyer anywhere in the United States, they will
tell you that a negative paraffin test is such a strong indicator that
DA's won't even bother bringing such a case to court. The principle of
the test is simple. The high pressures surrounding the leaks in a gun
(breach lock, gap near the cylinder, etc) will actually tattoo the face
with grains of propellent products which are high in nitrates. The paraffin
cast, when removed, pulls with it the epithelial layers containing the
particles, which vcan then be chemically analysed. The process is not
a comfortable one, being akin to the "waxing" in beauty parlors. But
it is considered a reliable standard test.



>
>>  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. 
>>
>
>No, they found no such witnesses.  They found lots of witnesses who reported
>that he had just popped into the lunchroom (or whatever) and was getting a soft
>drink out of a machine when the police rushed in, a minute or two after the
>assasination.

  Try reading the 27 volumes of the Warren testimony. There is testimony
from several book depository employees who claimed Oswald was on the 1st
floor during the shooting. They, like the 50 others who heard shots
comong from the knoll were simply judged to be mistaken and their testimony
simply ignored in the summary.




>
>>  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. 
>>
>
>Sounds like good advice to me.  Do you have an account of how the assasination
>happened that fits the facts better than the Warren Report?  Would you like to
>share it with us? 

  I have an opinion, based on having actually read the entire Warren report, walked through Dealey plaza, and subjected whatever photos and sound recordings
I can get my hands onto some heavy computer analysis when I'm not making
cartoons.

  My opinion differs from the official version in several irreconcilable
ways, which I've commented on here.  However, the whole structure still
has gaps which neither the Warren report or the critics or my own musings
have filled. Inasmuch as it's a work in progress, I don't feel quite
ready to inflict it on the net.community. 

  What i DO feel ready to share (and have) is where real evidence and real
testimony directly contradict the Warren report.


>
>Would you admit that any conspiracy theory ought to be subject to the same
>critical scrutiny as the Warren Commissions account?
>
>.John

  Of COURSE. But what must be preserved at all times is accuracy and fact.
Even more important is to develop a broad knowledge base prior to
any theorizing, so that you don't waste peoples time worrying about
the Carillon bell because you didn't know about the bank. The one point
the FBI never address when it claimed the dictabelt didn't record the shooting
of the President is just what shooting it DID record. Neither does it
address the question of how a recording of gunshots from someplace else
manages to match the jiggles in the Zapruder film, and the filmed impacts
to Kennedy and Connoly.

  The point is that if the whole scene is kept all broken up into little
pieces, it gets real hard to look for the truth. The vastness of what
is unknown and unsaid puzzles the mind and daunts the will to search
further.

  I recall somewhere that having an answer isn't nearly as important as
being able to ask the right questions.


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