From: mst4298@rigel.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Clark Panel
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:09:00 GMT
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dlove@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (Dave Love) writes...
>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?

	It may have been the only way to classify the Paines' income tax
	records. From what I've read, a great deal of the classifed
	material are things like tax returns and other personal information.
	If you were publicly investigated, and a lot of personal information 
	was depositioned, examined, etc, and you were found to be innocent,
	would you want this information to be made totally public?


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

	That's *ear* witnesses, for the most part. 

	Studies have shown that people's perception of the source of
	gunshots (at least for supersonic bullets) can be drastically
	affected by the direction they face. This is before you start
	to consider the effects of echos bouncing off all of the
	buildings, pergolas, etc, in Dealy Plaza.

	In all the two studies of Dealy Plaza witness testimony I've
	seen (one in Thompson, the other in the HSCA hearings), the
	number of people who heard the shots coming from the TSBD
	is about equal to those who heard shots coming from the knoll.
	However, the union of both sets is dwarfed by those people
	who couldn't determine the origin of the shots.

	Few people reported that they heard more than one origin for
	the shots.

	Then there is S M Holland. Holland claimed that he heard shots 
	coming from the area of the Knoll. He also says that, at about
	the same time, he saw a puff of smoke, "like a puff of cigarette
	smoke" [from Thompson, I believe] over par of the fence on the
	knoll. He went over to investigate, and found a set of fresh
	footprints behind the knoll...along with cigarette butts.
	Hmmmm. There's a mystery there. But why did he think that the
	shots came from the grassy knoll? A picture in Thompson shows
	that the TBSD and the knoll are in a close directional relationship
	to each other from where Holland was standing.  



>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?

	They may not have thought that it was important. After reading
	the testimony of the Parkland doctors who testified to the WC
	and the statements of the Parkalnd staff who didn't, I'm doubt
	it would make a difference.  



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

	Pretty typical Dallas Police Department procedure. See _The
	Thin Blue Line_ for another example of Dallas' finest. 


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

	I'd heard it was the other way around. Does anyone
	have the straight poop on this?


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

	He took it off?


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

	Why were there no traces on an FBI agents cheek after he
	fired the rifle several times?  I've read accounts
	of several criminal investigations, and the JFK case is the
	only one where a suspected gunman was nitrate tested. 
	Could it be that the nitrate test just isn't that reliable?	
	Especially considering 1963 detection technology?



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

	The one photo I saw has the shells spread a total of about
	six feet 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?

	Why would he? Why would he not? I have yet to see his reasoning.


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

	It loses at least 40% of its muzzle energy (same mass, about
	1350ft/sec after penetrating the skin on Connelly's back,
	2300ft/sec at the muzzle), strikes a portion of a rib 
	travelling sideways and a tad backwards (and Dr Shaw, who
	treated Connelly's chest wound, claims that this particular
	piece of rib is 'spongy'. Caveat Emptor), exits the chest 
	at easily less than 1000ft/sec, enters the right wrist 
	(slowing down at about 150ft/sec each time it passes through
	skin), hitting the radius while travelling backwards, having
	about 2 grains of material torn off of the base, and finally,
	spent, imbedding into the Govenor's left thigh.
	
	Somewhere along the line, the bullet also manages to be bent.
	Since soft flesh will not deform a bullet, at lest a bullet
	like the 6.5mm FMJ moving at less than about 2500ft/sec, it
	is logical to assume that the bend was caused either when the
	bullet hit the rib, or when it hit the radius.



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

	The official explantion is that it was decided to get the
	entire Presidential party out of Dallas fast, since no one
	at the time knew whether there was a gunman waiting for LBJ.
	This, for some reason (and I think it's supposed to be for
	JAckie's sake) included JFK's body.


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

	According to Humes, he had once seen the rocking chair Lincoln
	was sitting in when he was shot. Several people thought that
	they could see blood on the anti-macassar. Hume's found this
	both morbid and disturbing. Seiing his notes were covered with
	blood, Humes decided to burn them lest they wind up in some
	sort of historical freak show.
	


>26. Where is JFK's brain?

	Ask the Kennedy family. The brain was on the inventory when
	the autopsy materials were given to the Kennedy family.
	The inventory made by the National Archives when they
	received the materials from the Kennedys doesn't list
	the brain. 

	
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