From: dlove@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (Dave Love)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Clark Panel
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:38:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr6.152643.11792@PA.dec.com> grant_jo@ripple.enet.dec.com (Joel Grant) writes:
>
> [comments about the Grant Panel finding deleted]

This was very enlightening.  I'm still working my way through the 
Warren Report and background papers, so I haven't covered this one 
yet.  Thanks for the information, though.

>
>The assassination of President Kennedy happened very
>much (but not exactly) like the WC said it did.  The
>WC critics have been fleecing the public for years, selling
>books, documentaries, tapes, and movies and they have
>found a fertile group of consumers willing to believe
>the mercenary army of contrarians.
>

Perhaps had the WC done a better job in its "investigation", none of 
these conspiracy theories would exist.  However, until the following
questions can be answered, I will always choose to disbelieve the 
official version of the assassination.

1. Why are Mrs. Paines income-tax records for 1963 classified?  (She
   was instrumental in getting LHO is job at the Depository).  I've 
   filed my taxes every year, yet my returns have never been classified.
   Have yours?

2. Why was E. Howard Hunt so worried about it becoming public knowledge
   that he was in Dallas on the day of the assassination?

3. Why did a former head of the CIA (Helms) refuse to state under 
   deposition that the CIA wasn't involved in the assassination?
   (The only thing he would say is "to the best of my knowledge
   the CIA didn't kill JFK", or words to that effect.)

4. Why did one member of the Warren Commission refuse to sign it
   until the wording concerning the MBT was revised to state it
   was "a possible theory".

5. Why did numerous eye-witnesses place the source for some of the
   shots on the Grassy knoll?

6. Why did passengers in Johnson's car report smelling gunpowder when
   passing the Grassy Knoll, immediately after the assassination?

7. Why did somebody pose as a secret service agent immediately after
   the assassination, steering people away from the Grassy Knoll area?

8. Why did the WC make no attempt to interview ALL the people present
   in the Parkland emergency room at the time Kennedy was brought in?

9. Why did the FBI alter statements from several of the eyewitnesses
   (Craig, Hill, etc.)?

10. Why did the CIA lie about its purported evidence that LHO was in
    Mexico City one month before the assassination?  In particular, why
    did the tell the WC they had destroyed the taped conversation of 
    LHO one week after the incident, when they had handed a copy to
    the FBI some six weeks later?

11. Why did the CIA (according to memos released under the Freedom
    of Information Act) ask the Mexico City police to quiet the 
    26-year-old girl whom the CIA insists saw LHO in Mexico City?
    She was apparently being very vocal about her treatment by the
    Mexico City police following the assassination.

12. Why was LHO questioned for 12 hours with no notes taken and no
    council present?

13. Why did the FBI labs fail to find any prints on the purported 
    murder weapon, when the Dallas police subsequently said they did?

14. Why, in the backyard photos of Oswald, is he wearing a ring on
    one photo, but not in the others?

15. Why were there no traces of gunpowder on LHO's cheeks (which would
    have been consistent with him firing a rifle)?

16. Why was the rifle in question never tested to see if it had been
    recently fired?

17. Why did the secret service clean the Presidential limo the day 
    of the assassination and subsequently have the car dismantled?

18. Why were the shells, presumably ejected from the assassination
    weapon, lined up less than one inch apart?

19. Why does Dr. Crenshaw, present in the Parkland emergency room
    when JFK was brought in, state that JFK was shot from the front?

20. How does a bullet do all the damage the magic bullet did and come
    out virtually pristine?

21. How does someone explain the large number of deaths of potential
    witnesses preceding each official investigation of the assassination?

22. Why was Priscilla Johnson (a supposed reporter) allowed to see 
    Marina Oswald when she was being held in "protective custody", 
    when virtually nobody else was allowed to (no other reporter
    was allowed to see her during that time)?  And how did 
    Ms. Johnson happen to stumble across a Mexico City bus-ticket just
    when the CIA needed proof of LHO's visit to Mexico, especially
    after two searches by the FBI found nothing?

23. Why would two orderlies at Bethesda claim they removed the President's
    body from a body bag within a plain metal casket, rather than 
    the casket the body was placed in at Parkland?

24. Why was the President's autopsy not performed in Dallas, according
    to Texas law?

25. Why did the doctor who performed the autopsy burn his notes?

26. Where is JFK's brain?

I could go on and on.  Are the above questions valid?  You tell me.
I believe, were I investigating a murder, I'd be interested in the
answers to them.  

Seriously, were the MBT the only disputed piece of information concerning
the assassination, many people wouldn't have a problem with the official 
story.  Unfortunately, it's just one of dozens of inconsistencies. 
 
>Joel Grant


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