Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (24 page)

Purpose of trip to Texas was political “fence-mending” within the Democratic Party. But JFK had some very serious enemies in Texas—conservatives, mafia, “Big Oil,” and even his own Vice-President, Lyndon Johnson.

Actual Circumstances:

1. The kill-shot came from the front and the evidence proves it (Oswald was at the rear of the motorcade during the shooting). Footage of the assassination clearly documents the President’s head being driven sharply backward from the impact of a frontal shot. The blood spatter evidence and eyewitness and ear witness testimony also confirm shots from front.

Inconsistencies:

An exhaustive review of the medical evidence concludes that: “ ... multiple witnesses saw the intact entry hole high in the right forehead at the hairline.”
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Sworn testimony of the emergency room doctors in Dallas confirms an additional frontal entry wound in the President’s throat.
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The evidence of gunshots from the front is simply overwhelming and, by any reasonable standard, meets all requirements of proof.

2. Oswald could not possibly have done the shooting that is officially attributed to him. The best sniper in military history tried and couldn’t match it, so how could Oswald?
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“Oswald was a patsy. There’s no question about it.” —COLONEL L. FLETCHER PROUTY, MILITARY LIAISON TO CIA FOR CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS (Focal Point Officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412 and Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense)
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3. More than three shots were fired at the motorcade which necessitates a conspiracy involving several shooters. The utterly preposterous”single-bullet theory” was literally invented to address the existence of too many bullets.

4. Oswald was operational with U.S. intelligence, and over a dozen Intelligence veterans have verified that fact. Indications are that he was “working penetration” on plots against the President and was set up as the “patsy” by renegade operatives. Oswald’s recorded voice holds up to the scrutiny of Voice Stress Analysis which indicated that he was actually speaking truthfully when he said “I didn’t kill anybody. I’m a patsy.”
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“That’s not an allegation—that’s a fact. Oswald was Military Intelligence.”
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—William Robert Plumlee, former Military Intelligence operative and CIA “Special Ops” pilot

5. A blatantly obvious cover-up was instituted by the government to blame the assassination on Oswald, to ignore, reject, or obfuscate all evidence to the contrary, to mask Oswald’s associations with U.S. intelligence agencies, and to preclude a genuine investigation.

Alarm bells went off all over Washington the second that Oswald’s name was mentioned, because U.S. intelligence had been dramatically compromised.

“You may never get the truth in your lifetime, and I mean that seri-ously.”

THE EVIDENCE PROVES CONCLUSIVELY THAT SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM THE FRONT OF THE MOTORCADE, AS WELL AS FROM THE REAR

Frames 312-to-320 of the film, below, of the JFK assassination (taken by Abraham Zapruder), reveal in shocking detail the frontal head shot that killed President Kennedy. The President had already been shot through the throat and Governor Connally, seated in front of JFK in the presidential limousine, has also reacted to at least one bullet that has passed through his own body. So at Frame 312, First Lady Jackie Kennedy, aware that something is dreadfully wrong, is leaning over toward the President, who is lurching forward in reaction to his throat wound. A frontal shot of extremely high velocity then strikes President Kennedy in his upper right forehead and drives his head and entire body sharply backward and to his left. The impact of the shot was such that it literally drove blood, bone, and brain matter of President Kennedy into the air and splattered onto the windshields of the two motorcycle officers flanking the limousine at the left rear of the car.

The assassination of President Kennedy was filmed at a rate of about 18 frames per second. At frame 312, the President is clutching his throat, precisely where emergency room physicals indicated an entry would. Governor Connally, to the President’s right, is also reacting to a wound from a different gunshot, which came from the rear. Frames are courtesy of the Combined Costella Edit, produced by John P. Costella, Ph.D., at the web site of
www. assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/
, an electronic journal for advanced study of the death of JFK, edited by James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

The backward impact is even more dramatic when viewed in the film footage. When the Zapruder film finally made it to the light of day for an American television audience, viewers were stunned at how obviously it revealed a shot from the front. An enhanced print of the Zapruder film is available online— every American who can,
should
view this important historical footage. The frontal impact of the bullet is vivid and unmistakably clear:
http://youtu.be/ iU83R7rpXQY

A large piece broken off from the skull of President Kennedy is also visible in the film footage. It flies off his head immediately after impact, traveling backwards onto the trunk of the limo. First Lady Jackie Kennedy instinctively reaches backwards to grab the piece of her husband’s head which had “flown off” (her exact words). The common myth was that Jackie was attempting to help Secret Service Agent Clint Hill climb onto the trunk of the limo, which is erroneous. She was reaching for the large skull fragment of President Kennedy which had been driven backward out of her husband’s head as she stared at him; she reaches backward, grabs the skull fragment in her hand, and returns to the limo, her hand never touching Clint Hill, who then climbs aboard without her assistance.
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The above is clearly discernable in the film footage at:
http://jfkhis- tory.com/jackie.html

At frame 313, a high-velocity round impacts at the right front of the President’s head, near the hairline.

Jackie Kennedy also confirmed that, repeatedly stating:

“I have his brains in my hand.”
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By frame 317, the President is already driven violently backward and to his left from the impact of a high-velocity frangible round (exploding ammunition).

The evidence regarding the final shot is dissected and diagrammed frame-by-frame in the excellent video study,
The JFK Assassination—the Last Shot
by Bob Harris.
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It can be accessed at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfIh-8nXyQ

Note that some of the forensic evidence in the Harris study indicates that President Kennedy was actually struck by
two head shots,
striking him almost simultaneously: one from the front, one from the rear. However, note that for the verification of multiple assassins, all that requires being established is
one frontal gunshot.
There were undeniably at least two frontal shots: The shot that entered the right-front forehead, verified by the exhaustive analysis of evidence and testimony conducted in Douglas P. Horne’s epic
“Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK,
2010; and the shot that entered the President’s throat, verified by the sworn testimony of the doctors who treated him at the emergency room in Dallas.
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It is very clear that Jackie Kennedy was holding a piece of the President’s head in her hand. Moreover, large skull fragment would not be driven backward in the split-second immediately following impact unless there was a shot from the front; skull fragmentation would only be driven backward from a frontal impact.

At frame 320, less than half of one second after impact, the President’s body is farther back and to his left, indicative of a high-velocity shot from the front and right of the limousine. He is soon slumped over completely to his left, low in the backseat.

Minutes later, when emergency room physicians were scrambling to do what little could be done for President Kennedy at Parkland Hospital, Jackie Kennedy nudged one of the doctors and showed him what she had been closely guarding in her hands: a large piece of the President’s brain. Dr. Marion Jenkins confirmed that:

“As she passed by, she nudged me with an elbow and handed me what she had been nursing in her hands—a large chunk of her husband’s brain tissue.”
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The blood spatter evidence (his blood, bone, and brain matter immediately splattered the windshield of the two motorcycle officers who were flanking the presidential limo at the left-rear) is consistent with the frontal-right entry wound seen in the Zapruder film.